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The
Botanical Journal of Scotland was the main publication of the Botanical Society
of Scotland for more than 150 years, ending with the August 2007 issue.
Edited by a distinguished Editorial Board, BJS continued the Transactions
of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh first published in
1844, publishing high-quality scientific reports on all aspects of botany,
in the form of research papers, review articles, and short communications,
as well as new records and book reviews. BJS covered a wide
range of botanical topics, but with a special emphasis on the
flowering and non-flowering plants and the ecology of Scottish vegetation.
Botanical
Journal of Scotland was published twice a year by the Edinburgh
University Press enabling rapid publication and providing scope for
contributions from both members and non-members of the Society and from
both amateur and professional botanists, from outwith as well as from
within Scotland.
Botanical
Journal of Scotland is to be replaced by a new journal Plant Ecology and Diversity
published by Taylor & Francis, covering all areas of plant biology,
including those which explicitly deal with today's highly topical themes,
such as biodiversity, conservation and global change.
The Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Scotland’s
Atlantic Oakwoods Symposium
The Atlantic Oakwoods are the
ancient woodlands, often dominated by oak species, that fringe the
west coast of Britain
and Ireland. In recent years there has been increasing interest in these
woods as their conservation value was realised. National and
voluntary organisations, together with local communities have co-operated
to draw up long term management plans. Attempts have been made to
initiate natural regeneration and restore damaged woods by the
removal of excessive browsing or introduced tree species. While the rich
and diverse moss and lichen flora has been long known, there have been
recent investigations of the origin and genetic structure of the tree
populations and studies of the historical development of the woods. There
is a need therefore to register the existing state of the woods and
their overall biodiversity in the contexts of their past treatment and
future management.
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