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SCOTLAND
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 Scottish Charity No. SC016283   Incorporating the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland

 

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BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF  SCOTLAND
(the journal of the Botanical Society of Scotland)


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 soon 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.  

Recent issues of the Botanical Journal of Scotland 

Botanical Journal of Scotland Volume 57 Issue 1 & 2   (2005)

(Double length issue; publication date Spring 2006)

 

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.

 

      The Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Scotland’s Atlantic Oakwoods Symposium (12-14 September, 2005) will be published (in Spring 2006) in a special double-length issue of Botanical Journal of Scotland. If you are already a subscriber, you will receive the Proceedings automatically as your  volume for 2005.

 

      If you are not a subscriber, you can buy the Proceedings issue on its own for £40.00: 
      email journals@eup.ed.ac.uk and ask for a pro forma invoice. 
      Better still,  join the Botanical Society of Scotland and save money

 

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