Publications of the Botanical Society of Scotland

From 2008, BSS will produce a new quarterly scientific journal, Plant Ecology and Diversity to replace the Botanical Journal of Scotland.  The new journal will be published by Taylor & Francis.

Plant Ecology and Diversity will be the new forum of the Botanical Society of Scotland for communicating ideas in plant biological science. All areas of plant biology are of interest, including those which explicitly deal with today's highly topical themes, such as biodiversity, conservation and global change. Submissions concerning cold environments world-wide will be particularly welcome. A unique feature of Plant Ecology and Diversity will be a special section that reports ‘negative results’ and ‘repeat experiments’ that test ecological theories in an experimental way, offering an exclusive forum for theoretically flawless and methodologically sound papers. Also unique to Plant Ecology and Diversity will be its Scottish section, publishing contributions on aspects of botany and plant ecology particular to Scotland. The first issue of the new journal will be published early in 2008.

The Botanical Journal of Scotland was a continuation of the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, which was first published in 1844,and contained high-quality peer-reviewed Research Papers, Review Articles, Short Communications and Book Reviews.  Some highlights of a century's output are reviewed and reproduced in the latest issue of the Botanical Journal of Scotland, Volume 58 (2).

BSS News, published  twice yearly in March and September, contains articles of topical and local interest, and is a means of keeping in touch with the Membership. 

Other publications include:
Plant Life of Edinburgh and the Lothians (2002)

Plant Life of Edinburgh and the Lothians CD Rom

Checklists of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of East Lothian, West Lothian and Midlothian.

John Anthony's Flora of Sutherland. Edited by J. Bernard Kenworthy (1976) (cover image at left)

A Map of the Flora of Mainland Inverness-shire 
(In collaboration with the Botanical Society of the British Isles).

Plant Life of South West Asia.

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