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PUBLICATIONS OF THE
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
Plant Ecology and
Diversity - A New Journal for 2008
BSS has launched a new quarterly
scientific journal, Plant
Ecology and Diversity. The first
issue of the new journal Volume 1 No. 1 was published in July 2008 by Taylor & Francis and
is in circulation now, with a theme centred on treelines. The second issue will contain 19 papers on the historical
biogeography, diversity (both species and genetic), conservation and
management of the arctic and alpine flora.
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.
Plant
Ecology and Diversity will replace the Botanical Journal of Scotland which
was a continuation of the Transactions of the Botanical Society of
Edinburgh, first published in 1844.
BJS and TBSE contained many high-quality peer-reviewed Research
Papers, Review Articles, Short Communications and Book Reviews, and
some of the highlights of a century's output were reviewed and reproduced
in the Botanical Journal of Scotland, Volume 58 (2). It is hoped that this high-quality back
catalogue will, in due course, be made available in electronic form.
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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