National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway, e-mail: [email protected]; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Benátská 2, CZ-128 00 Prague, Czech Republic, e-mail: [email protected]; Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic; Department of...

Department of Botany I, University of Würzburg, 97082 Wuerzburg, Germany (C.L., R.H., P.A.); Department of Bioinformatics, University of Würzburg, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany (M.D., T.M.); Institute of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, University of Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany (H.W., H.R.); Section of Wood Biology, University of Hamburg, 21031 Hamburg, Germany (S.L., J.F.); and Department o...

As a general rule, we are opposed to Scientific Manuals, for the use of students, which treat in an elementary way of the scicnces whose principles and bearings it is the student's duty to master during his university career. We are opposed to them because, from their elementary nature, they contribute to convey to his mind a false impression of the limits of the science and of its relations to...

One of the world's greatest plant collections has won a top heritage award at a time when it is highlighting with a tree-top walkway the need to study the forest canopy which is one of the most crucial but least understood habitats.

P. B. Kavi Kishor*, S. Sangam, R. N. Amrutha, P. Sri Laxmi, K. R. Naidu, K. R. S. S. Rao, Sreenath Rao, K. J. Reddy, P. Theriappan and N. Sreenivasulu Department of Genetics, and Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, India Department of Botany, and Centre for Biotechnology, Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar 522 510, India Department of Botany, Gulbarga University, Gul...

There are marked declines in precipitation, mean temperatures and the number of lichen species with increasing latitude in Antarctica. However, it is not known which factors are the predominant controllers of biodiversity changes. Results are presented from over two years of almost continuous monitoring of both microclimate and activity in lichens at Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, 6...