Book review (by Subject Editor Klaus Høiland) Watkinson, SC, Boddy, L, Money, NP. (eds.) 2016. The Fungi, Third Edition. Academic Press, Elsevier, Waltham, San Diego, Oxford, London. ISBN 978-0-12-382034-1 As a teacher in mycology, I and my colleagues have always faced the...
The concept of ecotypes, genetically distinct entities within species connected to specific habitat types, has been an important source for debate and research since its introduction by the Swedish geneticist Göte Turesson one hundred years ago (1922). The existence of ecotypes...
Sarita Munoz-Gomez visited our stand at the Botan2022 conference and submitted a drawing of her beautiful study organism, Mimulus pictus, to our drawing contest! Her drawing won the contest which includes this special feature of her research on our blog. Read more below about...
Our ecology team is receiving reinforcement! Dr Joshua Lynn is joining us as Subject Editor in plant ecology. He is interested in what determines species geographic ranges, how biotic interactions vary over space, and how physiology scales up to predict phenomena at higher...
Nordic Journal of Botany would like to welcome our new Subject Editor in neotropical vascular plant taxonomy, Prof. Isa Lucia de Morais. Isa is our first editor located in South America, so we are especially happy to have her join our team! Continue reading below for a...
We have drawn the winner for our most fascinating plant of May! Ponerorchis wolongensis is a new orchid species from China, described by the authors Peng et al. in our February issue. Read on for a description of their journey to find this fascinating plant and some interesting...
We are part of nature and need nature in our lives. Under the EU’s Biodiversity strategy, a new nature restoration plan will be launched to protect nature and reverse the degradation of valuable ecosystems. The diversity of the EU Member States calls for individual strategies...
In our April issue, Depauw et al. describe how the wood anemone responds to different environmental conditions. Read a simplified version of their paper entitled " Functional trait variation of Anemone nemorosa along macro- and microclimatic gradients close to the northern range...
In our March issue, Stefanie Reinhardt and her co-authors published their study entitled " Shrub encroachment interacts with environmental variation to reduce the albedo of alpine lichen heaths: an experimental study ". Click on the title to view the full Open Access paper for...
Nordic Journal of Botany has a new Managing Editor! Friederike Gehrmann began her new role in December 2021, taking over from Tina D'Hertefeldt, who stepped down last fall. Hailing from Germany, Gehrmann studied biochemistry in London and then moved to Helsinki to complete a PhD...
In this interview, Editor-in-Chief for Plant Ecology Sara Cousins gives some practical tips on submitting papers to NJB, one of four international journals published by the Nordic Society Oikos . She also sends out a call for global research on all aspects of plant ecology: from...
By Stein Fredriksen, University of Oslo, Norway Marine benthic algae, or seaweeds, have received increased attention during the last years, in particular those species that are used for cultivation. Their use can be anything from food items to additives in cosmetics. The recent...
TWO NEW INTERMEDIATE SPECIES BETWEEN SORBUS AUCUPARIA, ROWAN AND S. HYBRIDA ON GOTLAND By Joel Levin, Michael F. Fay, Jaume Pellicer and Mikael Hedrén (authors) During the last ice age, the Baltic Sea basin was covered by the thick Weichselian ice sheet, which finally melted...
Photo by Gunnar Stenhagen We analysed the scent of Linnea borealis by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC-MS) of adsorbed headspace samples (NJB-01732). The aim of the study is five-fold. 1. To describe the odour bouquet of L. borealis and compare it from separate...
The fig family (Moraceae) has fascinated botanists for generations. The family shows an extraordinary diversity in flower form and mode of pollination. We recently examined the reproductive biology of two highly unusual and poorly known relatives of the fig: Dorstenia...
Two new varieties of Kuepferia pringlei (Gentianaceae) from SikkimHimalaya Nordic Journal of Botany: doi: 10.1111/njb.01201 By: Dr. D. Maity, author The Sikkim area Sikkim is the “Botanists’ Paradise” due to its great floristic diversity as comprehensively highlighted long ago...
Who finds more, wins By the authors Jan Vondrák & Jiří Malíček One can get unusual thoughts in pubs and wine bars - and a few of them still seem sensible the next day. Sitting with a glass of wine, we were once struck by the thought that floristic inventories might be more...