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A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 630
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Taxonomy and distribution of liverworts and vascular plants in East and Southeast Asia
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Interests: taxonomy and distribution of liverworts in Pacific Asia
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in the molecular systematics of various plant groups have revealed that occurrences of the same species growing in Japan and Western Europe should at least be questioned. The process of splitting cryptogamic species, including bryophytes and lichens, is especially notable. Along with the achievements of molecular systematics, in recent years, “new” morphological features have become widespread. These have not previously attracted enough attention, but now make it possible to distinguish vicarious taxa. These achievements have led to some reports on floral diversity for even well-studied regions published in the 20th century to become out of date—a phenomenon fully applicable to the local and regional floras of temperate East Asia.
At the same time, innovations in taxonomy have given new life to floristic botany, forcing a new assessment of the genetic diversity and resource potential of the floras of various territories and causing a real renaissance in floristic research in recent years. The proposed Special Issue also lies in the general trend of scrutinizing research on the taxonomic diversity of floras and evaluating plant distribution patterns. We cordially invite all authors to publish research results on the taxonomic diversity and distribution patterns of plants and lichens in temperate East Asia.
Dr. Seung Se Choi
Dr. Vadim Bakalin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vascular plants
- nonvascular plants
- bryophytes
- mosses
- liverworts
- hornworts
- lichens
- lichenicolous fungi
- distribution
- diversity
