Biodiversity Research and Conservation

Editor-in-Chief
Bogdan Jackowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Associate Editor
Zbigniew Celka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Editorial Secretary
Elżbieta Obarska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Section Editors
Dariusz L. Szlachetko, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Barbara Tokarska-Guzik, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland
Maria Wojterska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Adam Zając, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Waldemar Żukowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Biostatistics
Zygmunt Kaczmarek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Genetics, Poznań, Poland

Editorial Board
Adam Boratyński, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology, Kórnik, Poland
Yakiv Petrovich Didukh, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Jerzy Fabiszewski, University of Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
Viera Feráková, Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, Slovakia
Ludwik Frey, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow, Poland
Georg Grabherr, University of Vienna, Austria
Czesław Hołdyński, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
Ingo Kowarik, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Hans Walter Lack, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Maria Ławrynowicz, Łódź University, Łódź, Poland
Zbigniew Mirek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow, Poland
Sergei L. Mosyakin, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Romuald Olaczek, Łódź University, Łódź, Poland
Edward G. H. Oliver, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa
Peter Schönfelder, University of Regensburg, Germany
Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
Józef Szmeja, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Nikolai Nikolaievich Tzvelev, Russian Academy of Science, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Language Editors
Sylwia Ufnalska, member of the European Association of Science Editors and EASE Council, Poland
Elżbieta Obarska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Department of Plant Taxonomy, Poland
David Orwin, University of Bedfordshire, England
Anna Binczarowska, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Language Department, Poland
Zbigniew Śniatała, Poznań, Poland

Technical Editor
Zbigniew Celka, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Department of Plant Taxonomy, Poland

Contact
Biodiversity: Research and Conservation
Department of Plant Taxonomy,
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
Umultowska 89,
61-614 Poznań,
Poland

Fax. (+4861) 82956 36
Phone (+4861) 82956 96/89
e-mail: biodiv@amu.edu.pl
homepage: www.brc.amu.edu.pl