Plant Species Biology is published four times a year by The Society for the Study of Species Biology. Plant Species Biologypublishes research manuscripts in the fields of population biology, pollination biology, evolutionary ecology, biosystematics, co-evolution, and any other related fields in biology. In addition to full length papers, the journal also includes short research papers as notes and comments. Invited articles may be accepted or occasion at the request of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts should contain new results of empirical and/or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanisms or concepts of evolutionary as well as biological phenomena. Papers that are purely descriptive are not suitable for this journal. Notes & comments of the following contents will not be accepted for publication: Development of DNA markers. The journal is introducing 'Life history monographs of Japanese plant species'. The journal is dedicated to minimizing the time between submission, review and publication and to providing a high quality forum for original research in Plant Species Biology.

Honorary Editors-in-Chief

William F. Grant, Dept. of Plant Science, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Shoichi Kawano, Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Editor-in-Chief

Masashi Ohara, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
 
Associate Editors

Keiko Kitamura, Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Sapporo, Japan

Makoto Kato, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

Teruyoshi Nagamitsu, Ecological Genetics Laboratory, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Michiko Masuda, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.
Atushi Ushimaru, Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Tamao Saito, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Miyake, Faculty of Education, Gifu University, Yanagido, Japan                                                      
 
Editorial Board

E. R. Alvarez-Buylla, Mexico City, Mexico

Shu-Miaw Chaw, Taipei, Taiwan

Hong-Ya Gu, Beijing, China

Tomáš Herben, Prague, Czech Republic

Michael J. Hutchings, Brighton, UK

David W. Inouye, College Park, USA

Motomi Ito, Tokyo, Japan

Yoh Iwasa, Fukuoka, Japan

Hans De Kroon, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Martin J. Lechowicz, Montréal, Canada

Lazarus W. Macior, Akron, USA

Naohiko Miyashita, Kyoto, Japan

Isabelle Olivieri, Montpellier, France

Carl D. Schlichting, Storrs, USA

Douglas E. Soltis, Gainesville, USA

Leonard B. Thien, New Orleans, USA

James D. Thomson, Toronto, Canada

Frederick H. Utech, Pittsburgh, USA

Andrew R. Watkinson, East Anglia, UK

Dennis F. Whigham, Edgewater, USA
 
IOPB Board

Mary T. Kalin Arroyo, Santiago, Chile

Konrad Bachmann, Gatersleben, Germany

Randall Bayer, Canberra, Australia

Paul Gadek, Cairns, Australia

Colin J. Webb, Wellington, New Zealand