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Alpine Botany is an international journal providing a forum for plant science studies at high elevation with links to fungal and microbial ecology, including vegetation and flora of mountain regions worldwide.
Alpine Botany publishes original contributions and reviews on biogeography, biosystematics, evolutionary biology, population biology, ecophysiology, functional ecology of vegetation, flora as well as symbiotic associations. We also welcome studies on fungi, mosses and lichens and plant-animal interactions.
We aim at contributions that explore plant biological phenomena in order to understand functionally ongoing ecological, evolutionary or physiological processes.
Descriptive or applied studies are acceptable, provided that clear research questions are addressed and that findings are presented in a context fitting the scope of the journal. Articles must be relevant for an international readership.
Alpine Botany is the official publication of the Swiss Botanical Society and is published by Springer International Publishing AG, Basel, Switzerland.

Editor-in-Chief
Jürg Stöcklin
Institute of Botany
University of Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 6
CH 4056 Basel
Switzerland
juerg.stoecklin@unibas.ch
Editorial Board
Jake Alexander
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Université de Lausanne
Lausanne
Switzerland
Fabien Anthelme
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
UMR AMAP
Montpellier
France
Mary T. Kalin Arroyo
Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity
University of Chile
Santiago de Chile
Chile
Christian Brochmann 
Natural History Museum
University of Oslo
Oslo
Norway
Lohengrin Cavieres
Departamento de Botánica
Universidad de Concepción
Concepcion
Chile
Philippe Choler
Laboratoire d’ Écologie Alpine
University Grenoble Alpes
Grenoble
France
Katharine Dickinson
Department of Botany
University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
Markus Fischer
Institut of Plant Sciences
University of Bern
Switzerland
Joachim W. Kadereit
Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Mainz
Germany
Christian Körner
Institute of Botany
University of Basel
Switzerland
Gaku Kudo
Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecology
Hokkaido
Japan
Sébastien Lavergne
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine
CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes
Grenoble
France
Andreas Lüscher
Forage Production and Grassland Systems
Agroscope ART
Zürich
Switzerland
Vladimir Onipchenko
Department of Geobotany
Moscow State University
Moscow
Russia
Christian Parisod
Institute of Plant Sciences
University of Bern
Switzerland
Harald Pauli
GLORIA Coordination
Austrian Academy of Sciences &
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna
Austria
Christian Rixen 
Community Ecology 
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF 
Davos
Switzerland
Niek Scheepens
Plant Evolutionary Ecology
University of Tübingen
Tübingen
Germany
Christoph Scheidegger
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL
Birmensdorf
Switzerland
Gerald M. Schneeweiss
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria

Peter Schoenswetter
Institute of Botany 
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck
Austria
Eva Spehn
Institute of Botany
University of Basel
Switzerland
Hang Sun
Kunming Institute of Botany
Yunnan
China
Ørjan Totland
Department of ecology and natural resource management
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ås
Norway
Andreas Tribsch
Department of Organismic Biology
University of Salzburg
Austria
Jurriaan Michiel de Vos
Department of Environmental Sciences – Botany
Basel
Switzerland
Sonja Wipf
WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Davos
Switzerland