Alpine Botany is an international journal providing a forum for plant science studies across 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 in mountainous regions.
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. The first issue was published in 1891.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Deadline: February 28, 2026
This special issue will complement existing knowledge on the fine- and large-scale heterogeneity in mountainous environments, governed by (micro-)topographic structure with contributions that highlight the relative importance of meso-climatic and micro-climatic constraints or opportunities in driving adaptation, functional diversity and the assemblage of plant species into communities.
UN SDG 13 (Climate Action); SDG 15 (Life on Land)
LATEST SPECIAL ISSUE | Volume 134, issue 2, October 2024
Issue editors: Judith Trunschke, Alexander Jake M. Alexander, Robert R. Junker, Gaku Kudo, Sarah K. Richman, Irene Till Bottraud
This special issue collects novel insights into the effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions in individual plant species and on network structure of entire plant and pollinator communities in alpine ecosystems.
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