Editorial Team
Editor-in-chief and Managing Editor
Prof. Dr. Rainer W Bussmann
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstrasse 13, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
Ilia State University Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden Department of Ethnobotany Tbilisi, Georgia; rainer.bussmann@iliauni.edu.ge
Associate Editors
Dr. Zaal Kikvidze, Institute of Ethno-biology and Socio-ecology School of Natural Sciences and Engineering ILIA State University, Tbilisi, Georgia; zaal.kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge
Dr. Wahid Hussain, Department of Botany, GPGC Parachinar, Kurram, KP, Pakistan, Pakistan; wahidhussain@hed.gkp.pk
Dr. Ripu M. Kunwar, Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal; ripukunwar@gmail.com
Dr. Gonzalo Malca, Senior NMR Applications Scientist Magritek Inc.103 Great Valley Pkwy Malvern, PA 19355 M; gonzalo@magritek.com
Dr. Alfred Maroyi, Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa; amaroyi@ufh.ac.za
Dr. Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana; Ilia State University Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden Department of Ethnobotany 1 Botanical Str., 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia; narel.paniagua@iliauni.edu.ge
Prof. Andrea Pieroni, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy; a.pieroni@unisg.it
Copyeditor
Dr. Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana; Ilia State University Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden Department of Ethnobotany 1 Botanical Str., 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia; narel.paniagua@iliauni.edu.ge
Editorial Board
Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus-Pakistan; arshad799@yahoo.com
Dr. Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Social- Ecological Systems(LEA), Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; upa@db.ufrpe.br
Dr. Ali Abdullah Aldosari, King Saud University, Geography Department. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; adosari@ksu.edu.sa
Dr. Maroof Ali, Center for Integrative Conservation & Yunnan Key Laboratory for Conservation of Tropical Rainforests and Asian Elephants, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna 666303, China and Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Southeast Asia Biodiversity Conservation, Menglun 666303, China; marufturi059@gmail.com
Dr. Romulo Alves, UEPB · Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Brazil; romulo_nobrega@yahoo.com.br
Emanuela Appetiti, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC 20009, United States; eappetiti@hotmail.com
Dr. Michael Balick, New York Botanical Garden, New York, United States; mbalick@nybg.org
Dr. Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia; ketevan.batsatsashvili@ilisuni.edu.ge
Dr. Jyoti Bhandari, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Tribhuvan University; jbhandari@iopfc.edu.np
Dr. Biswajit Bose, Department of Botany, School of Basic Sciences, SRM University Sikkim, Gangtok, India; biswajit.dewdrop@gmail.com
Dr. Hugo J. de Boer, University of Uppsala, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; h.de.boer@nhm.uio.no
Dr. Alejandro Casas Fernández, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; acasas@cieco.unam.mx
Dr. Yebouk Cheikh, Nouakchott University, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Plant Biodiversity and Natural Resource Development, University of Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania, yebouk55@gmail.com
Dr. Alain Cuerrier; Jardin Botanique de Montréal, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale/Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec; alain.cuerrier@umontreal.ca
Dr Jade D'Alpoim Guedes, Department of Anthropology and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States; jguedes@ucsd.edu
Dr. Namraj Dhami, School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Ward 30, Kaski, Gandaki, 33700, NEPAL, namraj.dhami@gmail.com
Dr. Javier Echeverría, University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, Chile; javier.echeverriam@usach.cl
Dr. Eve Emshwiller, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, United States ; emshwiller@wisc.edu
Dr. Maria Fadiman, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States; fadiman@fau.edu
Prof. Elachouri Mostafa, Mohammed First University, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Physiology, Genetic and Ethnopharmacology. Oujda., Morocco; elachourimostafa@gmail.com
Dr. Andrew Flachs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States; aflachs@purdue.edu
Dr. Mayar Luis Ganoza Yupanqui, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica Lima, Lima, Peru; mayerganoza@gmail.com
Dr. Abdolbaset Ghorbani, Department of Organismal Biology, Systematic Biology Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; abdolbaset.ghorbani@ebc.uu.se
Prof. Dr. Hajri Haska, Agricultural University, Faculty of Forestry Science. Tirana, Albania; hhaskaj@ubt.edu.al
Dr. Natalia Hanazaki, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Depto de Ecologia e Zoologia, Florianópolis, Brazil; natalia.hanazaki@ufsc.br
Dr. Marifatul Haq, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India; snaryan17@gmail.com
Dr. Wahid Hussain, Department of Botany, GPGC Parachinar, Kurram, KP, Pakistan, Pakistan; wahidhussainwahid@gmail.com
Dr. Hammad Ahmad Jan, Department of Botany, University of Buner, Swari, Pakistan, Pakistan; hajmughul@yahoo.com
Dr. Elaine Joyal, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States; joyal@asu.edu
Dr. Zaal Kikvidze, Institute of Ethno-biology and Socio-ecology School of Natural Sciences and Engineering ILIA State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Dr. Shujaul Mulk Khan, Department of Plant Sciences Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad-45320, Pakistan; shujaqau@gmail.com
Dr. Ripu M. Kunwar, Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal; ripukunwar@gmail.com
Dr. Manoj Kumar, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India
Dr. Munesh Kumar, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, India; muneshmzu@yahoo.com
Dr. Ana H Ladio, INIBIOMA Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente (Universidad Nacional del Comahue-CONICET), General Roca, Argentina; ahladio@gmail.com
Dr. Bo Liu, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China; boliu@muc.edu.cn
Dr. Chunlin Long, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China; 2009049@muc.edu.cn
Dr. Lukasz Luczaj, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland; lukasz.luczaj@interia.pl
Dr. Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul. Instituto de Biociências. Laboratório de Etnobotânica., Campo Grande, Brazil; reinaldolucena.dr@gmail.com
Dr. Ermias Lulekal, Addis Ababa University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, P.O. Box 34731(Private), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; ermias.lulekal@aau.edu.et
Dr. Gonzalo Malca, Senior NMR Applications Scientist Magritek Inc.103 Great Valley Pkwy, Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 M; gonzalo@magritek.com
Dr. Alfred Maroyi, Botany Department, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa, South Africa; amaroyi@ufh.ac.za
Dr. Will C. McClatchey, Woodland Valley Meadows Farm LLC, Eugene, United States; will.mcclatchey@gmail.com
Dr. Tawseef A. Mir, School of Life and Allied Sciences, BFIT Group of Institutions, Dehradun, India; tawseefbot@gmail.com
Dr. Hamid Moazzeni, Department of Botany, Research Center for Plant Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, P.O.BOX 91779-48974, Mashhad, Iran; hmoazzeni@um.ac.ir
Dr. Farzaneh Khajoei Nasab, Department of Plant Sciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life sciences and Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Dr. Anely Nedelcheva; Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria; ohan@chem.uni-sofia.bg
Dr. Nazir A. Pala, Faculty of Forestry, Benhama, Ganderbal, SKUAST-Kashmir (J & K), Srinagar, India; nazirpaul@gmail.com
Dr. Lukáš Pawera, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; paweralukas@gmail.com
Dr. Zbynek Polesny, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; polesny@ftz.czu.cz
Dr. Victoria Reyes-Garcia, University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; victoria.reyes@uab.cat
Dr. Inayat Ur Rahman, Department of Botany Govt: Degree College, Madyan Swat, Pakistan, Pakistan; hajibotanist@outlook.com
Dr. Manuel Pardo de Santanyana, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Departamento de Biología (Botánica) Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Madrid, Spain; manuel.pardo@uam.es
Dr. Gopalkrishnan Saroja Seethapathy, National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, 314D Thad Cochran Research Center, University, MS 38677, USA. sgopala1@olemiss.edu
Dr. Hassan Sher, Department of Botany, Govt Post Graduate Jahanzeb College Swat Pakistan, Swat Valley, Pakistan; hassan.botany@gmail.com
Dr. Renata Soukand, UNIVE, Department of Environmental Sciences, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy; renata.soukand@unive.it
Dr. A. Stephen, Department of Botany, St. Joseph's College of Bangalore, Bangalore, India; stephanos.crown@gmail.com
Dr. Alain Touwaide, UCLA and The Huntington, United States Dr. Nancy J. Turner, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada; atouwaide@hotmail.com
Prof MP Tshisikhawe, Associate Professor, Interim HOD - Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Agriculture, University of Venda, South Africa, tsiship@univen.ac.za
Dr. Valentina Savo, University Roma Tre, Department of Science, Viale Marconi, 446, 00146 Rome, valentina.savo@uniroma3.it
Dr. Anna Waldstein, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK, A.Waldstein@kent.ac.uk
Mr. Marc Williams, Botany Every Day, Plants and Healers International, Asheville, United States; marc@botanyeveryday.com
Dr. Steve Wolverton, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, Denton, United States; wolverton@unt.edu
