EDITORS & ADVISORY BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

Pankaj Kumar
Education: PhD (Plant Taxonomy and Ecology)
Affiliation: Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden Corp., Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R.China
Expertise: Systematics, Ecology, Orchidaceae, Ethnobotany
Email: pkumar@kfbg.org; sahanipankaj@gmail.com
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Associate Editors

Arun Kumar Dutta
Education: PhD (Mycology)
Affiliation: Department of Botany, West Bengal State University, West Bengal, INDIA
Expertise: Macrofungal Taxonomy; Mushrooms; Molecular Barcoding and phylogeny
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Marcelo Daniel Arana
Education: PhD (Biological Sciences)
Affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina
Expertise: Botany, Taxonomy, Plant Systematics, Biogeography, Pteridology
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Board Members

Ali Reza Radkhah
Education: PhD (Fisheries)
Affiliation: Department of Fisheries, University of Tehran, Iran.
Expertise: Ecology and Evolution, Aquatic Biology, Genetics and Fish Breeding, Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology
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Nicolas BAILLY
Education: PhD (Biodiversity informatics)
Affiliation: LifeWatchGreece, Greek Taxonomic Information System Data Manager, Greece
Expertise: Biodiversity informatics; Fish taxonomy and systematics; Ichthyology; Taxonomy; Marine ecology and biology
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M.K. Janarthanam
Education: PhD (Botany)
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Botany, Goa University, India
Expertise: Plant taxonomy; Botany; Plant Ecology; Conservation Biology; Invasive Species; Plant Biology; Biodiversity
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Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Education: PhD (Marine Biology)
Affiliation: Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Expertise: Diversity and distribution of marine biota; Structure and function of benthic assemblages; Marine and coastal environmental management and conservation; Methods for underwater research; Biodiversity Informatics; Historical records of biodiversity
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Swapnaja Mohite
Education: PhD (Fisheries Biology)
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Fisheries Biology, College of Fisheries, Ratnagiri, India
Expertise: Fish taxonomy; biology of fish and shellfish; marine sponges; aquaculture
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Barkat Ali
Education: PhD (Fungal taxonomy)
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Expertise: Fungal taxonomy and systematics, fungal molecular taxonomy especially rust fungi taxonomy and systematics.
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Rajnish Kumar Verma
Education: PhD (Mycology & Plant Pathology)
Affiliation: Department of Botany, Swami Vivekanad group of Institutes, Banur, Punjab, INDIA
Expertise: Biodiversity, taxonomy and conservation of Fungi (Hyphomycetes)
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Norhayati Ahmad
Education: PhD (Species diversity)
Affiliation: Professor of Zoology. School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Expertise: Species diversity; Amphibians; reptiles; frogs; toads; herptiles
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Osvaldo Villarreal Manzanilla
Education: PhD (Biological Sciences (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil))
Affiliation 1: External collaborator, National Museum - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Affiliation 2: Research associate, Museum of the Institute of Agricultural Zoology, Central University of Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela.
Expertise: Taxonomy and Systematics of Arachnida (Opiliones, Schizomida, Amblypygi).
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