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New Editor | Mark Hughes, coordinating editor for taxonomy and systematics
Mark Hughes is joining NJB as Coordinating Editor for taxonomy & systematics. He is also a specialist on Begonia spp.
New Editor | Arnost Sizling, subject editor for Ecography
Arnost Sizling is a macroecologist who explores the drivers of species spatial patterns, with interests including how biodiversity patterns shift across the Holocene and along continental-scale gradients.
New Editor | Jamie Kass, editor for Software Notes
Jamie Kass runs the Macroecology Lab at Tohoku University in Japan, investigating how biodiversity—from plankton to insects to vertebrates—is distributed across space and time.
New Editor | Dan Liang, subject editor for Ecography
Animal ecologist and conservation scientist Dan Liang studies diversity patterns in rapidly changing ecosystems, often involving long-distance migrants crossing national boundaries and elevational migrations in mountains.
New Editor | Babak Naimi, editor for Software Notes
We welcome Babak Naimi, a senior researcher at Utrecht University who focuses on understanding biodiversity change in response to ongoing global change and anthropogenic activities.
New Editor | Tyler Hallman, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist Tyler Hallman, whose recent work includes exploring the wellbeing benefits that humans derive from avian soundscapes.
New Editor | Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, whose research asks how broad patterns of biodiversity emerge across space, time, and different parts of the tree of life.
New Editor | Sabrina Dressel, subject editor for human dimensions
Sabrina Dressel is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands) in the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy group, with a background in forestry, wildlife management, and social science.
*New Editor | Qiang Wang, subject editor for Chinese vascular plants
We welcome on board our third Subject Editor for Chinese vascular plants! Qiang Wang is a professor of plant systematics and biodiversity at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
New Editor | Tao Deng, subject editor for Chinese vascular plants
We welcome Tao Deng as new Subject Editor for Chinese vascular plants, with a focus on angiosperms from southwest China and the adjacent Pan-Third Pole regions. Tao Deng is a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
*New Editor | Bo Li, subject editor for Chinese vascular plants
We would like to welcome Professor Bo Li, Ph.D., as Subject Editor for Chinese vascular plant taxonomy! He is the PI of the Plant Taxonomy and Conservation Research Group at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (XTBG).
*New Editor | Masoomeh Ghobad-Nejhad, subject editor in mycology
We would like to welcome Dr. Masoomeh Ghobad-Nejhad to the NJB editorial board as subject editor in mycology! Based at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, she is a mycologist with a keen interest in taxonomy and its links to morphology, molecular identification, phylogeny, eDNA, character evolution, nomenclature, and applied systematics.
*New Editor | Gerald M. Schneeweiss, subject editor for molecular systematics
We would like to welcome Gerald M. Schneeweiss as new Subject Editor for molecular systematics at Nordic Journal of Botany! Gerald is an Associate Professor at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna, where he studies the evolution, systematics and biogeography of flowering plants.
*New Editor | Laura Melissa Guzman, new subject editor for Ecography
The goal of Guzman’s research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data.
*Welcome | Jon Lefcheck, new Subject Editor
We welcome Jon Lefchek, research scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, as new subject editor of Ecography.
*New Editor | Christine Meynard, Editor-in-Chief for Ecography
We welcome Christine Meynard, the new Editor-in-Chief of Ecography.
New editor | Elisa Thébault, subject editor for Oikos
We are happy to welcome Dr. Elisa Thébault from Paris, France, to the Oikos Editorial Board.
*New Editor | Jalil Noroozi, Editor-in-Chief in taxonomy
Starting in August 2025, Dr. Jalil Noroozi will take over the role of Editor-in-Chief in taxonomy and systematics at Nordic Journal of Botany.
New editor | Paul Dufour, subject editor for JAB
Paul is a research associate at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, Switzerland. Read more about his research and interests in this interview.
*New Editor | Robert Björk, subject editor in plant ecology
We welcome Robert Björk onto the NJB editorial board as our new Subject Editor in (arctic) plant ecology!