Table of Contents

1.Status and Importance of Botanical Collections Throughout the World
(1)The history and current status of taxonomy and herbaria in Africa, particularly East Africa
(2)Herbarium of the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Science of Belarus (Abstract)
(3)Far eastern plants in the herbaria of Russia (Abstract)
(4)Herbarium of the Institute of Biological Problems and Botanical Research in Asiatic North-East Russia
(5)Salicaceae collection in south Ural region: investigation of ecological specificity and optimization of disturbed lands (Abstract)
(6)Briefto the herbaria in the botanical gardens of Siberia (Abstract)
(7)The current status of the Herbarium of the Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Vladivostock (VLA), and its influence on the theoretical and applied fundamental botanical research programmes for the Russian Far East
(8)Main collections and type specimens of the Herbarium of National University of L’viv (LW) (Abstract)
(9)Historical collections of food, crop and medicinal plants at Botanical Garden of the V. L. K. Komarov Botanical Institute
(10)Some notes on the botanical collections of the Hanoi College of Pharmacy and other Vietnam institutions (Abstract)
(11)The status and futute of the Herbarium of Landzhou University, China
(12) of the herbarium building project of Zhejiang University Museum (Abstract)
2.Preservation and Management of Botanical Collections
(1)Recent advances in the conservation of biological collections
(2)The Herbarium of the Übersee-Museum Bremen (BREM), Germany: The historical collections, their Preservation and contemporary merit
(3)Collection and preservation of mangrove plant specimens
(4)A database of Jiangsu plants with a special reference to Nanjing University Herbarium (Abstract)
(5)The project “Floristic diversity of the Russian Far-east on CD-ROM” (Abstract)
(6) to the preservation of the living collection in Magadan (Abstract)
(7)Preservation of specimens: Pests and mould treatments in the Herbarium NAS (Nanjing) (Abstract)
(8)A simple and effective protocol for marking samples for DNA extraction during collecting of fungi
3.Computerization and Images of Botanical Collections
(1)Project: Intellectual property and the European Natural History Specimens Information Network (Abstract)
(2)How can we use the Chinese specimen database to plot distribution maps using GIS tool?
(3)The floristic database of Nagano Prefecture and its uses
(4)Digitization of herbarium specimen: a modern approach for preservation of botanical collections
(5)Digital guide for collections of the herbarium, Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) (Abstract)
(6)Computer registration of botanical collections and effective distribution of information about botanical gardens. Approach and methods of the Petrozavodsk University Botanical Garden
(7)Computerization and images of botanical and mycological collections at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lille, France (Abstract)
(8)The botanical collections of Belarus on the Internet (Abstract)
(9)A database for the biogeographical analysis of Latin American Pteridophytes (Abstract)
4.Challenges and Strategies for Herbaria in the 21st Century
(1)Managing the herbarium for the present and the future (Abstract)
(2)Problems and prospects for the management and maintenance of botanical collections in herbaria: The Indian scenario
(3)Why Korean taxonomic projects fail now-the present status and operating aspects of herbaria in Korea
(4)Preliminary results and analysis of a survey of herbaria in China