TROPICAL BRYOLOGY

an international journal on the biology of tropical bryophytes 
MANAGING EDITOR: J.-P. FRAHM 
SCIENTIFIC EDITOR: W.R. BUCK 

Editorial Board: 
Y. León Vargas (Universidad de los Andes, Mérida), B.J. O´Shea (London), B.C. Tan (National University of Singapore)

The journal Tropical Bryology was introduced in 1989 to promote this neglected field of science.  Tropical Bryology is a computer-based desktop journal which publishes manuscripts submitted as computer file. Although other journals have also begun accepting manuscripts on disk, Tropical Bryology remains the only scientific journal of which a version on CD is available, including text and illustrations, which can be utilized on computer by the subscriber.

Tropical Bryology is a non profit journal. Unlike other journals, it offers 50% reduction of the subscription price to subscribers from tropical countries,  The regular price is approx. $10 per hundred printed pages. The CD version is available for half price. 

Tropical Bryology is

• the first fully computer aided botanical journal
• the first botanical journal on disk viz. CD
• the first journal offering 50% reduction for subsribers from tropical countries
• the first bryological journal focussing a special field of bryology
• the first journal providing electronic reprints (e-prints)