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The New York Botanical Garden Press

One of the principal goals of the botanical science program of The New York Botanical Garden is to disseminate research results and information to the scientific community and to the general public through the publication of scholarly journals, monographs, and books. Communication is as crucial to the Garden's mission as research. New information serves no purpose if it fails to reach other scientists and policymakers who can translate that information into action.

The New York Botanical Garden Press is the largest publishing program of any independent botanical garden in the world and provides a mean for communication of research carried out by scientists at The New York Botanical Garden and elsewhere. Begun in 1896, the program is unrivalled in quality and productivity in the field of botany. It focuses on advancements in knowledge about the classification, utilization, and conservation of plant life. Presently, the program consists of three journals, five monographs, and more than 20 books focusing on the areas of systematics, economic botany, and conservation.

The NYBG publications are forums for primary research papers on systematic and economic botany of all groups of plants. Current serial titles include: Advances in Economic Botany, The Botanical Review, Brittonia, Contributions from the NYBG, Economic Botany, Flora Neotropica, Memoirs of the NYBG, and North American Flora.

One of the Garden's best known serial monographs is Flora Neotropica, which provides taxonomic treatments of plant groups and families growing in the Americas between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The Neotropics contain the richest diversity of flora in the world, yet is among the least understood regions. Although floristic studies have been conducted on local, national, and international levels, forests in the Neotropics are being destroyed more rapidly than they can be studied. To learn more, visit the website of the Organization for Flora Neotropica

In addition to its serials, the Garden also publishes classic books; these are the guides that become standard reference tools for botanists. Among the titles published by the Garden are Intermountain Flora, Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Canada, second edition, and the Illustrated Companion to Gleason and Cronquist's Manual: Illustrations of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada.

Through its varied scientific publications, the Garden reaches thousands of systematists, conservationists, anthropologists, mycologists, land-use planners, professionals in the pharmaceutical and food sciences, and ethnobotanists throughout the world on a regular basis.