Dear colleagues,

Vascular plants, i.e. plants with a vascular system containing xylem and phloem, with nearly 400,000 species and subspecies currently known, provide crucial primary production and vital socioeconomic and environmental services (e.g., soil and water conservation). However, the diversity of vascular plants is very unevenly distributed and subjected to many threats across the globe. Habitat loss, direct exploitation, indirect human influence through changing local ecological interactions (e.g., invasion of non-native plants), natural disasters, pollution, and intrinsic factors (e.g., unfavorable species traits) have been listed among the main threats for plant conservation. Therefore, one of the most critical issues on the global agenda is the need to preserve native plant biodiversity for future generations.

This Special Issue will focus on interdisciplinary new research and significant advances in conservation biology of vascular plants. Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts on the following topics:

- Diversity and distribution of rare vascular plants;

- Human influence (e.g., land use change, pollution, invasion of alien species, fire, tourism) on vascular plant conservation;

- Natural disaster influence (e.g., volcanic eruptions, tsunamis) on vascular plant conservation;

- In situ and ex situ conservation actions to vascular plants, including reintroduction and restocking actions;

- In vitro propagation (e.g., seed germination, micropropagation) experiences for vascular plants;

- Early warning and modeling of threats to vascular plants;

- Conservation policies (e.g., communication, education, and public awareness programmes) to conserve vascular plants.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diversity is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Anthropogenic disturbances
• Biodiversity conservation
• Red lists
• Threatened species
• Vascular plants