Alexandre K Monro Editor

Alexandre K. Monro is a Research Leader at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK. He is a taxonomist who has specialised in nettles and the generation of biological collections and their application to taxonomy and conservation. He has co-authored five field guides, over 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and made more than 16,000 biological collections. He is a council member of the Systematics Association. Simon J. Mayo is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK. He is a taxonomist specializing in aroids and Brazilian flora. He has authored 112 peer-reviewed papers, 24 flora accounts and seven books on Araceae, Brazilian flora, monocot evolution, and computational botany. His current focus is on algorithmic delimitation and the cognitive basis of taxonomic species.