''African Biodiversity & Conservation'', formerly known as ''Bothalia'' is a South African

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covering the fields of

botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

and

biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...

, produced by the

South African National Biodiversity Institute The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is an organisation established in 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004, under the South African Department of Environmental Affairs ( ...

. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 0.52.

Description

The journal is produced yearly, but articles are published on-line continually. When the journal was renamed in 2014, as well as broadening the scope it was made open access and its contents made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The entire contents back to the first issue are available on the journal's website.

History

The journal was established in 1921, producing its first issue in 1922, as an in house journal of South Africa's National Botanical Institute. The journal was formally known by the name ''Bothalia'' alone, from 1922 to 2014 when the title was expanded to better reflect the role of the South African National Biodiversity Institute. In 2004 the National Botanical Institute was absorbed into a broader configuration, the South African National Biodiversity Institute, by the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act. The journal was named after the first

Prime Minister of South Africa The prime minister of South Africa ( af, Eerste Minister van Suid-Afrika) was the head of government in South Africa between 1910 and 1984. History of the office The position of Prime Minister was established in 1910, when the Union of Sout ...

Louis Botha Louis Botha (; 27 September 1862 – 27 August 1919) was a South African politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa – the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war hero during the Second Boer War, ...

who was Minister of Agriculture from 1910 to 1913.

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