Background
Dr. Yunus Dogan is a professor in Ecology at Dokuz Eylul University at Buca Faculty of Education. He is a graduate at Ege University (1989), earned a master's degree in Plant Ecology at Dokuz Eylul University (1994), and Ph.D. in Plant Ecology at Dokuz Eylul University (1999) in Izmir, Turkey. His major research areas are based on Plant Ecology and Ethnobotany, acting on the following subjects: edaphic factors, soil-plant relations, heavy metals, biomonitoring, ethnobiology, medicinal plants, wild edible plants, ethnology of Balkan minorities as well as environmental education, etc. He is a member of the editorial board many international journals like Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture, Ethnobotany Research and Applications, Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, Ecologia, International Journal of Botany, Global Communications in Traditional Medicine, Bulletin of the Faculty of Forestry University of Belgrade, Journal Plantarum, Journal of Environmental Pollution and Control, Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Analytical Research, Pollution Prevention and Control, Austin Food Sciences, International Research Journal of Plant Science, Insights of Forest Research, Annals of Nutritional Food and Current Research, Journal of Medicinal Botany, Journal of Plant Biology & Crop Science, Digital Chinese Medicine, United Journal of Nutrition and Food Science, Stechnolock Journal of Biology, Saudi Journal of Biomedical Research, The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences, etc., and referee of more than forty international and national journals and external thesis reviewer of some Pakistan and South African Universities.