Introducción

Abstract

During the last ten years, since 2010, FloraMac meetings have taken place, providing an important opportunity for the interchange of ideas and advancing our knowledge of the Macaronesian flora. Every two years, researchers from different countries, specialists in areas as distinct as history, geology, floristics, ecology and biogeography, converge to further investigate the flora of Macaronesia, one of the most important insular regions of the world. As well as a showcase for the latest research, FloraMac meetings constitute an opportunity for young scientists, interested in the knowledge and conservation of the unique natural heritage of the region, to take their first steps in communicating their science in the company of renowned scientists. The proceedings of the most recent FloraMac meeting which took place in Funchal, Madeira, in 2018, are published in this issue of Scientia Insularum, a young open access journal very much in line with the meeting’s spirit, in which established scientists publish beside novel authors.