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 master degree in Plant Ecology at Dokuz Eylul University (1994), and Ph.D. in Plant Ecology at Dokuz Eylul University (1999) in Izmir, Turkey. He is a member of the editorial board many international journals like and referee of more than forty international and national journals and external thesis reviewer of some Pakistan and South African Universities.
Dr. Yunus Dogan’s 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.