Overview
Founded in 1992, Biodiversity and Conservation is an international journal that publishes articles on all aspects of biological diversity, its conservation, and sustainable use. It is multidisciplinary and covers living organisms of all kinds in any habitat, focusing on studies using novel or little-used approaches, and ones from less studied biodiversity rich regions or habitats. It also features rapid assessment approaches, the estimation of species numbers and diversity (by traditional, molecular, or proxy indicator methods), habitat management, conservation policy and regulations, threats, biodiversity loss, extinctions, and the documenting of long-term changes, and ex-situ conservation.
It includes reviews, research papers, editorials, commentaries, and letters, and sometimes whole issues devote to particular topics.
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- David Hawksworth
- Journal Impact Factor
- 3.0 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 3.5 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 44 days
- Downloads
- 1,205,342 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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A minute to midnight: advances in orchid conservation
CALL FOR PAPERS | Deadline: March 30, 2025
UN SDG 13 (Climate Action); SDG 15 (Life on Land)
This special issue will collect some of the main studies presented at the 8th International Orchid Conservation Congress (IOCC8) organized by the Guest Editors, and aims to bridge ecological knowledge with practical applications, fostering a deeper understanding of the dynamic interplay between human activities and the natural environment. -
Biodiversity and Climate Change in India - Sustainable Development Perspective
FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE | Late 2024
UN SDG 13 (Climate Action); SDG 15 (Life on Land)This special issue includes invited papers presented during the 3rd International Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change (BDCC-2023) organized by the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere, and Land Sciences (CORAL) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKgp) during February 16-19, 2023 on various themes such as biodiversity and land cover dynamics, Geomatics and data analytics, forest and agricultural bio-resources, and the Himalayan climate.
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Cultural Forests for Landscape-Scale Biodiversity Conservation
FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE | Late 2024
UN SDG 1 (No Poverty); SDG 2 (Zero Hunger); SDG 3 (Good Health & Well-being); SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth); SDG 13 (Climate Action); SDG 15 (Life on Land)
This special issue solicited papers from different parts of the world dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics: cultural forests and biodiversity assessment, traditional forest practices for landscape-scale biodiversity preservation, biodiversity assessment and evaluation in forest landscapes, forest/agriculture and/or forest-pastures ecotones. -
Transformative change
LATEST SPECIAL ISSUE | Volume 32, issue 11, September 2023
Issue editors: Dirk S. Schmeller & Peter BridgewaterThis Special Issue contains nine articles that have evaluated conservation strategies, examined available conservation tools, and examined pathways to actively promote transformative change. All articles stress that there are still no clear ways forward to implement biodiversity integration in policy planning and policy implementation; transformative change remains challenging.
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- 1572-9710
- Print ISSN
- 0960-3115
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