Special Issues

Diversity publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Diversity in Extreme Environments
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submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7935 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity Loss & Dynamics)
Diversity in 2024
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7619 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity; conservation; ecology; phylogeny; evolution
Bacterial Symbionts of Invertebrates: Diversity, Transmission and Impacts
edited by and Edyta Konecka
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7227 | Submission Open
Keywords: bacterial (endo)symbionts; genetic diversity  ; holobiont  ; host– symbiont interaction  ; metagenomics  ; microbial ecology; communities and structure  ; microbiome  ; pathogenicity  ; molecular evolution  ; phylogeny
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections)
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6918 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Diversity)
Biodiversity and Ecology of Soil Fungal Communities
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submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6865 | Submission Open
Keywords: fungal diversity; new species; new taxon; ecological function; soil community
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections)
Advances in Functional Ecology: From Plant Functional Traits and Functional Diversity to Ecosystem Processes submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6674 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Diversity)
Evaluating the Influence of Environmental Variables on Fish Ecology and Diversity submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4821 | Submission Open
Keywords: fish ecology; environmental variables; water quality; habitat destruction; anthropogenic disturbance; conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Phytochemical Diversity of Plant-Based Foods and Implications for Health and Prevention of Disease submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3964 | Submission Open
Keywords: antioxidant; polyphenol; total phenolics; anti-inflammatory; prebiotic; anticoagulant
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Diversity and Chemical Ecology)
Socioecology and Biodiversity Conservation—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3954 | Submission Open
Keywords: socio-ecological; ecosystem services; biodiversity conservation; local inhabitants; environmental systems
Diversity and Ecology of the Acari submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3017 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Emerging Effects of Pollinator Loss on Biodiversity submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1983 | Submission Open
Keywords: pollination and pollinator communities; insect conservation; pollination ecology; plant– pollinator interactions; plant– pollinator networks; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Diptera
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Diversity)
Digitization of Natural History Collections for Biodiversity Science and Conservation
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submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1826 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity loss; conservation; biodiversity data collection; management and aggregation; a new source of biodiversity data; digital identification keys; digitalization of natural history collections; nomenclators and taxonomic databases; biological collections
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity Conservation)
Conservation and Ecology of Raptors—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1414 | Submission Open
Keywords: raptor ecology; migration ecology; demography; population dynamics; habitat; threats and conservation management; diet; home range
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Diversity, Ecology and Genetics of Ciliates submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 462 | Submission Open
Keywords: Ciliophora; diversity; protistology; biogeography; microbial communities; symbiosis; speciation; macronucleus; epigenetics; genomics; adaptation and evolution; bioindicators; ecology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Biodiversity and Ecology of African Vegetation
edited by Hugo Bezuidenhout and Leslie Brown
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open
Keywords: African vegetation; biodiversity; African ecosystems; plant– wildlife interactions; plant community classification
Phytochemical Diversity, Ecosystem Services and Conservation of Food Plants submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open
Keywords: phytochemical diversity; ecosystem services; conservation; food and edible plants; Ethnobotany; plant diversity; phytochemistry; wild vegetables; functional food; ethnogastronomy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Diversity)
Selected Papers from 3rd International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution (IECD 2024)
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submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant diversity; animal diversity; biodiversity conservation
Landscape Science and Natural Resource Management submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecological restoration; sustainable agriculture; ecology
Forest Edge and Insect Diversity
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 157 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecology; biodiversity; edge effect; community; genetic diversity; functional diversity; phylogenetic diversity; ecosystem services; ecological processes
Marine Biodiversity from the Triassic
edited by Andrea Tintori
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open
Keywords: Triassic; Fossil Lagerstä tten; biodiversity; faunal recovery; food chain; functional morphology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Diversity)
Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections Hotspots in 2024
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submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open
Keywords: microbial diversity; functional diversity; selective isolation; culturable and unculturable diversity; microbial genetic resources; conservation; preservation; culture collections; biological resource centres; unexplored microbial diversity; metagenomics; bioinformatics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections)
Biogeography and Macroecology Hotspots in 2024
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submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open
Keywords: adaptive radiation; biodiversity; colonization; climate change; dispersal distribution; environmental factors; extinction; global change; island biogeography; landscape ecology; life history; metacommunity; meta ecosystem; metapopulation; migration; phylogeny; spatial ecology; speciation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeography and Macroecology)
Genetic Diversity and Plant Breeding
edited by Qiuyue Chen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 20 | Submission Open
Keywords: genetic diversity; plant breeding; agronomy
Selected Papers from “Utilisation of Underutilized Species for Future Food Security and the Conservation of Biocultural Diversity” submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open
Keywords: edible plant diversity; conservation; biocultural diversity
Biodiversity Conservation in Urbanized Ecosystems
edited by Gad Perry and Robert Cox
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 16 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban ecosystem regeneration; biodiversity conservation; urban green spaces; urbanization; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity Conservation)
Investigation of the Biology, Ecology, Distribution of Marine Macrozoobenthic Communities—2nd Edition submission deadline 4 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine macrozoobenthic communities; marine benthic flora and fauna; marine bioconstructions; species diversity and distribution; community composition; biogeographic patterns; biodiversity and conservation; morphological and molecular taxonomy; population and community ecology
Biology and Evolutionary History of Reptiles submission deadline 26 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open
Keywords: reptiles; fossil record; paleontological sites; faunistic associations; systematics; diversity; evolutionary history; lifestyles; paleoecology
Plant Diversity Hotspots in the 2020s
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submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2653 | Submission Open
Keywords: genetic diversity and conservation; fragmentation effects; conservation management; population genetics and ecology; global and local change effects on plant biodiversity; evolution and ecology; community and ecosystem ecology; tolerance/resistance to biotic and abiotic factors; restoration ecology; phylogenetic analyses; theoretical methods; computational methods; germplasm inventory; genotype x environment interaction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Diversity)
Soil Arthropod Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Ecosystem
edited by Hongyi Liu
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil arthropod; urban ecosystem; biodiversity conservation; genomics and genetics; population ecology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity Conservation)
DNA Barcodes for Evolution and Biodiversity—2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 943 | Submission Open
Keywords: DNA barcoding; biodiversity; evolution; species delimitation; conservation; monitoring
Diversity, Evolution, and Systematics of Chelicerates submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 209 | Submission Open
Keywords: systematic; genetic and genomic; evolution; interaction; predation; climate change; conservation; ecology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Marine Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine biogeography; marine distribution ranges; global marine biodiversity; onshore– offshore distributions; biodiversity centers; latitudinal diversity gradients; marine currents; substrate availability; climate change; marine speciation; marine extinction; paleogeography
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Diversity)
Genetic Diversity, Ecology and Conservation of Endangered Species—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open
Keywords: genetic conservation; conservation of biodiversity; conservation and management strategies; population ecology; threatened species; evolution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biodiversity Conservation)
Patterns Of Marine Benthic Biodiversity submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open
Keywords: intertidal; subtidal; rocky shores; sandy shores; estuaries; anthropogenic disturbance; environmental gradients
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Diversity)
Emerging Pollution: Effects on Aquatic Environments and Biodiversity
edited by , Qichen Jiang, and Weiwei Lv
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecological communities; aquatic health; biodiversity; emerging pollutants; species invasions; impact assessment
Investigating the Biodiversity of the Tardigrada—2nd Edition
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submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open
Keywords: biology; cryptobiosis; diversity; ecology; physiology; Tardigrada; taxonomy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Ecology, Diversity and Conservation of Seabirds—2nd Edition
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submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open
Keywords: seabird conservation; marine ecosystem; seabirds as bioindicators; human-induced impacts; pollution and climate effects; food webs; population dynamics; fisheries– seabirds interactions; migration
Feature Papers on Ectotherms in a Dynamic Environment: Understanding Patterns of Ecology, Distribution, Evolution, and Threats to Species
edited by , Deyatima Ghosh and Amaël Borzée
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 426 | Submission Open
Keywords: amphibians; reptiles; behaviour; cognition; predation; morphology; bioacoustics; distribution; population trend; evolutionary biology; invasion; parasitism; phylogenetics and phylogeography; population genetics; trait evolution; ecosystem service; distribution modelling; conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Animal Diversity)
Habitat Assessment and Conservation Strategies
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open
Keywords: habitat monitoring; habitat assessment; habitat protection; ecosystem assessment; ecosystem protection; nature reserves; ecosystem management; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeography and Macroecology)
Tropical Aquatic Biodiversity
edited by Lenize Batista Calvão and
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open
Keywords: tropical rivers; streams; ponds; lake; tropical species diversity; tropical ecology; habitat integrity; anthropogenic impact; land use; biomonitoring; bioindicators; conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Freshwater Biodiversity)
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