Young Researchers in Ecology
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biodiversity and ecosystem processes; functional plant ecology; community ecology; biodiversity conservation; conservation policy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we aim to feature early-career researchers in Ecology. The senior author(s) of each contribution should be (a) the first or last author as well as the corresponding author and (b) be within 10 years of completing their Ph.D. (or equivalent) or becoming an assistant professor/on track to make tenure. We invite manuscripts from diverse research fields in ecology (e.g., functional ecology, population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology, evolutionary ecology, conservation ecology, global change ecology, restoration ecology, and macroecology). Manuscripts, including those with theoretical, analytical, experimental, and empirical approaches, are welcome. Applied ecology issues with implications for environmental/conservation policy or natural resource management are also acceptable. There is no restriction on the types of organisms or ecosystems that can be studied.
Articles submitted for this Special Issue should meet all the standard requirements of individual Biology articles (regarding quality, novelty, and significance) and be relevant to a broad international and interdisciplinary readership.
The authors featured in this Special Issue will have the opportunity to be nominated for next year's Young Investigator Award.
Prof. Dr. Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Biology is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- adaptations to variable environments
- biodiversity
- biogeography
- biotic interactions (e.g., competition, predation parasitism, mutualism, amensalism, commensalism)
- community assembly
- conservation
- ecological management and restoration
- ecological sustainability
- ecosystem processes (productivity, decomposition, nutrient cycling)
- evolution
- functional traits
- global changes (e.g., climate change, land use change, biological invasions, nitrogen deposition)
- landscape ecology
- life histories
- physiological ecology
- population dynamics
- protected areas
- succession
- trophic levels
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Planned Papers
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