New 2007 Impact Factor - 2.495!

Animal Conservation

Published on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Edited by:
Guy Cowlishaw, Trenton Garner, Matthew Gompper, Todd Katzner, Karen Mock and Stephen Redpath

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 9/27 (Biodiversity Conservation); 36/116 (Ecology)
Impact Factor: 2.495

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Increased to 6 issues in 2008

Animal Conservation provides a forum for rapid publication of novel, peer-reviewed research into the conservation of animal species and their habitats. The focus is on rigorous quantitative studies of an empirical or theoretical nature, which may relate to populations, species or communities and their conservation. The journal publishes single-species papers only when they have clear broader implications for conservation of other species or systems or when the species is of exceptional conservation concern and the study presents new and essential information. A central theme is to publish important new ideas and findings that have general implications for the scientific basis of conservation. Subjects covered include:

• population biology
• epidemiology
• evolutionary ecology
• population genetics
• biodiversity
• biogeography
• palaeobiology
• conservation economics

The journal is essential reading for conservation biologists, policy-makers and students.

 

We would like to thank all those listed below for taking the time to review for the Animal Conservation in 2007 - your generosity is much appreciated, and we hope that your association with Journal continues in the future. Click here to view the list of reviewers

TopNews and Announcements

20 and 21 November 2008 Halting the Global Decline in Amphibians: research and practice - a two-day international symposium to be held at the Zoological Society of London.

Organised by Lesley Dickie, Kevin Zippel and Jenny Pramuk.

All tickets must be purchased in advance.

NEW! Editorial Board Member's Choice
Read the first editorial board member's commentary on a recently published paper from Animal Conservation:
James Austin on the article, Translocation and early post-release demography of endangered Laysan teal
Click here to read the commentary| Click here to read the article

Animal Conservation Student Poster Award in partnership with the Society for Conservation Biology, 2008
On behalf of the Editors of Animal Conservation and the Zoological Society of London, we would like to thank all students who participated in the poster competition at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2008. We are pleased to announce the winners of this year's award:

Click here to read the winners' abstracts!

­- 1st Prize
Awarded to Nirmal Bhagabati, Will Turner, Thomas Brooks and Larry Gorenflo
Human pressures on amphibian biodiversity are concentrated in regions critical to conservation
­- 2nd Prize
Awarded to Mark Otieno
The impacts of local and landscape drivers on pollinator and natural enemy biodiversity and delivery of related ecosystem services to crops in Kenya
- 3rd Prize
Awarded to Sarah J. Corey, Thomas A. Waite, Lesley Geills Campbell, Anil K Chhangani, Jennifer Rice, Paul F Robbins
Does remotely sensed land-cover change signal latent impacts on tree species diversity within a protected area?
- Highly Commended
1. Nancy-Anne Rose and Phil Burton
Identifying temporal corridors for conservation planning in the context of climate change
2. Heather Lessig, William J. McShea and Jeffrey R. Walters
Distribution and species richness patterns of bird communities in high elevation forests

Online Manuscript Submission Now Available
You can now submit your manuscript to Animal Conservation online, with our new manuscript submission website. The online manuscript submission and review process leads to faster decision times and greater simplicity for authors and reviewers. Submit your best manuscript to Animal Conservation.

Open Access publishing - Online Open
Authors of articles in this journal will be able to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.

Articles Published Online Ahead of full issue - EarlyView
Articles that have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed will be published online through our EarlyView feature before the full issue of this journal is published.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme. It is also available through INTAS, INASP and AGORA.

 

TopHighlights

NEW! Editorial Board Member's Choice
Read the first editorial board member's commentary on a recently published paper from Animal Conservation.
James Austin on the article, Translocation and early post-release demography of endangered Laysan teal
Click here to read the commentary

Featured Papers - read for free below

Latest: Volume 11, Issue 4
Read the featured paper and related commentaries for free below
Interactions between seabirds and deep-water hake trawl gear: an assessment of impacts in South African waters
B. P. Watkins, S. L. Petersen, P. G. Ryan

Commentaries
Seabird mortality and trawl fisheries
J. P. Croxall

Quantifying seabird bycatch: where do we go from here?
J. E. Moore, R. ydelis

Response
Estimating seabird bycatch by fisheries and its impact on seabird populations
P. G. Ryan, B. P. Watkins

Volume 11, Issue 3
An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large- and medium-sized terrestrial rainforest mammals
M. W. Tobler, S. E. Carrillo-Percastegui, R. Leite Pitman, R. Mares, G. Powell

Volume 11, Issue 1
Agricultural farming alters predator-prey interactions in nearby natural habitats
I. Shapira, H. Sultan & U. Shanas

Volume 10, Issue 4
Resistance to chytridiomycosis varies among amphibian species and is correlated with skin peptide defenses
D. C. Woodhams, K. Ardipradja, R. A. Alford, G. Marantelli, L. K. Reinert & L. A. Rollins-Smith

Volume 10, Issue 3
Genetic quality of individuals impacts population dynamics
D. H. Reed, A. C. Nicholas & G. E. Stratton

Volume 10, Issue 2
Has the debate over genetics and extinction of island endemics truly been resolved?
I. G. Jamieson

Volume 10, Issue 1
Decreased immunocompetence in a severely bottlenecked population of an endemic New Zealand bird
K. A. Hale, J. V. Briskie

Volume 9, Issue 4
Patterns of bushmeat hunting and perceptions of disease risk among central African communities 
M. LeBreton, A.T. Prosser, U. Tamoufe, W. Sateren, E. Mpoudi-Ngole, J. L. D. Diffo, D. S. Burke, N. D. Wolfe

Volume 9, Issue 3
Genetic relatedness of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) to nearby subspecies of Z. hudsonius as inferred from variation in cranial morphology, mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite DNA: implications for taxonomy and conservation
Rob Roy Ramey II, Hsiu-Ping Liu, Clinton W. Epps, Lance M. Carpenter and John D. Wehausen

Volume 9, Issue 2
The genetic rescue of the Florida panther
S. L. Pimm, L. Dollar, O. L. Bass Jr