Conservation Physiology
Editor-in-Chief: Steven Cooke, Carleton University, Canada
Scope: Key topics covered by the journal include:
- Understanding the influence of anthropogenic disturbance, and of variation in habitat quality, on organism condition, health and survival
- Providing a mechanistic/functional understanding of the effect of anthropogenic environmental change on organisms; the use of physiological knowledge to develop mechanistic models for species distributions
- Evaluating stress responsiveness and environmental tolerances relative to environmental change (including global warming and ocean acidification)
- Understanding the adaptation of physiological processes to environmental variation (e.g. studies on thermal adaptation among populations)
- Understanding the optimal environmental conditions for ex-situ preservation of endangered species (captive breeding, seed bank protocols for storage and regeneration, tissue culture for plant species or genotypes that are difficult to regenerate from seeds)
- Understanding the ecology and evolution of physiological diversity and its relevance to conservation
- Exploiting knowledge on organismal physiology to control invasive species and restore threatened habitats and populations
- Developing mechanistic relationships between population declines and physiological processes
- Developing of predictive models in conservation practices that include physiological parameters
- Applying physiological biomarkers as part of long-term environmental monitoring programs
- Integrating physiological knowledge into ecosystem management and into tools to solve complex conservation problems
- Understanding the policy implications and application of knowledge arising from conservation physiology research
- Understanding the physiological mechanisms involved in changes in community structure, as well as individual species, in response to environmental change
- Applications of contemporary genomic and post-genomic technologies to conservation physiology
- Integration of physiology with conservation behaviour, conservation medicine, and conservation genetics
- Papers reporting references ranges will only be considered if they also present their application
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Benefits of publishing:
- Excellent support and customer service provided by the Con Phys editorial office
- Supportive of Early Career Researchers (presentation opportunities at SEB seminars, access to SEB training sessions, reviewing opportunities)
- Expert, field-defining Editorial Board
- Joint owned by the SEB and OUP, all SEB profits are reinvested into the community
- Committed to open and inclusive science
- Many authors will have their open access charges covered under a Read & Publish deal with our publisher.
- Committed to high standards of ethics in publishing (a member of COPE)
Publishing model: Online-only, open access
Peer-review model: Single-anonymous
Latest metrics:
- 2021 IF = 3.252 (rank 20/65 in ‘Biodiversity Conservation’ category)
- 2021 Normalised Eigenfactor = 0.749 (rank 13/65 in ‘Biodiversity Conservation’ category)
- 2021 CiteScore = 4.4 (rank 43/192 in ‘Nature and Landscape Conservation’ category)
- 2021 output = 118 papers
- Indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed
Types of articles:
Research articles, Reviews, Toolbox (methods), Conservation Physiology in Action, Voices in Conservation Physiology, Perspectives, Comments, Editorials
Links to important webpages:
Journal homepage: https://academic.oup.com/conphys
Reasons to submit: https://academic.oup.com/conphys/pages/why-publish-your-research-in-conservation-physiology
Editorial board: https://academic.oup.com/conphys/pages/Editorial_Board
About: https://academic.oup.com/conphys/pages/About
Submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/conphys
Latest issue: https://academic.oup.com/conphys/issue
Con Phys on Twitter: https://twitter.com/conphysjournal
Contact: Support for the journal is provided through the SEB’s editorial office: [email protected]