Aims & Scope

Nature Reviews Biodiversity is an online-only journal that will publish authoritative, accessible and agenda-setting Reviews, Perspectives and commentary across all areas of conservation, ecology and evolution. The journal will showcase the diversity of life on Earth as well as the biodiversity-related research community. 
 
Nature Reviews Biodiversity aims to synthesize research advances related to the evolutionary origins of, the current distributions of and the current threats to biodiversity, and the policy and management actions being taken to protect or restore biodiversity. Because the evolution and ecology of organisms influence their resilience in a changing world, content on fundamental evolutionary and ecological topics complements content with a more applied focus — for example, on restoration, conservation and policy.

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework recognizes the importance of living in harmony with nature and biodiversity. In line with this recognition, Nature Reviews Biodiversity centres the relationship between humans and nature, and conceptualizes humans as a facet of biodiversity. The human–biodiversity interface will be represented in content related to Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice and socio-ecological systems. Nature Reviews Biodiversity provides essential synthesis needed to advance progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 14 (Life Below Water) and 15 (Life on Land).

Disciplines covered in the journal include, but are not limited to:

Conservation
● Biodiversity policy and governance
● Ecological economics and biodiversity finance
● Spatial prioritization
● Restoration
● Conservation decision-making
 
Ecology
● Biogeography and macroecology
● Ecosystem function and services
● Population ecology
● Community ecology
● Animal ecology and animal behaviour
● Plant ecology
● Microbial and disease ecology
● Palaeoecology
 
Evolution
● Conservation genetics and genomics
● Integrative and comparative biology
● Phylogenetics
● Speciation
● Taxonomy
● Palaeontology
● Archaeology
 
We welcome interdisciplinary contributions, as well as Reviews of methodological advances of high importance in these areas.