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Tropical Conservation Science

Tropical Conservation Science


eISSN: 19400829 | ISSN: 19400829 | Current volume: 16 | Current issue: 1 Frequency: Yearly

Journal Highlights

  • Impact Factor: 1.7
  • Indexed in key databases, including: Web of Science (Journal Citation Reports), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), SCOPUS, EBSCO, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
  • Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge.
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Tropical Conservation Science (TCS) is a peer reviewed open access journal which focuses on the conservation of tropical ecosystems. Please see our Aims and Scope for further information.

From 1st September 2024 Tropical Conservation Science will convert to a Hybrid publication model. Peer review processes remain unchanged and authors can choose to publish Open Access via Sage Choice or through an agreement with their institution, if available. Articles submitted from the 1st September will be published, if accepted, under a Sage exclusive license. For further information please visit the Submission Guidelines: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/trc.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Submission Information

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trc.
Please review the Submission Guidelines for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.

Open access article processing charge (APC) information

Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an APC. The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.

The APC for this journal is currently 2000 USD.

The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please read our FAQs for further details.

Why Publish Open Access in Tropical Conservation Science

  • Visibility and Impact: Anyone anywhere in the world can read, use and cite your research.
  • Rigorous Standards: Single-blind peer review policy.
  • Speed: Avg. 30 days from submission to first decision.
  • Copyright: Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons License. The standard Tropical Conservation Science license is Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial.

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Aims and Scope

The main objective of Tropical Conservation Science (TCS) is to bring to light research related to the conservation of tropical ecosystems.

TCS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that provides a forum for original state-of-the-art research of broad interest to tropical conservationists. Short turn-around time from submission to publication is an important feature of the journal. Tropical Conservation Science publishes diverse types of papers, including: Review Articles, Research Articles, Conservation in Action, Short Communications and Opinion Articles.

TCS seeks submissions that investigate conservation problems involving, first and foremost, socio-economic, political and industrial drivers of tropical ecosystem loss and degradation. Equally important to the journal is its aim to stimulate the publication of research that maps, tracks, and assesses drivers of tropical/ecosystem conservation. TCS welcomes studies that examine how nature (e.g. natural resources/biodiversity/geodiversity) is impacted/managed/used/valued by people across the tropics. How can conservation science be positively applied to generate solutions, change behaviors and obtain better conservation outcomes? This can include local studies with broader conservation implications, global scale analysis and insights from comparisons including both tropical and temperate zones.

TCS manuscripts typically report on a wide range of topics including taxonomy, ecology, evolution, behavior, parasitology, epidemiology, and population genetics, for both plant and animal communities, as they relate to tropical conservation. TCS also welcomes manuscripts reporting on social and economic issues related to tropical conservation, such as the impacts of and/or on indigenous people, poverty, population growth, ecological footprint, conservation policy, and pertinent scientific, technological, cultural and religious issues. The journal encourages interdisciplinary papers using a wide range of methods, including modeling, molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology and/or evolutionary theory, to analyze, assess and discuss vital tropical conservation issues.

Manuscript Submission 

  • Submit your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trc 
  • Please refer to the Submission Guidelines for more information before submitting your manuscript. 
  • We encourage authors to include photographs and videos of the landscapes, flora and/or fauna they have studied. Photos can be arranged as mosaics that should be treated as figures and credits for the photographs should be provided in the figure legend. 
  • Article Processing Charge (APC) of 2000 USD.
  • If the corresponding author on a manuscript is doing research at an institution in country listed in Group A or B of the Research4Life lists, the APC for the submission will automatically be fully waived. 
  • Copyright: Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons License. The standard Tropical Conservation Science license is Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial.
Editor in Chief
Dr. Sophie Calmé Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Managing Editor
Dr. Sarah Bologna Independent Consultant, Co. Cork, Ireland
Associate Editors
Dr. Ellen Andresen Ecosystem and Sustainability Research, UNAM, Mexico
Dr. Norberto Asensio University of the Basque Country, Spain
Dr. Renee Bellinger U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Hawai'i
Dr. Claudia Benham The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Júlio César Bicca-Marques Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Dr. Sarah Boyle Rhodes College, USA
Dr. Erin Buchholtz US Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center, USA
Dr. Eliana Cazetta Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC, Brazil
Dr. Adriano Garcia Chiarello University of São Paolo, Brazil
Dr. Kenneth Clarke University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford University, USA
Dr. Hope M. Draheim USFWS OLE National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory, USA
Dr. Christine Dranzoa Makerere University, Uganda
Dr. Juan Manuel Dupuy Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, A.C., Mexico
Dr. Thaise Emilio University of Campinas, Brazil
Dr. Paul Garber University of Illinois-Urbana, USA
Dr. Eduardo García Frapolli Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Mexico
Dr. Holly Gibbs University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr. Angela Guerrero Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Alice Hughes School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, China
Dr. Chen Jin Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, China
Prof. Beth A. Kaplin University of Rwanda, Rwanda
Dr. Waseem Razzaq Khan Department of Forestry Science, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Inza Kone L'Université Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire
Dr. Martin Kowaleski Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina
Dr. Joanna Lambert University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dr. Andrew Marshall University of York, UK
Dr. Fernanda Michalski Universidade Federal do Amapa, Brazil
Dr. Salvador Montiel CINVESTAV-Mérida, Mexico
Dr. Mariana Morais Vidal Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Dr. Mariana Munguía-Carrara Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO ), Mexico
Dr. Eduardo Naranjo El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico
Dr. Patrick Omeja Makerere University, Uganda
Dr. N. Parthasarathy Pondicherry University, India
Dr. Johanne Pelletier Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, USA
Dr. Fan Peng-Fei Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dr. Dewi M. Prawiradilaga Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Indonesia
Dr. Katherine Renton Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Dr. Innocent Rwego Makerere University, Uganda
Dr. Cagan Sekercioglu Stanford University, USA
Dr. Roisin Stanbrook University of Central Florida, USA
Dr. Kathryn Stoner Texas A & M University, USA
Dr. Jatna Supriatna University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Dr. Nicolas Urbina Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Columbia
Dr. Kevina Vulinec Delaware State University, USA
Editor Emeritus
Dr. Darren Norris Universidade Federal do Amapa, Brazil
Dr. Alejandro Estrada Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
In Memoriam
Dr. Ben Collen Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK
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