How to submit an article
Please read the Guidelines for authors before submitting your article.
How to submit an article
The online, peer-reviewed Conservation Evidence Journal publishes results from research and projects investigating the effectiveness of conservation actions. We welcome standard papers and short communications that test and monitor the effectiveness of the action using an element of experimental design (e.g. before and after the action vs. control (BACI), single action vs. control, effectiveness of different methods, etc.) for actions such as habitat creation, habitat restoration, translocations, reintroductions, mitigation, and invasive species control.
Examining the consequences of small-scale actions, such as changing the wording on a sign or comparing different techniques for eradicating an invasive species, is of considerable interest. However, the effects have to be quantified. There has to be some comparison, such as with the earlier situation, i.e. before the action was carried out, or with control sites without the action, or with sites with a different implementation method. We particularly welcome accounts where the outcomes were unexpected and not as desired. Broad programmes, such as a large conservation project with multiple interventions, will usually be of less interest due to the difficulty in determining which of the actions had an effect.
Guidelines for authors
The Conservation Evidence Journal does not accept papers solely reporting on monitoring methods, results from a single post-development mitigation without a comparison, studies of species' ecology or the status of biodiversity.
Please read the guidelines for authors before submitting to the Conservation Evidence Journal.
Template journal article
This is a template article, which authors can use to submit the results of their conservation actions to the Conservation Evidence Journal.
Submissions
We do not charge for publication and all our papers are open access. This allows the research we publish to be freely and easily available, and shared within the conservation practitioner community. Copyright is retained by the author(s).
Please send your article to Dr Ann Thornton
All papers published in the Conservation Evidence Journal are open access and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Editorial board
The Conservation Evidence Journal is based at the University of Cambridge, UK, with editors from a range of other institutions. The journal was conceived and is led by Professor William J. Sutherland.
- Professor William J. Sutherland (Editor-in-Chief)
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge - Dr Ian Bainbridge (Editor-in-Chief)
- Dr Ann Thornton (Managing Editor)
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge - Dr Tatsuya Amano
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge - Dr Malcolm Ausden
RSPB - Professor Trevor J.C. Beebee
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex - Dr David Bullock
National Trust - Dr Mike Daniels
John Muir Trust - Dr James Deutsch
Vulcan Philanthropy - Dr Lynn Dicks
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge - Dr Chris Elphick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Connecticut - Professor Richard Griffiths
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology - Dr John J. Hopkins
Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter - Dr Roger Mitchell
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