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Focus and Scope

Oecologia Australis (OA) is an international peer-reviewed and a subscription-based Open Access Journal. OA promotes ongoing international research and information exchange through publication of latest research reports/ breakthroughs in Ecology and related areas. 

Oecologia Australis is edited by the Postgraduate Programme in Ecology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGE/UFRJ) and Associação Brasileira para Ecologia e Conservação (ABECO). Our aim is to publish reviews, case studies and opinions in Ecology and  related areas. The target public of our journal is researchers and undergraduate and graduate students in Ecology and related areas.

All accepted manuscripts are charged for publication. The amount is for publication costs only. For ABECO members the value is R$180,00 per article published and for non-members R$280,00.

Papers may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English. We publish four issues per year (March, June, September and December), one of which are thematic issues composed by invited authors and edited by invited editors. The remaining issues are composed of spontaneous submissions.

The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Topics of interest include:

 

1-      Organismal ecology (ecophysiology, animal behavior, natural history, evolutionary biology of organisms)

2-      Population ecology

3-      Community and metacommunity ecology

4-      Macroecology

5-      Biogeography

6-      Ecosystem ecology

7-      Limnology

8-      Oceanography

9-      Conservation biology

10-     Landscape ecology

11-     Species Management

12-     Environmental education

13-     Environmental management

14-     Species list and geographic distribution expansion records

 

History

Oecologia Brasiliensis was created in 1995 as a periodical that had the main objective to increase the publicizing of the results produced by the research carried in the Postgraduate Programmes in Ecology. Nine issues were published until 2001, when the journal publishing was interrupted. The publishing of Oecologia Brasiliensis was resumed as a journal with a new editorial board and a new editorial structure in 2006. The new aim of Oecologia Brasiliensis after 2006 was to publish synthesis and reviews and special issues about varied topics in Ecology and its related areas.

Since 2007 Oecologia Brasiliensis became trimestral, a periodicity that has been maintained ever since. In 2008 reviewers of language in Portuguese, Spanish and English joined the team of assistant editors of Oecologia Brasiliensis, with the objective to guarantee the quality of the publications in the three languages.

In 2010 the journal is renamed Oecologia Australis. This change occurred due to the growth of Oecologia Brasiliensis and its consolidation as an important journal for the Brazilian scientific community, that demanded for a publication vehicle that included researchers from other Latin American countries and other continents.

In 2020, a new stage began, through the partnership with the Brazilian Association for Ecological Sciences and Conservation (ABECO). With this new association, we hope to reach an even larger audience and foster further ecological discussions in the southern hemisphere. Oecologia Australis offers full instant open access to the entire public, assuming that scientific knowledge must be disseminated without any restriction.

 

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Peer Review Process

We adopted the double-blind Peer Review system, where authors and reviewers do not know the identity of each other. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers. In case of conflicting opinions, the responsible editor decides if the manuscript goes over another reviewer or emits a final position on the manuscript.

When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it goes through a first evaluation by the Assistant Editor. This first evaluation will check the general quality of the text, the adequability to the scope and cover letter.

Then the manuscript goes to the Associated Editor for the review process. The Associated Editor send its decision to the Editor-in-chief that is responsable for the final decision.

When accepted, manuscript is published Ahead of Print and then in one of the four annual volumes of Oecologia Australis. Technical Editors evaluate the adequancy of the manuscript to the journal format and can contact authors before publication in Ahead of Print.  Author will receive and check the final proof just before the volume publication.

 

Archiving

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a system of files distributed among the participating libraries and allowing the libraries to create permanent files of the journal for preservation and restoration. Click to know more...