Diversity and Distributions is a journal of conservation biogeography. We publish papers that deal with the application of biogeographical principles, theories, and analyses to problems concerning the conservation of biodiversity. Appropriate topics include innovative applications or methods of species distribution modelling; the application of island biogeographic principles to conservation; developing paradigms, models and frameworks for conservation planning and risk assessment; or identifying the agents of global change, including how climate change, land use change and invasive species affect the abundance, distribution, and range boundaries of native species. Papers must meet four criteria to be considered for publication: (1) They must have a strong biogeographic focus with clear conservation implications, or a strong conservation focus on biogeographic patterns or principles, (2) submissions must test clear hypotheses or predictions arising from theory, or derive novel insights from biogeographic patterns and biodiversity trends, (3) they must be presented clearly and concisely, and (4) their results must have clear and important implications for our understanding of biogeography and must be of potential broad interest of the readership.
Diversity and Distributions makes provision for full-length research papers and reviews as well as short essays (up to 2000 words) considering biodiversity from a particular disciplinary, regional, political, or other standpoints ('Biodiversity Viewpoints'), and short items (up to 1000 words) of general interest with respect to biodiversity ('Biodiversity Letters').
Diversity and Distributions is a sister publication to Journal of Biogeography and Global Ecology and Biogeography.  The three journals have distinct but complementary focus areas within the broad field of biogeography.
Papers dealing with all aspects of spatial, ecological and historical biogeography are considered for publication in Journal of Biogeography. The mission of the journal is to contribute to the growth and societal relevance of the discipline of biogeography through its role in the dissemination of biogeographical research. To that end, the editorial policy is that the journal seeks to be representative of the discipline of biogeography, to be global in scope, and to be inclusive of major traditions and viewpoints within the discipline. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit concise, clearly written papers focused on precisely framed questions or hypotheses of broad interest to the wide international readership of the journal. Article formats include provocative Guest Editorials, short Commentaries and Correspondence, submissions of which are encouraged alongside standard research papers (Original Articles).
Global Ecology and Biogeography (GEB) welcomes papers that investigate broad-scale (in space, time and/or taxonomy), general patterns in the organization of ecological systems and assemblages, and the processes that underlie them. In particular, GEB welcomes studies that use macroecological methods, comparative analyses, meta-analyses, reviews, spatial analyses and modelling to arrive at general, conceptual conclusions. Studies in GEB need not be global in spatial extent, but the conclusions and implications of the study must be relevant to ecologists and biogeographers globally, rather than being limited to local areas, or specific taxa. Similarly, GEB is not limited to spatial studies; we are equally interested in the general patterns of nature through time, among taxa (e.g., body sizes, dispersal abilities), through the course of evolution, etc. Further, GEB welcomes papers that investigate general impacts of human activities on ecological systems in accordance with the above criteria. Global Ecology and Biogeography generally does not publish studies that focus on unique events or places, or on specific taxa in local areas. The journal is also not interested in studies that lack ecological and/or biogeographical focus

Senior Editors
K.C. Burns
School of Biological Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
Kelburn
Wellington, 6012
New Zealand

Luca Santini
Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems
National Research Council
Montelibretti
Italy

Aibin Zhan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
China

Editorial Office:
Email: ddioffice@wiley.com
Associate Editors
Thomas P. Albright, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Alan Andersen, Winellie, Australia
Andrew Barnes, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Daniel Boyce, Dalhousie University, Canada
Maria Beger, University of Queensland, Australia
Céline Bellard, University College London, UK
Ana Benítez-López, Doñana Biological Station, Spain
April Blakeslee, East Carolina University, USA
Markus Franzen, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Elizabeta Briski, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
José Carlos Brito, University of Porto, Portugal
Chris Burridge, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Marta Carboni, University of Roma TRE, Italy
Susan Cunningham, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Enrico Di Minin, Helsinki, Finland
Yunwei Dong, Xiamen University, China
Trishna Dutta, University of Goettingen, Germany
Joern Fischer, Lüneburg, Germany
Yoan Fourcade, UPEC University, France
Raimundo Real Gimenez, University of Málaga, Spain
Alana Grech, James Cook University, Australia
Zhonge Hou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Alice Hughes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Nigel Hussey, University of Windsor, Canada
Gwen Iacona, University of Queensland, Australia
Ines Ibanez, University of Michigan, USA
Martin Jung, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Eva Knop, University of Bern, Switzerland
John Lambrinos, Oregon State University, USA
Boris Leroy, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
Xuan Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
Rafael Magris, Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, Brazil
Luigi Maiorano, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Marion Pfeifer, Newcastle University, UK
Enrico Pirotta, University of Aberdeen, UK
Laura Pollock, McGill University, Canada
Vânia Proença, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Russell, The University of Auckland, New ZealandOrly Razgour, Southampton University, UK
Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, Germany
George C. Stevens, Charleston, SC, USA
Amanda Taylor, University of Göttingen, Germany
Henri Thomassen, University of Tübingen, Germany
Piero Visconti, UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK
Darren Yeo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zhixin Zhang, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
Damaris Zurell, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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K.C. Burns



 
K.C. Burns is a Biology Professor at the University of Wellington. He moved to New Zealand from California nearly 20 years ago, after receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published over 100 scientific papers and recently published a sole-authored book about his primary research interest, the biology of islands. He is fascinated by how organisms arrive, evolve and go extinct on islands, and he has worked on archipelagos across the globe, including New Caledonia, New Zealand, Chatham Islands, California Islands and Lord Howe Island. He is especially interested in anthropogenic change on islands, including species invasions, extinctions and range shifts, in addition to how these processes operate more generally across the globe.
 
Luca Santini



 
Luca Santini is a researcher in the department of Environmental Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He started his career researching the behavioural ecology of lemurs in Madagascar. He received his PhD in 2015 from Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the use of animal dispersal estimates in large-scale conservation analyses. During his years of postdoc in Italy, France and the Netherlands, he further broadened his research into macroecology. His current research primarily focuses on macroecology, conservation biogeography and global change biology, with a particular interest on species traits and their covariation across species, species distribution and abundance patterns, and the effect of anthropogenic impacts on natural patterns. Most of his research aims at better integrating macroecological knowledge and methods into large-scale conservation assessments and monitoring. Luca published more than 40 publications among scientific papers, book chapters and technical reports.
 
Aibin Zhan

 
 
Aibin Zhan is a Professor and Vice Director of the Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology (KLEB) at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his PhD with Academician Zhenmin Bao from the Ocean University of China in 2007, and then pursued his postdoctoral research in Canada and the USA. In 2012, he was appointed as a full professor through the “100-talent program” of CAS, established his molecular and evolutionary ecology laboratory in RCEES, and expanded his research in two major directions: microevolution of aquatic invasive species and molecular pollution ecology of aquatic ecosystems. Specifically, he utilizes omics tools to answer fundamental questions mainly in 1) dispersal and colonization dynamics of aquatic invasive species; 2) molecular mechanisms of rapid microevolution of aquatic invasive species in different environments; and 3) influence of multiple interacting environmental stressors (e.g., chemical pollutants, human disturbance) on community structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Aibin has published more than 120 papers, 3 book chapters, and co-edited one book.