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Read @Biotropica on you iPhone or iPad…our new app is live!

The Biotropica app is now live! If you want to read Biotropica on your iphone or ipad you can download… Read More »

Announcing @Biotropica’s New Data Archiving Policy (effective 1 January 2016)

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) researchers upload data they've just collected in one of their plots. Photo by Nanang Sujana for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. For more information on CIFOR's work see www.cifor.org and blog.cifor.org.

Recent years have seen an upsurge in the value placed by the scientific community on archiving in permanent repositories the… Read More »

Sign up for the @Biotropica Table of Contents via email

If you want to get each issues Table of Contents sent to your in box – and you do –… Read More »

Do you want to receive the printed version of @Biotropica in the mail? Here’s how.

If you are like me and like thumbing through the pages of Biotropica while waiting for the seminar to start,… Read More »

Behind the scenes @Biotropica: Editor’s Report (Part 3). Number of submissions, acceptance rates, time-to-decision, & more!

FIGURE 4. Percentage of manuscripts taking between 0–30 days, 31–60 days, 61–90, 91–120, and 151–180 days to reach first decision during 2012 and 2013.

The first two sections [one, two] of the annual Biotropica Editors’ Report that we prepared for the ATBC Council & Editorial… Read More »

BIG NEWS: @Biotropica to go online-only in 2015

Big news: As of January 2015, Biotropica will become an “online-only” journal! We have taken another step towards making Biotropica a… Read More »

Behind the Scenes @Biotropica: Annual Editor’s Report (Part 2)

FIGURE 1. The global spread of institutions with licensed access to Biotropica.

Last week I started posting the annual report the Editors prepare for the ATBC Council and Editorial Board summarizing the previous year’s issue of Biotropica, our… Read More »

Behind the Scenes @Biotropica: 2014 Editor’s Report (Part 1)

Members of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Council who were able to make it Cairns for our annual meeting. Front Row (l-r): J. Ghazoul, P. M. Forget, S. Laurance, E. Kuprewicz, P. Sampaio, L. P. Koh, R. Chazdon. Middle Row (l-r): J. Fragoso, V. Novotny, P. Parolin, S. Calme, E. Bruna, Y. Mahli, E. Andresen, P. Zuidema, K. Kitajima. Back Row (l-r): C. Baraloto, T. Lynam, K. Harms. Biotropica's Editor-in-Chief Emilio Bruna represented the Biotropica's Editorial Leadership and presented the Annual Biotropica Report to the Council.

Every year Biotropica‘s Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor’s, and Editorial Assistant prepare a report on the previous year’s volume to present to the ATBC… Read More »