Founded in 1992, Biodiversity and Conservation is an international journal that publishes articles on all aspects of biological diversity, its conservation, and sustainable use. It is multidisciplinary and covers living organisms of all kinds in any habitat, focusing on studies using novel or little-used approaches, and ones from less studied biodiversity rich regions or habitats. It also features rapid assessment approaches, the estimation of species numbers and diversity (by traditional, molecular, or proxy indicator methods), habitat management, conservation policy and regulations, threats, biodiversity loss, extinctions, and the documenting of long-term changes, and ex-situ conservation.

It includes reviews, research papers, editorials, commentaries, and letters, and sometimes whole issues devote to particular topics.

In addition, the journal provides a forum for examining conflicts between conservation, sustainable development, and human dependence on biodiversity in agriculture, environmental management, and biotechnology, and encourages contributions from developing countries to promote broad global perspectives on matters of biodiversity and conservation.

Devoted to the publication of articles on all aspects of biological diversity and conservation
International in scope and coverage
Covers all kinds of life on Earth
Welcomes contributions from less developed but biodiversity rich countries to ensure a global perspective
14 issues per year with full colour figures
Online First publication
Editor-in-Chief: David L. Hawksworth (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Natural History Museum London)
Note that, unless of value as case studies using novel approaches, the journal rarely accepts papers on single species not of major importance or concern, or studies documenting local biodiversity. It does not consider checklists, taxonomic revisions, descriptions of new species, base-line studies, or captive breeding.

Editor-in-Chief:
David L. Hawksworth
Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, UK.
Senior Editors:
Karen E. Hodges
Department of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Angus Jackson 
Cornwall College Newquay, Cornwall, UK 
Daniel Sanchez-Mata 
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain 
Dirk S. Schmeller
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Toulouse INP, France
Nigel E. Stork
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia 


Editors:
Pedro Aragón, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
Mukunda Dev Behera, CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India 
Peter Bridgewater, International decade of Biodiversity, Peel, Isle of Man, British Isles 
Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (Scion), Christchurch, New Zealand 
Neil Brummitt, Natural History Museum, London, UK 
Frank M. Chambers, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
Anurag Chaurasia, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, (ICAR), India 
Vun Khen Chey, Sabah Forestry Department, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
Kwek Y. Chong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Samuel Cushman, US Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Indraneil Das, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
Jens W. Dauber, Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (vTI), Braunschweig, Germany
Raphael K. Didham, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia 
Pradeep K. Divakar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
Kevin J. Edwards, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Wilhelm Foissner, Universität Salzburg, Austria 
Peggy Fong, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Australia 
Iain James Gordon, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK 
T. G. Allan Green, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 
Melvin Gumal, Wildlife Conservation Society, Sarawak, Malaysia 
Jan Christian Habel, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Ben D. Hoffmann, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Winnelie, Australia
Simon Ingram, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK 
Clinton N. Jenkins, Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Hossein Kazemi, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (GUASNR), Gorgan, Iran
Mark Kennard, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld, Australia
Danna J. Leaman, IUCN-SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist Group and Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada 
James T. Lee, Instituto de Geociências - Universidade Federal do Para, Belém, Brazil
Adeline Loyau, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Corrado Marcenò, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao
Ailsa J. McKenzie, University of Newcastle, UK
Noriaki Murakami, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Grzegorz Mikusinski, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden 
Akihiro Nakamura, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China
Philippe Ponel, IMEP-CNRS, Aix en Provence, France 
Lilly O Rodriguez Bayona, CIMA Centro Conservacion Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales Lima, Peru
Andreas Schuldt, Leuphana University, Luneburg, Germany
Xiaoli Shen, Smithsonian Conservation, Front Royal, VA, USA 
Marcelo F. Tognelli, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
David Westcott, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Atherton, QLD, Australia
Khoon Meng Wong, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore