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 identifying the agents of global change, including how climate change, land use change, overexploitation, pollution and invasive species affect the abundance, distribution, spatial genetic composition and range boundaries of species; innovative applications or methods of species distribution modelling and individual-based modelling with applications in conservation biogeography; the application of island biogeographic principles to conservation; phylogeographical or landscape genetics/genomics studies with clear conservation implications; developing paradigms, models and frameworks for conservation planning and risk assessment; investigating ecological and anthropogenic factors favouring the emergence of infectious diseases (EIDs).

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.