The Journal for Nature Conservation addresses concepts, methods and techniques for nature conservation. This international and interdisciplinary journal encourages collaboration between scientists and practitioners, including the integration of biodiversity issues with social and economic concepts. Therefore, conceptual, technical and methodological papers, as well as reviews, research papers, and short communications are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines, including theoretical ecology, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, ecological modelling, and others, provided that there is a clear connection and immediate relevance to nature conservation.

Manuscripts without any immediate conservation context, such as inventories, distribution modelling, genetic studies, animal behaviour, plant physiology, will not be considered for this journal; though such data may be useful for conservationists and managers in the future, this is outside of the current scope of the journal.

review and research papers, conceptual, technical and methodological papers, as well as short communications

Editor-in-Chief
Antonio Machado
Formerly of: The Granadilla Environmental Observatory, Canary Islands, Spain Email Antonio Machado
Managing Editor
Cathal O'Mahony
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Email Cathal O'Mahony
Editors
Jeffrey McNeely
ECNC, Thailand Email Jeffrey McNeely
Manfred Niekisch
Zoologischer Garten Frankfurt, Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 1, 60316, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Fax: +49 69- 212 37855 Phone +49 69-212 33727 Email Manfred Niekisch
Editorial Board
Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
Tajen University, Yanpu, Taiwan
Giovanni Amori
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Roma, Italy
Pedro Aragón Carrera
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Jose Ramon Arevalo
University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Arne Arnberger
Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), Wien, Austria
Omar Attum
Indiana University - Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, USA
Sherif Baha El Din
Dokki, Cairo, Eqypt
Susan Barker
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Gordana Beltram
Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, Ljubljana, Slovenia
James Bullock
Winfrith Technology Centre, Dorchester, England, UK
Ruslan O. Butovsky
All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection, Moscow, Russian Federation
Stewart J. Clarke
National Trust, Peterborough, England, UK
Niamh Connolly
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Anke Fischer
The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Singarayer Florentine
Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Markus Franzén
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Eeva Furman
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki, Finland
Ingo Hahn
University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Vassiliki Kati
University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece
Giselher Kaule
Institut für Landschaftsplanung und Ökologie, Stuttgart, Germany
Frans Willem Jozef Keulartz
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Keith Kirby
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Josef Langer
Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Ülo Mander
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Juan G. Navedo
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Ettore Randi
Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Ozzano dell' Emilia, Italy
Carlos A. Rodríguez
Tropenbos International, Bogotá, Colombia
Luís Miguel Rosalino
Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Stefan Schindler
Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
Gregor Torkar
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, , Slovenia
Angheluta Vadineanu
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Marcus Zisenis
European Centre for Nature Conservation, Berlin, Germany