Journal updates

FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE | Early 2024
UN SDG Target 15.1 (Conserve and Restore Ecosystems); Target 15.5 (Protect Biodiversity and Natural Habitats)
This special issue on edge habitats highlights the need for a better understanding of vegetation patterns at forest edges aids in identifying priority areas for conservation of rare, threatened plants and wildlife species at-risk and predicting how forests will respond to ongoing global change.

LATEST SPECIAL ISSUE | Volume 224, issue 9, September 2023 (this opens in a new tab)
Issue editors: Thomas Abeli & Sarah Dalrymple
This special issue provided an opportunity for IPTC2022 attendees to contribute to the advancement of the field of translocation.

AUTHOR SERVICE
Plant Ecology, in partnership with Research Square, now offers In Review: a journal-integrated preprint service.

AUTHOR INCENTIVE
As a student or ECR (defined as being no more than 2 years since award of your PhD degree) listed as first author of any article type accepted, you will receive a voucher for free access to any Springer publication in eBook form (up to a maximum value of 250 Euros/US dollars, and maximum one per year) in perpetuity, and your article will be made freely accessible for 8 weeks after online first publication.

AUTHOR SERVICE
Abstracts for practitioners and Conservation Interventions

AUTHOR INCENTIVE
...in both the online and printed versions!

OBITUARY
Prof. Shayne Martin Jacobs was an Associate Professor at the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology for Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and an Associate Editor for Plant Ecology from August 2011 to September 2021.