Marine Biodiversity

CALL FOR PAPERS

Topical Collection: Biodiversity in Abyssal Polymetallic Nodule Areas
Submit your paper before July 1, 2023

Topical Collection: Biodiversity and Ecology of the Wadden Sea under changing environments
Submit your paper before April 1, 2023.

Topical Collection: Seamounts and oceanic archipelagos and their role for the biodiversity, biogeography, and dispersal of marine organisms
Submit your paper before April 1, 2023.

Topical Collection: Discovering the water column: integrated taxonomic approaches for measuring marine pelagic biodiversity. Submit your paper before April 1, 2023.

See Journal Updates for more information.

Unusual or new event, observation or phenomenon: Oceanarium (color plate & short text)

Please send any queries about pre-submission and submission issues, peer review process, or the status of your manuscript to the Managing Editor Lena Menzel at marb@senckenberg.de.


Marine Biodiversity is a peer-reviewed international journal devoted to all aspects of biodiversity research on marine ecosystems. The journal is a relaunch of the well-known Senckenbergiana maritima" and covers research at gene, species and ecosystem level that focuses on describing the actors (genes and species), the patterns (gradients and distributions) and understanding of the processes responsible for the regulation and maintenance of diversity in marine systems. Also included are the study of species interactions (symbioses, parasitism, etc.) and the role of species in structuring marine ecosystem functioning.

Marine Biodiversity offers articles in the category original paper, short note, Oceanarium and review article. It forms a platform for marine biodiversity researchers from all over the world for the exchange of new information and discussions on concepts and exciting discoveries.

Why publish in Marine Biodiversity

• The journal’s diverse and international editorial board includes representation across many sub-specialties of research
• The journal welcomes authors to collaborate and contribute to special topical collections and supplements for consideration
• MARB is the official journal of Senckenberg Institute and welcomes original submissions from all regions of the world
• The journal is indexed in two Clarivate categories of Biodiversity Conservation and Marine & Freshwater Biology, and maintains an impact factor of 1.815
• Now accepting Perspective papers
  Perspective papers present the authors’ opinions on a relevant topic of present and future marine biodiversity research. Relevance can arise from being highly debated, novel or widely used. For more details regarding this new article type, please review the Submission Guidelines here https://www.springer.com/journal/12526/submission-guidelines