Animal Biodiversity and Conservation

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation is an interdisciplinary zoology journal issued from Barcelona by the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, an institution that has published it under one title or another since 1958.《动物生物多样性与保护》是巴塞罗那自然博物馆出版的一份跨学科动物学刊物，该馆以不同刊名延续出版这份杂志，其起点在 1958 年。

The journal began as Miscel·lània Zoològica, and its present title follows a renaming decision taken in 2000 that took effect with volume 24 in 2001.这份杂志最初以《动物学杂集》出版，现名源于 2000 年作出的改名决定，改名后出版的第一卷为 2001 年的第 24 卷。

Each annual volume carries two issues, the most recent being volume 49 in 2026, and the 2025 impact factor stands at 1.3.每一卷含两期，最新一卷为 2026 年的第 49 卷，该刊 2025 年的影响因子为 1.3。

Scope

• The stated remit is to publish empirical and theoretical research from anywhere in the world that examines any aspect of zoology.刊物自述的定位，是发表来自世界各地、探讨动物学各个方面的实证研究与理论工作。

• Systematics heads the list of branches the journal takes in, and papers describing new species have appeared in it regularly.系统学列在刊物接收的分支清单之首，描述新种的论文常在其中出现。

• Taxonomy is covered alongside systematics, with the treatment of species groups and the relationships among them.分类学与系统学一并受理，内容涉及类群的处理及其相互关系。

• Morphology is another of the subjects on the list, in both its comparative and its descriptive forms.形态学同样在列，比较形态学与描述形态学的工作都在其列。

• Biogeography has its place too, with studies on how animal groups are distributed across the planet.生物地理学亦占一席，研究各类动物在全球的分布格局。

• Ecology is treated as a subject in its own right, including the study of populations and of the communities they form.生态学作为独立学科被接纳，涉及种群及其所组成的群落。

• Ethology is listed as well, covering the behaviour of animals in the field and in the laboratory.行为学同在清单之列，涵盖野外与实验室条件下的动物行为。

• Physiology and genetics complete the enumeration of zoological branches that the journal names.生理学与遗传学补足了刊物所列的动物学分支。

• Conservation biology receives special emphasis, and work treating some aspect of the preservation of species is given a place of its own.保护生物学受到特别强调，凡涉及物种保护某一侧面的研究都有其专属位置。

• The journal prints original research papers, reviews and discussion of issues within these fields.刊物发表原创研究论文、综述，以及围绕这些领域所展开的讨论。

• Bibliographic compilations, listings, catalogues and collections of species are not accepted.书目汇编、名录、目录与物种收藏清单一概不收。

• Nor does it publish isolated descriptions of a single specimen, and catalogues, lists of species and short notes are directed instead to the sister journal Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica.单一标本的孤立描述也不予刊登，目录、物种名表与简短札记则转往姊妹刊《动物学杂集档案》。

• Work concerning rare or protected species is accepted only when the authors hold the relevant permits or authorisation.涉及珍稀或受保护物种的研究，作者须持相关许可或授权才予受理。

• The readership that follows from this range is drawn from systematists, ecologists, behavioural scientists, physiologists and geneticists across many countries.这一范围所指向的读者群，由来自多国的系统学家、生态学家、行为学家、生理学家与遗传学家构成。

History

• The line begins in 1958 with a journal called Miscelánea zoológica, issued by the Museo de Zoología in Barcelona and running to volume 4 by the end of the 1970s.这条脉络始于 1958 年，当时巴塞罗那动物学博物馆发行《动物学杂集》，到 1970 年代末出至第 4 卷。

• From 1981 the title was written Miscellània zoològica, with its own ISSN 0211-6529, and the volume numbering continued through volume 23 in 2000.自 1981 年起刊名写作《动物学杂集》，另用 ISSN 0211-6529，卷号一路编到 2000 年的第 23 卷。

• In 2000 the museum decided to change the title and to adapt the structure of the journal to current practice.2000 年博物馆决定更改刊名，并把杂志的结构调整到当时的惯例。

• The stated purpose of that change was to fill a gap in the range of Spanish journals and to give zoologists an international forum for their papers.此次改名的既定目标，是补上西班牙期刊序列中的一处空缺，并为动物学研究者提供一个国际性的发表园地。

• The new title Animal Biodiversity and Conservation appeared with volume 24 in 2001, and the numbering has run unbroken since, with the volume number standing at twenty-seven below the year.新刊名《动物生物多样性与保护》自 2001 年的第 24 卷起使用，卷号此后未曾中断，其数值恰好比年份小二十七。

• The print edition carries ISSN 1578-665X and the online edition ISSN 2014-928X, the latter registered in 2014.印刷版使用 ISSN 1578-665X，电子版使用 ISSN 2014-928X，后者登记于 2014 年。

• Articles have been deposited under the DOI prefix 10.32800, with the volume and the issue carried in the suffix.论文以 DOI 前缀 10.32800 存档，卷号与期号写在后缀之中。

• Access has been free since 2001, and the papers are released under a Creative Commons Attribution licence with nothing charged to the authors.读者自 2001 年起即可免费获取，文章以知识共享署名许可发布，作者无须付费。

• The printed edition was carried until 2021, and from 2022 the journal has appeared only in its network version.纸质版维持到 2021 年，自 2022 年起杂志只以网络版发行。

• A sister title, Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, was started in 2003 under ISSN 1698-0476 to take the catalogues and short notes that the main journal no longer accepts.2003 年另创姊妹刊《动物学杂集档案》，ISSN 1698-0476，用来承接主刊不再受理的目录与简短札记。^[1]

• The archives of both titles are held in the RACO repository of the Consortium of Catalan Universities and are preserved under the PKP PN scheme.两刊的档案存放于加泰罗尼亚大学联盟的 RACO 仓库，并按 PKP PN 方案长期保存。

• The journal carries the quality seal of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, appears in the Science Citation Index Expanded and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.该刊持有西班牙科学技术基金会的质量认证，进入科学引文索引扩展版，也被开放获取期刊目录收录。

• Its category in the 2025 edition of the journal citation report is biodiversity conservation, where it stands in the third quartile with an indicator of 1.3.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊归入生物多样性保护类目，列第三区，期刊引证指标为 1.3。

• That indicator has moved over recent years, reading 1.069 in 2022, 1 in 2023, 1.4 in 2024 and 1.3 in 2025.这一指标近年有所起伏，2022 年为 1.069，2023 年 1，2024 年 1.4，2025 年 1.3。

Editors

• The journal is headed by three editors-in-chief, Joan Carles Senar and Javier Quesada of the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, together with Ian MacGregor-Fors of the University of Helsinki.该刊由三位主编领衔，巴塞罗那自然博物馆的（Joan Carles Senar）与（Javier Quesada），以及赫尔辛基大学的（Ian MacGregor-Fors）。

• Three thematic editors look after particular subjects, with Mario Diaz for ecology, Adolfo Cordero for behaviour and Santiago Merino for evolutionary biology.另设三位主题编辑分管特定方向，分别是生态学的（Mario Diaz）、行为学的（Adolfo Cordero）与进化生物学的（Santiago Merino）。

• Each of them is attached to a learned society in Spain, the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology, the Spanish Society of Ethology and Evolutionary Ecology, and the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology.三人各与一家西班牙学会相连，分别是西班牙陆地生态学会、西班牙行为学与进化生态学会以及西班牙进化生物学会。

• The associate editors form a long list that reaches well beyond Spain, with members at universities in Portugal, Italy, France, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and the United States.副编辑名单很长，范围远超西班牙，其成员任职于葡萄牙、意大利、法国、匈牙利、比利时、德国、瑞典、英国、澳大利亚、巴西、墨西哥、乌拉圭与美国的大学。

• Those institutions include the University of Évora, the University of Sassari, the University of Granada, the University of Porto, the University of Barcelona, the University of Valencia and Uppsala University.这些机构中可见埃武拉大学、萨萨里大学、格拉纳达大学、波尔图大学、巴塞罗那大学、瓦伦西亚大学与乌普萨拉大学。

• Further afield the list reaches Giessen, Harvard, São Paulo, Mexico City, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Antwerp, Karlstad and Fordham.再往外，名单还伸到吉森、哈佛、圣保罗、墨西哥城、爱丁堡、谢菲尔德、安特卫普、卡尔斯塔德与福特汉姆。

• Two managing editors, Jessica Martínez-Vargas and Miguel Navas-Fernández, both of the museum, look after the day-to-day work of the journal.两位执行编辑（Jessica Martínez-Vargas）与（Miguel Navas-Fernández）均任职于该博物馆，负责杂志的日常事务。

• The masthead also names a cover designer, an artist responsible for the drawings on the covers and a layout editor.编委名单中还列有封面设计者、封面绘图作者与版式编辑。

• Every article is assessed by two or three external referees, and a review is expected to take about a month.每篇文章交由两到三位外部审稿人评审，一次评审的周期预期约为一个月。

• Referees receive an evaluation form that sets out the points to be considered, and manuscripts are handled through the journal's own site.审稿人会收到一份列明评审要点的评价表，稿件经该刊自有网站处理。

• The archive can be browsed by volume and by issue, and the platform on which it sits carries the journal under its own imprint.归档可按卷期浏览，承载该刊的平台也以本刊名义发布。

• The journal has been recorded as appearing in two languages, English and Spanish, which suits a Barcelona house with both a local and a wider readership.该刊被登记为以两种语言发行，即英语与西班牙语，这与巴塞罗那这家机构同时面向本地与更广读者群的情形相合。