Biotropica

Biotropica is the journal of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, founded in 1969 and now published from Hoboken by Wiley, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.《热带生物学》是热带生物学与保护协会（Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation）的会刊，1969 年创刊，现由 Wiley 在霍博肯出版，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Ecology, conservation and management of tropical ecosystems share the pages with work on the evolution, behaviour and population biology of tropical organisms, and the five-year impact factor stands at 2.4.热带生态系统的生态学、保护与管理，与热带生物演化、行为及种群生物学的研究共用这些版面，五年影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The scope statement names all tropical ecosystems rather than one biome, so rainforest work sits beside studies from savanna, seasonally dry forest and montane cloud forest.收稿范围写明覆盖全部热带生态系统，雨林研究与稀树草原的稿件同列，季节性干性森林与山地云雾林亦在其内。

• Ecology, conservation and management appear as a single phrase in the journal's own description, and papers that carry a management angle are as welcome as those that do not.刊物的自我描述把生态学、保护与管理并成一句，带管理含义的稿件与纯理论稿件同样受欢迎。

• Evolutionary work arrives through phylogeography and lineage divergence, often tied to barriers such as rivers, mountain chains or the closing of the Isthmus of Panama.演化方向的研究经由谱系地理学与支系分化进入，常与河流、山系或巴拿马地峡闭合这类屏障联系在一起。

• Behavioural studies of tropical animals appear in every volume, from leks and primate social systems to the foraging decisions of fruit bats and army ants.热带动物的行为研究每卷都有，从求偶场与灵长类社会结构，到果蝠与行军蚁的取食决策。

• Population biology supplies demographic rates, life tables and matrix models, and such papers remain a steady share of what the journal prints.种群生物学提供生命率、生命表与矩阵模型，这类稿件在刊物内容中占比稳定。

• Plant-animal interactions form a large block of the intake, with frugivory, seed dispersal, pollination and herbivory followed in the field across whole fruiting seasons.动植物互作占去相当一块来稿，食果、种子散布、传粉与植食多在野外跟踪整个结实季。

• Forest dynamics rest on long-term plots, and gap regeneration, liana loads and the mortality that follows a drought year are all reported from them.森林动态研究依托长期样地，林窗更新、藤本负载与干旱年之后的死亡都从这些样地上报出。

• Ground that people have altered gets serious attention, and shade agroforests and secondary regrowth hold their own beside plantations and tropical city greenspace.人类改造过的土地受到认真对待，遮荫农林与次生林各占篇幅，人工林和热带城市绿地按与原生林相同的标准评判。

• Restoration ecology belongs to the remit, and seedling survival, planting costs and the choice of species for a site are reported as findings in their own right.恢复生态学属于收录范围，幼苗成活、造林成本与树种选择本身即作为研究结果报告。

• Functional traits and community assembly come in through measured leaf, wood and root economics, which keeps a trait paper tied to a process instead of a trait list.功能性状与群落构建通过实测的叶、木材与根系经济谱进入，性状论文因此须与某个过程相连，不停在性状清单上。

• Climate work leans on drought experiments, El Niño records and resurveys of montane transects, where species are followed as they move upslope.气候类研究倚重干旱实验、厄尔尼诺记录与山地样带复查，物种上移的轨迹由此得到追踪。

• Soils, nutrient limitation and belowground symbioses take a share of the pages, with fine-root turnover and mycorrhizal partnerships among the recurring subjects.土壤、养分限制与地下共生体占去一部分篇幅，细根周转与菌根伙伴是反复出现的题目。

• Fresh waters and coasts are not ruled out, and stream fish, riparian forest, mangroves, seagrass beds and reef-flat vegetation all find a place.淡水与海岸系统并未排除在外，溪流鱼类、河岸林、红树林、海草床与礁坪植被都能找到位置。

• Four categories carry the content, since Papers, Reviews and Commentaries are joined by Insights, the short slot that replaced Short Communications.内容由四类体裁承载，Papers 收原创论文，Reviews 收综述，Commentaries 收评论，Insights 是接替 Short Communications 的短篇栏目。

• Special Issues and Special Sections, usually built around a symposium or a single tropical region, have become a familiar feature of the yearly output.专辑与专题栏目多以学术会议或某一热带区域为中心，已成为每年内容里常见的一部分。

History

• Volume one appeared in 1969 under the Association for Tropical Biology, a society that had been electing honorary fellows since 1963.1969 年第 1 卷在热带生物学协会名下问世，这个学会从 1963 年起就推选荣誉会士。

• The National Library of Medicine still brackets the place of publication as [Washington?], a guess left standing in the catalogue record.美国国立医学图书馆至今把出版地写作带方括号的 [Washington?]，这个疑问号一直留在目录记录里。

• Early volumes were thin and the schedule shifted, which is why the medical catalogue gives the frequency as varying instead of naming a fixed count.早期卷册很薄，刊期几经变动，医学目录因此把出版频率记作有变化，未给出固定期数。

• The society later added conservation to its name and is now the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, the body named on every Wiley imprint line.学会后来在名称里加入保护一词，如今称热带生物学与保护协会，Wiley 的版权行写的正是这个名字。

• Production passed from the society to Blackwell, an arrangement that survives in the publisher string Crossref still returns for the title, Wiley (Blackwell Publishing).出版事务从学会转到 Blackwell，这段旧关系留在 Crossref 至今返回的出版方字符串里，即 Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)。

• Wiley absorbed Blackwell in 2007 and now issues the journal from Hoboken, New Jersey, the address carried in the current record.Wiley 于 2007 年吸收 Blackwell，如今在新泽西州霍博肯出刊，现行记录里的地址即此。

• Volume numbering has never restarted, so the 2026 volume is 58 and the 2023 volume was 55, six issues to each.卷号从未重新起算，2026 年为第 58 卷，2023 年为第 55 卷，每卷六期。

• Six issues a year is the present rhythm, a bimonthly pattern that older directory entries, still calling the journal quarterly, have yet to catch up with.一年六期是现行节奏，属于双月出刊，早年目录条目仍把它写成季刊，尚未跟上。

• The category list has changed as well, and Insights, a short slot for new ideas, now occupies the place that Short Communications once held.体裁清单也改过，为短篇新想法留出位置的 Insights 接下了 Short Communications 原来的位置。

• The impact factor has moved inside a narrow band since 2021, reaching 2.858 in 2022 before dropping to 1.8 and 1.7, then returning to 1.9 for 2025.影响因子自 2021 年以来在窄区间内移动，2022 年升到 2.858，随后两年落到 1.8 与 1.7，2025 年回到 1.9。

• The five-year figure is 2.4 and the cited half-life 14.2 years, which describes a literature still being read long after the issue date.五年影响因子为 2.4，被引半衰期 14.2 年，说明这份文献在出版很久之后仍被引用。

• Citations accumulate near 6,800 across the whole run, and a typical year brings about 115 research items.全刊累计被引接近 6800 次，典型年份刊出研究文章约 115 篇。

• In the 2025 release the title ranks 127th of 205 in Ecology, a Q3 place with a percentile of 38.3, while the article influence score puts it in Q2.2025 年版把该刊排在生态学类第 127 位（共 205 种），落在 Q3，百分位 38.3，文章影响分值则把它排进 Q2。

• Access is hybrid, and roughly 43 percent of the 2025 content appeared gold open access under author-paid licences.获取方式为混合模式，2025 年统计窗口内约 43% 的内容以作者付费的金色开放获取形式发表。

• The title is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, and PubMed carries selected citations rather than the full run.刊物收录于 Science Citation Index Expanded，PubMed 只收选摘引文，并非全刊。

Editors

• Jennifer S. Powers, a plant ecologist at the University of Minnesota, holds the editor-in-chief post.主编（Jennifer S. Powers）来自明尼苏达大学，研究方向为植物生态学。

• Tomás Carlo, Eleanor Slade and Ferry Slik serve as associate editors and share the subject load with the editor-in-chief.副编辑由 Tomás Carlo、Eleanor Slade 与 Ferry Slik 三人担任，与主编共同分担各学科稿件。

• Book reviews fall to Norbert Kunert, while Wendy Martin coordinates the editorial office.书评由（Norbert Kunert）负责，编辑部日常事务由（Wendy Martin）协调。

• That office sits inside Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida in Gainesville, the address the journal prints for correspondence.编辑部设在盖恩斯维尔佛罗里达大学的野生动物生态与保护系，刊物在通信栏里印出这一地址。

• New manuscripts arrive through ScholarOne at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bitr, the route named on the Wiley author pages.新稿经 ScholarOne 进入，入口为 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bitr，Wiley 的作者页面注明的正是这条路径。

• In 2024 the editors issued the journal's first open call for editorial service, and the notice ran under three names, Powers among them.2024 年编辑部首次公开征集编辑服务，通告由三人联署，Powers 在其中。

• Screening falls to the editor-in-chief, who passes plausible work to an associate editor for refereeing and a recommendation.初筛由主编完成，可行的稿件转给副编辑，由后者组织审稿并提出处理建议。

• Reviews and Commentaries are meant to do different jobs, and the editors describe Commentaries as pieces built to start an argument rather than close one.综述与评论各有分工，编辑部把评论描述成引出争论的文章，而不是给争论收尾。

• Proposals for a special issue go to the editor-in-chief, who decides with the guest editors whether the collection holds together.专辑提案交主编，由主编与客座编辑共同判断这组文章是否足以成辑。

• The society's honorary fellows are announced in the journal, and the 2025 tribute carried the editor's name beside two co-authors.学会的荣誉会士在刊内公布，2025 年的致敬文章由主编与两位合作者共同署名。

• Copy-editing, typesetting and the DOI prefix 10.1111 come from Wiley, which registers every article under its own block of identifiers.文字编辑与排版由 Wiley 承担，文章使用出版方统一的 10.1111 前缀登记。