Conservation

Conservation is an international peer-reviewed open access journal from MDPI that reports research on the safeguarding of biological diversity and the ecosystems supporting it.《保护》是国际同行评审的开放获取期刊，由一家总部设在瑞士的出版社发行，刊名所指的保护科学涵盖生物多样性及其栖息生态系统的维系。

Launched in 2021, the title sits between ecology journals and policy magazines, asking authors to connect field evidence with the decisions that managers and governments actually make.该刊 2021 年创刊，定位介于生态学期刊与政策读物之间，要求作者把野外证据同管理者与政府实际作出的决定连接起来。

Scope

• Species inventories and long-term monitoring form the backbone of the section, with papers on distribution records, camera-trap arrays and acoustic surveys of nocturnal fauna.物种编目与长期监测是收稿主干，论文涉及物种分布记录、红外相机阵列与夜行类群的声学调查。
• Conservation genetics and genomics appear regularly, covering population structure, inbreeding depression, pedigree reconstruction and environmental DNA sampling in rivers and soils.保护遗传学与基因组学同样常见，涵盖种群结构、近交衰退与河流土壤中的环境 DNA 取样。
• Population and community ecology contributions examine demography, trophic interactions and metapopulation dynamics that decide whether small populations persist.种群与群落生态的稿件考察种群统计、营养互作与复合种群动态，这些过程决定小种群能否延续。
• Habitat restoration and ecological restoration are treated as testable interventions, from rewilding trials and native revegetation to the rehabilitation of former mine sites.栖息地修复与生态恢复被视为可检验的干预，从再野化试验与本土植被重建，到废弃矿区的复垦。
• Protected area management and spatial planning draw work on reserve design, corridor connectivity, zoning rules and the siting of new conservation areas.保护区管理与空间规划方向收罗保护区设计、廊道连通性与分区规则的研究。
• Invasive alien species receive steady attention, including risk screening, eradication campaigns on islands and biosecurity measures at ports and borders.入侵物种持续受到关注，包括风险筛查、岛屿上的清除行动与口岸的生物安全措施。
• Climate change papers trace range shifts, phenological mismatch, drought refugia and the disputed merits of assisted colonisation for species that cannot disperse fast enough.气候变化研究追踪分布区位移、物候错配与干旱避难所，也讨论辅助迁移对有扩散限制的物种是否可行。
• Policy and governance work links legal instruments and subsidy regimes to measurable outcomes, with attention to national targets under the global biodiversity framework.政策与治理方向把法律工具、补贴制度同可测量的成效相连，并关注全球生物多样性框架下的国家目标。
• Citizen science and data methods cover volunteer recording schemes, open occurrence databases, occupancy modelling and satellite products used to detect habitat loss.公民科学与数据方法涵盖志愿者记录计划、开放分布数据库与用于识别栖息地丧失的遥感产品。
• Human-wildlife conflict anchors the socio-economic strand, alongside compensation schemes, community-based management and the costs of living with large carnivores.人与野生动物冲突处于社会经济议题的核心，补偿机制、社区共管与大型食肉动物共存的成本核算也在其中。
• Wildlife health and disease ecology enter through work on pathogens that move between livestock, people and free-ranging animals at expanding range margins.野生动物健康与疾病生态通过病原体研究进入视野，这类病原体在牲畜、人群与自由活动的野生动物之间转移。
• Marine and freshwater conservation appears in studies of bycatch, reef restoration, dam removal and the connectivity of river networks for migratory fish.海洋与淡水保护见于兼捕、珊瑚礁修复与拆坝研究，也见于洄游鱼类所需河网连通性的评估。
• Reviews and meta-analyses are handled as an article type of their own, and they are expected to compare outcomes across regions rather than summarise one study system.综述与荟萃分析单列一类，刊物要求它们跨区域比较结果，而不只梳理单一研究系统。
• Across these strands the journal asks for management implications, so that a study of one species still speaks to the bodies that allocate budgets and enforce rules.贯穿上述板块，刊物要求作者交代管理含义，使单物种研究也能对分配预算与执行规则的机构说话。

History

• MDPI launched the journal in 2021 as an electronic-only title, and the first volume carried four issues assembled from articles published online as they were accepted.该刊 2021 年由 MDPI 推出，只出电子版，首卷四期由录用后即在线发布的文章汇编而成。
• Volume numbering has advanced one step each year since, so the 2026 volume is the sixth, and every volume holds four quarterly issues.此后卷号每年递增，2026 年已出到第 6 卷，每卷固定四期。
• Early volumes were thin, with about thirty items in 2021, while 2024 brought more than fifty and later years grew faster still.早期各卷篇幅不大，2021 年约 30 篇，2024 年超过 50 篇，此后增长更快。
• The title entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and with its 2025 release it gained a first Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 alongside a first CiteScore of 3.2.该刊先被新兴来源引文索引（Emerging Sources Citation Index）收录，2025 年版榜单又首次给出 1.9 的影响因子与 3.2 的 CiteScore。
• Growth has been gradual since the first volume, and the editorial office links it to faster handling together with a widening base of submitting countries.自首卷以来增长呈渐进态势，编辑部把原因归于处理速度加快与投稿国家范围扩大。
• Submissions now arrive from more than sixty countries, and roughly two hundred reviewers handled the 2025 intake.目前投稿来自 60 多个国家，2025 年的稿件由约 200 位审稿人处理。
• Only an electronic edition exists, identified by the single number 2673-7159, so the journal has never carried a print subscription price.该刊只有电子版，用单一电子刊号 2673-7159 标识，从未设有印刷版订阅价格。
• Articles are assigned numbers instead of page ranges and are released as soon as proofs are approved, with issues closed retrospectively.文章以编号代替页码，校样通过后即上线，期次随后补齐。
• In 2026 the editorial office split the remit into seven sections, each with its own scope statement and invited topic list.2026 年编辑部把收稿范围拆成 7 个栏目，每个栏目另立范围说明与选题清单。
• Digital preservation runs through CLOCKSS and deposit with the Swiss National Library, arrangements that matter for a title with no printed back file.数字保存依靠 CLOCKSS 与瑞士国家图书馆的缴存，对没有印刷合订本的刊物尤为重要。
• Publication costs are met by an article processing charge, and the journal has been fully gold open access from its first issue.出版成本由文章处理费承担，自创刊首期起即为完全金色开放获取。
• Special issues have multiplied, often tied to conferences or to regional conservation programmes, and they now take up a large share of each volume.特刊数量不断增加，常与会议或区域保护项目挂钩，在每卷中已占相当比重。
• The journal entered the Directory of Open Access Journals at launch, where its record dates open access to 2021, the year the first issue appeared.刊物创刊即进入《开放获取期刊目录》，该目录把其开放获取起点记为 2021 年，与首期问世同年。

Editors

• Antoni Margalida of the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology in Spain holds the Editor-in-Chief post.主编由西班牙比利牛斯生态研究所（Pyrenean Institute of Ecology，CSIC）的 Antoni Margalida 担任。
• His own work spans behavioural ecology, vulture biology and ecological modelling, along with the conflicts that arise where large scavengers meet livestock farming.他本人的研究覆盖行为生态学、秃鹫生物学与生态建模，也涉及大型食腐鸟类与畜牧业的冲突。
• A board of 33 members drawn from 16 countries advises on scope and on the handling of contested manuscripts.编委会由来自 16 个国家的 33 位成员组成，就收稿范围与争议稿件的处理给出意见。
• Review is single anonymous, meaning referees see author names while authors do not learn who assessed the paper.评审采用单盲方式，审稿人可见作者姓名，作者不知评审者身份。
• Every manuscript first passes an in-house check for scope and formatting, after which an academic editor with relevant expertise is assigned.每篇稿件先经编辑部内部核查范围与格式，随后指派研究方向相符的学术编辑。
• Manuscripts are uploaded through SuSy, the submission platform that the publisher runs for all of its titles.投稿通过 SuSy 系统提交，这是该社为旗下所有刊物统一运行的投审平台。
• Authors must supply a data availability statement, and reports of field work are expected to name permits and ethics approvals.作者须提交数据可得性声明，野外工作报告还应注明许可与伦理审批情况。
• Guest-edited special issues are vetted by the Editor-in-Chief before a call for papers opens, which keeps the topical list under central control.客座编辑主持的特刊须经主编审核后才开放征稿，选题清单因此由主编把关。
• Copy-editing and typesetting are done in house, and the author sees a formatted proof before the article is released.文字编辑与排版由出版社内部完成，论文上线之前作者会收到排版好的校样。
• Guest editors of a special issue are named on its call for papers, together with the scope note and the closing date for submissions.专辑的客座编辑连同征稿范围与截止日期一并写在征稿启事上。
• Correspondence goes to an editorial office in Basel, and enquiries about scope are answered before formal submission.日常联络由巴塞尔的编辑部处理，范围方面的疑问可在正式投稿前得到答复。
• Decisions rest on referee reports plus the academic editor's judgement, and appeals go to a second editor who has not seen the file.决定依据审稿意见与学术编辑的判断作出，申诉交由未接触过该稿的另一位编辑处理。