Ecological Restoration

Ecological Restoration is an applied-science journal for the people who advance the science and practice of restoration ecology, and manuscripts arrive from every part of the world.《生态恢复》是一份面向恢复生态学科学与实践推进者的应用科学期刊，来稿来自世界各地。

Founded in 2000 under its present title, it has grown into a forum where restorationists work beside fire and water managers, engineers, architects and policy makers.2000 年以现名创刊，如今它把恢复实践者与消防管理，水务管理，工程师，建筑师和政策制定者放到同一处工作。

Twenty-odd articles a year and a back catalogue of more than forty volumes are the scale of a title whose readers are a working community, practitioners, managers and researchers who need one another's results.每年二十余篇文章，过刊累积超过四十卷，这样一份刊物的读者是一群彼此需要的同行，实践者，管理者与研究者。

Scope

• Its object is restoration itself, the repair of plants, animals, ecological communities and landscapes that have been damaged or lost.它的对象是恢复本身，修复受损或消失的植物，动物，生态群落与景观。

• Restoration is treated as a multidisciplinary and diverse effort, so ecological, social and cultural readings of the same project can stand side by side in its pages.恢复被当作一项多学科而多元的事业，同一项目的生态，社会与文化解读可以在该刊并排出现。

• Political, economic, legal, philosophical and regulatory questions are admitted as subjects in their own right.政治，经济，法律，哲学与监管问题本身就被列为选题。

• Urban restoration has its own standing, and a whole special issue was given to it in 2008 while city work fills recent volumes as well.城市恢复有独立的位置，2008 年该刊为此出过整期专号，近年的卷次里也常见城市方面的研究。

• Techniques and tools for planning, site preparation, species introduction, control of undesired species and monitoring are named in the author instructions as core material.规划，场地准备，物种引入，非目标物种的控制与监测等技术与工具，在作者须知里被列为核心内容。

• Manuscripts on plant or animal community composition, or on general ecology, are taken only when the work states plainly how it bears on restoration practice and theory.凡是植物或动物群落组成以及一般生态学方面的稿件，只有在明确交代与恢复实践和理论的关系时才会被接收。

• Material on reclamation or rehabilitation in a wider sense, and on restoration pursued for economic ends such as forestry, range management or waste disposal, has to be tied back to ecological restoration.以更宽泛意义上的复垦与修复为题的材料，以及为经济目的而做的恢复，比如林业，牧场经营或废弃物处置，都必须与生态恢复挂钩。

• The journal takes pride in the crossings it arranges, putting restorationists in the same issue as fire and water managers, engineers and architects, and giving land-use policy and the teaching of restoration a place of their own.该刊乐于安排交叉，把恢复实践者与消防及水务管理者，工程师和建筑师放进同一期，并给土地使用政策与恢复教育留出独立位置。

• Research Articles report original work, Restoration Notes carry shorter studies, unusual findings and new technical ideas, and Case Studies set out what a particular project taught.研究论文报告原创工作，恢复札记承载较短的研究，罕见的发现与新的技术想法，案例研究则交代某个具体项目带来的经验。

• Perspectives analyse priorities and lessons, Status of Knowledge Reviews synthesise published and unpublished information at regional or global scale, and Practitioner Highlights profile people and groups who moved the field.观点文章分析重点与经验，知识状况综述综合已发表与未发表的信息，范围可到区域或全球，实践者特写则记下推动这一学科的个人与团体。

• Book, journal, website and film reviews, digests of restoration progress published elsewhere, and announcements of scientific and professional meetings fill out the rest of each issue.书评，期刊评述，网站与影片评论，他处发表的恢复进展摘要，以及科学与专业会议的公告，填满了每一期的其余版面。

• Contributors are asked for a straightforward style free of unnecessary jargon, an active voice, and alternative formats where they serve the reader better than the standard paper.作者须知要求行文平实，不堆砌术语，多用主动语态，并在标准论文之外允许其他格式，只要对读者更合适。

• Full-length manuscripts are appreciated below five thousand words, a Restoration Note is capped near fifteen hundred, and every perspective or full-length article carries a short Restoration Recap written for practitioners and the general public.长篇稿件以五千词以内为宜，恢复札记大致不超过一千五百词，每篇观点文章或长篇论文都要附一段写给实践者与普通公众的 Restoration Recap。

History

• The serial reaches back into the early 1980s, and its first issue is preserved in the publisher's own archive.这一连续出版物可回溯到 1980 年代初，创刊号由出版方自己的存档保存着。

• That first issue opens with an editorial entitled Restoration and Management Notes: A Beginning Ecological Restoration, and the title itself records where the journal came from.创刊号开篇是一篇题为 Restoration and Management Notes: A Beginning Ecological Restoration 的社论，题名里留着刊物的来路。^[1]

• The name the journal carries today arrived with volume 18, number 1, issued on 20 March 2000 as the spring number of that year.今天这个刊名是随第 18 卷第 1 期到来的，该期于 2000 年 3 月 20 日出版，是当年的春季号。

• Its front page carried an editorial by William R. Jordan III entitled Marking the Millennium, and the National Library of Medicine records the title from that point as a continuing serial whose first year is 2000.该期首页的社论 Marking the Millennium 由（William R. Jordan III）撰写，美国国立医学图书馆则把刊名从这一期起登记为连续出版物，首年记作 2000 年。^[2]

• The imprint has been Madison, Wisconsin throughout, with University of Wisconsin Press as publisher, and the title has appeared under that press ever since.出版地一直是威斯康星州麦迪逊，出版方为 University of Wisconsin Press，该刊自此一直由这家出版社推出。

• It keeps one volume a year with four issues in each, and by August 2026 it had reached volume 44, number 3.它保持每年一卷，每卷四期的节奏，到 2026 年 8 月已出到第 44 卷第 3 期。

• The July 2026 number in that volume was a special issue on strategies, challenges and lessons for enhancing desert restoration, and earlier numbers in the same volume had already taken up desert and fire questions in the American West.该卷 2026 年 7 月一期是荒漠恢复策略，挑战与经验的专号，同卷更早的几期则把美国西部的荒漠与火灾写成专题。

• Back numbers are held in two places, with JSTOR carrying the run from the first volume and Project MUSE taking the journal from volume 28 in 2010.过刊存放在两处，JSTOR 收有自第一卷起的全部卷次，Project MUSE 从 2010 年的第 28 卷起收录该刊。

• The journal has been an official partner of the Society for Ecological Restoration, and members who renew through the society are offered a reduced subscription rate.该刊一直是 Society for Ecological Restoration 的官方合作刊，通过该学会续费的会员可得到优惠的订阅价。

• Two professional honours have come its way, with a Communications Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2015 and a Communications Merit Award from the same body in 2023.它拿到过两项专业奖项，2015 年获 American Society of Landscape Architects 的 Communications Honor Award，2023 年再获该会的 Communications Merit Award。

• Journal Citation Reports gave the title an impact factor of 1.10 in 2024 and 1.3 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 1.8 and close to a quarter of the year's output published as gold open access.Journal Citation Reports 给它的影响因子在 2024 年为 1.10，2025 年为 1.3，五年影响因子 1.8，当年文章中还有近四分之一以金色开放获取发表。

• Readers have put the journal's reach in plain words, and Eric Higgs, author of Nature by Design, called it instrumental in awakening restoration in North America, while Leslie Sauer credited it with bringing science and community together.读者对这份刊物的影响说得很直白，《Nature by Design》的作者（Eric Higgs）说它唤醒了北美的恢复事业，（Leslie Sauer）则说它把科学与社群拉到了一起。

• The special numbers have traced the field's concerns, from urban ecological restoration in 2008 and climate change in 2009 through education and outreach in 2010 to grassland restoration in the United States in 2013 and the question of who benefits in 2021.这些专号追着学科的关切走，2008 年是城市生态恢复，2009 年是气候变化，2010 年是教育与推广，2013 年是美国草原恢复，2021 年则追问谁在受益。

Editors

• Scott R. Abella is the editor, an associate professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who also founded and runs Natural Resource Conservation LLC in Boulder City, Nevada.（Scott R. Abella）是该刊主编，任 University of Nevada Las Vegas 生命科学学院副教授，并在内华达州 Boulder City 创办并经营 Natural Resource Conservation LLC。

• Elena S. Tartaglia is the associate editor and looks after the abstracts, and David J. Robertson is the managing editor, both of them at Rutgers University.（Elena S. Tartaglia）任副编辑并负责摘要工作，（David J. Robertson）任执行编辑，两人都在 Rutgers University。

• The editorial office sits in Blake Hall on Lipman Drive in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the managing editor is the person who answers questions about the submission site and general inquiries.编辑部办公室设在新泽西州 New Brunswick 的 Lipman Drive 上的 Blake Hall 里，有关投稿系统与一般事务的询问由执行编辑答复。

• Perspectives, research articles and reviews are sent out for peer review, normally to at least two anonymous reviewers, and a paper runs four to six months from submission to decision.观点文章，研究论文与综述要送同行评议，通常交给至少两位匿名评审人，一篇稿件从投稿到决定历时四到六个月。

• Authors are asked to name three to five possible reviewers in the cover letter, which must also state that the material has not been published before and is not under consideration elsewhere.作者要在附信里推荐三到五位可能的评审人，附信还得声明材料未曾发表，也不正投往他处。

• Restoration Notes are handled inside the journal office, reviewed and edited in house unless extra expertise is needed to judge the submission.恢复札记由刊内处理，通常在编辑部内部完成评审与编辑，只有在需要额外专业判断时才另请他人。

• The editors keep a right to edit for style and clarity, and they tell contributors to proofread carefully because changes requested at the proof stage beyond typesetting slips are charged to the author.编辑保留为文风与清晰度作修改的权利，同时提醒作者仔细校对，因为校样阶段超出排版错误的改动要由作者付费。

• Seven manuscript types are offered, running from research articles and case studies to restoration notes, perspectives, status of knowledge reviews, practitioner highlights and reviews of books, journals, websites and films.稿件分为七类，从研究论文与案例研究，到恢复札记，观点文章，知识状况综述，实践者特写，以及书刊与网站和影片的评论。

• The editor set out those types in print in 2025, and the same pages carry themed sections that gather two to six manuscripts around a single restoration topic or region.2025 年主编在刊物上盘点过这些栏目，同一批版面还设有主题专辑，围绕一个恢复议题或地区组织二到六篇稿件。^[3]

• The board of about thirty members is meant to cover the disciplines inside restoration, and its own remit is to contribute to editorial judgements and to find projects worth featuring.编委会约有三十人，用来覆盖恢复学科内部的各种专业，其职责按编委自己的说法是参与编辑判断，并找出值得刊出的项目。

• Its members sit in several countries, with James Aronson at the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology in Montpellier, Francisco Comín Sebastián at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology in Spain, and Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani at the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil.编委分布在多个国家，（James Aronson）在法国 Montpellier 的进化与功能生态学中心，（Francisco Comín Sebastián）在西班牙的比利牛斯生态学研究所，（Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani）在巴西圣卡洛斯联邦大学。

• The society that partners with the journal also has its own people on the board, with Alan Unwin as chair and James Aronson as its representative-at-large, and Unwin has chaired the organization's world conferences in Niagara Falls in 2001 and Madison in 2013.与该刊合作的学会也有人在编委之列，（Alan Unwin）是该会主席，（James Aronson）是该会的代表成员，两人先后主持过该会的世界会议，2001 年在 Niagara Falls，2013 年在 Madison。

• The journal asks openly for more reviewers, naming grassland ecology, coastal ecology and soil processes as the areas where help is wanted most, and it takes submissions through a dedicated online portal.该刊公开招募评审人，点名草原生态学，海岸生态学与土壤过程这几处最缺人手，投稿通过专门的在线系统完成。

• Fees are not a condition of acceptance, since page charges are asked only where a grant or other institutional money can underwrite them, and gold open access is available under a licence that allows reading but not commercial reuse.费用不构成录用的前提，版面费只在有课题经费或机构资金可以承担时才提出，金色开放获取另设，许可允许阅读但不允许商业再利用。