Tropical Ecology

Tropical Ecology is the quarterly journal of the International Society for Tropical Ecology, issued by Springer and edited from Varanasi in northern India.《热带生态学》（Tropical Ecology）是国际热带生态学会的季刊，由 Springer 出版，编辑部设在印度北部的瓦拉纳西。

It began in 1960 and covers fundamental and applied ecology in tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems, carrying original papers, short communications, reviews and book reviews.该刊创办于 1960 年，覆盖热带与亚热带生态系统的基础生态学与应用生态学，刊载原创论文、短通讯、综述与书评。

The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, level with the five-year figure, and the title ranks 127th of 205 in Ecology with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.44.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，与五年影响因子持平，在生态学类 205 种刊物中排第 127 位，期刊引证指数 0.44。

Scope

• The society frames the remit as every aspect of fundamental and applied ecological research in tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems, and the phrase is applied literally.学会把收稿范围写作热带与亚热带生态系统基础生态学与应用生态学的各个方面，这一表述按字面执行。
• Biological diversity and its management lead the published list of interests, taking in inventory work, community assembly and the practical handling of species-rich systems.生物多样性及其管理列在刊页兴趣方向的首位，涵盖编目调查、群落构建以及处置物种丰富系统的实务。
• Conservation and restoration ecology form a second block, running from protected-area design to the recovery of degraded land after mining, grazing or fire.保护生态学与恢复生态学构成第二大块，从保护区设计一直延伸到采矿、放牧或火烧之后退化土地的恢复。
• Human ecology treats the people who live inside tropical landscapes as part of the system, which keeps settled and farmed land inside the remit.人类生态学把生活在热带景观中的人视为系统的一部分，有人定居与耕作的土地因此也在范围之内。
• Ecological economics and social ecology sit beside it, so valuation studies and work on customary tenure can appear in the same volume as carbon-flux measurements.生态经济学与社会生态学与之并列，估值研究与习惯地权研究可以和碳通量测量出现在同一卷里。
• Ecosystem structure and functioning, together with ecosystem services, take in productivity, nutrient cycling, food webs and the accounting that turns those flows into benefits.生态系统结构与功能连同生态系统服务，涵盖生产力、养分循环、食物网，以及把上述通量折算为收益的核算。
• Ecosystem sustainability and stress-and-disturbance ecology ask how systems absorb drought, cyclone damage, salinity or repeated harvest without losing their structure.生态系统可持续性与胁迫及干扰生态学，讨论系统如何承受干旱、气旋破坏、盐渍或反复采伐而不失结构。
• Ecology of global change brings in warming, altered rainfall, elevated carbon dioxide and land-use switching, with tropical margins treated as early-warning ground.全球变化生态学纳入增温、降水改变、二氧化碳升高与土地利用转换，热带边缘地带被当作预警地带。
• Ecological modelling and quantitative ecology give the journal its methodological spine, from demographic models to the statistics used on long-term plot data.生态模型与定量生态学构成本刊的方法主干，从种群统计模型一直覆盖到长期样地数据所用的统计方法。
• Evolutionary ecology covers adaptation, life-history trade-offs and the diversification of lineages at low latitudes, where much of the world's species richness resides.进化生态学覆盖适应、生活史权衡与低纬地区谱系的多样化，全球物种丰富度的很大一部分正落在这些地带。
• Papers need not stay inside the tropics: the editor-in-chief may accept work on new ecological concepts, fresh methodology or contemporary themes drawn from temperate systems.稿件不必局限在热带，主编可以酌情接受来自温带系统的新生态学概念、新方法或当代议题研究。
• Original research papers and short communications make up the bulk of an issue, the second format reserved for results that need no long exposition.原创研究论文与短通讯构成每期主体，后者留给无需长篇铺陈的结果。
• Reviews and mini-reviews on topical themes are commissioned and also accepted, and scientific correspondence holds comment that will not stretch to a full article.专题综述与小型综述既约稿也接受投稿，科学通信则为撑不满整篇论文的意见留出位置。
• Book reviews close the list, a section that brings regional monographs and field guides to the notice of an international readership.书评收尾，这一栏目让区域性专著与野外手册进入国际读者的视野。

History

• The International Society for Tropical Ecology was established in 1960, and the journal has appeared under its imprint from the first volume onward.国际热带生态学会于 1960 年成立，本刊自第一卷起即以学会名义刊行。
• Society and journal grew from the same circle of Indian ecologists working on tropical forests, grasslands and managed land, and the editorial office sits at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.学会与刊物出自同一批研究热带森林、草地与管理土地的印度生态学家，编辑部设在瓦拉纳西的巴纳拉斯印度教大学。
• Volume numbers have risen by one a year without a break, so volume 60 covers 2019 and volume 67 covers 2026, with the sequence running unbroken since 1960.卷号每年递增一卷从未中断，2019 年为第 60 卷，2026 年为第 67 卷，序号自 1960 年起一直连贯。
• The Crossref record for the title begins with that sixtieth volume under 10.1007 DOIs, the prefix Springer uses, and the electronic ISSN 2661-8982 now runs beside the print number 0564-3295.Crossref 里本刊的著录自第 60 卷开始，全部落在 Springer 惯用的 10.1007 前缀之下；电子刊号 2661-8982 与印刷刊号 0564-3295 并行，前者对应在线版本。
• Four issues have appeared in every volume of the Crossref file, so the current rhythm is a plain quarterly with no combined numbers.Crossref 存档里每卷都出满四期，现行节奏是标准季刊，没有合刊。
• Copyright is held by the society, a line the journal prints at the foot of its pages instead of assigning rights to the publisher.版权由学会持有，这条说明印在刊页页脚，权利并不划归出版方。
• Access is hybrid: most papers sit behind a subscription, while authors may pay for immediate open access, and nineteen open access articles are listed at present.访问模式为混合型，多数论文在订阅墙后，作者可付费立即开放，刊页目前列出 19 篇开放获取文章。
• Gold open access accounts for 6.15 per cent of recent content in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports, a share in keeping with a society journal built on subscriptions.2025 年期刊引证报告把金色开放获取的比例记为 6.15%，与一份以订阅为根基的学会刊物相称。
• Indexing reaches past the Science Citation Index Expanded, adding Scopus, BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, Zoological Record and the ADS bibliography.收录范围超出科学引文索引扩展版，另有 Scopus、BIOSIS、Biological Abstracts、CAB Abstracts、化学文摘社、Zoological Record 与 ADS 文献库。
• Long-term preservation runs through CLOCKSS and Portico, and discovery services carry the title to Chinese, Russian and Korean platforms as well as the usual Western indexes.长期保存依托 CLOCKSS 与 Portico，发现服务把本刊送上中国、俄罗斯与韩国的平台，与惯常的西方索引并行。
• The impact factor moved from 0.85 in 2021 to 1.333 in 2022, slipped to 1.1 in 2023, then climbed to 1.7 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025.影响因子 2021 年为 0.85，2022 年为 1.333，2023 年回落到 1.1，2024 年升到 1.7，2025 年为 1.9。
• Total citations stand at 1,588 and the cited half-life at 7.9 years, numbers that describe a back file still in use a decade after printing.总被引 1588 次，被引半衰期 7.9 年，说明十余年前的文章仍在被引用。
• About 44 research items appear in a typical year, spread over four issues that carry roughly eleven papers each.典型年份刊出约 44 篇研究文章，分摊到四期，每期约十一篇。
• More than half of the papers printed in 2025 spoke to one or more of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, a proportion the publisher reports on the journal page.2025 年刊出的论文有一半以上涉及十七项可持续发展目标中的一项或多项，这一比例由出版方在刊页公布。
• Downloads reached 58,100 in 2025, and the median wait from submission to a first decision is 357 days, long enough that authors plan a year ahead.2025 年全文下载量为 5.81 万次，从投稿到首次决定的中位等待为 357 天，作者大多按一年来安排进度。

Editors

• P. C. Abhilash, of the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development at Banaras Hindu University, holds the editor-in-chief post.主编为 P. C. Abhilash，任职于巴纳拉斯印度教大学环境与可持续发展研究所。
• His own work turns on the restoration of degraded land, bioremediation and the sustainable use of biomass, subjects that recur across the journal's applied pages.他本人的研究围绕退化土地恢复、生物修复与生物质可持续利用，这些题目在本刊的应用类版面反复出现。
• Two assistant editors support the office: Neha Goyal of Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce in Delhi, and Rishikesh Singh at the same Varanasi institute as the editor-in-chief.两位助理编辑协助编辑部，分别是德里大学商学院的 Neha Goyal 与同在瓦拉纳西研究所的 Rishikesh Singh。
• Twenty associate editors divide the field between them, with affiliations in India, China, the United States, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Mexico, Botswana, Indonesia, Portugal and Czechia.二十位副编辑分担各方向，所属机构分布在印度、中国、美国、德国、瑞典、南非、墨西哥、博茨瓦纳、印度尼西亚、葡萄牙与捷克。
• Indian institutions supply the largest single group, among them the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.印度机构构成最大的一组，勒克瑙的国家植物研究所与克勒格布尔印度理工学院都在其中。
• Elsewhere the roster carries the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, both on the eastern seaboard of the United States.名单另外收有史密森环境研究中心与史密森保护生物学研究所，两处都位于美国东海岸。
• Seats in the tropics themselves are deliberate, filled at the Xishuangbanna tropical garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at CIFOR in Bogor and at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources.热带本地的席位是有意安排的，中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园、茂物的国际林业研究中心与博茨瓦纳农业与自然资源大学都有人任职。
• The society's executive committee for 2025 to 2030 names Eklabya Sharma as president, R. Sagar as secretary and Anita Singh as treasurer, and the editor-in-chief sits on it as chief editor.学会 2025 至 2030 届执行委员会由 Eklabya Sharma 任主席，R. Sagar 任秘书长，Anita Singh 任司库，主编以首席编辑身份列席。
• Manuscripts enter through the Springer online system and go to outside referees before any decision, with the editor-in-chief holding the final call on acceptance.稿件经 Springer 在线系统进入，送外审之后才有裁决，录用与否由主编作最终判断。
• The board is described as working on different ecological aspects of tropical and sub-tropical systems from diverse continents, and referees are matched to that spread.刊页称编委会来自各大洲，研究热带与亚热带系统的不同生态学侧面，审稿人按这一分布匹配。
• Reviews and mini-reviews pass the same editors as research papers, while book reviews are handled more briefly and correspondence is screened for length before it goes out.综述与小型综述同研究论文由一批编辑处理，书评流程较短，通信在送出前先核查篇幅。
• The society describes itself as representing scientists who work in tropical ecology, conservation and ecosystem management, and its membership is spread across the world.学会自述代表从事热带生态学、保护与生态系统管理的研究者，会员分布在世界各地。