Wildlife Research

Wildlife Research is an international journal devoted to the ecology, management and conservation of wild animals living in natural as well as in modified habitats.《野生动物研究》是一份面向野生动物生态学、管理和保护研究的国际期刊，刊载对象覆盖自然栖息地与经过改造的生境中的动物种群。

The journal sets out to combine basic research in wildlife ecology with advances in science-based management practice, and it asks that every contribution carry a usable implication for how wild animals are handled.该刊主张把野生动物生态学的基础研究同基于科学的管理实践进展结合起来，并要求每一篇来稿都对如何处置野生动物给出可用的启示。

Published in Australia by CSIRO Publishing, the publishing arm of the national science agency, it has carried the present title since 1974 and traces its lineage to a wildlife series begun in 1956.该刊由澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织下属的 CSIRO Publishing 出版，1974 年起使用现名，谱系可追溯到 1956 年创办的野生动物研究丛刊。

Recent bibliographic measures place it mid-field among ecological titles, with about 90 papers a year, a 2025 impact factor of 1.9, and most new content released openly.近年的文献计量指标显示它在生态学期刊中处于中游，每年刊文约 90 篇，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，新近内容多数以开放获取形式发布。

Scope

• The core remit is applied ecology: population dynamics, behaviour, habitat use and community interactions of wild animals, framed so that ecological inference can be reused inside a management decision.核心领域是应用生态学，涵盖种群动态，行为，栖息地利用以及野生动物的群落间相互作用，并要求生态推断能够被管理决策直接复用。
• Conservation biology of threatened fauna occupies a central place, with status assessments of small populations and analyses of the threats that keep them small.受威胁动物的保护生物学占据中心位置，包括小种群现状评估，以及使这些种群难以壮大的威胁因子分析。
• A large share of the space is given to species that are over-abundant, introduced or treated as pests, including feral cats, wild boar, feral goats and rabbits, where control methods and their ecological consequences are tested rather than merely described.刊物为数量过多、外来引入或被视为有害的物种保留大量版面，涉及野化猫，野猪，野化山羊和兔，相关论文需要检验控制手段及其生态后果，而不只是描述现象。
• Monitoring design is a recurring subject, with papers on occupancy and detectability, statistical power, indexing principles and the interpretation of counts for rare or cryptic species.监测设计是常见主题，内容涉及占用率与可检测性，统计功效，索引编算原则，以及珍稀或隐蔽物种计数数据的解释。
• Recovery of depleted populations is covered through head-starting, reintroduction, translocation and meta-population genetic planning, with demographic rescue treated as a testable option rather than a slogan.衰竭种群的恢复通过人工抚幼放归，重引入，迁地和集合种群遗传规划来讨论，把种群统计拯救视为可检验的选项而非口号。
• Much of the work is set in multi-use landscapes and production forests, rangelands and tropical savannas, where grazing, fire regime, forestry and conservation objectives meet.大量研究发生在多种用途景观与生产林，牧场和热带稀树草原，放牧、火烧制度同营林与保护目标在这些地方交汇。
• Predation and trophic relationships attract sustained attention, from dingo re-establishment and mesopredator release to the effect of hunting dogs and introduced predators on native prey.捕食与营养关系长期受到关注，议题从澳洲野犬的重新设立到中捕食者释放效应，再到猎犬和外来捕食者对本地猎物的作用。
• Diseases and their impacts on wildlife populations form a declared subject area, and recent issues extend from parasitism to the microbiome of native mammals and the antimicrobial resistance found within it.疾病及其对野生动物种群的影响是刊物明列的领域，近期刊出的内容从寄生生物延伸到本地哺乳动物的微生物组，以及其中的抗菌药物耐药性。
• Global change and wildlife management are treated together, including climate-driven shifts in species distributions, extreme weather events, and modelling of future ranges for threatened animals.全球变化与野生动物管理被放在同一框架下讨论，包括气候驱动的物种分布移动，极端天气事件，以及对受威胁动物未来分布范围的模拟。
• The human dimensions of conservation are in scope, alongside studies of sensory pollution, traffic noise, visitor pressure in protected areas and other disturbances that act on animal signalling.保护的人文层面属于收稿范围，感官污染，交通噪声，保护区访客压力，以及其他作用于动物通讯的干扰因素同样在内。
• Methodological contributions are welcome, covering camera-trap surveys, comparisons of automated image analysis against conventional reading, scat detection dogs, and DNA metabarcoding of diets.方法学贡献受到重视，包括红外相机调查，自动图像判读同传统人工判读的对比，粪便探测犬，以及食性的 DNA 宏条形码测定。
• Coverage is not restricted to terrestrial fauna: sharks, seals, marine reptiles and migratory species appear whenever the question concerns the ecology or management of a wild population.报道不限于陆生动物，鲨鱼，海豹，海洋爬行类和迁徙物种同样出现，条件是问题涉及某个野生种群的生态学或管理。
• Assessing management outcomes and tracing the implications of wildlife research for policy development are explicit aims, and evaluation papers are expected to state what an intervention achieved and at what scale.评估管理成效并追溯野生动物研究对政策制定的影响是刊物明列的目标，评估类论文需要说明某项干预在什么尺度上取得了什么结果。
• Although Australian animals such as koalas, numbats, echidnas and grassland lizards are heavily represented, the journal presents itself as a title for wildlife scientists, students, managers, consultants and government advisers everywhere.尽管考拉，袋食蚁兽，针鼹和草原蜥蜴等澳大利亚动物出现频率很高，该刊仍以国际刊物自居，读者面向各地的野生动物科学家，学生，管理者，顾问和政府咨询人员。

History

• The lineage begins in March 1956 with C.S.I.R.O. Wildlife Research, a series issued by the wildlife research programme of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation under ISSN 0007-9103.其谱系始于 1956 年 3 月，澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织的野生动物研究计划彼时以 C.S.I.R.O. Wildlife Research 为名出刊，ISSN 为 0007-9103。
• Those early volumes were practical in character, carrying live-trapping trials, sampling methods for rabbits and their insect associates, and technique notes such as the use of chloral hydrate to anaesthetise mammals for marking.早期各卷带有浓厚的事务色彩，刊载活捕试验，兔及其伴生昆虫的取样方法，以及用水合氯醛麻醉哺乳动物以便做个体标记的技术记录。
• The corvid programme of the 1960s filled several consecutive issues with a multi-part study of the comparative ecology of Australian corvids, and it shows how quickly the series moved from technique toward field ecology.1960 年代以多篇文章形式展开的鸦科动物比较生态研究占去连续数期，显示这份丛刊从技术记录转向野外生态学的速度之快。^[1]
• Volume 18, dated 1973, closed that series, and the title was relaunched as Wildlife Research in 1974 with the volume count reset to 1 and the first number dated February.第 18 卷标注 1973 年，为原丛刊画上句号，1974 年以 Wildlife Research 之名复刊，卷号重新从 1 起算，首期刊于 2 月。
• The relaunched journal kept the same publishing institution, took the print ISSN 1035-3712, and has numbered one volume per year since, so volume 53 corresponds to 2026.复刊后的期刊沿用同一出版机构，采用印刷版 ISSN 1035-3712，此后每年一卷，第 53 卷对应 2026 年。
• Publication was slow at first, since volume 7 in 1980 was delivered in three numbers, and that three-number rhythm still held at volume 12 in 1985.早年间刊出节奏很慢，1980 年的第 7 卷只分作 3 期，同样的三期节奏维持到 1985 年的第 12 卷。
• The cadence quickened in the late 1980s, six numbers a year being reached at volume 15 in 1988 and remaining normal at volume 17 in 1990, a bimonthly pattern carried by bibliographic descriptions of the journal for decades afterwards.刊期在 1980 年代后期加快，1988 年的第 15 卷已达每年 6 期，1990 年的第 17 卷仍维持 6 期，这一双月刊形制在此后数十年的书目著录中一直被沿用。
• Eight issues a year were in place by 2005 and were still standard in the 2010s, as volume 32 and volume 42 each show, while annual volume numbering never changed.到 2005 年已排满每年 8 期，2010 年代仍是如此，第 32 卷与第 42 卷均可印证，而年卷编号制度始终未变。
• Electronic delivery added a second identifier, ISSN 1448-5494, and articles are registered under the shared CSIRO prefix 10.1071 with numbers keyed to the manuscript code, as in 10.1071/wr25191.电子发行带来了第二个标识 1448-5494，论文在 CSIRO 共用的 10.1071 前缀下注册 DOI，编号与稿件代号对应，例如 10.1071/wr25191。
• Volume 50 carried ten numbers in 2023 and volume 51 carried twelve in 2024, so the journal moved to twelve issues a year without abandoning the annual volume scheme.第 50 卷在 2023 年刊出 10 期，第 51 卷在 2024 年增至 12 期，该刊在不放弃年卷制度的前提下把期数加密。
• Indicator data for 2025 list 3831 citations, 92 citable items, a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.72 and an article half-life of 12.1 years.2025 年的指标数据记录被引 3831 次，可被引条目 92 条，期刊引文指标 0.72，论文半衰期 12.1 年。
• The impact factor fell from 2.178 in 2022 to 1.6 for 2023 and 2024 before recovering to 1.9 with a five-year value of 2.1, and the journal is placed in Zoology as well as Ecology.影响因子从 2022 年的 2.178 回落到 2023 年和 2024 年的 1.6，随后回升至 1.9，五年值为 2.1，学科归属同时列在动物学和生态学之下。
• Gold open access reached 60.74 per cent of 2025 content, a marked departure from the subscription-only arrangement the title kept for most of its existence.2025 年内容中金色开放获取占比达 60.74%，与该刊长期维持的纯订阅制安排形成明显反差。

Editors

• The editorial office sits with the publisher in Melbourne, recorded in bibliographic directories as Collingwood, Victoria 3066, and it handles correspondence for both authors and referees.编辑部设在墨尔本的出版机构内，书目著录地址为维多利亚州科林伍德，邮编 3066，作者与审稿人的通信都由此处理。
• Manuscripts reach the office through the publisher's ScholarOne workspace for the journal at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/csiro-wr, and the mailbox publishing.wr@csiro.au answers enquiries beforehand.稿件经由出版商为该刊配置的 ScholarOne 工作区投至 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/csiro-wr，正式投稿前的询问可发给邮箱 publishing.wr@csiro.au。
• Refereeing is organised by the journal editors together with an international editorial board, so a paper on, say, an invasive ungulate and a paper on shark tagging pass through different subject routes.评审由本刊编辑会同国际编辑委员会组织，因此一篇关于入侵有蹄类的论文和一篇关于鲨鱼标记的论文会走不同的学科路径。
• Editorial screening follows the declared subject areas, so applied ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem management, pest and invasive species control, wildlife disease and the human dimensions of management are read as core business.编辑初筛依据刊物公布的主题领域，应用生态学，保护生物学，生态系统管理，有害与入侵物种控制，野生动物疾病，以及管理的人文维度，都被当作核心业务。
• Accepted formats are stated as structured field studies, manipulative experiments, and analytical or modelling papers, with shorter debate pieces kept alongside them to argue contested management questions.收稿形制明确为结构完整的野外研究，操纵性实验，以及分析或模拟论文，同时保留讨论性短文，用来争辩尚有分歧的管理问题。
• Editors weigh two demands on each manuscript, namely improvement of the practice of wildlife management and a conceptual advance in the understanding of wildlife ecology.编辑对每篇稿件衡量两项要求，一是改进野生动物管理的做法，二是在野生动物生态学的概念理解上有所推进。
• Editorial handling reflects the taxonomic spread of the journal, whose published content runs from monotremes and passerines to elasmobranchs, grassland reptiles and colonial seabirds.编辑分工反映刊物类群的跨度，刊出内容从单孔类和雀形目一直到板鳃类，草原爬行类和集群营巢的海鸟。
• Published authorship is dominated by Australian institutions, yet topics such as wild boar in south-eastern Europe and red fox occupancy in North America show that editorial scope is not regional.发文作者的单位以澳大利亚机构为主，但东南欧的野猪和北美的赤狐占用率这类选题说明编辑范围并不局限于本地区。
• Articles are released with a DOI before being gathered into a numbered issue, and the publisher's house style governs reference formatting and figure preparation for the bound volume.论文在归入某一期之前会先带 DOI 发布，出版商的统一规范决定文末参考文献格式与图片加工要求。
• The journal operates as a hybrid title, with authors choosing an open-access licence at acceptance, and the publisher's own journal data give an average of 27 days from acceptance to publication.该刊按混合形制运行，作者在录用时自行选择开放获取许可，出版商公布的期刊数据显示稿件从录用到刊出平均需要 27 天。