Focus and Scope

The focus and scope of the BIODIVERS Journal align with the current critical concerns confronting the Southeast Asian region. The journal aims to integrate global and regional concerns such as climate change, poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security, and gender equality, which are core themes of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG 2030) and the ASEAN Vision 2020.

Articles published in BIODIVERS cover research results, reviews on specific topics and short communication in which significant advancement in knowledge is briefly announced. All articles submitted for publication in BIODIVERS are evaluated by subject matter experts and go through editorial revision.

The focus areas and their brief definitions and scope are as follows:

Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation
This focus area covers the process of assisting the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. It aims to reverse the structure and function of these ecosystems to ensure future welfare. Topics may include understanding and minimizing the differences between natural and anthropogenic disturbances (e.g., deforestation, mining, invasive species, pollution, climate change), determining ecosystem resilience, new restoration technologies and performance standards, assessment of current restoration practices, ecological succession processes, and the role of soil processes, genetics, resource mapping, taxonomy, and inventory.

This focus includes several scopes, but not limited to: Ecology restoration, natural resources mapping, biodiversity, genetic diversity, forestry, fisheries, biotechnology, social economy.

Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
This focus area emphasizes the management of natural resources for productive and efficient long-term use, balancing ecological services and biological resources with socio-economic and cultural needs. Topics may include land-use and production options, valuation of environmental services, food and nutrition security, biodiversity for sustained production, biotechnological approaches, reduction of food loss, payment for environmental services, agroforestry, sustainable species use, renewable resource harvesting, and policy development for sustainability.

This focus includes several scopes, but not limited to: bioprospecting, biosystematics, bioinformatics, food security and technology, bioengineering, natural resources management, and Remote sensing.

 

Ecosystem Resilience in the face of global climate change.
This focus area involves protecting and conserving high-biodiversity ecosystems and landscapes, enhancing habitat connectivity, and building resilience to disturbances. Topics may include resilience analysis and management, methodologies for identifying high biodiversity areas, adaptive resource management, ecosystem health assessment, landscape connectivity and restoration planning, mapping and inventory of sensitive areas, environmental risk and impact assessment, genetic diversity preservation, compliance with environmental policies, and control of invasive species and pollution.

This focus includes several scopes, but not limited to: biological control, risk management, biotechnology product, GIS and remote sensing.