Avian Conservation and Ecology

Avian Conservation and Ecology is an open-access, fully electronic scientific journal, sponsored by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists and Bird Studies Canada. We publish papers that are scientifically rigorous and relevant to the bird conservation community in a cost-effective electronic approach that makes them freely available to scientists and the public in real-time. ACE is a fully indexed ISSN journal that welcomes contributions from scientists all over the world.While the name of the journal implies a publication niche of conservation AND ecology, we think the theme of conservation THROUGH ecology provides a better sense of our purpose. As such, we are particularly interested in contributions that use a scientifically sound and rigorous approach to the achievement of avian conservation as revealed through insights into ecological principles and processes. Papers are expected to fall along a continuum of pure conservation and management at one end to more pure ecology at the other but our emphasis will be on those contributions with direct relevance to conservation objectives. Additional information on types of papers considered:We encourage papers on birds at any ecological level (individuals to ecosystems) that have a strong hypothesis driven approach to conservation problems. Papers in ACE will ideally have clearly articulated hypotheses and predictions laid out in the Introduction. However, we also recognize the value of descriptive studies that clearly define the value of the findings to real-world conservation objectives. In such cases, the onus will be on the authors to demonstrate that their descriptive study can provide significant value within the scope of current knowledge and future research directions. Papers on the natural history of species will typically not be considered. However, behavioral studies are welcomed if they have a bearing on conservation issues (e.g., whether and how extinction risk covaries with mating systems and human activities, and why it might be expected to; or whether and how dispersal is affected by habitat alteration, and why it might be expected to). Impact studies are welcomed if the consequences of documented effects are examined in a mechanistic ecological context (e.g., whether and how landscape-level habitat alteration by industrial forestry alters processes affecting population growth or community dynamics, and why it might be expected to). Studies conducted in areas essentially free of human influence are relevant if they represent controls against which impacted areas are compared. They may also represent model systems of ecological phenomena with consequences for conservation, provided that the connection to conservation is explicitly stated in the rationale for the research. We recognize the increasing scope of statistical treatments of data that range among frequentist, information theoretic and Bayesian approaches. However, we caution authors against the approach of rejecting trivial null hypotheses as these usually provide little insight into the support for the alternate hypothesis unless conducted in a strict experimental framework.

Avian Conservation and Ecology期刊中文简介

《鸟类保护与生态》是由加拿大鸟类学家和鸟类研究协会主办的一份开放获取、完全电子化的科学期刊。我们发表的论文科学严谨，与鸟类保护社区有关，并采用成本效益高的电子方法，使科学家和公众可以实时免费获得这些论文。ACE是一个完全索引的ISSN期刊，欢迎来自世界各地科学家的贡献。虽然该期刊的名称暗示著保育与生态的出版生态位，但我们认为透过生态保育的主题更能体现我们的宗旨。因此，我们特别感兴趣的是，通过对生态原则和过程的深入了解，利用科学合理和严格的方法来实现鸟类保护的贡献。预计论文将从一端的纯保护和管理到另一端的更纯生态的连续统一体，但我们的重点将放在那些与保护目标直接相关的贡献上。获考虑的文件类别的补充资料:我们鼓励在任何生态水平(从个体到生态系统)发表关于鸟类的论文，这些论文对保护问题有很强的假设驱动方法。ACE上的论文最好能在引言中清楚地阐述假设和预测。然而，我们也认识到描述性研究的价值，这些研究清楚地定义了研究结果对现实世界保护目标的价值。在这种情况下，作者有责任证明他们的描述性研究可以在当前知识和未来研究方向的范围内提供重要的价值。关于物种自然历史的论文通常不会被考虑。然而，如果行为研究与保护问题有关(例如，灭绝风险是否以及如何与交配系统和人类活动同时变化，以及为什么可能会这样;或者栖息地的改变是否以及如何影响扩散，以及为什么可能会影响扩散)。如果在机械性生态环境中审查有记录的影响的后果，则欢迎进行影响研究(例如，工业林业对景观一级生境的改变是否以及如何改变影响人口增长或社区动态的进程，以及为什么预期会改变进程)。如果在基本不受人类影响的地区进行的研究代表了对受影响地区进行比较的控制，那么这些研究是相关的。它们也可能代表生态现象的模型系统，并对保护产生影响，只要研究的基本原理中明确说明了与保护的联系。我们认识到，统计处理数据的范围日益扩大，包括频率、信息理论和贝叶斯方法。然而，我们提醒作者不要拒绝琐碎的零假设，因为这些假设通常提供很少的支持替代假设的洞察，除非在严格的实验框架中进行。