Publicações:
A ABECO promoverá a publicação de resultados de pesquisas produzidas no Brasil, trazendo-os à atenção de pesquisadores no país e exterior.
Dando início a estas atividades, a ABECO firmou acordo com a Fundação Boticário de Conservação da Natureza para assumir a editoração da revista Natureza e Conservação, com o patrocínio da mesma Fundação.
A revista está sendo dinamizada e reeestruturada, tem novo Editor-Chefe,
José Alexandre Diniz Filho.
Atenção para o próximo número:
Pressey, R. L. et al. Five big challenges in integrated conservation planning for terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments.
Pimm, S. Conservation challenges in the Atlantic forest Sarkar, S. - Systematic Conservation Planning: an updated framework.
Costa, F. C. & Magnusson, W. E. The need for large-scale, integrated studies of biodiversity: experiences in Brazilian Amazonia
Grelle, C. E. V. et al. Reserve selection based-on vegetation: a study case in the Brazilian Atlantic forest.
Siqueira, M. F. et al. The use of ecological niche modeling in the evaluation of priority areas for the conservation of the State of São Paulo's Cerrado considering global climate change.
Peres, C. A. The predicament of forest biodiversity in Amazonian extractive reserves Batalha et al. - Consequences of simulated loss of open savanna areas to bird functional diversity.
Oliveira-Santos, L. G. et al. Effects of cattle management on habitat occupation by Pampas deer in Pantanal.
Marques, M. Successional trajectories, resilience and the restoration of the Atlantic Rain Forest.
Da Mata, R. A. & Tidon, R. Drosophilids (Insecta, Diptera) as tools for Conservation Biology.
Zafra-Calvo, N. et al. Deriving Species Richness, Endemism, and Threatened Species Patterns from Incomplete Distribution Data in the Bioko Island , Equatorial Guinea.
Hortal, J. & Lobo, J. M. Forecasting Iberian dung beetle richness patterns using kriging.
Collevatti et al. Spatial genetic structure and life history traits in Cerrado tree species: inferences for conservations.
Pillar, V. P. & Behling, H. Distant past disturbances and the conservation of the Campos grassland.
DeMarco Jr., P. & Lima, F. Ações como consequência de conhecimento e reflexão: o porque de uma educação científica.
Rosumek, F. B. & Parentoni. Ecologia, filosofia e conservação promoverá a publicação de resultados de pesquisas produzidas no Brasil, trazendo-os à atenção de pesquisadores no país e exterior.
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NATUREZA & CONSERVAÇÃO
em 2010:
Author Guidelines |
Aims and Scope |
Natureza & Conservação (Brazilian Journal of Nature Conservation, N&C) is a scientific journal devoted to improving theoretical and conceptual aspects of conservation science. It has the main purpose of communicating new research and advances to different actors of society, including the academy, conservationists and practitioners, government and decision-makers. N&C publishes original papers on biodiversity conservation and its implications, including population viability analysis, biological invasion, species distribution modeling, diversity patterns, phylogeography and conservation genetics, reserve design and selection, ecosystem management, conservation policy, among others.
There is no bias towards particular biogeographic regions, organisms or ecosystems, although we expect more submissions from Tropical and Neotropical regions. Scientific papers must focus on new conceptual or methodological developments with practical implications. Case studies will be considered only if inserted in these more general contexts. Authors are encouraged to submit reviews and essays on arising issues, in agreement with the editorial board. Purely descriptive papers will not be considered.
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Submission |
Original contributions should be sent as a Word file (*.doc or *.rtf) or PDF attached to the editor, addressed to the Editor-in-Chief. In the initial email, corresponding author must explicitly state that the manuscript was not submitted to other journal and that all co-authors are aware of the submission. Also in the submission message, authors must indicate three preferred reviewers (along with their emails and affiliations), as well as stating if someone is to be avoided as a reviewer (non-preferred reviewer). Files with large sizes must be zipped, but it is preferable that authors paste their figures within the word file in JPG format to reduce overall file size (up to 2 Mb is preferable). Supplementary material or other appendices must be submitted as separate files, but with the same submission caption.
Submissions will be sequentially numbered and the reference-number will be sent to the authors in the initial acknowledgement email. All further communications between N&C and the corresponding author will refer to this number. Manuscripts will be screened by the editorial board before being sent out for external review and may be rejected editorially. Editorial reject decisions are based on how well a manuscript fits the scope of the journal as well as on the quality of the manuscript. Authors are expected to receive a first decision within approximately 45 days. When submitting a revised version, authors must also submit a marked-up copy of the manuscript using the “track changes” panel in Word or in any other open-source application. |
Sections |
N&C publishes original papers in English, following basically two formats: Essays & Perspectives will deal with longer essays and reviews updating recent topics of interest in conservation science. Essays & Perspectives will be usually invited, but submissions can be discussed with the editors in advance and suggestions are welcome. Original scientific research will be published in the format of Research Letters, which are short and concise manuscripts with up to 3000 words in length, up to 4 figures and/or tables and 25 references.
The other sections of N&C will be invited columns dealing with specific topics in conservation (written in Portuguese), including book reviews, highlights from the literature, and comments on previous papers published in N&C. |
Manuscripts |
Format |
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including tables, figure legends, literature cited) with all lines and pages numbered. |
Text |
The title page must contain the section for which the manuscript is intended, the title of the manuscript and the authors’ name, associated by superscript numbers indicating their affiliations, the total word count (including references, tables and figure legends) and a short title. The second page must contain 5 keywords for indexation purposes and an abstract with up to 300 words for Essays & Perspectives, and up to 150 words for Research Letters. The next pages will contain the main text, with up to 3000 words for Research Letters and 7000 words for Essays & Perspectives. For Research Letters, main captions will follow the standard format (introduction, material and methods, results, and discussion), but there is no specific format for Essays & Perspectives. In both cases, main captions must be typed in uppercase bold font, and subtitles within each main caption must be italicized. A limit of 25 references is established for Research Letters, and about 50 references are suggested for Essays & Perspectives. For Research Letters, a limit of 4 figures and/or tables is recommended and authors must write as concise as possible, especially the methods section. It is strongly advised that the details of methods or original data are assigned to a supplementary material (with all figures and tables referred in the main text as Table S1, Figure S1, S2 and so on), which will be published online only. Avoid right margin justification and hyphenation. Double-check the contents of your manuscript before submitting. Only printer' mistakes in proofs will be changed free of charge. |
Figures |
For initial submission, figures must be inserted at the end of the word file. After acceptance of the manuscript, high-resolution figures in TIF, WMF or EMF formats will be required, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Figure legends must be, as much as possible, stand-alone and must be typed separately, appearing in the end of the main text. Tables must be inserted at the end of the main text with the title, and built using the “Table” option of word processor or any open-source application (and not typed “manually” or pasted from spreadsheet applications). Within figures, authors must be aware that symbols must be large-enough to be readable after reduction in size in the final publication. |
Units |
Use SI units as far as possible. |
Nomenclature |
Binomial Latin names should be used in accordance with International Rules of Nomenclature. |
References |
Citations in the main text will follow the author-year standard format [i.e., Rabelo 2007; Bini and Diniz-Filho 2005; Loyola et al. 2008; or Loyola et al. (2008)].
In the reference list, papers with more than 3 authors must be referred as “et al.” as well, and references to articles, books and book chapters are as follows:
• Silva, JMC., 1995. Birds of the cerrado region, South America, Steenstrupia, 21:69-92.
• Balmford, A. et al., 2001. Conservation conflicts across Africa. Science, 291: 2616-2619.
• Marinho-Filho, J., Rodrigues, FHG., and Juarez, KM., 2002. The Cerrado mammals: diversity, ecology, and natural history, in Oliveira, PS. and Marquis, RJ (eds.), The Cerrados of Brazil, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 266-284.
• Legendre, P. and Legendre, L., 1998. Numerical ecology, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Titles of journals should be abbreviated following Biological Abstracts. If in doubt, give the title in full. Do not refer to unpublished material.
The reference list should be arranged alphabetically on authors' names and chronologically per author. If the author's name is also mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged chronologically - publications of the same author with one co-author, arranged chronologically - publications of the author with more than one co-author, arranged chronologically. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 2009a, 2009b, etc. Reference lists not conforming to this format will be returned for revision.
A short biosketch (up to 100 words) of the main author and/or about the research group responsible for the paper must be provided and will appear in the printed version. |
Language and Style |
Manuscripts will be checked for style and language and authors are invited to ask native speakers or use available online services to improve correctness of language and style. For standardization purposes, authors must check for spelling using the US-English option in their word processor or any open-source application. Editors and reviewers are invited to help in the process of improving as much as possible language and style of the manuscript. The impact of the paper and, consequently, of the journal, will largely depend upon the quality of the English. After acceptance of the manuscripts, editor(s) will deserve the right to do minor changes to improve language and style. |
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Natureza & Conservação
Brazilian Journal of Nature Conservation
Em 2010:
Novo formato
Novas linhas de edição
Financiada pela
Fundação Boticário de Conservação da Natureza
Novo editor:
José Alexandre Diniz Filho
Material de divulgação:
Apresentação - veja aqui
Folheto - baixe aqui
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