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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, USA
Jiaojun Zhu, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Managing Editor

De-Hui Zeng, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Editorial Advisors

Jerry Franklin, University of Washington, USA
Xingguo Han, Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Michael Hochberg, Université Montpellier II, France
Zhibiao Nan, Lanzhou University, China
William Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA
Herman H. Shugart, University of Virginia, USA
Jiabao Zhang, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, China

Subject Editors

João Azevedo, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
James Lutz, Utah State University, USA
Xiaotao Lü, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, China
Guillermo Martínez Pastur, CADIC-CONICET, Argentina
Jianyang Xia, East China Normal University, China

Associate Editors

Purushothaman C. Abhilash, Banaras Hindu University, India
Maricar Aguilos, North Carolina State University, USA
Jana Albrechtová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
James Anderson, Clemson University, USA
Altaf Arain, McMaster University, Canada
Dolors Armenteras, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Harm Bartholomeus, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India
Gudrun Bornette, University of Franche-Comte, France 
Gang Chen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Yushun Chen, Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS, China
Matteo Convertino, Hokkaido University, Japan
Debajit Datta, Jadavpur University, India
Hans de Boeck, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Michael A. Eggleton, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA
Yunting Fang, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, China
Xiaojuan Feng, Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Mauro Fois, University of Cagliari, Italy
Ilya Gelfand, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Riccardo Guarino, University of Palermo, Italy
Heidi-Jayne Hawkins, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Latif Kalin, Auburn University, USA
Martin Kappas, University of Goettingen, Germany
Colt W. Knight, University of Maine, USA
Elena Kukavskaya, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Xueyan Liu, Tianjin University, China
Yuanbo Liu, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, China
Rafael Poyatos López, CREAF, Spain
Nan Lu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China 
Ender Makineci, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey
Michael J. Moore, Iowa State University, USA
Soe Myint, Texas State University, USA
Shuli Niu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China
Alexander Olchev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Dario Papale, University of Tuscia, Italy
Humberto L. Perotto, Texas A&M University, USA
Thomas B. Randrup, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Patricia Rodríguez, CADIC, Austral Centre for Scientific Research, Argentina
Beyza Sat, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Sari C. Saunders, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Canada
Changliang Shao, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Zehao Shen, Peking University, China
Daniel P. Soto, University of Aysen, Chile
Carol Stepien, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, USA
Veysel Turan, Bingöl University, Türkiye
Eric Ward, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, USGS, USA
Xugao Wang, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, China 
X. Ben Wu, Texas A&M University, USA
Xinwei Wu, Nanjing University, China
Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Qiaoling Yan, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, China
Yunjun Yao, Beijing Normal University, China
Wenping Yuan, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Terenzio Zenone, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council, Italy 
Weiqi Zhou, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China
Yuyu Zhou, The University of Hong Kong, China

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    4.8 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.6 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.760 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.070 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    4 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    121 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
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    241 Altmetric mentions