2008 Impact Factor - 2.587

Animal Conservation

Published on behalf of the Zoological Society of London

Edited by:
Trenton Garner, Matthew Gompper, Iain Gordon,Todd Katzner, Karen Mock and Stephen Redpath Reviews Editor: Nathalie Pettorelli

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 9/28 Biodiversity Conservation; 41/124 Ecology
Impact Factor: 2.587

Now publishing 6 issues

Animal Conservation provides a forum for rapid publication of novel, peer-reviewed research into the conservation of animal species and their habitats. The focus is on rigorous quantitative studies of an empirical or theoretical nature, which may relate to populations, species or communities and their conservation. The journal publishes single-species papers only when they have clear broader implications for conservation of other species or systems or when the species is of exceptional conservation concern and the study presents new and essential information. A central theme is to publish important new ideas and findings that have general implications for the scientific basis of conservation. Subjects covered include:

• population biology
• epidemiology
• evolutionary ecology
• population genetics
• biodiversity
• biogeography
• palaeobiology
• conservation economics

The journal is essential reading for conservation biologists, policy-makers and students.

We would like to thank all those listed below for taking the time to review for the Animal Conservation in 2009 - your generosity is much appreciated, and we hope that your association with Journal continues in the future. Click here to view the list of reviewers

TopNews and Announcements

2010 ZSL Symposia
25 and 26 February 2010
Foundations of Biodiversity: saving the world's non-vertebrates - a two-day international symposium to be held at the Zoological Society of London
Organised by Jonathan Baillie (ZSL), Ben Collen (ZSL), Michael Samways (Stellenbosch University) and Monika Böhm (ZSL).
All tickets must be purchased in advance.

28 and 29 April 2010
Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what, why and how? - a two-day international symposium to be held at the Zoological Society of London
Organised by Dilys Roe (IIED), Matt Walpole (UNEP-WCMC) and Joanna Elliott (AWF).
All tickets must be purchased in advance.

Animal Conservation Student Poster Award
Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 awards at the SCB conference in Beijing this year, Ginger Allington and Larissa Olivieri. Click here to read their abstracts

Associate Editor's Choice - new commentary now available!
Read the new Associate Editor's commentary on a key paper from Animal Conservation:
By Vincenzo Penteriani (Estación Biológica de Doñana, C.S.I.C.) on the article 'Population monitoring of snow leopards using non-invasive collection of scat samples: a pilot study' by J. E. Janecka et al.

Read the commentary | Read the free article

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Open Access publishing - Online Open
Authors of articles in this journal will be able to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.

Articles Published Online Ahead of full issue - EarlyView
Articles that have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed will be published online through our EarlyView feature before the full issue of this journal is published.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme. It is also available through INTAS, INASP and AGORA.

TopHighlights

Featured Papers

Latest: Volume 12, Issue 6
Read the latest featured paper and related commentaries below:

Featured Paper
Is the endangered Grevy's zebra threatened by hybridization?
J. E. Cordingley, S. R. Sundaresan, I. R. Fischhoff, B. Shapiro, J. Ruskey, D. I. Rubenstein

Commentaries
An assessment of the threat to Grevy's zebra from hybridization
P. I. Chiyo, S. C. Alberts

How much hybridization and in what direction?
O. A. Ryder, C. C. Steiner

Is isolation the major genetic concern for endangered equids?
R. A. Hill

Response
Grevy's zebra conservation: overcoming threats of isolation, genetic hybridization and demographic instability
J. E. Cordingley, S. R. Sundaresan, B. J. Larison, B. Shapiro, D. I. Rubenstein

Previous Featured Papers

Volume 12, Issue 5
High proportion of protected minke whales sold on Japanese markets is due to illegal, unreported or unregulated exploitation
V. Lukoschek, N. Funahashi, S. Lavery, M. L. Dalebout, F. Cipriano, C. S. Baker

Volume 12, Issue 4
Forest fragmentation relaxes natural nest predation in an Afromontane forest
T. Spanhove, V. Lehouck, P. Boets, L. Lens

Volume 12, Issue 3
Management measures to control a feline leukemia virus outbreak in the endangered Iberian lynx
G. López, M. López-Parra, L. Fernández, C. Martínez-Granados, F. Martínez, M. L. Meli, J. M. Gil-Sánchez, N. Viqueira, M. A. Díaz-Portero, R. Cadenas, H. Lutz, A. Vargas, M. A. Simón

Volume 12, Issue 2
Combining genetic and ecological data to assess the conservation status of the endangered Ethiopian walia ibex
B. Gebremedhin, G. F. Ficetola, S. Naderi, H.-R. Rezaei, C. Maudet, D. Rioux, G. Luikart, Ø. Flagstad, W. Thuiller, P. Taberlet

Volume 11, Issue 6
A novel approach based on information theory to rank conservation strategies: an application to amphibian metapopulations
G. Gilioli, A. Bodini, J. Baumgärtner, P. Weidmann, J. Hartmann

Volume 11, Issue 5
Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments
K. J. Feeley, J. W. Terborgh

Volume 11, Issue 4
Interactions between seabirds and deep-water hake trawl gear: an assessment of impacts in South African waters
B. P. Watkins, S. L. Petersen, P. G. Ryan

Volume 11, Issue 3
An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large- and medium-sized terrestrial rainforest mammals
M. W. Tobler, S. E. Carrillo-Percastegui, R. Leite Pitman, R. Mares, G. Powell

Volume 11, Issue 1
Agricultural farming alters predator-prey interactions in nearby natural habitats
I. Shapira, H. Sultan & U. Shanas

Volume 10, Issue 4
Resistance to chytridiomycosis varies among amphibian species and is correlated with skin peptide defenses
D. C. Woodhams, K. Ardipradja, R. A. Alford, G. Marantelli, L. K. Reinert & L. A. Rollins-Smith

Volume 10, Issue 3
Genetic quality of individuals impacts population dynamics
D. H. Reed, A. C. Nicholas & G. E. Stratton

Volume 10, Issue 2
Has the debate over genetics and extinction of island endemics truly been resolved?
I. G. Jamieson

Volume 10, Issue 1
Decreased immunocompetence in a severely bottlenecked population of an endemic New Zealand bird
K. A. Hale, J. V. Briskie

Volume 9, Issue 4
Patterns of bushmeat hunting and perceptions of disease risk among central African communities
M. LeBreton, A.T. Prosser, U. Tamoufe, W. Sateren, E. Mpoudi-Ngole, J. L. D. Diffo, D. S. Burke, N. D. Wolfe

Volume 9, Issue 3
Genetic relatedness of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) to nearby subspecies of Z. hudsonius as inferred from variation in cranial morphology, mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite DNA: implications for taxonomy and conservation
Rob Roy Ramey II, Hsiu-Ping Liu, Clinton W. Epps, Lance M. Carpenter and John D. Wehausen

Volume 9, Issue 2
The genetic rescue of the Florida panther
S. L. Pimm, L. Dollar, O. L. Bass Jr