Journal of Tropical Ecology
Last updated ISSN 0266-4674
Journal of Tropical Ecology is published by Cambridge University Press in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Tropical Ecology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest ecology and management
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0266-4674, 1469-7831 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,837 |
| Publishing since | 1985 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/TRO |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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