The Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Ecological Society of China (ESC) have jointly launched a new open access scholarly research journal to foster communication of applied ecological research across national and disciplinary boundaries.
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability features international collaborations, interdisciplinary research, and multi-scale projects. The journal encourages integration of natural, social, and behavioral studies and seeks research with implications for strategic planning and governance.
A committee of ESA and ESC representatives selected Dr. Yonglong Lu, a distinguished professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as EHS Editor-in-Chief for his solid grounding within the ecological research communities of both societies' home countries. Dr. Lu has recruited 80 editorial and advisory board members from 27 countries. The journal is honoured to include editors from Africa, Asia (including India and Russia), Europe, Oceania, and the Americas.
Editor-in-Chief Lu said fostering publication of research from developing and newly industrialising economies is vital. The new journal is an opportunity to build a truly global ecological resource.
The journal is published in English. It is open access and digital only, based on the model of ESA's rapid-publication journal Ecosphere, which launched in 2010 and was recently indexed in Web of Science.
EHS receives rigorous copy-editing from the production team that handles ESA's traditional journals Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and Ecological Applications. The new joint journal expands on the scope of ESA's existing journal family to further embrace big data and the rise of ecological research on a global scale, encouraging participation from parts of the world that have been underrepresented in the scientific literature.
