Forest Ecosystems a SpringerOpen Journal

Aims and Scope

Forest Ecosystemsis an internaほonal Open Access journal publishing scientific communications from any discipline that can provide interesほng contribuほons about the structure and dynamics of “natural” and “domesticated” forest ecosystems, and their services to people.We welcome innovative science as well as application oriented work that will enhance understanding of woody plant communities. Very specific studies are welcome if they are part of a themaほc series that provides some holisほc perspecほve that is of general interest.

Open access

All articles published byForest Ecosystemsare made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publicaほon, without subscripほon charges or registraほon barriers.

Authors of articles published inForest Ecosystemsare the copyright holders of their arほcles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the arほcle, according to the SpringerOpen copyright and license agreement.

Arほcle-processing charges

The publicaほon costs forForest Ecosystemsare covered by Beijing Forestry University, so authors do not need to pay an arほcle-processing charge.

Publicaほon and peer review process

Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any ほme by logging into Submit a manuscript, a personalized secほon of the site.

Portability of peer review

In order to support eきcient and thorough peer review,we aim to reduce the number of times a manuscript is re-reviewed after rejection fromForest Ecosystems,thereby speeding up the publicaほon process and reducing the burden on peer reviewers. Therefore, please note that, if a manuscript is not accepted for publicaほon inForest Ecosystemsand the authors choose to submit a revised version to another SpringerOpen journal, we will pass the reviews on to the other journal's editors at the authors' request. We will reveal the reviewers' names to the handling editor for editorial purposes unless reviewers let us know when they return their report that they do not wish us to share their report with another SpringerOpen journal.

Editorial policies

Any manuscript, or substanほal parts of it, submiはed to the journal must not be under consideraほon by any other journal. In general, the manuscript should not have already been published in any journal or other citable form, although it may have been deposited on a preprint server. Authors are required to ensure that no material submiはed as part of a manuscript infringes exisほng copyrights, or the rights of a third party.

Plagiarism detecほon

Forest Ecosystems's publisher, SpringerOpen, is a member of the CrossCheck plagiarism detecほon iniほaほve. In cases of suspected plagiarism CrossCheck is available to the editors ofForest Ecosystemsto detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts by using the plagiarism detecほon tool iThenほcate. Cross-Check is a mulほ-publisher iniほaほve allowing screening of published and submiはed content for originality.

Ciほng arほcles in Forest Ecosystems

Arほcles inForest Ecosystemsshould be cited in the same way as arほcles in a tradiほonal journal. Because arほcles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique arほcle number.Arほcle citaほons follow this format:

Authors: Title.Forest Ecosystems[year] [volume number]:[arほcle number].e.g. Corral-Rivaset al.: Local and generalized heightdiameter models with random parameters for mixed,uneven-aged forests in Northwestern Durango, Mexico.Forest Ecosystems2014 1:6.refers to arほcle 6 from Volume 1 of the journal.

For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instrucほons for authors.