Ecological Indicators

期刊简介：The ultimate aim of Ecological Indicators is to integrate the monitoring and assessment of ecological and environmental indicators with management practices. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the applied scientific development and review of traditional indicator applications as well as for theoretical, modelling and quantitative approaches such as index development. Research into the following areas will be published.• All aspects of ecological and environmental indicators and indices.• New indicators, and new approaches and methods for indicator development, testing and use.• Development and modelling of indices, e.g. application of indicator suites across multiple scales and resources.• Analysis and research of resource, system- and scale-specific indicators.• Methods for integration of social and other valuation metrics for the production of scientifically rigorous and politically-relevant assessments using indicator-based monitoring and assessment programs.• Approaches on how research indicators can be transformed into direct application for management purposes.• Broader assessment objectives and methods, e.g. biodiversity, biological integrity, and sustainability, through the use of indicators.• Resource-specific indicators such as landscape, agroecosystems, forests ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems, wetlands, etc.The journal seeks innovative papers which provide new developmental and methodological steps for environmental indication. Submissions of results from simple monitoring programs or single case studies, resulting in descriptive approaches without any exploration from the theory of indication, from the methodology of indication, or from the management points of view are not considered suitable for publication in Ecological Indicators.The following contributions will be accepted:Original research papers;Review articles;Special themed issues;Short notes and case studies;Viewpoints;Letters to the Editor;Book reviews.Ecological Indicators has an open access companion title, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. It welcomes submissions promoting research on indicators as drivers for environmental management, policy formulation, and interdisciplinary research assessing complex environmental interactions for stimulating sustainable development.

【译文】生态指标杂志的最终目标是整合生态和环境指标的监控与评估与管理实践。该期刊提供了一个讨论应用科学发展、传统指标应用回顾以及理论、建模和定量方法（如指标开发）的论坛。以下领域的研究将被发表：生态和环境指标及指数的所有方面；新的指标，以及指标开发、测试和使用的新的方法和途径；指数的开发和建模，例如在多个尺度和资源中应用指标套件；资源、系统-和尺度特定指标的分析和研究；将社会和其他估值指标整合的方法，用于基于指标监控和评估计划的生产科学严谨且与政治相关的评估；如何将研究指标转化为直接应用于管理目的的方法；更广泛的评估目标和方法的评估，例如通过使用指标进行生物多样性、生物完整性和可持续性的评估；特定资源的指标，如景观、农业生态系统、森林生态系统、水生生态系统、湿地等。该期刊寻求创新论文，提供环境指示的新发展和方法步骤。来自简单监控计划或单一案例研究的成果，导致描述性方法，没有任何来自指示理论、指示方法或管理观点的探索，被认为不适合在生态指标杂志上发表。以下贡献将被接受：原创研究论文；综述文章；特别主题问题；简短笔记和案例研究；观点；致编辑信；书评。生态指标有一个开放获取的配套标题，环境与可持续性指标。它欢迎提交促进研究作为环境管理、政策制定和评估复杂环境相互作用以刺激可持续发展的指标驱动研究。