Focus and Scope
Tropical Diversity is an electronic, multidisciplinary journal that publishes original articles, scientific notes, and reviews on all aspects of biological and sociocultural diversity in the tropics, in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. The scope includes all fields of theoretical and applied terrestrial and aquatic (marine and freshwater) ecology, biology, systematics, management, conservation, and social, economic, political, and cultural aspects.
Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be original with no simultaneous submission to other journals. The authors are entirely responsible for accuracy of the information and citations and assume the intellectual and legal responsibility for the results and the considerations presented.
The online journal has open and free access.
Peer Review Process
Each manuscript will be sent to at least two peer reviewers for evaluation. The authors can suggest possible reviewers (with their contacts) or request that others be excluded. The journal adopts an open review procedure, therefore both the authors and the reviewers are to be made known to each other. Upon acceptance of a manuscript, the Editor in Chief will send the comments and recommendations of the referees to the authors, for reformulation as needed.
Open Access Policy
Tropical Diversity is published under the Open Access model and is therefore free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate for educational purposes, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) License
Frequency
Tropical Diversity adopts a continuous flow of publication (rolling pass) in one annual volume, with two issues per year. Articles will be published shortly after acceptance and the final corrections of the master proof have been made.
Publication Fees
Publication in this journal is free of Article Processing Charges and does not impose any costs on the authors.
