JOURNAL OF

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We publish innovative, hypothesis-driven research on the biology of birds.

The Journal of Avian Biology welcomes submissions that study avian biology across all levels of ecological organization, from organisms and populations to communities and ecosystems, with a particular focus on ecology, evolution and behavior.

Editorial Policies

The Journal of Avian Biology is a full Open Access journal published by the Nordic Society Oikos in cooperation with Wiley. Please read the NSO Publishing Policies for detailed information regarding conflict of interest, authorship, roles of editors, copyright and licensing, Open Access conditions, and more. The article publication charges associated with Open Access articles are the only fees for publishing in NSO journals. Papers submitted to NSO journals are evaluated using double-anonymized peer review, with implications for manuscript formatting specified in our Author Guidelines. NSO believes that accessible and transparent data and code are essential for scientific progress. To make science more just, we ask our authors to declare whether the conduct of their study considers equity, diversity and inclusion when they submit their papers.

Manuscript Referrals

Editors of the NSO sister journals Oikos and Ecography have the option to suggest that the authors transfer to the Journal of Avian Biology. If a transfer is recommended, authors can opt for automatic referral. Editors of Journal of Avian Biology may similarly suggest that authors transfer to the NSO sister journal Wildlife Biology or to the Wiley Open Access Journal Ecology and Evolution. If no suitable journal is available within the journal network, manuscripts may be referred to Wiley’s Transfer Desk Assistant which identifies appropriate Wiley journals. Authors can then opt to transfer their manuscript to one of the recommended titles. If the author agrees to transfer the manuscript it will be automatically transferred, along with any related reviews, for consideration by the editorial team of the receiving journal. Transfers are offered to facilitate rapid publication of good quality research that is unable to be accepted by the original journal, and to reduce overall editor burden and reviewer fatigue.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Subject Editors

Ulf Bauchinger, Jagiellonian University, Poland – avian energetics, metabolism, migration, stopover, performance

Elisa Bonaccorso, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador – biogeography, phylogeography, molecular systematics, neotropics

Christiaan Both, University of Groningen, Netherlands – migration, climate change, adaptation, dispersal

Theresa Burg, University of Lethbridge, Canada – population genetics, molecular ecology, phylogeography

Kristal Cain, University of Auckland, New Zealand – behaviour, sex differences, hormones, evolutionary ecology, vocal learning, sleep

Stefania Casagrande, MPI for Ornithology Seewiesen, Germany – glucocorticoids, bioenergetics, telomeres, mitochondria, oxidative stress

Paulo Catry, ISPA Instituto Universitário, Lisabon, Portugal – seabirds, migration, marine biology, ecology, conservation

Blandine Doligez, CNRS, University of Lyon, France – habitat selection, dispersal, personality, passerine birds, cognition

Lu Dong, Beijing Normal University, China – speciation, phylogeography, plumage colour, host–parasite associations

Paul Dufour, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland –migration, tracking, movement ecology, evolutionary biology, biogeography, vagrancy

Jenny Dunn, Keele University, UK – host-parasite interactions, coinfections, behavioural syndromes, environmental stress, conservation

Jenn Foote, Algoma University, Canada – animal communication, birdsong, vocal interactions, communication networks, avian ecology

Simon Griffith, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia – sex allocation, sexual selection, polymorphism, evolutionary ecology

Wesley M. Hochachka, Cornell University, USA – population ecology, disease ecology, life history

Fumin Lei, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China – phylogeography, biodiversity, genomics, speciation, distribution

Marcos Robalinho Lima, State University of Londrina, Brazil – avian malaria, functional diversity, community ecology, conservation, invasive species

Zhijun Ma, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China – shorebirds, waterbirds, migration

Judith Morales Fernaz, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Spain – sexual selection, social conflict, egg colour, maternal effects, phenotypic plasticity

Julio M. Neto, University of Porto, Portugal and Lund University, Sweden – sexual selection, speciation, migration, population genetics, local adaptation 

Andreas Nord, Lund University, Sweden – body temperature, heterothermy, metabolic rate, immunology, incubation

Javier Pérez-Tris, University of Madrid, Spain – migration, avian malaria, conservation

Dominique Potvin, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia – behaviour, communication, urban ecology, cultural evolution

Petr Procházka, Inst. of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Rep. – bird migration, avian brood parasitism, bird ecology, behavioural ecology

Martin Päckert, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany – taxonomy, systematics, biodiversity, evolutionary biology, molecular ecology

Suvi Ruuskanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland – environmental ecology, behavioural ecology, evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology, epigenetics

Julia Schroeder, Imperial College London, United Kingdom – behavioural ecology, ageing, quantitative genetics, mating systems, extra-pair paternity 

Judy Shamoun- Baranes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands – flight, migration, foraging, tracking, meteorology

Yali Si, University of Leiden, Netherlands – Spatial ecology, biodiversity conservation, global environmental change, spatial epidemiology, geospatial analysis, movement ecology

David Swanson, University of South Dakota, USA – physiology, phenotypic flexibility, metabolism, migration, winter 

Anders P. Tøttrup, Natural History Museum of Denmark – climate change, conservation, movement ecology, migration, citizen science

Ron C. Ydenberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada – foraging, parental care, behaviour, ecology, migration

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