JOURNAL OF
AVIAN BIOLOGY
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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.
JAB offers a Review Award for early-career researchers.
We value ethical standards in science. Check out information on EDI, Open Access, waivers, double-anonymized peer review, data and code requirements, and CRediT.
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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
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Jan Åke Nilsson
Editor-In-Chief
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Staffan Bensch
Editor-In-Chief
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Michael Tobler
Managing Editor
Lund, Sweden
jab@oikosoffice.lu.se
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
Journal of Avian Biology is a journal of the Nordic Society Oikos, published in cooperation with Wiley. The journal is available at Wiley Online Library. Back issues are at JSTOR.
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