Overview

Effective with the 2024 volume, Global Change Biology will be published in an online-only format. Find out why and what this means for you here.

Aims and Scope

Global Change Biology exists to promote understanding of the interface between all aspects of current environmental change that affects a substantial part of the globe and biological systems. It publishes articles on the impacts of global change on biological systems and solutions.

Studies must concern biological systems, regardless of whether they are aquatic or terrestrial, and managed or natural environments. Both biological responses and feedbacks to change are included, and may be considered at any level of organization from molecular to biome. Studies may employ theoretical, modeling, analytical, experimental, observational, and historical approaches and should be exploratory rather than confirmatory. Global Change Biology publishes Primary Research Articles, Technical Advances, Reviews, GCB Reviews, Mini Reviews, Opinions, Research Reports, Perspectives, Editorials, Science Behind the News, Commentaries, Letters to the Editor, and Responses.

Global Change Biology defines global change as any consistent trend in the environment — past, present or projected — that affects a substantial part of the globe. Examples include:

  • rising tropospheric ozone, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide concentrations
  • increasing UV-B irradiation
  • global climate change
  • biological sinks and sources of atmospheric trace gases
  • eutrophication
  • land use change
  • loss of biodiversity
  • biological feedback on climate change
  • biological mitigation for atmospheric change

All manuscripts relating to aspects of biofuel and bioproduct production from forestry, crop production, enzymatic deconstruction and microbial fuel synthesis to implications for biodiversity, ecosystem services, economics, policy and global change should be submitted to GCB Bioenergy: Bioproducts for a Sustainable Bioeconomy (www.GCBBioenergy.com), a sister journal of Global Change Biology. These will not be considered for publication in Global Change Biology.

Keywords

Global change biology, biodiversity, biology, botany, carbon cycle, climate changes, ecology, ecosystems, environmental changes, forests, lakes, molecular biology, terrestrial ecosystem, troposphere studies, ultraviolet radiation.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

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