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Systematics and Biodiversity

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Taxonomy discovers, defines and records the fundamental entities of the natural world at the level of whole organisms, and therefore provides the raw data of taxonomic biodiversity patterns. Advances in our understanding of the nature, origins and conservation of taxonomic biodiversity depend on our knowledge of systematics and the extent, quality and interpretation of taxonomic data.

Published for the Natural History Museum by Cambridge University Press.

Key features

• Each issue will consist of a main section devoted to formal peer-reviewed papers, and a shorter more informal section with news, views and comment (including editorial matter), magazine-style articles, and reviews of books, CDs and websites.
• Submitted formal papers will be carefully but quickly screened for general relevance and topicality before being sent for review by two referees. Editors will return detailed, constructive comments to the authors.
• Published articles will be rigorously refereed to the highest academic standards

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Call for papers

Each issue contains a main section devoted to formal peer-reviewed research papers, and shorter, more informal 'Perspectives' section. As well as taxonomic discovery, description, revision and recording, the research section carries studies of adaptation, anatomy, biodiversity patterns in time and space (including response to environmental and human factors, and to global change), biogeography, co-evolution, conservation biology, development, evolutionary biology, functional morphology, growth and form, molecular science, phylogenetics, speciation and systematic ecology. State-of-knowledge reviews, and papers on the theory and practice of systematics are also welcome. There are no restrictions on the geographical location of authors, their material and study areas, nor on the institutional locations of their studied collections. The 'Perspectives' section covers a similar range of subjects to the main section, but gives scope for news, debate and comment, through editorials and guest-editorials, magazine-style articles, and reviews of books, CDs and websites.

Offers of papers should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief:
Prof Elliot Shubert
Department of Botany
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
UK
Email: sysbio@nhm.ac.uk

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Instructions for authors

These instructions contain essential additional information on the length, organisation and reference format of submissions.

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Editors

Editor-in-Chief:
Elliot Shubert, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

Associate editors:
Henk Beentje, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Andrew Brower, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Barry Clarke, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
P J Hayward, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Charlie Jarvis, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Gaden S Robinson, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Richard Vane-Wright, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

Editorial board:
Philippe Bouchet, Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Geoff A Boxshall, The Natural History, London, UK
Andrew Brower, Oregon State University, USA
Paul Eggleton, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Mike Frohlich, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Francis Gilbert, Nottingham University, UK
Harold Heatwole, North Carolina State University, USA
Ian J Kitching, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Sandra Knapp, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Niels Peder Kristensen, Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, DenmarkReinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
H Walter Lack, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Gerlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
P Y Ladiges, University of Melbourne, Australia
Francois Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal, Canada
Christine Maggs, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Helga Ochoterena, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Andrew Polaszek, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Winston Ponder, The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
Donald L J Quicke, Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK
P S Rainbow, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Pamela Rasmussen, Michigan State University Museum, USA
Ted Schultz, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA
Malcolm Scoble, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Mark E Siddall, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
Darrell J Siebert, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Johannes Vogel, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
John Taylor, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Richard H Thomas, Southern Illinois University, USA
Johannes Vogel, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Alan Warren, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Mark Wilkinson, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
David Williams, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Paul H Williams, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Volker Wissemann, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

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News

Article from BBC News on the new rodent species, Laonastes aenigmamus, as described in Systematics and Biodiversity 2:4 (December 2004).

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Specifications

ISSN: 1477-2000 (print)
ISSN: 1478-0933 (electronic)
Price: £158/US$260 (bundled); £144/$240 (print only); £158/$260 (electronic only)
Size: A4/295 x 210 mm
Published: from March 2003, quarterly
Subject classification: Systematics; natural history; biodiversity

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