2nd Edition: Conservation and Evolution of Wildlife in the Context of Climate Change and Human Population Growth
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioural Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2025 | Viewed by 1234
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Interests: anurans; life history; brain size; ecological adaptation; genetic diversity
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past several centuries, climate change and human population growth have become two of the main biological problems that influence biodiversity around the world. As part of the world’s ecosystems, wildlife provides balance and stability to nature’s processes. The biodiversity loss of wild animals and plants is increasing, and has become an indisputable fact.
This Special Issue aims to improve our knowledge on and deepen our understanding of the responses of wild animals and plants to environmental changes caused by human population growth and climate change (including local temperature change), documenting shifts in behaviour, physiology, ecology and distribution. In this way, we expect to provide basic data and theoretical bases for the development of species conservation policies. In addition, we also expect to understand how wild animals and plants adapt to the above ecological problems.
This Special Issue will include reviews and research articles that focus on the “Conservation and Evolution of Wildlife in the Context of Climate Change and Human Population Growth”. Please send an abstract prior submission to ensure that your work fits within this Special Issue’s scope.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Wen Bo Liao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- changes
- local temperature
- adaptation
- evolution
- animals
- plants
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