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2026 Feature Papers by Diversity's Editorial Board Members
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude for the continuous support from our Editorial Board Members. Thanks to your contributions, Diversity has maintained steady growth and continued to make an academic impact.
We are proud to reflect on the success of our recent Special Issues. The 2024 Editor’s Special Issue featured outstanding contributions and continues to attract global readership. You can access it here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/42T72472OP
Building on this foundation, the 2025 Editor’s Special Issue has also garnered significant interest from the research community. The collection is available here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/70QUSLJB6I
We are now pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Feature Papers by Diversity’s Editorial Board Members Special Issue. We welcome high-quality submissions from our editors, as well as papers recommended or invited by Editors-in-Chief or Editorial Board Members. All accepted papers will be published in full open access.
Relevant topics span organismic and molecular diversity, evolutionary processes, and methodological advances in diversity research.
We look forward to your participation and another successful collection in 2026.
Prof. Dr. Michel Baguette
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diversity is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- macroecology and biogeography
- plant diversity
- animal diversity
- marine diversity
- biodiversity conservation
- biodiversity loss and dynamics
- freshwater biodiversity
- chemical diversity and chemical ecology
- microbial diversity
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