Diversity in 2026

Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed a fruitful 2025 and we extend our best wishes for a successful 2026.

Last year, we launched the Special Issue “Diversity in 2025”, available via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/40F339294N. It received great support from our readers, authors, anonymous peer reviewers, and editors.

We are now launching the Special Issue “Diversity in 2026” to celebrate the new year. This Special Issue is dedicated to high-quality review and research papers on all aspects of biodiversity and its applications, including assessment and preservation. Research fields of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Organismic diversity and conservation;
• Evolution and ecology;
• Environmental DNA;
• Invasive species;
• Marine biodiversity;
• General aspects of diversity assessment.

We welcome contributions from researchers who can offer insights into the latest developments in this field. We also encourage authors to invite relevant experts and colleagues to contribute.

We look forward to receiving your contributions, which will make this Special Issue a unique resource for future researchers.

Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
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-anonymized 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.