Journal Information

Aquatic Invasions
ISSN: 1798-6540 (print version)
ISSN: 1818-5487 (electronic version)
Frequency: Quarterly
URL: http://www.aquaticinvasions.net
DOI: 10.3391/ai

Aims and Scope

Aquatic Invasions is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal focusing on biological invasions in both inland and coastal water ecosystems from around the world. It was established in 2006 as initiative of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL) Working Group on Aquatic Invasive Species (WGAIS) with start-up funding from the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Integrated Project ALARM.

Aquatic Invasions provides a forum for professionals involved in research and management of aquatic invasive species, including a focus on the following:

• Advances in species identification
• Patterns of species dispersal, including range extensions with global change
• Population dynamics
• Ecological and evolutionary impacts
• Prediction of new invasions
• Ecological risk assessment
• Advances in management of invasive species and biodiversity conservation

Open Access policy

The Open Access policy of Aquatic Invasions means that authors retain the copyright of their articles, which can be copied, downloaded and freely distributed within society. The primary advantage of Open Access journals is that the entire content is freely available to users everywhere (see more information on Open Access journals in Wikipedia ). During 2006-2008 the cost of publication of Aquatic Invasions was covered mainly by the European Commission Integrated Project ALARM (for current initiatives of European Commission in access to scientific information see European Commission website, The Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAPs) and Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) projects). Beginning in January 2009, Aquatic Invasions applies a new funding model, by charging authors for processing of their manuscripts and by seeking additional funding from relevant organizations in order to support students, retired scientists, scientists from low income countries, and also to support the submission of datasets with species records (information on page charges and on applications for support can be found at "Author Guidelines" web page). See more information on funding models of Open Access journals at the Nordic Open Access Publishing web site.

In case of any questions regarding Aquatic Invasions, please contact the journal Editors.