Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Critical Insights in Plant Science
For a Special Issue on
Plant responses to climate change
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Andrea C. Westerband,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
[email protected]
Plant responses to climate change
This article collection aims to shed new light on plant responses to ongoing climate change by collating studies that offer novel insights We particularly encourage manuscripts that offer novel insights regarding plant ecological strategies (e.g. resource capture and use), short-term acclimation versus long-term adaptive responses, intra- or interspecific phenotypic variation, predictive models of future plant responses to environmental change, syntheses of previous studies, and more. Specifically, we welcome submissions that span the following topics.
- Preliminary research using observational or manipulative experiments in the field and under controlled conditions
- Manuscripts that showcase novel methods for assessing how plants respond to climate change, which may include laboratory, field, or analytical methods
- Studies that synthesize and integrate previous studies on plant responses to climate change via a literature review, meta-analysis, or new analyses that integrate novel and existing data
- Studies that challenge existing paradigms by presenting novel or conflicting data
Submission Instructions
Formatting: There are no strict formatting requirements at the time of submission, however all data manuscripts should contain an abstract, author details, methods (if applicable), results, and discussion. Review papers may omit the methods and results section, or opt for more informative headers.
Timeline: authors can expect to receive a decision within four weeks of reviewers being assigned.