Scope Annales Zoologici Fennici Annales Botanici Fennici ecology, including conservation biology, game and fisheries research, ecological physiology, including the effects of environmental pollution, faunistics, ecological systematics, and related subjects. Original, previously unpublished research reports, review articles, and commentaries will be published. Reviews can summarize existing knowledge on selected topics, describe research projects or announce launching of new research programnes. Commentaries are short, four printed pages at the maximum. Discussion and debate are their key words, and the style can be less formal than in normal research papers.
Commentaries can include fresh, perhaps controversial, ideas and points of view.
Speculation, when well founded, is encouraged. They may also include reinterpretation of material published in this journal or elsewhere. There is no page charge in the journal. The journal is open to all scientists. Original, previously unpublished papers will be published.