Folia Oecologica

CiteScore: 2.5 Impact Factor: 1.1

Editor-in-Chief: Milan Barna
Deputy Editor: Miroslav Saniga
Managing Editor: Katarína Adamčíková
Executive Editor: Katarína Sládeková

Journal webpage at Paradigm Platform.

About the Journal

Instructions for authors

Folia Oecologica is an international scientific open access journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed articles covering all aspects of both theoretical and applied ecology and related interdisciplinary fields, especially forestry, nature conservation, ecological economics etc. The journal publishes full-text papers, short communications and review articles.

The publisher and the owner of the journal is the Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The Folia Oecologica journal is accessible at Folia Oecologica webpage.

Manuscripts should be sent to the editorial office using the email address: knizuel@ife.sk

In addition to online publishing, we also offer print copies of the journal.

Editorial procedure

All submitted manuscripts are single blind peer-reviewed by two independent, anonymous expert reviewers.

The Editor-in-Chief appoints an Editor, with expertise in the relevant field, who is fully responsible for further handling the manuscript.

Upon a proposal of the Editor, the Editor-in-Chief decides on acceptance/rejection of the manuscript.The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field – referees. Authors are requested to suggest five persons competent to review their manuscript. However, the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor’s decision.

The authors’ names are revealed to the referees (reviewers), but not vice versa. If the Editor decides that the manuscript needs to be revised, the authors are obliged to prepare a letter, in which they react to fundamental reviewers’ comments.

The publisher and the owner of the journal is the Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In addition to online publishing, we also offer print copies of the journal.

Manuscript layout

The manuscripts (MS) should be written in English, well-arranged, not exceeding a　maximum extent of 20 pages, including tables and figures. The authors are responsible for the quality of the text, MS written in poor English will be returned. Please send an electronic version of the MS (an e-mail attachment) as a Microsoft Word file (DOC, or RTF format, A4 format, font Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 lines, standard margins 2.5 cm on each edge of the page) together with all figures and tables (each on a separate sheet) to the editorial office. Avoid hyphenation, do not define the styles and paragraphs. Do not use either spacing or tabulator for beginning a paragraph. Add automatic continuous line numbers. The authors are requested to submit MS that have not been, nor will be, published elsewhere. This fact should be explicitly stated in a cover letter. The cover letter should also detail what is being submitted. When submitting a revised paper, authors are obliged to send a　copy of the revised manuscript with tracked changes or other marks and a　clean copy of the revised manuscript.

An original scientific paper should comprise: 1. The title. 2. The author’s (authors’) name: full first name and family name. 3. Address: complete address and email address of corresponding author. 4. Abstract: in one paragraph, without references to tables, figures and literature, not exceeding 15 lines (900 characters). 5. Key words (maximum 6). 6.　Introduction. 7. Materials and methods. 8. Results. 9. Discussion (or Results and discussion). 10. Conclusions (optional). 11. Acknowledgement. 12. References. Names of chapters and names of subchapters must be written after omission of two lines and one line, respectively, in bold font and aligned to the left edge.

In the manuscripts, it is necessary to use SI symbols. Non-integer numbers should be provided with a decimal point, (e.g. 1.7, not a 1,7), the thousands (with exception of years) are separated with a comma: 5,600. The variables in mathematical formulae and expressions should be written in italics, the symbols for functions and constants in the normal font, the matrices in bold capitals, the vectors in bold small letters. The SI units – recommended rules of writing: 10%, 10 °C, 10 μL, 5–15 mg g–1, kg m–1 s–2, 1,200 m asl, Pa, mol. The components of numerical expressions should be separated by spaces, e.g., p. 5–15, 19–23 July 2009, y = x + 1, p < 0.05. Latin names of genera, species, sub-species and varieties are written in italics, the name of the author of the description (or his abbreviation) normally: e.g. Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758), Lymantria dispar (L.), Abies cephalonica Loud. var. graeca (Fraas) Liu. The names of cultivars are written normally, e.g. Olea europea L. cv. Chalkidikis. Taxon and syntaxon names are written in italics. All the tables and figures must be referred to in the text: Table 1, Tables 2–4, Figs 2–4.

References

The reference style used by the journal will be applied to the accepted article. Note that missing data will be highlighted for the author to correct. Use of DOI is highly encouraged.

Literature citations

The literature cited in the text should conform to the following patterns: one author – Wang (2013) or (Wang, 2013), two authors – Spitzenberger and Engelberger (2014) or (Spitzenberger and Engelberger, 2014), three and more authors – Lauko et al. (2013) or (Lauko et al., 2013). More than one work written by the same author is to be distinguished with small letters appended after the year: Novák (2016a, 2016b).

Reference list

The list of literature cited in the text of article (ordered alphabetically and according to the publication year) is placed on the last page. Latin names of genera, species and sub-species cited in the list of references are to be written in standard type. The titles of each article must be cited in the original language appended by an English translation (in square brackets). Titles in languages not using the Latin alphabet should be transliterated keeping with the British Standard 2979 (in the case of the Cyrilic e.g. ж = zh, х = kh, ц = ts, ч = ch, ш = sh, щ = shch, ю = yu, я = ya).

Work in a periodical

Goudie, J.W., Parish, R., Antos, J.A., 2016. Foliage biomass and specific leaf area equations at the branch, annual shoot and whole-tree levels for lodgepole pine and white spruce in British Columbia. Forest Ecology and Management, 361: 286–297.

Book

Hartvig, P., Vestergaard, P. (eds), 2015. Atlas flora Danica. København: Gyldendal. 1230 p.

Book series

Hemming, E., Heuvelink, E. (eds), 2012. Proceedings of the VIIth international symposium on light horticultural systems. Wageningen, the Netherlands, October 14-18, 2012. Acta Horticulturae, 956. Leuven: ISHS. 663 p.

Work published in a book or in a proceedings

Gärdenäs, A.I., Ågren, G.I., Bird, J.A., Clarholm, M., Hallin, S., Ineson, P., Gömöry, D., Paule, L., Longauer, R., 2015. Geografické trendy genetickej premenlivosti lesných drevín v Karpatoch [Geographic trends of genetic variety of forest trees in Carpathian Mountains]. In Lukáèik, I., Sarvašová, I. (eds). Dendroflóra strednej Európy　– využitie poznatkov vo výskume, vzdelávaní a praxi. Zvolen: Technická univerzita vo Zvolene, 2015, p. 19–29.

Sytnyk, S., Lovynska, V., Kharytonov, M., Loza, I., 2015. Effect of forest site type on the growing stock of forest-forming species under conditions of the Dnieper Steppe, Ukraine. In Sixth international scientific agricultural symposium “Agrosym 2015”. Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 15–18, 2015. Book of proceedings. Lukavica: University of East Sarajevo, p. 2118–2125.

Web source

Electronic citations require much of the same information as print sources (author, year of publication, title, publisher). However, some extra details are required: provide an accurate access date for online sources (that is, identify when a source was viewed or downloaded [cit. 2017-12-30], and provide the location of an online source (for example, a database or web address).

Tables

The tables should be prepared in Word, without vertical grid lines, and submitted on separate A4-sized pages, not included into the text. Use the Times Roman font and the font size 9. Table width should be of one or two text columns (77 and 160 mm) or 235 mm. The tables are to be numbered, each after other, with Arabic numerals (Table 1, Table 2…). The numbering and captioning should be placed over the table (aligned left), commentaries, if any, under the table. The text in the captions should always begin with a　capital letter and should be aligned left.The abbreviations of measured units should be given in round brackets. The tables must be self-explicable. Avoid doubling the information in tables and figures.

Figures

Submitted are only high-quality figures in black, in one of the following formats: jpg, png, tif, xls, each on a　separate A4 sheet. Avoid three-dimensional graphs, if possible. Please use only shade lining, not shading. The lines must be sharp and the written text must be distinctly readable also after the diminution. Use the Arial font. The font size should not exceed 11, the recommended size is 9. The text in the captions should always begin with a capital letter and should be centralised. We prefer figures to be in the width of 77, 160 or 235 mm. Figures itself and legends within larger figures should not be framed. Figure parts should be identified by roman lower-case letter (a, b, c, etc.). The figures must be self-explicable with readable legend and symbols, without necessity to seek explanations in the text of the MS.

Off-prints

Corresponding author will receive a free copy of the published paper.

Editorial Office

Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, ¼. Štúra 2, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia, email: knizuel@ife.sk, telephone number: ++421 45 5241111.

Editor-in-Chief:
Ing. Milan BARNA, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia

Deputy Editor:
Asoc. Prof. Ing. Miroslav SANIGA, CSc., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia

Managing Editor:
Mgr. Katarína ADAMČÍKOVÁ, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia

Executive editor:
Ing. Katarína SLÁDEKOVÁ, Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia

Members of Editorial Board

  • Dr. Corrado BATTISTI “Torre Flavia” LTER, Rome, Italy
  • Ing. Miroslav BLAŽENEC, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • Asoc. Prof. dr. János CSIKY, PhD., Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Biology, Department of Ecology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
  • RNDr. Ľubica DITMAROVÁ, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • prof. Edward P. FARRELL, PhD., University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • Ing. Peter FERUS, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Arboretum Mlyňany, Slovakia
  • prof. Ing. Dušan GÖMÖRY, DrSc., Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • Asoc. Prof. Ing. František HNILIČKA, PhD., Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Prof. RNDr. Milada HOLECOVÁ, CSc., Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Asoc. Prof. RNDr. Alois HONĚK, CSc., Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
  • prof. RNDr. Juraj HREŠKO, PhD., Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia
  • Ing. Richard HRIVNÁK, PhD., Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Prof. Dr. Paolo CHERUBINI, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • Panagiotis KOULELIS, PhD., ELGO – DIMITRA, Forest Research Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Ing. Ján KUKLA, CSc., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • RNDr. Ján KULFAN, CSc., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • Andrea KUNOVÁ, PhD., University of Milan, Department of Food, Envir. and Nutrition Science, Milan, Italy
  • Lorenzo LASTRUCCI, PhD., University of Florence, Italy
  • Ing. Veronika LUKASOVÁ, PhD., Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Stará Lesná, Slovakia
  • Asoc. Prof. Ing. Zdenka MARTINKOVÁ, CSc., Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Ing. Pavel MEZEI, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • Doc. Ing. Katarína MIKLÁŠOVÁ, PhD., Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
  • Cristian MONTALVA, PhD., Austral Universiy of Chile, Valdivia, Chile
  • Robert PÁL, PhD., Montana Technological University, Butte, USA
  • Prof. Hilda Elizabeth PEDRANZANI, PhD., National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina
  • Prof. Ing. Nora POLLÁKOVÁ, PhD., Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
  • Asoc. Prof. Ing. Luboš PURCHART, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Ing. Marek RENČO, PhD., Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
  • Silvia I. RONDON, PhD., Oregon State University, USA
  • Doc. Ing. Róbert SEDMÁK, PhD., Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • prof. Culiță SÎRBU, PhD., „Ion Ionescu de la Brad“ University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Iasi, Romania
  • RNDr. Jiří SKUHROVEC, PhD., Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Ing. Michal SLEZÁK, PhD., Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • Ing. Svetlana VARŠOVÁ, PhD., Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Stará Lesná, Slovakia