- Chelonian Conservation and Biology
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Chelonian Conservation and Biology: International Journal of Turtle and Tortoise Research Discipline Herpetology: Turtles Language English Publication details Publisher Allen Press for Chelonian Research Foundation (United States) Publication history 1993 - Frequency Twice per year Indexing ISSN 1071-8443 Links Chelonian Conservation and Biology: International Journal of Turtle and Tortoise Research (CC&B) is an international, peer-reviewed, scientific journal concerned with freshwater turtles, marine turtles, and tortoises (Order Testudines).
CC&B has an Editorial Review Board of 45 internationally recognized turtle research and conservation authorities. It was founded in 1993 by the Chelonian Research Foundation as the new scientific journal of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and the International Bulletin of Chelonian Research. The journal was first published with support from Conservation International, the Chelonia Institute, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Florida Audubon Society, and the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Since 2006 CC&B has been published in collaboration with the Alliance Communications Group of Allen Press. The first editors were John L. Behler, Peter C. H. Pritchard and Anders G. J. Rhodin. Rhodin has been one the editors ever since, first with Pritchard and currently with Jeffrey A. Seminoff.
References
- Eckert, Karen L. and Eckert, Scott A. (1994) "Announcements: Chelonian Conservation and Biology -- A New Journal" Marine Turtle Newsletter 64: p. 30
- Stearns, Brett C. (1995) "New journal for Chelonian Conservationists: A review of Chelonian Conservation and Biology " Zoo Biology 14(1): pp. 81 - 83
External links
Categories:- Ecology journals
- Herpetological literature
- Biology journals
- Publications established in 1993
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