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| American Midland Naturalist | |
|---|---|
| Title | American Midland Naturalist |
| Discipline | Natural history; ecology; zoology; botany |
| Abbreviation | Am. Midl. Nat. |
| Publisher | University of Notre Dame (originally) / Oxford University Press (current) |
| Country | United States |
| History | 1909–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 0003-0031 |
American Midland Naturalist
American Midland Naturalist is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on natural history, ecology, and regional biology with a long-standing presence in North American scholarship. Founded in 1909, the journal has published research spanning field studies, taxonomy, biogeography, and conservation, engaging audiences including researchers associated with universities, museums, and botanical gardens. Over its history it has intersected with institutions such as the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Yale University, and the Smithsonian Institution.
The journal was established in 1909 by scholars linked to the University of Notre Dame and early 20th-century naturalists influenced by figures like John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Ernest Hemingway in the cultural imagination of nature. Early contributors included curators from the Field Museum, researchers from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and faculty from Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, and Ohio State University. Throughout the 20th century the journal reflected developments associated with the Ecological Society of America, the rise of conservation biology, and methodological shifts paralleling work at institutions such as the Carnegie Institution for Science, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Geological Survey. Editors over time collaborated with scholars from Princeton University, Columbia University, Rutgers University, Duke University, and University of California, Berkeley. The journal adapted to changes in publishing embodied by houses like Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press while interacting with societies including the American Society of Naturalists and the Botanical Society of America.
The journal covers empirical studies in natural history and regional ecology, with topics intersecting taxonomic work from researchers affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History, paleontological research linked to the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and vegetation studies comparable to those at the Arnold Arboretum. It publishes work on faunal inventories similar in spirit to studies at the Bell Museum of Natural History and botanical surveys reminiscent of research at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Authors often hail from universities such as University of Wisconsin–Madison, Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Iowa State University. The scope includes biogeographic analyses that relate to themes explored by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, while also engaging with conservation priorities reflected in institutions like The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and National Audubon Society.
American Midland Naturalist operates on a quarterly publication schedule with peer review administered by an editorial board drawing members from University of Florida, University of Texas at Austin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and University of Georgia. The journal implements editorial standards informed by best practices promoted by organizations such as the Council of Science Editors, Committee on Publication Ethics, and indexing policies of Clarivate Analytics. Manuscript handling and archiving strategies follow models used by publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley-Blackwell. The editorial process emphasizes specimen vouchering in repositories like the Natural History Museum, London, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences, and encourages data sharing through platforms akin to Dryad, GenBank, and GBIF.
The journal is indexed in major bibliographic services paralleling inclusion in Web of Science, Scopus, BIOSIS Previews, and JSTOR. It is discoverable through catalogues and libraries at institutions such as the Library of Congress, British Library, Harvard Library, and New York Public Library. Metadata practices align with standards promoted by CrossRef, ORCID, and DOAJ for discoverability and persistent identifiers, and its content is harvested by aggregators like EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and Google Scholar.
Over more than a century the journal has influenced regional and thematic research cited alongside seminal works by scholars at Yale School of the Environment, Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. Its articles are referenced in policy and management contexts alongside reports from agencies such as the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The journal’s impact is reflected in citations in synthesis volumes produced by publishers like University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press, and in incorporation into curricula at colleges such as Swarthmore College, Amherst College, and Williams College.
Notable contributions include regional faunal inventories comparable to landmark surveys by the Bureau of Land Management and taxonomic revisions echoing the work of researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Missouri Botanical Garden. The journal published significant studies on prairie restoration related to projects by Konza Prairie Biological Station and long-term ecological research aligned with Long Term Ecological Research Network sites including Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Other influential papers addressed landscape ecology topics resonant with research at the Yale School of Forestry, island biogeography themes linked to SLOSS debate discussions, and paleoecological reconstructions with parallels to studies from the United States National Museum of Natural History and the American Philosophical Society. The journal’s archives continue to serve as a resource for comparative work by researchers at National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and international collaborators from institutions like the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Australian National University.
Category:Ecology journals Category:Natural history journals