Ethical Statement

All research involving vertebrates or cephalopods should comply with the ARRIVE  guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or must have approval from the authors' Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or equivalent ethics committee(s) and must have been conducted according to applicable national  and international guidelines. Approval must be received prior to beginning research.

Manuscripts reporting animal research must state in the Title Page:

·          The full  name of the relevant  ethics  committee that approved the work, and the associated permit number(s).

·          Where ethical approval is not required, the manuscript should include a clear statement of this and the reason why. Provide any relevant regulations under which the study is exempt from the requirement for approval.

·          Relevant details of steps taken to ameliorate animal suffering. Example ethical statement:

This study was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. The protocol was approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal Experiments of the …… Institute (Protocol Number: ….). All surgery was performed under sodium pentobarbital anesthesia, and all efforts were made to minimize suffering.

The scientific and ethical responsibility of the animal experiment belongs to the author(s).

The editor has the right to reject manuscripts on suspicion of requirements; animal welfare and/or lack of ethics committee reports.

➢       Author rights

Authors of published articles (and/or their employers or institutions) have certain rights to reuse published work with prior permission. Please request a ‘Permission Request Letter’ from  millibotanik@tarimorman.gov.tr .

➢       Open Access Policy

All research articles published in Biodiversity Studies are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

➢       Advertising and Marketing Policy

Our journal has not placed any advertisements to prevent any hesitation by our editors during the decision-making process.

➢       Plagiarism Policy

Biodiversity Studies actively checks for plagiarism by using online iThenticate, Plagiarism Detection Software. If the plagiarism rate of the manuscript is above 25%, the author is requested to reduce the plagiarism rate before being considered for the evaluation process in the journal.