Announcement: Proposal for a Special Issue of the Southeastern Naturalist/Northeastern Naturalist focusing on the woodland impacts of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and resulting broader effects on the forest ecosystems of eastern North America. The HWA infestation is expanding, with significant implications for the composition of forests throughout the eastern US. The loss of Hemlocks has cascading implications for many facets of the forest ecosystem beyond the trees themselves, from associated flora and fauna to soils and streams. This issue would attempt to be a comprehensive look at the state of HWA-related research. Timeline: we hope to have submissions in by the end of June 2013, with a projected publication date of March 2014. In order to keep costs down, the issue would be published primarily as an online volume. However, the option to purchase professionally printed copies would be available to all contributing authors. Authors would be responsible for covering page charges ($40 per page) for their manuscripts plus a $110 pdf reprint fee. The issue would be available to subscribers of both NENA and SENA through the journals’ website, and would also be accessible through online full-text databases, such as BioOne, EbscoHost, and Proquest, and through a wide range of indexing databases.
If you might be interested in contributing an article to this special issue, please contact either: Dr. Richard Baird at [email protected] or (662) 684-9941 or Dr. Patricia Cox at [email protected] or (865)661-1241 [cell] or (865)632-3609 [office] Please forward this message on to any colleagues you think might be interested. Thank you!
