ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025
The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution.
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- Preprint policies across journals and publishers in ecology and evolutionary biology.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Daniel W A NobleDivision of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9460-8743
Zoe A XirocostasSchool of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7103-5153
Nicholas C WuHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7130-1279
April Robin MartinigEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0972-6903
Rafaela A AlmeidaLaboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5228-9091
Kevin R Bairos-NovakSchool of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.
Heikel BaltiUniversité Marie et Louis Pasteur, CNRS, Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249), F-25000 Besançon, France.ORCID 0009-0006-2283-6767
Michael G BertramDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 907 36, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5320-8444
Louis BliardDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2349-8513
Jack A BrandDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 907 36, Sweden.
Ilha ByrneSchool of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3909-2902
Ying-Chi ChanSwiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7183-4411
Dena Jane ClinkK. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Quentin CorbelTheoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (SETE), UAR2029, CNRS, Moulis, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6416-5651
Ricardo A CorreiaBiodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-7359-9091
Jordann Crawford-AshFenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Antica CulinaRuđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
Elvira D'BastianiDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, LA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8615-2763
Gideon G DemeDepartment of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0537-6707
Melina de Souza LeiteDepartment of Ecology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Félicie DhellemmesCluster of Excellence 'Science of Intelligence', Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2043-4653
Shreya DimriDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.ORCID 0009-0009-2155-7506
Szymek M DrobniakEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
Alexander D ElsyDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Susan E EveringhamInstitute of Plant Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern.
Samuel J L GascoigneDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2984-1810
Matthew J GraingerNorwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway.
Gavin C HossackPort Perry, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8407-0289
Knut Anders HovstadSINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-7108-0787
Edward R Ivimey-CookSchool of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4910-0443
Matt Lloyd JonesEuropean Centre for the Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Penryn, UK.
Ineta KačergytėDepartment of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4756-8253
Georg KüstnerDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Dalton C LeiboldDivision of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia.
Magdalena M MairStatistical Ecotoxicology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0074-6067
Jake MartinDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 907 36, Sweden.
Ayumi MizunoEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
Iain R MoodieDepartment of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3416-1198
David MoreauCentre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Rose E O'DeaSchool of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8177-5075
James A OrrDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6531-5623
Matthieu PaquetTheoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (SETE), UAR2029, CNRS, Moulis, France.
Rabindra ParajuliDepartment of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33486, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8360-0068
Joel L PickInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6295-3742
Patrice PottierDivision of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2106-6597
Marija PurgarRuđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
Pablo RecioDivision of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5890-0218
Dominique G RocheDepartment of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Raphaël RoyautéUniversité Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR EcoSys, Palaiseau, France.
Saeed Shafiei SabetFisheries Department, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Guilan, Swomeh Sara P.O. Box 1144, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-5919-2527
Julio M G SegoviaDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Inês SilvaCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Görlitz, Germany.
Alfredo Sánchez-TójarDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2886-0649
Bruno E SoaresInstitute of Environmental Change & Society, University of Regina, Regina, Canada.
Birgit SzaboDivision of Behavioural Ecology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3226-8621
Elina TakolaDepartment of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Eli S J ThoréDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 907 36, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0029-8404
Bishnu TimilsinaThe Arctic University Museum of Norway, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Tromso, Norway.
Natalie E van DisHelsinki Institute of Life Sciences, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
Wilco C E P VerberkDepartment of Ecology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen.ORCID 0000-0002-0691-583X
Stefan J G VriendThe Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9006-5988
Kristoffer H WildDivision of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6714-3311
Coralie WilliamsEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1312-4953
Yefeng YangEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
Shinichi Nakagawa *Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7765-5182
Malgorzata Lagisz *Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3993-6127
Funding
Australian Research CouncilDiscovery Project
Abstract
Publishing preprints is quickly becoming commonplace in ecology and evolutionary biology. Preprints can facilitate the rapid sharing of scientific knowledge establishing precedence and enabling feedback from the research community before peer review. Yet, significant barriers to preprint use exist, including language barriers, a lack of understanding about the benefits of preprints and a lack of diversity in the types of research outputs accepted (e.g. reports). Community-driven preprint initiatives can allow a research community to come together to break down these barriers to improve equity and coverage of global knowledge. Here, we explore the first preprints uploaded to
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Biological EvolutionEcologyPreprints as TopicPublishingInformation DisseminationEcoEvoRxivecologyevolutiongrey literaturepreprintspublicationscholarly publishing
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