The following Special Issue will be published in Diversity (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/, ISSN 1424-2818), and is open for submission of a comprehensive review article or a full research paper for peer-review and possible publication:
Special Issue: Global Freshwater biodiversity Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/freshwater-biodiversity Guest Editor: Dr. Thilina Surasinghe Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2013 You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere.We also encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the Editorial Office at divers...@mdpi.com. This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. Article Processing Charges (APC) are of 500 CHF for well prepared manuscripts. An additional fee of 250 CHF may apply if English editing or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial Office. More information can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/. Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript:http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/instructions/. Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/. Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) is a new international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, published quarterly by MDPI. It is a journal of Science and Technology, concerning diversity concepts and applications, diversity assessment and diversity preservation. Because it is an online journal, papers published in Diversity will receive very high publicity. MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed athttp://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer- review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have increased their impact factors, see "2011 Newly Released Impact Factors",http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/235/. In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:divers...@mdpi.com We are looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Le Zhang, Ph.D. Managing Editor Diversity（http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity） On behalf of the Guest Editor Dr. Thilina Surasinghe Department of Biology Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN, USA E-Mail: tsura...@gustavus.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka) Teaching Assistant in Biological Sciences Co-Instructor in Undergraduate Research PhD Candidate in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences 261, Lehotsky Hall Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0317 USA email: tdi...@gmail.com, tsur...@g.clemson.edu, thil...@g.clemson.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
