The journal publishes articles in all fields of tropical biology and conservation, and is directed to a scientific and technical public. Selection criteria for manuscripts are the amount of new information, quality, and interest to a general readership. Studies with a strong experimental design, prolonged field work and taxonomic-systematic studies of whole groups are typical of the papers that are accepted. We do not publish: studies that only add details or cases to previously known phenomena, preliminary studies, communications, species lists, notes or other short articles, or highly specialized reports of limited interest. We welcome unsolicited review articles that critically review the achievements, controversial aspects and main goals for future research of some particular field of tropical biology and conservation.

該雜志出版熱帶生物學和保護的所有領域的文章，并直接面向科學和技術公眾。手稿的選擇標準是新信息的數量、質量和普通讀者的興趣。具有較強的實驗設計、較長時間的實地工作和對整個群體的分類系統研究是被接受的論文的典型特征。我們不發表:只在先前已知的現象、初步研究、通訊、物種列表、筆記或其他短文中添加細節或案例的研究，或有限興趣的高度專門化的報告。我們歡迎不請自來的評論文章，這些文章對熱帶生物學和保護某些特定領域的成就、有爭議的方面和未來研究的主要目標進行了批判性的評論。