A New Journal for 2009!

GCB Bioenergy

Edited by:
Steve Long

GCB Bioenergy exists to promote understanding of the interface between biological sciences and the production of fuels directly from plants, algae and waste. All aspects of current and potential biofuel production, from forestry, crop production, enzymatic deconstruction and microbial fuel synthesis to implications for biodiversity, ecosystem services, economics, policy and global change will be included.

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Online Manuscript Submission now open!
Submit your manuscript electronically to GCB Bioenergy through Manuscript Central. Benefits of online submission include:

• Quick and easy submission
• Centralised and reduced administration
• Significant decrease in peer review times

Message from the Chief Editor
The journal Global Change Biology (GCB) was launched in 1995 to provide a forum and focus for biological research as a key part of understanding global change. Since then the journal has risen to be consistently ranked as in the top three of the 137 Environmental Sciences journals listed by ISI, based on Impact Factor. This year the journal's Impact Factor reached a new high at 4.786. Several articles from the journal were cited as key evidence in the most recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. The journal has played a key part in bringing the biosphere and biodiversity and their interactions with the Earth System to the fore in the debate about and projections of global change.

Today bioenergy offers one part of the solution to global change. Realizing bioenergy as an economically and environmentally sound solution to global change however, requires both biotechnological improvement and a vastly improved database on bioenergy options. Much of the focus so far has been on policy and economic models, based on vanishingly little sound biology and biological data. It has however served to show that developing bioenergy systems that will benefit greenhouse gas balance is not simple, and requires greatly improved data and analysis.

GCB Bioenergy will provide the forum to place biology front and center in the debate and development of environmentally sound bioenergy. It will bring together research from the molecular biology of microbial platforms for fuel synthesis and breeding of improved feedstock crops to agronomy and greenhouse gas balances. Although, the journal is primarily concerned with original research, it also welcomes Opinion, Review, Platform, Legislative Issues, Policy Developments and Technical Advances. I look forward to seeing your submissions and would be pleased to discuss ideas and questions about content.

Steve Long
Chief Editor, GCB Bioenergy

The first issue of GCB Bioenergy will be published in January 2009.