Please review the full overview of our Open Research policy<\/a> for instructions on preparing your material and crafting an Open Research statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To further ESA\u2019s commitment to Open Science and FAIR<\/a> (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles, two Data Editors are available to guide authors and ensure compliance with ESA\u2019s Open Research Policy. If you have any questions about data and code archiving policies while preparing your submission, please send an email to esajournals@esa.org<\/a> and a Data Editor will respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amanda Droghini is a data manager at the Alaska Center for Conservation Science with a background in wildlife ecology. She is dedicated to making ecology more reproducible and is keen to help authors implement best practices for sharing their data and their code.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Nathan Kiel is a plant ecologist and post-doctoral associate at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He seeks to positively contribute to the science publishing landscape in several ways, including participating in a review on best practices for data curation in large ecological databases and contributing data to public repositories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Open Research ESA has adopted a society-wide Open Research Policy for its publications to further support scientific exploration and preservation, allow a full assessment of published research, and streamline policies across our family of journals. An open research policy provides full transparency for scientific data and code, facilitates replication and synthesis, and aligns ESA journals with current standards. As of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45453,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45482,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/45482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ESA Data Editors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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