The journal is concerned and publishing peer reviewed original articles on physical, biological, anthropological and integrated approaches to all aspects of environmental management of arid, semi-arid and desert environments. As an interdisciplinary dialogue it addresses research on all aspects of arid environments. These can be applied to a wide spectrum of issues ranging from basic to socio-ecological systems of arid, semi-arid and desert ecosystems. The journal welcomes research articles, short communications, review articles, and other communications.

Journal Policy

Desert is committed to real and immediate open access for academic work. All of the Desert’s articles and reviews are free to access immediately from the date of publication. The Desert has no charges either for the article processing or the article submission.

Papers submitted to Desert will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck/ iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. The Desert will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Terms and Conditions

Desert publishes open access articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.