Journal subject areas
The journal subject areas are defined by the following index terms below. These terms represent the keywords to be chosen for assignment of submitted manuscripts to individual editors.
| Biodiversity and ecosystem function | Freshwater Terrestrial Marine Palaeo- Microbial ecology & geomicrobiology |
| Biogeochemistry | Land Land–sea coupling Air–sea exchange Air–land exchange Greenhouse gases Wetlands Coastal ocean Open ocean Stable isotopes & other tracers Organic biogeochemistry Limnology Rivers & streams Sediment Soils Groundwater Environmental microbiology Biomineralization Bio-optics Modelling, aquatic Modelling, terrestrial |
| Paleobiogeoscience | Marine record Terrestrial record Proxy use, development & validation Organic biomarkers Past ecosystem functioning Climate connection |
| Biogeophysics | Ecohydrology Biota & sediment stability Turbulence & biota Physical–biological coupling Bioturbation Benthic boundary layer processes Environmental optics |
| Astrobiology and exobiology | Extreme environments, brines & hydrothermal Deep biosphere Extraterrestrial biogeosciences |
| Earth system science/response to global change | Models, Holocene/Anthropocene Models, geological history Climate change Evolution of system Earth |
| Remote sensing | Marine Terrestrial |