Siembra is the official scientific diffusion tool of Central University of Ecuador’s (UCE) ‘Life Sciences’ Area. It publishes every six months (two issues per year), in continuous flow, the results of multidisciplinary scientific and technological research in the following fields:

- Agricultural sciences including but not limited to plant production and health, agricultural engineering, soil sciences, entomology, forestry, agroforestry, agroindustry, food science and technology, agricultural economics, rural sociology, rural development, food systems, agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and agro-tourism.

- Livestock sciences including but not limited to animal production, animal sciences, animal health and welfare, veterinary medicine, and public health.

- Biological and environmental sciences including but not limited to ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning studies, natural resource management, ecosystem transitions, ecosystem services, ecological resilience, environment-society relations, climate change, land use in natural systems, geography and territory, and ecotourism.

Siembra is jointly edited by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Livestock, and the Faculty of Biological Sciences of Central University of Ecuador (UCE).

Siembra receives unpublished articles, whether original or review articles, as well as bibliographic reviews and opinion articles. The articles published in Siembra are the result of an exhaustive selection process, which includes the Editorial Committee in the first instance and peer review (double-blind), carried out by national and international specialists.

Siembra is an Open Access journal with a non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly and open nature of scientific communication or Diamond Open Access.

Siembra DOES NOT charge authors any fees for article submission, processing or publication (No apply Article Processing Charge - Non-APC).

Siembra is an online journal since 2019.

ISSN (online): 2477-8850 / ISSN (print): 1390-8928 (until 2018)

DOI: 10.29166/siembra

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