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Global Change Biology Skills
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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at Global Change Biology (GCB) — the leading journal on the impacts of global environmental change on biological systems, first published in 1995 and published by Wiley. GCB exists to advance understanding of the interface between global environmental change (climate warming, rising CO2 and tropospheric ozone, nitrogen deposition, land-use change, ocean change) and biological systems — at any level of organization from molecular to biome, in aquatic or terrestrial, managed or natural environments, including both biological responses and feedbacks to change.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic ecology writing toolbox, and it is deliberately distinct from a conservation-practice pack: GCB is about global-change mechanisms and ecosystem processes — the causal link between a driver of global change and a biological response — not conservation action plans or management prescriptions. A GCB paper leads with a mechanism of broad relevance, defends its scale and uncertainty, carries a graphical abstract of the driver-to-response link, and archives data and code with a DOI as a condition of publication.
What Is GCB, and Why a Dedicated Stack?
GCB's constraints differ from a regional ecology journal or a conservation journal:
| Constraint | GCB | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Global environmental change × biological systems (molecular → biome) | Need a global-change driver and a biological response/feedback |
| Premium on | Mechanism + broad relevance, not local description | A single-site result with no mechanism is off-fit |
| Distinct from | Conservation practice (action/management) | GCB wants mechanism/ecosystems, not conservation prescriptions |
| Publisher | Wiley | Submitted via ScholarOne / Manuscript Central, not Editorial Manager |
| Review model | Editor-mediated expert review; live-check current anonymity/transparent-review options | Pre-empt expert concerns and data-access requests |
| Length | Research articles currently route to an up to 8,000-word main-body cap | Confirm the current cap by article type before upload |
| Abstract | 300-word limit; 6–10 keywords or phrases | State aim, approach, quantified result, conclusion |
| Graphical abstract | Required — depicts the driver-to-response mechanism | Not a site map or phylogeny |
| Data & code | Archived in a public repo with a DOI as a condition of publication | "Available on request" is not accepted — deposit before publication |
Volatile specifics (exact caps, accepted article types, fee/APC, policy wording, review model) change. resources/official-source-map.md now routes each operational fact to Wiley, ScholarOne, or a DOI-capable repository source; live-check the official Wiley pages in a browser immediately before upload.
Article types
- Primary Research Articles — completed original studies with a global-change mechanism.
- Technical Advances — new tools, methods, or modelling approaches for global-change biology.
- Reviews / Research Reviews — integrative syntheses; GCB Reviews are by invitation, while the
Research Reviews section is open for unsolicited submission.
- Opinions / Perspectives — argued, forward-looking pieces; live-check the current word caps and
eligibility before choosing this route.
Quick Start
Option A — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills
/plugin install gcb-skills
/reload-pluginsOption B — Manual Copy
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills.git
cd awesome-journal-skills/Global-Change-Biology-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/gcb-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/gcb-* ~/.codex/skills/First Prompt
Use gcb-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my Global Change Biology manuscript.Default Workflow
gcb-topic-selection
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gcb-literature-positioning
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gcb-study-design
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gcb-data-analysis
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gcb-figures-and-tables
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gcb-reporting-and-data-policy
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gcb-writing-style (polish)
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gcb-cover-letter
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gcb-review-process
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gcb-submission
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gcb-revision-and-rebuttalgcb-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are and which article type fits. If your contribution is a method/tool, route to gcb-study-design as a Technical Advance; if it is a synthesis, route to gcb-literature-positioning for a Research Review (GCB Reviews are commissioned).
Skills
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
gcb-workflow | Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next; picks the article type |
gcb-topic-selection | Global-change fit test: driver → response, mechanism, broad relevance |
gcb-literature-positioning | Position across ecology/biogeochemistry/Earth-system literatures |
gcb-study-design | Experiments, gradients/observation, and modelling — scale, replication, realism |
gcb-data-analysis | Mixed models, meta-analysis, model evaluation, honest uncertainty |
gcb-figures-and-tables | Mechanism-first exhibits + the required graphical abstract |
gcb-reporting-and-data-policy | DOI data/code archiving; data availability statement; sensitive-data path |
gcb-writing-style | Mechanism + significance up front; quantified, accessible, within caps |
gcb-cover-letter | Editor-facing scope-fit + advance in a focused letter |
gcb-review-process | Desk screening, expert 2–3-reviewer review, decision categories |
gcb-submission | ScholarOne preflight (article type, abstract, graphical abstract, data) |
gcb-revision-and-rebuttal | Point-by-point response defending mechanism, scale, and uncertainty |
Resources
resources/external_tools.md— global-change data sources (ERA5 / CMIP6 / FLUXNET / MODIS / GBIF / TRY) + R / Python / process-model and meta-analysis tooling, and DOI repositories (Dryad / Zenodo / PANGAEA)resources/official-source-map.md— official Wiley / GCB URLs behind every fact, plus live-check notes for volatile items
What This Repo Does Not Do
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or reviewer's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (exact caps, article types, fee/APC, policy wording, review model) without an official-source route; live-check those items on the official page before submission
- It does not turn a conservation-management or local-description paper into a global-change mechanism — that is the researcher's science
Related
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- Global Change Biology (Wiley Online Library) — publisher home
- GCB author guidelines — submission guidelines and policies
- ScholarOne / Manuscript Central — submission portal
License
MIT