One of the ways to promote a more healthy publishing environment is to choose to publish with society-owned journals (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12705; Societies’ Joint Statement on Scientific Publishing) as these tend to have more autonomy and give back more to the community. Choosing to do your reviewing and editorial work for society-owned journals is another way to support the scientific community.
Society-owned journals that publish biogeographical works include:
American Journal of Botany (published by Wiley)
Biogeographia (published by eScholarship)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic)
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic)
Ecography (published by Wiley)
Sister journals https://nordicsocietyoikos.org/publications (published by Wiley)
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic)
Frontiers of Biogeography (published by eScholarship; N.B. *not* a “Frontiers.in” journal)
Evolution (published by Oxford Academic)
Journal of Mammalogy (published by Oxford Academic)
Journal of Vegetation Science (published by Wiley)
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation (published by Elsevier)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (published by Oxford Academic)
Sister journals https://royalsociety.org/Journals/
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (published by NAS)
Science (published by AAAS)
Systematic Biology (published by Oxford Academic)
Taxon (published by Wiley)
The American Naturalist (published by U. Chicago Press)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic)
(N.B. This is an incomplete list and we welcome recommendations for additions.)
Academic publishers (bolded above) often prioritize scholarly criteria in their publications. The eScholarship platform delivered by the University of California (UC) is free-to-use for any UC faculty.
Oxford University Press provides information on other journals it publishes, including whether they are society owned, e.g.
Plant sciences http://www.oupplantsci.com/category/journals/
Similar information on all Oxford journals can be searched at https://academic.oup.com/
Other university presses exist (Unversity of Chicago, University of California, Stanford, etc).