Catena出版的論文描述了關于地球生態和景觀演變的原始野外和實驗室調查和評論，重點是土壤科學、水文和地貌的跨學科方面。它的目的是傳播新的知識，促進對自然環境的更好理解，對過去和現在形成景觀的進化序列的更好理解，對可能決定我們陸地環境命運的自然過程的更好理解。上述任何一項主題的論文，只要具有足夠廣泛的興趣和相關性，都是受歡迎的。

Catena publishes papers describing original field and laboratory investigations and reviews on geoecology and landscape evolution with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects of soil science, hydrology and geomorphology. It aims to disseminate new knowledge and foster better understanding of the physical environment, of evolutionary sequences that have resulted in past and current landscapes, and of the natural processes that are likely to determine the fate of our terrestrial environment.Papers within any one of the above topics are welcome provided they are of sufficiently wide interest and relevance.