2008 Impact Factor 4.099

Ecography

Pattern and Diversity in Ecology

Distributed on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos

Edited by:

Carsten Rahbek

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Miguel Araújo

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 4/28 Biodiversity Conservation; 20/124 Ecology
Impact Factor: 4.099

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Ecography publishes papers focused on broad spatial and temporal patterns, particularly studies of population and community ecology, macroecology, biogeography, and ecological conservation. Studies in ecological genetics and historical ecology are welcomed in the context of explaining contemporary ecological patterns. Manuscripts are expected to address general principles in ecology, though they may do so using a specific model system if this frames the problem relative to a generalised ecological issue.

Papers in Ecography are expected to be based on concise hypotheses or to relate to concise theoretical concepts based on sound natural history. Purely descriptive papers are considered only if breaking new ground and/or describing patterns seldom explored. Papers are judged by virtue of their originality, appeal to general interest, and their contribution to new developments in ecological research concerning spatial and temporal patterns. There is no bias with regard to taxon, biome, or biogeographical area.

Papers in the sections Forum and Software Notes are given high priority in the publication process.

Average time from submission to first decision is just 39 days!

TopNews and Announcements

ADVANCE ONLINE PUBLICATION

Finding the Newest Published Articles
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published before the print edition with EarlyView. The most recent articles can be accessed here.

Recently Accepted Papers
Articles accepted after the full peer-review process, but not yet available with OnlineEarly, are listed at the Society homepage here.

NEWS FROM THE EDITORIAL OFFICE

NEW F1000 Listing for Ecography (FEBRUARY 2008)
The new ECOGRAPHY paper 'Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians' (Araújo et al. 2008) has been recommended by Faculty of 1000 Biology. The paper is available for free download here.

Hot Paper (MARCH 2007)

ISI Essential Science Indicators have identified 'Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data' (Elith, Graham et al. 2006) as a NEW HOT PAPER in the Environment/Ecology category. This means that this ECOGRAPHY article is one of the most cited recent papers in its field. Don't miss out, read the full article here for free.

Press Release Services
Starting in 2005, Ecography has selected exceptionally novel papers from the journal to be promoted in press releases through the Blackwell Publishing Press Room. This has been a great success, with recent features in Science, Nature Research Highlights, and Science Daily. Additionally, Ecography recently got its second listing in the Faculty of 1000 Biology.

Click on the links below to read press releases from articles recently published in Ecography

• Racing cane toads reveals they get cold feet on Southern Australia invasion, Aug 08 FEATURED IN SCIENCE
  
• Closeness is not a problem: new ways to handle spatial dependencies in species distributions, Nov 07
  
• Carnivores in recent study help Bergmann's rule reach the 21st Century, Nov 07
  
• Are current projections of climate change-impacts on biodiversity misleading? Nov 07
  
• Links between species' ecological traits and environmental requirements guide conservation planners March 2007
  
• Well known but never understood: revealing why ecological communities change with distance March 2007

Ecography Legacy on online platform and JSTOR
All volumes of Ecography have now been digitised and are available online via the Online platform and JSTOR. This archive starts in 1978 with Vol. 1, when the journal was known as Holarctic Ecology, moves through the name and research focus change in 1992 (Vol. 15) and covers all the way to modern day Ecography.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Since 2006, access to Ecography is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Reviewers Worldwide
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all of the 702 referees that helped us evaluate manuscripts in 2006. We greatly appreciate the time and effort they put into this.

Attention BES and ESA Members
Members of the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA) can subscribe to Ecography for a reduced fee. The subscription can be bundled with Oikos and/or Journal of Avian Biology and both print and online options are available. Simply follow this link to find out more about the discounts.

TopHighlights

Featured Articles
Ecography strives to publish outstanding scientific articles treating spatial and temporal patterns in ecology. To demonstrate our commitment, Ecography provides free and immediate access to a selection of recent and classic papers that we feel represent the journal's scope. The articles have been suggested by the Subject Editors of Ecography and are represen¬tative of the excellent research that we are proud to be publishing in our journal. Papers have been selected based on their originality, appeal to general interest, and their contribution to new developments in ecological research. The list of articles is being constantly updated and we hope you will have the opportunity to see your own work appear here in the future.

Featured recent papers FREE CONTENT

Likely responses of the Antarctic benthos to climate-related changes in physical disturbance during the 21st century, based primarily on evidence from the West Antarctic Peninsula region NEW
Dan A. Smale and David K. A. Barnes

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation NEW
Steven J. Phillips and Miroslav Dudík

Estimating space-use and habitat preference from wildlife telemetry data NEW
Geert Aarts, Monique MacKenzie, Bernie McConnell, Mike Fedak and Jason Matthiopoulos

Modelling species distributions without using species distributions: the cane toad in Australia under current and future climates NEW
Michael Kearney, Ben L. Phillips, Christopher R. Tracy, Keith A. Christian, Gregory Betts and Warren P. Porter

Seeing the forest for the trees: partitioning ecological and phylogenetic components of Bergmann's rule in European Carnivora
José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Luis Mauricio Bini, Miguel Á. Rodríguez, Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel and Bradford A. Hawkins

Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review
Carsten F. Dormann, Jana M. McPherson, Miguel B. Araújo, Roger Bivand, Janine Bolliger, Gudrun Carl, Richard G. Davies, Alexandre Hirzel, Walter Jetz, W. Daniel Kissling, Ingolf Kühn, Ralf Ohlemüller, Pedro R. Peres-Neto, Björn Reineking, Boris Schröder, Frank M. Schurr and Robert Wilson

Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians FEATURED IN F1000 BIOLOGY
Miguel B. Araújo, David Nogués-Bravo, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Alan M. Haywood, Paul J. Valdes and Carsten Rahbek

Why are diversity and endemism linked on islands?
Christopher C. Witt and Satya Maliakal-Witt

Red herrings revisited: spatial autocorrelation and parameter estimation in geographical ecology
Bradford A. Hawkins, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Luis Mauricio Bini, Paulo De Marco and Tim M. Blackburn

An indirect area effect on elevational species richness patterns
Tom S. Romdal and John-Arvid Grytnes

Effects of species' ecology on the accuracy of distribution models
Jana M. McPherson and Walter Jetz

The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities
Janne Soininen, Robert McDonald and Helmut Hillebrand FEATURED IN F1000 BIOLOGY

Contrasting spatial and temporal global change impacts on butterfly species richness during the 20th century
Peter White and Jeremy T. Kerr

The relative importance of latitude matching and propagule pressure in the colonization success of an invasive forb
John L. Maron

Null versus neutral models: what's the difference?
Nicholas J. Gotelli and Brian J. McGill

The effect of sample size and species characteristics on performance of different species distribution modeling methods
Pilar A. Hernandez, Catherine H. Graham, Lawrence L. Master, Deborah L. Albert

Predicting patterns of plant species richness in megadiverse South Africa
Wilfried Thuiller, Guy F. Midgley, Mathieu Rougeti and Richard M. Cowling

Plant species richness and environmental heterogeneity in a mountain landscape: effects of variability and spatial configuration
Alexia Dufour, Fawziah Gadallah, Helene H. Wagner, Antoine Guisan and Alexandre Buttler

Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data FEATURED IN NATURE AND SCIENCE

Jane Elith, Catherine H. Graham et al.

Equilibrium of species' distributions with climate
Miguel B.Araújo and Richard G. Pearson

Invasibility: the local mechanism driving community assembly and species diversity
Mark A. Davis, Ken Thompson, J. Philip Grime

The mid-latitude biodiversity ridge in terrestrial cave fauna
David C. Culver, Louis Deharveng, Anne Bedos, Julian J. Lewis, Molly Madden, James R. Reddell, Boris Sket, Peter Trontelj and Denis White

The structure of food webs along river networks
Tamara N. Romanuk, Leland J. Jackson, John R. Post, Ed McCauley and Neo D. Martinez

Dispersal and the metapopulation paradigm in amphibian ecology and conservation: are all amphibian populations metapopulations?
M. Alex Smith and David M. Green

Classic papers of Ecography FREE CONTENT

Illustrations and guidelines for selecting statistical methods for quantifying spatial pattern in ecological data
J. N. Perry, A. M. Liebhold, M. S. Rosenberg, J. Dungan, M. Miriti, A. Jakomulska and S. Citron-Pousty

The consequences of spatial structure for the design and analysis of ecological field surveys
Pierre Legendre, Mark R. T. Dale, Marie-Josee Fortin, Jessica Gurevitch, Michael Hohn and Donald Myers

Spatial point pattern analysis of available and exploited resources FEATURED IN F1000 BIOLOGY

Jill Lancaster and Barbara J. Downes

Red-shifts and red herrings in geographical ecology
Jack. J. Lennon

Habitat fragmentation and large-scale conservation: what do we know for sure?
Susan Harrison and Emilio Bruna

The elevational gradient of species richness: a uniform pattern?
Carsten Rahbek

Electronic Appendices
Ecography offers an extensive electronic appendix service. The appendix site where authors may post supplementary material can be found at the society website here.

Links to Related Sites
Blackwell Ecology - Blackwell Publishing's ecology subject site
Blackwell Geography - Blackwell Publishing's geography subject site

Links to Other Journals
Oikos
Journal of Avian Biology

Links to Societies
International Biogeography Society
The British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of Australia
South African Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists
Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Italian Society of Ecology