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Ecology Letters
Published in association with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Edited by:
Marcel Holyoak
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 4/124 Ecology
Impact Factor: 9.392
Ecology Letters is a forum for the very rapid publication of the most novel research in ecology. Manuscripts relating to the ecology of all taxa, in any biome and geographic area will be considered, and priority will be given to those papers exploring or testing clearly stated hypotheses. The journal publishes concise papers that merit urgent publication by virtue of their originality, general interest and their contribution to new developments in ecology. We discourage purely descriptive papers and those merely confirming or extending results of previous work.
Three types of article are published in Ecology Letters:
- Letters: exciting findings in fast-moving areas
- Ideas and Perspectives: novel essays for a general audience
- Reviews: syntheses of important subjects which merit urgent coverage.
TopNews and Announcements
Press Release Service
The latest press releases from Ecology Letters:
- Coupled oscillations of predators and prey cause chaos in food webs (Nov09)
- Social Networking Study Reveals Threat to Tasmanian Devils (Aug09)
- New Study Reveals Unexpected Relationship Between Climate Warming and Advancing Treelines (Aug09)
- Newly Discovered Snow Roots are 'Evolutionary Phenomenon' (Jun09)
- Study Reveals Critical Role of Evolutionary Processes in Species Coexistence and Diversity (May09)
New Editor in Chief for 2009
Ecology Letters has undergone a meteoric rise since its creation in 1998 which come in large part from the dedication of Michael Hochberg, who founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of Ecology Letters for the last decade. Under his successor, Professor Marcel Holyoak, the journal will continue to take the lead in addressing the many challenges that lay ahead in publishing in ecology. Read the January Editorial for details of his visions for the coming years.
Abstracting & Indexing
Ecology Letters is now featured on PubMed
Free Content
Ecology Letters Reviews and Syntheses articles are free to download
ISI Interviews Michael Hochberg on the success of Ecology Letters
In a recent analysis of the ISI Essential Science Indicators, Ecology Letters had the highest percent increase in total citations in the field of Environment/Ecology.
Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), 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).
Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our EarlyView feature before the print edition of this journal is published.
TopHighlights
Top downloaded articles
The following articles are the top ten most downloaded articles from December 2009:
- Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research
Helmut Hillebrand and Birte Matthiessen - Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services
Elena M. Bennett, Garry D. Peterson and Line J. Gordon - The rise of research on futures in ecology: rebalancing scenarios and predictions
Audrey Coreau, Gilles Pinay, John D. Thompson, Pierre-Olivier Cheptou and Laurent Mermet - A general framework for neutral models of community dynamics
Omri Allouche and Ronen Kadmon - Leaf hydraulic evolution led a surge in leaf photosynthetic capacity during early angiosperm diversification
Tim J. Brodribb and Taylor S. Feild - Phenology, ontogeny and the effects of climate change on the timing of species interactions
Louie H. Yang and V. H. W. Rudolf - A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species
Mark van Kleunen, Ewald Weber and Markus Fischer - Field theory for biogeography: a spatially explicit model for predicting patterns of biodiversity
James P. O'Dwyer and Jessica L. Green - Linking dispersal, immigration and scale in the neutral theory of biodiversity
Ryan A. Chisholm and Jeremy W. Lichstein - Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness
Nicholas J. Gotelli & Robert K. Colwell
Links to Related Sites
Blackwell Ecology
Blackwell Plant Science
British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of America
South African Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists
Ecological Society of Australia
Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Italian Society of Ecology
