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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:
- 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 the first half of 2008:
- A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation
David Lindenmayer et al - The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Richard D. Bardgett, Nico M. van Straalen - Epigenetics for ecologists
Oliver Bossdorf, Christina L. Richards, Massimo Pigliucci - Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework
Brian J. McGill et al - Ecological consequences of genetic diversity
A. Randall Hughes, Brian D. Inouye, Marc T. J. Johnson, Nora Underwood, Mark Vellend - Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes
Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Richard D. Bardgett - Species' traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity
Nick M. Haddad, Marcel Holyoak, Tawny M. Mata, Kendi F. Davies, Brett A. Melbourne, Kim Preston - Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models
Antoine Guisan, Wilfried Thuiller - Marine reserve effects on fishery profit
Crow White, Bruce E. Kendall, Steven Gaines, David A. Siegel, Christopher Costello - 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
