Oecologia (2007) 153:207–208 DOI 10.1007/s00442-007-0814-z
EDI TOR IAL
Oecologia enters a new era Russell Monson · Roland Brandl · Katherine Gross · Christian Körner · Craig Osenberg · Hannu Ylönen
Published online: 27 July 2007 © Springer-Verlag 2007
Since its inception in 1968, the editors and publishers of Oecologia have strived to produce a leading international journal reporting new research in the ecological sciences. For the past 20 years, our editorial policies have emphasized a geographical distinction for submission of manuscripts, with submissions from the Americas and those outside the Americas being channeled through separate oYces. Additionally, we asked that authors distinguish between “plant-oriented” and “animal-oriented” oYces in choosing the best editorial oYce for their submission. We
R. Monson Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Campus Box 334, Boulder, CO 80309, USA R. Brandl Fachbereich Biologie, AG Allgemeine Ökologie und Tierökologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 1, 35032 Marburg, Germany K. Gross W.K. Kellog, Biological Station, Michigan State University, 3700 E. Gull Lake Dr, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA C. Körner Botanisches Institut, Universität Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland C. Osenberg (&) Department of Zoology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 118525, Gainesville, FL 32611-8525, USA e-mail:
[email protected] H. Ylönen Konnevesi Research Station, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
are changing that system and have established a new organizational structure for the Editor-in-Chiefs' oYces of Oecologia that better reXects core areas of interest to our readership and the discipline. We hope that this new organizational structure for the submission of manuscripts will allow us to better serve authors and take us into a new era of international integration Beginning on 1 September 2007, authors will be requested to submit to one of six editorial oYces organized around research themes in plant and animal ecology, rather than geographic representation. These oYces are: Aquatic Ecology (Editor-in-Chief, Craig Osenberg, Gainesville, USA): papers that focus on the ecology of marine and freshwater systems. Plant Ecophysiology (Editor-in-Chief, Russell Monson, Boulder, USA): papers that focus on organism-level processes, including plant–animal interactions that focus on herbivory and plant secondary chemistry. Plant Population and Community Ecology (Editorin-Chief, Katherine Gross, Hickory Corners, USA): papers that focus on processes and patterns in plant populations and communities, including reproductive, conservation, and restoration ecology. Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology (Editor-in-Chief, Christian Körner, Basel, Switzerland): papers that focus on ecosystem and soil processes, biogeographic patterns of functional traits in plants, and global change biology. Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology (Editor-in-Chief, Roland Brandl, Marburg, Germany): papers that focus on processes in populations and communities of terrestrial invertebrates, including physiological and behavioral aspects. Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology (Editor-in-Chief, Hannu Ylönen, Jyväskylä, Finland): papers that focus on population and behavioral ecology, community ecology and ecophysiology of terrestrial vertebrates.
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To get a more complete sense of the themes represented by each Editorial OYce, authors should refer to a recent issue of the journal, or to the journal web site, where the Handling Editors working with each oYce are listed. Articles submitted to each oYce will typically be assigned to one of the Handling Editors working with that oYce. We would also like to take this opportunity to emphasize a new commitment to publishing articles that address synthetic and emerging issues in ecology, which are to be published in a section Concepts, Reviews and Syntheses. We are especially interested in papers that ‘cross multiple boundaries in ecology’, ‘provide synthesis to important
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bodies of work’, or delve into ‘new combinations of theory and observations’ with the potential to create new paradigms or challenge existing paradigms. The editors and publishers would like to thank all those contributing to the evaluation and publication of papers in the ecological sciences in Oecologia, and we look forward to continuing this relationship as we move into this next phase of our journal. Sincerely yours, Russell Monson, Roland Brandl, Katherine Gross, Christian Körner, Craig Osenberg, and Hannu Ylönen The Editors-in-Chief, Oecologia
