Journal of Ecology publishes original articles on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. We will publish papers concerned solely with cultivated plants and agricultural ecosystems if such articles address important ecological or evolutionary questions. Studies of plant communities, populations or individual species are accepted, as well as studies of the interactions between plants and animals, fungi or bacteria.

We aim to bring important work using any ecological approach (including molecular techniques) to a wide international audience and therefore only publish papers with strong and ecological messages that advance our understanding of ecological principles. The research presented must transcend the limits of case studies. Both experimental and theoretical studies are accepted, as are descriptive or historical accounts, although these must offer insights into issues of general interest to ecologists.

Editorial Board
Executive Editor
 
 
 
David J. Gibson
 
Professor of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University, USA
 
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David’s research encompasses all aspects of plant population and community ecology, especially in temperate grassland, deciduous forest, or agroecosystems. Foci include invasive species, rare species, restoration ecology, seeking to understand the spatial and temporal patterns and processes underlying plant interactions, the role of dominant plants, and the effects of intraspecific variation.
 
Senior Editors
 
 
 
Richard D. Bardgett
 
Professor of Ecology at The University of Manchester, UK
 
Richard’s research is concerned with understanding the roles that linkages between aboveground and belowground communities play in regulating the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, and their response to global change. Much of his current research is focussed on understanding the role that plant-soil interactions play in the delivery of ecosystem services, especially soil carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling.
 
 
Mark Rees
 
Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Sheffield, UK
 
Mark is interested in a wide range of ecological and evolutionary problems. He uses a range of approaches from simple analytical models, through to evolutionary stable strategy models for the evolution of plant traits and more complex structured models, in particular integral projection models. He is also interested in statistical estimation problems related to the analysis and interpretation of ecological experiments, and in a more applied setting, using models to explore the dynamics and control of invasive weeds.
 
 
Amy T. Austin
 
Assistant Professor of Ecology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
Amy's broad scale research interests are in the area of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, particularly related to abiotic and biotic controls on ecosystem processes. Amy's field sites cover a range of natural and human modified ecosystems in Patagonia, Argentina where she is researching controls on litter decomposition, biogeochemical cycles, natural abundance of stable isotopes, and the potential impacts of global change in a range of grassland and forest ecosystems.
 
 
Anthony J. Davy (Biological Flora of the British Isles)
 
Professor of Ecology at the University of East Anglia, UK
 
Tony's research focuses mainly on plant ecology in coastal and aquatic systems, ecological restoration and conservation, frequently involving population-based and eco-physiological studies that are aimed at both the advancement of ecological understanding and its practical application. Much of his work is designed to provide scientific under-pinning for species conservation for or the reconstruction of degraded ecosystems.
 
Blog Editor
Pierre Mariotte
Agroscope, Grazing Systems Group, Nyon, Switzerland
Pierre’s research focuses on the role of aboveground and belowground interactions in mediating climate change impacts in grassland ecosystems. His research is field-oriented and aims at better understanding how soil microbial community can improve plant resistance against drought, and how these plant-soil interactions maintain community stability and ecosystem functioning. Much of his interest is related to nutrient stoichiometry, plant functional traits, fungal community, mycorrhizae, drought-resistant subordinate plants, climate and land-use change, ecosystem processes and services. His approach includes a wide range of techniques, such as microbial community analysis, isotopic labeling, tomography and gas exchange measurements.
 
Associate Editors
Rien Aerts, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eric Allan, University of Bern, Switzerland
Peter Alpert, University of Massachusetts, USA
Kelly Andersen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Christine Angelini, University of Florida, USA
Meghan Avolio, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, USA
Ignasi Bartomeus, EBD-CSIC, Spain
Deepak Barua, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Giovanna Battipaglia, University of Campania, Italy
Peter Bellingham, Landcare Research, New Zealand
Noelle Beckman, Utah State University, USA
Stephen Bonser, University of New South Wales, Australia
Caroline Brophy, Maynooth University, Ireland
Yvonne Buckley, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
JC Cahill, University of Alberta, Canada
Heather Campbell, Harper Adams University, UK
Kun-Fang Cao, Guangxi University, China
Jane Catford, King’s College London, UK
Cynthia Chang, University of Washington, USA
Samantha Chapman, Villanova University, USA
Han Chen, Lakehead University, Canada
Chengjin Chu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Hans Cornelissen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
James Dalling, University of Illinois, USA
Hans De Kroon, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Frederik De Laender, Université de Namur ASBL, Belgium
Guillaume de Lafontaine, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada
Franciska De Vries, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, The Netherlands
Giselda Durigan, Instituto Florestal do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Andrew Dyer, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA
Nancy Emery, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Emily Farrer, Tulane University, USA
Jason Fridley, Syracuse University, USA
Dan Friess, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cristina Garcia, CIBIO/InBio, Portugal
Frank Gilliam, University of West Florida, USA
Lorena Gómez-Aparicio, IRNAS-CSIC, Spain
Matt Heard, National Trust, UK
Andrew Hector, University of Oxford, UK
Martin Heil, CINVESTAV - Irapuato, Mexico
Randall Hughes, Northeastern University, USA
Amy Iler, Chicago Botanic Garden, USA
Hans Jacquemyn, University of Leuven, Belgium
Elizabeth Jeffers, University of Oxford, UK
Tommaso Jucker, CSIRO, Australia
Paul Kardol, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Etienne Laliberté, University of Montréal, Canada
Eric Lamb, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Bérangère Leys, Chrono-environnement lab, CNRS, France
Emily Lines, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Xiaojuan Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Pierre Mariotte, Agroscope, Grazing Systems Group, Switzerland
Glenn Matlack, Ohio University, USA
Crystal McMichael, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Liesje Mommer, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Christer Nilsson, Umea University, Sweden 
Natalia Norden, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia
Ayub Oduor, Technical University of Kenya, Kenya
Imma Oliveras, University of Oxford, UK
Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, CONICET-UNC, Argentina
Ryan Phillips, Australian National University, Australia
Ana Pineda, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands
Frida Piper, CIEP, Chile
Alison Power, Cornell University, USA
Honor Prentice, Lund University, Sweden
Nicole Rafferty, University of California Riverside, USA
Julieta Rosell, UNAM, Mexico
Paloma Ruiz-Benito, University of Alcalá, Spain
Mahasweta Saha, Plymouth University, UK
Roberto Salguero-Gómez, University of Oxford, UK
Mahesh Sankaran, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Akiko Satake, Kyushu University, Japan
Susan Schwinning, Texas State University, USA
Marina Semchenko, The University of Manchester, UK
Richard Shefferson, University of Tokyo, Japan
Brian Silliman, Duke University, USA
Brajesh Singh, Western Sydney University, Australia
Daniel Smale, Marine Biological Association, UK
Carla Staver, Yale University, USA
Iain Stott, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Nathan Swenson, University of Maryland, USA
Peter Thrall, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Kathy van Alstyne, Western Washington University, USA
Nicole van Dam, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany
Marcel van der Heijden, Agroscope Reckenholz, Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Vesk, University of Melbourne, Australia
David Wardle, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kenneth Whitney, University of New Mexico, USA
Gail Wilson, Oklahoma State University, USA
Nina Wurzburger, University of Georgia, USA
Shurong Zhou, Fudan University, China
Gerhard Zotz, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Pieter Zuidema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Tobias Züst, University of Bern, Switzerland
Biological Flora of the British Isles Associate Editors
Mick Crawley, Imperial College London, UK
Oliver Pescott, Biological Records Centre, UK
Chris Preston, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK
Charlotte Seal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
David Streeter, University of Sussex, UK
Peter Thomas, Keele University, UK
Michael Usher, University of Stirling, UK
Kevin Walker, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, UK
Editorial Office
Managing Editor:  Andrea Baier
Assistant Editor:  Rhiannon Robins