Oecologia publishes innovative ecological research of international interest. We seek reviews, advances in methodology, and original contributions, emphasizing the following areas:

Population ecology
Plant-microbe-animal interactions
Ecosystem ecology
Community ecology
Global change ecology
Conservation ecology
Behavioral ecology
Physiological Ecology

In general, studies that are purely descriptive, mathematical, documentary, and/or natural history will not be considered.

In the Concepts, Reviews and Syntheses section, we seek papers on emerging issues in ecology, especially those that cross multiple boundaries in ecology, provide synthesis of important bodies of work or delve into new combinations of theory and observations with the potential to create new paradigms or challenge existing paradigms. These papers are usually invited, but we welcome unsolicited contributions.

In the Views and Comments section, we seek short papers with the intent to provide contrary and/or broader perspectives on papers recently published in Oecologia. Alternatively, pairs of short papers which present opposing views on a topic of high interest in the ecological research community will be published in this section, with the intent to stimulate open debate. In both cases, the papers must be relatively short (up to 3 printed pages in the case of comments on previously-published work or up to 5 printed pages in the case of opposing view pairs of papers), and to contain not only an opinion or criticism on methods or statistics, but also relevant conceptual arguments and/or new data analyses that support the opposing view or comment. Manuscripts or letters intended for the Views and Comments section will be reviewed by one of the Editors-in-Chief and a Handling Editor in the field appropriate to the submission.

Special Features are collections of integrated papers on a critical topics of broad interest. Proposals for Special Features should be submitted to Nicolas Lecomte at nicolas.lecomte@umoncton.ca .

Methods are papers that outline new approaches that address standing questions in the discipline.

Original Research provide the core of our journal and represent original investigations that offer new insights into ecological systems.

The editors endorse the "Guiding principles in the care and use of animals" (approved by the Council of the American Physiological Society). All animal experiments reported in this journal must have been conducted in conformity with these principles. Editors are instructed to refuse papers in which evidence of the adherence of these principles is not apparent. Differences of opinion will be adjudicated by the Editorial Board.

The acceptance of a paper implies that it has been scrutinized and recommended by at least two reviewers.

Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement to the effect that all human studies have been reviewed by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in an appropriate version of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. It should also be stated clearly in the text that all persons gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. Details that might disclose the identity of the subjects under study should be omitted.

Please include at the end of the acknowledgements a declaration that the experiments comply with the current laws of the country in which the experiments were performed.

The Editors in Chief reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or for failure to fulfil the above-mentioned requirements.

Editors in Chief:
Carlos L. Ballaré (Plant Interactions: Plant-Microbe and Plant-Animal)
IFEVA
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Avda. San Martín 4453
C1417 DSE Buenos Aires, Argentina
email: ballare@ifeva.edu.ar
Roland Brandl (Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology)
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Fachbereich Biologie
AG Allgemeine Ökologie und Tierökologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 8
35032 Marburg, Germany
e-mail: oecologia@staff.uni-marburg.de
Katherine L. Gross (Plant Population and Community Ecology)
Michigan State University
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
3700 E. Gull Lake Dr.
Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA
e-mail: grossk@kbs.msu.edu
Russell K. Monson (Plant Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology)
University of Arizona
School of Natural Resources and the Environment and
Laboratory for Tree Ring Research
Bio Sciences East
1311 E. 4th St.
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
email: russmonson@email.arizona.edu
Joel Trexler (Aquatic Ecology)
Florida International University
Department of Biological Sciences
3000 NE 151 St
North Miami, FL 33181, USA
email: trexlerj@fiu.edu
Hannu Ylönen (Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology)
Director, Konnevesi Research Station
Dept. of Biological and Environmental Science 
University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35
40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
e-mail: oecologia-hy@jyu.fi

Editorial Board:

Aquatic Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Joel Trexler, North Miami, USA)

Handling Editors:
Ross Alford, Townsville, Australia
Leon Barmuta, Hobart, Australia
Lisa Belden, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Maarten Boersma, Helgoland, Germany
Bryan Brown, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Deron Burkepile, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
David Chalcraft, Greenville, NC, USA
Don DeAngelis, Coral Gables, FL, USA
James Fourqurean, Miami, FL, USA
Donovan German, Irvine, CA, USA
Robert O. Hall, Polson, MT, USA
Jason T. Hoverman, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Pieter Johnson, Boulder, CO, USA
Jamie Kneitel, Sacramento, CA, USA
Jill Lancaster, Parkville, Australia
Craig Layman, Raleigh, NC, USA
Jeremy Long, San Diego, CA, USA
Helene Marsh, Townsville, Australia
Pablo Munguia, Adelaide, Australia
Scott Peacor, East Lansing, MI, USA
Peter Petraitis, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Nicole Phillips, Wellington, New Zealand
Dan Reed, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Stuart Sandin, La Jolla, CA, USA
Jonathan Shurin, San Diego, CA, USA
Brian Shuter, Toronto, Canada
Ulrich Sommer, Kiel, Germany
Howard Whiteman, Murray, KY, USA
Aaron Wirsing, Seattle, WA, USA

Plant Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Russell Monson, Tucson, USA)
Handling Editors:
Gerardo Avalos, San Pedro, Costa Rica
David Bowling, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Nina Buchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Mercedes Bustamante, Brasilia, Brazil
Evan H. DeLucia, Urbana, IL, USA*
James R. Ehleringer, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Jennifer L. Funk, Orange, CA, USA
Arthur Gessler, Zurich, Switzerland
Miguel Gonzalez-Meler, Chicago, IL, USA
Allan T. G. Green, Hamilton, New Zealand
Stephan Hättenschwiler, Montpellier, France 
Hermann Heilmeier, Freiberg, Germany
Kouki Hikosaka, Aoba, Japan
Jeremy Lichstein, Gainesville, FL, USA
Frederick C. Meinzer, Corvallis, OR, USA
Duncan N.L. Menge, New York, NY, USA
Ulo Niinemets, Tartu, Estland
Pascal A. Niklaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Phillips, Bloomington, IN, USA
David A. Pyke, Corvallis, OR, USA
Susana Rodriguez-Echeverria, Coimbra, Portugal
Rowan F. Sage, Toronto, Canada
Louis S. Santiago, Riverside, CA, USA
Susan Schwinning, San Marcos, TX, USA
Timothy R. Seastedt, Boulder, CO, USA
John Stark, Logan, UT, USA
Heather Throop, Tempe, AZ, USA
David Tissue, Sydney, Australia
Fernando Valladares, Madrid, Spain
Håkan Wallander, Lund, Sweden
Joy Ward, Lawrence, KS, USA
Plant Population and Community Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Katherine Gross, Hickory Corners, USA)

Handling Editors:
Edith Allen, Riverside, CA, USA
Thomas Carlo, University Park, PA, USA
Kendi F. Davies, Boulder, CO, USA
Sarah Emery, Louisville, KY, USA
Yu-Long Feng, Shenyang, China
Marie-Josie Fortin, Toronto, Canada
Douglas A. Frank, Syracuse, NY, USA
Monica Geber, Ithaca, NY, USA
Catherine Gehring, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Quito, Ecuador
Yanjie Liu, Changchun, China
Jonathan A. Myers, St. Louis, WA, USA
Amy Parachnowitsch, Uppsala, Sweden
Anne Pringle, Madison, WI, USA
Christiane Roscher, Leipzig, Germany
Carly Steven, Lancaster, UK
Casey P. terHorst, Northridge, CA, USA
Brian Wilsey, Ames, IA, USA
Anne C. Worley, Winnipeg, Canada

Plant Interactions: Plant-Microbe and Plant-Animal (Editor-in-Chief: Carlos L. Ballaré, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Handling Editors: 
Amy T. Austin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Evan H. DeLucia, Urbana, IL, USA*
Jessica Forrest, Ottawa, Canada
Candace Galen, Columbia, MO, USA
Moshe Inbar, Haifa, Israel
Merijn Kant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ian Kaplan, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Richard Karban, Davis, CA, USA
Caroline Mueller, Bielefeld, Germany
Colin M. Orians, Medford, MA, USA
Corné M. J. Pieterse, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joel Sachs, Riverside, CA, USA 
Jennifer Thaler, Ithaca, NY, USA
David Watson, Albury, Australia
Susan Whitehead, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Roland Brandl, Marburg, Germany) 

Handling Editors:
Sven Bacher, Fribourg, Switzerland
Riccardo Bommarco, Uppsala, Sweden
Raphael Didham, Perth, Australia
Nina Farwig, Marburg, Germany
Konrad Fiedler, Wien, Austria
Klaus Fischer, Greifswald, Germany
Heloise Gibb, Melbourne, Australia
George Heimpel, St. Paul, MN, USA
Diethart Matthies, Marburg, Germany
Wolf M. Mooij, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands
Sylvain Pincebourde, Tours, France
Andreas Prinzing, Rennes, France
Liliane Rueß, Berlin, Germany
Stefan Scheu, Darmstadt, Germany
Evan Siemann, Houston, TX, USA
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Würzburg, Germany
Wolfgang W. Weisser, München, Germany
Volkmar Wolters, Giessen, Germany


Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Hannu Ylönen, Jyväskylä, Finland)

Handling Editors:
Anders Angerbjörn, Stockholm, Sweden
Peter B. Banks, Sydney, Australia
Matthew Crowther, Sydney, Australia
Frauke Ecke, Umeå, Sweden
Jean-Michel Gaillard, Villeurbanne, France
Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Hamburg, Germany
Ilpo Kojola, Oulu, Finland
Pawel Koteja, Krakow, Poland
Indrikis Krams, Daugavpils, Latvia
Thomas Koert Lameris, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Joanna E. Lambert, Boulder, CO, USA
Nicolas Lecomte, Moncton, Canada
Jean-Francoise Le Galliard, Paris, France
Herwig Leirs, Antwerpen, Belgium
Thomas Lilley, Liverpool, UK
Oliver Love, Windsor, Canada
Kevin Matson, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Seth Newsome, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Ola Olsson, Lund, Sweden
Markku Orell, Oulu, Finland
Hannu Pöysä, Joensuu, Finland
Lin Schwarzkopf, Townsville, Australia
Michael Sheriff, University Park, PA, USA
Janne Sundell, Helsinki, Finland
Robert Thomson, Pretoria, South Africa
Raoul Van Damme, Wilrijk, Belgium
Christian Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Chris Whelan, Chicago, IL, USA
Blair Wolf, Albuquerque, NM, USA
*shared between offices