Journal of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie)

Basic and Applied Ecology provides a forum in which ecological advances and ideas can be rapidly communicated to a wide audience. Basic and Applied Ecology publishes Reviews, Perspectives and Original Contributions from all areas of ecology, complemented by Invited Views, Comments and Special Issues. Ecologists from all countries are invited to publish ecological research of general ecological and international interest on its pages, as there is no bias with regard to taxon or geographical area.
Papers in Basic and Applied Ecology include topical research in areas such as biodiversity and associated functions and services, response to global change across latitudes as well as multitrophic interactions. New project designs and methods are also welcome. The main research areas covered by Basic and Applied Ecology are Conservation Ecology, Applied Ecology, Community and Population Ecology, Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology, and Functional Ecology, but contributions from other fields will also be considered. Basic and Applied Ecology actively solicits papers that strive to integrate the various disciplines and issues within the broad field of ecology.
Basic and Applied Ecology published its first volumes in 2000 and is the official journal of the "Gesellschaft fur Okologie", the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. For members of the "Gesellschaft fur Okologie" free access to the online version of Basic and Applied Ecology (BAAE) is included in their membership fee (75 Euro per year). Please contact the society's office (E-mail: info@gfoe.org) to become a member.

reviews
perspectives
original contributions
Letters to the Editor

Editor-in-Chief
Teja Tscharntke
Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Waldweg 26, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany
Managing Editor
Klaus Hövemeyer
University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Book Review Editor
Jonathan Jeschke
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) & Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Subject Editor
Conservation Ecology
Nico Blüthgen
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
David Kleijn
Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, Netherlands
Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki
MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
Applied Ecology
Alexandra-Maria Klein
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Stacy Philpott
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Tatyana A. Rand, PhD
United States Department of Agriculture USDA), Sidney, Montana, USA
Catrin Westphal
University of Göttingen, Germany
Community and Population Ecology
Vesna Gagić
CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
Claudio Gratton
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Lorenzo Marini
University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology
Ansgar Kahmen
Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Julia Koricheva
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
Douglas Landis
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Functional Ecology
Katja Andrea Poveda, PhD
Cornell University, New York, USA
Taryn L. Bauerle, PhD
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Stefan Scheu
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany