Ecology (ECO)
Section Information
Ecology examines how organisms interact with each other and with their physical environment. It explores patterns and processes across levels from individuals and populations to communities, ecosystems, landscapes, and the entire biosphere.
Modern ecology uses field observations, experiments, remote sensing, modeling, and long-term monitoring to understand biodiversity, species interactions, nutrient and energy flows, and ecosystem responses to natural and human-driven change. These insights help guide conservation, resource management, and climate adaptation.
This section will publish research articles, case studies, and reviews spanning population and community ecology, ecosystem science, biogeography, global change ecology, ecological modeling, behavioral ecology, and applied ecology that informs environmental policy and sustainable management.
Scope
- Population Ecology
- Population dynamics, growth, and regulation
- Life-history strategies and demographic patterns
- Dispersal, movement, and spatial population structure
- Population responses to environmental variability
- Community Ecology
- Species interactions such as competition, predation, and mutualism
- Community assembly, stability, and turnover
- Diversity patterns and coexistence mechanisms
- Food webs and trophic networks
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Energy flow, productivity, and trophic structure
- Nutrient cycling, decomposition, and biogeochemical processes
- Ecosystem function under natural and human disturbances
- Carbon, water, and nutrient budgets across ecosystems
- Landscape and Spatial Ecology
- Landscape structure, connectivity, and fragmentation
- Spatial patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem processes
- Land-use change and habitat transformation
- Remote sensing and geospatial tools in ecology
- Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
- Behavioral strategies for survival and reproduction
- Foraging, mating systems, and social organization
- Adaptive evolution and trait–environment relationships
- Eco-evolutionary feedbacks and long-term dynamics
- Biogeography and Macroecology
- Distribution patterns across regions and gradients
- Island biogeography, dispersal limits, and colonization
- Large-scale drivers of diversity and abundance
- Historical and paleoecological perspectives
- Global Change Ecology
- Climate change impacts on species and ecosystems
- Extreme events, disturbances, and resilience
- Invasive species, pollution, and altered nutrient cycles
- Adaptation, mitigation, and ecosystem-based solutions
- Applied Ecology and Environmental Management
- Habitat restoration and ecological engineering
- Wildlife management and human–wildlife interactions
- Ecosystem services and nature-based solutions
- Ecology for conservation planning and policy
- Ecological Modeling, Monitoring, and Methods
- Mathematical and statistical models in ecology
- Long-term ecological research and monitoring
- Experimental design and field methods
- Data integration, forecasting, and decision-support tools
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