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Peter H Thrall
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Senior Editors
Barbara Han
Senior Editor
Barbara Han
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Disease Ecology
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New York 12545
United States
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Akira Mori
Senior Editor
Akira Mori, Japan
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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Helene Muller-Landau
Senior Editor
Helene Muller-Landau
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Balboa Ancon
Panama, Republic of Panama
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Jonathan Chase
Synthesis
Jonathan Chase
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
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04103 Leipzig
Germany
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John Drake
Perspective and Method papers
John Drake
University of Georgia
Odum School of Ecology
140 E Green St, Athens
Georgia
USA
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Frederick R. Adler
Editor
Frederick R. Adler
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Theoretical ecology, evolutionay ecology, biodiversity,mathematical epidemiology, population dynamics
Michelle Afkhami
Editor
Michelle Afkhami, USA
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Microbiomes, plant-microbial interactions, mutualism, species ranges, global change, ecological genomics, keystone species
William Anderegg
Editor
William Anderegg, USA
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Climate change, Drought, Forest Mortality, Ecophysiology, Vegetation modeling
Sally Archibald
Editor
Sally Archibald, South Africa
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Savanna, vegetation dynamics, fire, grazer ecology, grasslands, global change, biogeography
Louise Amy Ashton
Editor
Louise Amy Ashton, Hong Kong
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Ecology, Canopy, Rainforest, Mountains, Lepidoptera
Edith Bai
Editor
Edith Bai, China
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Stable isotopes, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle, global warming, nitrogen deposition, denitrification
Gyuri Barabas
Editor
Gyuri Barabas, Sweden
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Community ecology, theoretical ecology
Richard D. Bardgett
Editor
Richard D. Bardgett, UK
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Herbivory, terrestrial ecology, soil biodiversity and ecosystem function, nitrogen and carbon cycling, soil ecology
Andrew Barnes
Editor
Andrew Barnes, New Zealand
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Biodiversity and ecosystem function, community ecology, species traits, food webs, land use, spatial ecology, insects, global change
Ignasi Bartomeus
Editor
Ignasi Bartomeus, Spain
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Bees, Plant-pollinator networks, Pollination, Ecosystem functions, Biological invasions, Behavior flexibility, Responses to global change, R statistics
Frida Ben-Ami
Editor
Frida Ben-Ami, Israel
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Evolutionary ecology, Host-parasite coevolution, Virulence, Mollusc, Freshwater snails, Daphnia
Cleo Bertelsmeier
Editor
Cleo Bertelsmeier, Switzerland
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Climate change, invasive species, ants, conservation biology, species distribution models
Carl Boettiger
Editor
Carl Boettiger, USA
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Population dynamics, theoretical ecology, phylogenetics, optimal control, uncertainty, likelihood, stochastic processes
Ulrich Brose
Editor
Ulrich Brose, Germany
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Population dynamics, food webs, keystone species, networks, trophic cascades, interaction strengths
James (Jeb) E Byers
Editor
James (Jeb) E Byers, USA
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Invasive species, trematode parasites, marine ecology, ecosystem engineers, competition, conservation biology, marine reserves, parasite mediated interactions, population ecology, community ecology
Vincent Calcagno
Editor
Vincent Calcagno, France
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Spatially subdivided habitats, Dispersal, adaptive dynamics, Community assembly, Ecological trade-off, Behavior, Movement
Cayelan Carey
Editor
Cayelan Carey, USA
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Freshwater ecosystems, Reservoir ecology, Limnology, Freshwater biogeochemistry, Harmful algal blooms, Eutrophication, Ecological forecasting, Phytoplankton ecology
Jane Catford
Editor
Jane Catford, UK
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Wetlands, plant ecology, biological invasions, community assembly
Ryan Chisholm, Republic of Singapore
Liza Comita
Editor
Liza Comita, USA
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Tropical forest, seedling, forest dynamics, regeneration, species coexistence
Franck Courchamp
Editor
Franck Courchamp, France
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Population dynamics, Conservation biology, Allee effects, Invasion biology, Trophic interactions, Overexploitation, Climate change, Biodiversity
Julien Cote
Editor
Julien Cote (France)
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Dispersal, population biology, intraspecific variation, climate change, behavioral ecology
Jonathan Davies
Editor
Jonathan Davies, Canada
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Phylogeny, macroevolution, species richness, energy, diversification
Nico de Bruyn
Editor
Nico de Bruyn, South Africa
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Pinnipeds, killer whales, population dynamics, body mass estimation, field research techniques
Laura Dee
Editor
Laura Dee, USA
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Biodiversity, ecosystem services, conservation, climate change, community ecology
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Editor
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Spain
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Biogeochemistry, soil ecology, global change, nutrient cycling, drylands, biocrusts, soil microbial ecology
Luc De Meester
Editor
Luc De Meester, Belgium
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Evolutionary ecology, zooplankton, micro-evolution, metacommunities, aquatic ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics
Franciska de Vries
Editor
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Microbial communities , soil , biogeochemical cycling , plant communities , plant-soil interactions , climate change , global change
Hideyuki Doi
Editor
Hideyuki Doi, Japan
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Ecology, Limnology, Climate change, Environmental DNA
Ian Donohue
Editor
Ian Donohue, Ireland
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Ecological stability, aquatic ecology, nutrients, food-web, predation, variability, global change, disturbance, nutrients, lake, sediment
Brian Enquist
Editor
Brian Enquist, USA
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Scaling, plant functional ecology, macroecology, allometry, community ecology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology, global ecology, ecoinformatics
Laura L. Figueroa
Editor
Laura L Figueroa, USA
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Plant-pollinator interactions, community ecology, disease ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem services, agroecology
Claire Fortunel
Editor
Claire Fortunel, France
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Community ecology, functional ecology, phylogenetics, ecosystem functioning, global change
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Editor
Jean-Michel Gaillard, France
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Population Dynamics, Life history evolution, Demography, Senescence, Sex ratio variation
José Marìa Gomez
Editor
José Marìa Gomez, Spain
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Plant-animal interaction, pollination ecology, coevolution, evolutionary ecology, genetical ecology, seed dispersal, plant reproductive ecology, phenotypic evolution, natural selection
Gregory Grether
Editor
Gregory Grether, USA
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Evolutionary behavioral ecology, aggression, interference competition, character displacement, sexual selection, animal coloration
Editor
Paulo Roberto Guimaraes, Brazil
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Ecological networks, mutualisms, theoretical ecology, coevolution, interaction webs, mutualisms
Vishwesha Guttal
Editor
Vishwesha Guttal, India
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Regime shifts, critical transitions, theoretical ecology, alternative stable states, early warning signals, spatial ecology, self-organisation, collective animal behavior, tipping points
Nick Haddad
Editor
Nick Haddad, USA
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Corridor, connectivity, habitat fragmentation, rare species, biodiversity
Fangliang He
Editor
Fangliang He, Canada
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Biostatistics, spatial statistics, biological conservation, scaling, metapopulation dynamics, competition, biodiversity, macroecology, biogeography
Mikko Heino
Editor
Mikko Heino, Norway
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Life history evolution, fisheries ecology, harvesting, spatially structured populations, evolutionary ecology
Punidan Jeyasingh
Editor
Punidan Jeyasingh, USA
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Ecological stoichiometry, limnology, evolutionary ecology, aquatic ecology, ecological physiology, daphnia, nutritional physiology, ecological genomics, phenotypic plasticity, zooplankton
Anna Jolles
Editor
Anna Jolles, USA
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Disease ecology, population dynamics, ungulate, parasite interactions, mycobacterium bovis
Eelke Jongejans
Editor
Eelke Jongejans, Netherlands
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Population ecology, integral projection models, trend analysis, dispersal, spatial dynamics, bird demography
Ferenc Jordàn
Editor
Ferenc Jordàn, Hungary
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Food web, keystone species, connectivity, fragmentation, indirect interactions, social network
Po-Ju Ke
Editor
Po-Ju Ke, Taiwan
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Plant-soil feedback, Theoretical ecology, Species coexistence, community assembly, Niche difference
Johannes M H Knops
Editor
Johannes M H Knops, USA
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Biological invasions, Biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, plant ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, community ecology, agroecology
Meghna Krishnadas
Editor
Meghna Krishnadas, India
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Community assembly, species coexistence, vegetation dynamics, biodiversity, functional traits, global change
Kevin Lafferty
Editor
Kevin Lafferty, USA
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Parasites, Food webs, Dilution effect, Snowy Plover, Trematode
Jonathan Lenoir
Editor
Jonathan Lenoir, France
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Climate change, species distribution modelling, species diversity, species richness, species turnover, community assembly, biogeography, macroecology, species range shift
Lee Hsiang Liow
Editor
Lee Hsiang Liow, Norway
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Paleobiology, paleoecology, macroevolution, marine benthos, time-series, phenotypic evolution
Lingli Liu
Editor
Lingli Liu, China
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Global change, climate change, nitrogen deposition, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, decomposition, meta-analysis
Dustin Marshall
Editor
Dustin Marshall, Australia
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Marine community ecology, offspring size, maternal effects, competition, egg size, marine, phenotypic plasticity, egg size, quantitative genetics
Jason Matthiopoulos, UK
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Margaret Mayfield
Editor
Margaret Mayfield, Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phylogenetics, community assembly, functional ecology, tropical plant ecology, pollination, dispersal
Camille Mellin
Editor
Camille Mellin, Australia
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Fish, coral reef, biodiversity, spatial, model
Sean Michaletz
Editor
Sean Michaletz, Canada
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Macroecology, plant physiolgical ecology, ecophysiology, scaling, climate change
Arne Mooers
Editor
Arne Mooers, Canada
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Comparative Methods, Phylogenetics, biodiversity, ENSO, molecular evolution
Juan Manuel Morales
Editor
Juan Morales, United Kingdom
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Population dynamics, landscape, movement, dispersal, frugivory
Erin Mordecai
Editor
Erin Mordecai, USA
email: [email protected]
Disease ecology, mathematical models, community ecology, population dynamics, coexistence
David Mouillot
Editor
David Mouillot, France
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Fish, functional diversity, macroecology, model, indices
Stephen Munch
Editor
Stephen Munch, USA
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Population dynamics, dynamic optimization, statistics, life history, growth, time series, contemporary evolution, transgenerational plasticity
Tamara Münkemüller
Editor
Tamara Münkemüller, France
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Community assembly, plant soil interactions, functional diversity, climate change experiments, diversity pattern analyses, diversity distribution
Shuli Niu
Editor
Shuli Niu, China
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Ecosystem ecology, global change, biogeoscience, carbon cycle, climate change
Ryan Norris
Editor
Ryan Norris, Canada
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Migration, stable isotopes, behavioural ecology, birds, connectivity
Vojtech Novotny
Editor
Vojtech Novotny, Czech Republic
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Tropical forests, plant-insect interactions, insect communities, biodiversity, herbivory, food webs, conservation ecology
Rick Ostfeld
Editor
Rick Ostfeld, USA
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Infectious disease, biodiversity, community ecology, mammals, parasite ecology
Jelena Pantel
Editor
Jelena Pantel, France
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Invasion, metacommunity, population differentiation, population genetics, hybridization, eco-evolutionary dynamics, invasion resistance, community ecology, Daphnia pulex
Josep Peñuelas
Editor
Josep Peñuelas, Spain
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Mediterranean ecosystems, plant ecophysiology, VOCs, terrestrial ecosystems, plant ecophysiology, atmosphere-biosphere relationships, climate change, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, global change, climate change
Malin L. Pinsky
Editor
Malin L. Pinsky, USA
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Population genetics, spatial ecology, marine ecology, conservation, fish, climate change
Mathias Pires
Editor
Mathias Pires, Brazil
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Community ecology, ecological networks, food webs, extinction, paleoecology, macroevolution, seed dispersal
Timothée Poisot
Editor
Timothée Poisot, Canada
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specialization, machine learning, coevolution, food webs, biogeography, Ecological networks, artificial intelligence, ecosystem functioning, big data
Marcel Rejmanek
Editor
Marcel Rejmanek, USA
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Plant invasions, succession, regeneration of tropical forests, Plant communities, seed dispersal
Heather Reynolds
Editor
Heather Reynolds, USA
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Plant coexistence, plant competition, plant-soil-microbe, invasive species, soil heterogeneity
Pejman Rohani
Editor
Pejman Rohani, USA
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Population dynamics, epidemics, time-series, infectious diseases, pertussis transmission, stochasticity, models, host-parasite
Kristen Ruegg
Editor
Kristen Ruegg, USA
email: [email protected]
Population genetics, speciation, hybrid zones, conservation genetics, evolutionary ecology, molecular ecology
Rob Salguero-Gómez
Editor
Rob Salguero-Gómez, UK
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Functional traits, Demography, Phylogenetic analyses, Comparative biology, Life history evolution, Senescence, Integral Projection Models, Matrix Population Models, Phylogenetic comparisons
Thad Scott
Editor
Thad Scott, USA
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Limnology, biogeochemistry, ecological stoichiometry, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle
Marc-André Selosse
Editor
Marc-André Selosse, France
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Mycorrhizae, population biology of mycorrhizal fungi, orchids, mycorrhizal networks, evolution
Christoph Scherber
Editor
Christoph Scherber, Germany
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Herbivory, biodiversity, plant-insect interactions, biodiversity, climate change, data review
Emily Shepard
Editor
Emily Shepard, UK
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Behaviour, movement ecology, strategy, energetics, flight, dive, biologging
Lauren Shoemaker
Editor
Lauren Shoemaker, USA
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Mathematical modeling, metacommunity, environmental gradients, coexistence theory, body mass distribution, paleoecology, dispersal, synchrony
Andrew Sih
Editor
Andrew Sih, USA
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Freshwater, behaviour, population ecology, community ecology, life history traits, sexual selection, species invasions, pesticides, predator-prey ecology
Gabriele Sorci
Editor
Gabriele Sorci, France
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Behavioural ecology, ecological immunology, evolution, Life history, sexual selection, host-parasite interactions
Orr Spiegel
Editor
Orr Spiegel, Israel
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Movement ecology, long-distance dispersal, vultures, animal personality, social networks, optimal foraging, seed dispersal
Adrian Stier
Editor
Adrian Stier, USA
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Coral Reefs, population ecology, community ecology, reef fish, restoration ecology, settlement, marine ecology
David Storch
Editor
David Storch, Czech Republic
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Species richness, species-energy relationship, patterns in species distributions, abundance, species-area relationship, self-similarity, scaling, null models, birds, Fractals
Nathan Swenson
Editor
Nathan Swenson, USA
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Functional trait, phylogeny, tropical forest ecology, forest dynamics plot, niche conservatism, trait evolution, transcriptome, functional ecology, macro ecology, community ecology
Marlee Tucker
Editor
Marlee Tucker, Netherlands
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Macroecology, mammal, allometry, evolution, phylogenetic analysis
Ted Turlings
Editor
Ted Turlings, Switzerland
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Chemical ecology, plant-insect ecology, agro-ecology, tritrophic interactions, biological control
Wim H. van der Putten
Editor
Wim H. van der Putten, The Netherlands
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Multitrophic interactions, soil pathogens, soil ecology, plant-soil feedback, plant defence, pathogens, nematodes, linking above-belowground, biological invasions
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Montserrat Vilà
Editor
Montserrat Vilà, Spain
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Biological invasions, disturbance, alien species, Mediterranean vegetation, plant competition
Cyrille Violle
Editor
Cyrille Violle, France
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Functional ecology, functional biogeography, community ecology, macroecology, species coexistence, allometry, domestication
Shaopeng Wang
Editor
Shaopeng Wang, China
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Theoretical ecology, spatial ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, stability, food webs, metacommunities, scaling, species coexistence
David Westneat
Editor
David Westneat, USA
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Keywords: sexual selection, sexual conflict, extra-pair paternity, plasticity, mating behavior
John J. Wiens
Editor
John J. Wiens, USA
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Species richness, phylogeny, evolution, speciation, niche
John Williams
Editor
John Williams, USA
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Pollen, vegetation dynamics, diversity, Biomes, Land Cover Change, productivity, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, climate, global change
Tim Wootton
Editor
Tim Wootton, USA
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Experimental ecology, community ecology, marine ecology, river ecology, indirect effects, food web, interaction strength
Data Editors
Morenikeji Deborah Akinlotan
Data Editor
Morenikeji Deborah Akinlotan, Australia
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Data review
Greg Albery
Data Editor
Greg Albery, USA
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Disease ecology, ecoimmunology, life history evolution, epidemiology, parasitology, animal behaviour, social networks, spatial analysis
Ignasi Bartomeus
Data Editor
Ignasi Bartomeus, Spain
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Community ecology, pollination, biodiversity, ecosystem services, global change, phenology
Diana Bowler
Data Editor
Diana Bowler, Germany
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Population ecology, global change ecology, climate change, biodiversity monitoring, statistical modelling, species distributions, data review
Tad Dallas
Data Editor
Tad Dallas, USA
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Population ecology, Disease ecology, Host-pathogen interactions, data review
Pietro D'Amelio
Data Editor
Pietro D'Amelio, France
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Communication, cooperation, birds, animal behavior, monogamy
Erola Fenollosa
Data Editor
Erola Fenollosa, UK
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Ecophysiology, invasive plants, ecological modelling, seed longevity, abiotic stress
Owen Forbes
Data Editor
Owen Forbes, Australia
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Matthew Grainger
Data Editor
Matthew Grainger, Norway
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Data review, meta analysis, Bayesian modelling, population ecology, Evidence synthesis
Tamara Hartke
Data Editor
Tamara Hartke, Germany
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Biodiversity, insects, arthropods, biogeography, agroecosystems, data review
Kosmas Hench
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Kosmas Hench, Germany
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Data review, evolutionary biology, speciation, adaptation, inbreeding, population genetics, genome assembly, bioinformatics, reef fish, pinnipeds
Edward Ivimey-Cook
Data Editor
Edward Ivimey-Cook, UK
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Ageing, life-history, data review, meta-analysis, systematic review, evolutionary ecology
Nicholas Moran
Data Editor
Nicholas Moran, Australia
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Ecophysiology, invasive plants, ecological modelling, seed longevity, abiotic stress
Gilberto Pastorello
Data Editor
Gilberto Pastorello, USA
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Scientific data, environmental data, ecological data, earth systems data, data Science, data Engineering
Quentin Petitjean
Data Editor
Quentin Petitjean, France
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Evolutionnary-ecotoxicology, Multiple stressors, Behaviour, Eco-physiology, Ecology, Data review
Camille Piponiot-Laroche
Data Editor
Camille Piponiot-Laroche, France
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Ecology, tropical forests, modelling, environmental sciences, resilience, data review
Arthur Rodrigues
Data Editor
Arthur Rodrigues, Finland
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Data review, community ecology, species distribution models, biogeography, macroevolution, macroecology, functional traits
Afredo Sánchlez-Tójar
Data Editor
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Germany
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Meta-analysis, transgenerational effects, early-life effects, status signalling, dominance, data review
Christoph Scherber
Data Editor
Christoph Scherber, Germany
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Herbivory, biodiversity, plant-insect interactions, biodiversity, climate change, data review
Sylvain Schmitt
Data Editor
Sylvain Schmitt, France
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Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Quantitative genomics, Tropical Forest Ecology
Chuliang Song
Data Editor
Chuliang Song, USA
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Ecology, population dynamics, complex network, feasibility, mutualistic network, data review
Natalie Van Dis
Data Editor
Natalie Van Dis, Finland
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Data review, rapid adaptation, climate change, phenology, ecological genomics
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