Ecology Letters

Published on behalf of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Edited by:
Michael Hochberg

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 4/116 (Ecology)
Impact Factor: 8.204

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Ecology Letters is a forum for the very rapid publication of the most novel research in ecology. Manuscripts relating to the ecology of all taxa, in any biome and geographic area will be considered, and priority will be given to those papers exploring or testing clearly stated hypotheses. The journal publishes concise papers that merit urgent publication by virtue of their originality, general interest and their contribution to new developments in ecology. We discourage purely descriptive papers and those merely confirming or extending results of previous work. 

Three types of article are published in Ecology Letters:

• Letters: exciting findings in fast-moving areas
• Ideas and Perspectives: novel essays for a general audience
• Reviews: syntheses of important subjects which merit urgent coverage.

TopNews and Announcements

NEW: 2007 Impact Factor 8.204

Abstracting & Indexing
Ecology Letters is now  featured on PubMed

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Free Content
Ecology Letters Reviews and Syntheses articles are free to download

ISI Interviews Michael Hochberg on the success of Ecology Letters
In a recent analysis of the ISI Essential Science Indicators, Ecology Letters had the highest percent increase in total citations in the field of Environment/Ecology. 

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the AGORA initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our EarlyView feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

TopHighlights

Top downloaded articles

The following articles are the top ten most downloaded articles from the first half of 2008: 

1. A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation
   David Lindenmayer et al
   
2. The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems
   Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Richard D. Bardgett, Nico M. van Straalen
   
3. Epigenetics for ecologists
   Oliver Bossdorf, Christina L. Richards, Massimo Pigliucci
   
4. Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework
   Brian J. McGill et al
   
5. Ecological consequences of genetic diversity
   A. Randall Hughes, Brian D. Inouye, Marc T. J. Johnson, Nora Underwood, Mark Vellend
   
6. Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes
   Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Richard D. Bardgett
   
7. Species' traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity
   Nick M. Haddad, Marcel Holyoak, Tawny M. Mata, Kendi F. Davies, Brett A. Melbourne, Kim Preston
   
8. Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models
   Antoine Guisan, Wilfried Thuiller
   
9. Marine reserve effects on fishery profit
   Crow White, Bruce E. Kendall, Steven Gaines, David A. Siegel, Christopher Costello
   
10. Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness
    Nicholas J.  Gotelli, Robert K.  Colwell
    

 

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