COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY was launched in 2000 following the merger of two well-established ecological periodicals, Coenoses and Abstracta Botanica in an effort to create a common global forum for community ecologists. See the contents of its first eight volumes (2000 - 2007). The scope of the journal includes, but is not restricted to, the following subject areas: Community-based ecological theory. Modelling of ecological communities. Community-based ecophysiology. Temporal dynamics, including succession. Trophic interactions, including food webs and competition. Spatial pattern analysis, including scaling issues. Community patterns of species richness and diversity. Sampling ecological communities. Data analysis methods, including multivariate analysis and geostatistics. Experimentally-based field studies of plant, animal and/or microbial communities, in terrestrial, marine or freshwater systems, are welcome. Purely descriptive studies will not normally be accepted for publication.