Global Change Biology exists to promote understanding of the interface between all aspects of current environmental change that affects a substantial part of the globe and biological systems. Studies must concern biological systems, regardless of whether they are aquatic or terrestrial, and managed or natural environments. Both biological responses and feedbacks to change are included, and may be considered at any level of organization from molecular to biome. Studies may employ theoretical, modeling, analytical, experimental, observational, and historical approaches and should be exploratory rather than confirmatory. GCB publishes primary research articles, technical advances, research reviews, commentaries and letters.
Global Change Biology defines global change as any consistent trend in the environment - past, present or projected - that affects a substantial part of the globe. Examples include:
rising tropospheric ozone, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide concentrations
increasing UV-B irradiation
global climate change
biological sinks and sources of atmospheric trace gases
eutrophication
land use change
loss of biodiversity
biological feedback on climate change
biological mitigation for atmospheric change

All manuscripts relating to aspects of biofuel production from forestry, crop production, enzymatic deconstruction and microbial fuel synthesis to implications for biodiversity, ecosystem services, economics, policy and global change should be submitted to GCB Bioenergy www.GCBBioenergy.com, a new sister journal of Global Change Biology.  These will no longer be considered for publication in Global Change Biology.

Editor
Steve Long, Chief Editor, University of Illinois, USA
Executive Editor
Rachel Shekar, University of Illinois, USA
E-mail: gcb@life.illinois.edu
Assistant Editor
Rhea Bruno, University of Illinois, USA
Co-Founding Editor
Harry Smith FRS, University of Nottingham, UK
Reviews Editor
Danielle Way, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Subject Editors
Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois, USA
Maria Byrne, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
William Cheung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Richard Conant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
M. Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Phillip Gienapp, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands
Paul Hanson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Sue Hartley, University of York, UK
Ivan Janssens, University of Antwerp, Belgium 
T. Hefin Jones, Cardiff University, UK
Michael Jones, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Miko Kirschbaum, Landcare Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Kazuhiko Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yiqi Luo, Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA
Richard Pearson, University College London, London, UK
Josep Peñuelas, CREAF-CSIC Barcelona, Spain
Shilong Piao, Peking University, China
Sharon Robinson, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Rowan Sage, University of Toronto, Canada
David J. Smith, University of Essex, UK
Peter Smith, University of Aberdeen, UK
David J. Suggett, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Stephen J. Thackeray, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Editorial Advisory Board
Elizabeth A Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Urbana, IL, USA
Michael Ashcroft, University of Wollongong, Australia
Senthold Asseng, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Jon Bennie, Exeter University, Penryn, UK
Stef Bok, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ben Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest Lab/University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Philip Boyd, University of Tasmania, Australia
Jofre Carnicer, Centre de Recerca EcologicaI Aplicacions and Forestals-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain
Huai Chen, Chengdu Institute of Biology, China
Marleen Cobben, University of Würzburg, Germany
Martin G De Kauwe, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
Michael Dietze, Boston University, MA, USA
Kunshan Gao, Xiamen University, China
Christopher Hassall, University of Leeds, UK
Alistair Hobday, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Hobart, Australia
Richard Houghton, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA
Dafeng Hui, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA
Bruce Hungate, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Jiang Jiang, Nanjing Forestry University, China
Matthew Jones, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
Jonathan Lenoir, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Sebastiaan Luyssaert, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridgde, TN, USA
James McClintock, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
Belinda Medlyn, Western Sydney University, Australia
Thomas Mehner, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Berlin, Germany
Philip Munday, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Kevin Newsham, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK
Steve Ormerod, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Shushi Peng, Peking University, Beijing, China
Gareth Phoenix, University of Sheffield, UK
Elvira Polo, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Viorel Popescu, Ohio University, Biological Sciences, Athens, OH, USA
Jennifer Powers, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
Michael Ryan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Miaogen Shen, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Robert Sinsabaugh, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
James Vafidis, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Rolf Vinebrooke, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Xuhui Wang, Peking University, China
William Wieder, The National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Kevin Wilcox, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Xia Xu, Nanjing Forestry University, China
Park Williams, Columbia University, NY, USA
Production Editor
Meenakshi Lakshmanan: mlakshmana@wiley.com, Wiley Blackwell