Hydrobiologia publishes original research, reviews and opinions investigating the biology of freshwater and marine environments, including the impact of human activities. We welcome molecular-, organism-, community- and ecosystem-level studies in contributions dealing with limnology and oceanography, including systematics and aquatic ecology. Hypothesis-driven research is preferred, but conceptual papers or articles with large descriptive content will also be considered. In all cases, the investigation has to be clearly embedded in a theoretical framework and be relevant to a broad hydrobiological audience. Applied aspects will be considered if firmly embedded in an ecological context.
Hydrobiologia is no longer a preferred publication avenue for purely physical, chemical or toxicological studies, unless a clear link to biological aspects can be demonstrated. Special issues on timely topics shall be considered through invitation by the editor. Identical standards of acceptance are rigidly applied for both special and regular issues.

Editor-in-Chief:
Koen Martens
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
Associate Editors-in-Chief:
Diego Fontaneto
ISE-CNR, Verbania Pallanza, Italy
Luigi Naselli-Flores
University of Palermo, Italy
Sidinei Magela Thomaz
Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Nupélia, Brazil
Honorary Editor-in-Chief: 
Henri J. Dumont
University of Ghent, Institute of Animal Ecology, Belgium

Associate Editors:
Stefano Amalfitano
IRSA-CNR, Rome, Italy
Iacopo Bertocci
Department of Biology, University of Pisa, CoNISMa, Pisa, Italy
Luis Mauricio Bini
Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil
Dani Boix
Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Spain
Nick Bond
The Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
J. Checo Colón-Gaud
Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, GA, USA
Jörg Dutz
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany
Andrew R. Dzialowski
Oklahoma State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Stillwater, OK, USA
Alex Elliott
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, UK
Antti P. Eloranta
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Cécile Fauvelot
IRD, UMR ENTROPIE, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-mer, France
Glenn R. Guntenspergen
University of Minnesota-Duluth, Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth, USA
Verónica Ferreira
Imar-CMA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Gideon Gal
Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Migdal, Israel
Stuart Halse
Bennelongia Pty Ltd, Wembley, Australia
David Hamilton 
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
David J. Hoeinghaus
Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, USA
Christopher Joyce
University of Brighton, UK
Lee B. Kats
Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA
Jonne Kotta
University of Tartu, Estonia
Katya Kovalenko
University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA
Ken W. Krauss
U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA
Eric R. Larson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NRES, Urbana, IL, USA
Manuel Lopes-Lima
CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Generic Resources, University of Porto, Portugal
Pauliina Louhi
Natural Resources and Environment (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
Mariana Meerhoff
Facultad de Ciencas, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
John M. Melack 
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Juan-Carlos Molinero
MARBEC, IRD-Ifremer-Université de Montpellier-CNRS, Montpellier, France
Marcelo S. Moretti
University of Vila Velha, Laboratory of Aquatic Insect Ecology, Brazil
Ivan Nagelkerken
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia
André Andrian Padial
Federal University of Parana, Botany Department, Curitiba, Brazil
Judit Padisák
Department of Limnology, University of Veszprém, Hungary 
Fernando Mayer Pelicice
Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, Brazil
Michael Power
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Grethe Robertson
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research – NINA, Trondheim, Norway
Maria del Mar Sánchez Montoya
Department of Ecology and Hydrology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Spain
Maria Begoña Santos Vázquez
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Spain
Jasmine Saros 
School of Biology & Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, USA
Stefano Schiaparelli
University of Genoa, Italy
Piet Spaak
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology, Dubendorf, Switzerland
Christian Sturmbauer
University of Graz, Austria
Vasilis D. Valavanis
Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Iraklio, Crete, Greece
Pierluigi Viaroli 
Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
Advisory Editors:

S. Marshal Adams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA
A.A. Agostinho, Federal University of Maringa, Parana, Brazil
Jim A. Cambray, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa
Jon J. Cole, Carey Arboretum, Millbrook, NY, USA
B. Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
R.D. Gulati, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Bo-Ping Han, Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
David M. Harper, Department of Zoology, University of Leicester, UK
John Havel, Department of Biology, Missouri State University, Missouri, USA
Jiang-Shiou Hwang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Erik Jeppesen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
C. Lévêque, Vie et Sociétés, Meudon, France
H. Kawanabe, Lake Biwa Museum, Shiga, Japan
Zhengwen Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, P.R. China
Piet H. Nienhuis, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
La-orsri Sanoamuang, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
S.S.S. Sarma, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Iztacala, Mexico
Joel Trexler, Florida International University, USA
J.G. Tundisi, International Institute of Ecology, Sâo Carlos, Brazil
B.A. Whitton, University of Durham, UK