An International Journal on Biocomplexity in the Environment and Theoretical Ecology

Ecological Complexity is an international journal devoted to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed articles on the complex nature of ecological systems, observed and theoretical and special issues on related and emerging topics. In addition to ecological questions, the journal welcomes papers that ask ecological questions by linking natural and social processes at various spatio-temporal scales.

Ecological Complexity will publish research into the following areas:
• Ecosystems and the biosphere as complex adaptive systems
• Self-organization of spatially extended ecosystems
• Emergent properties and structures of complex ecosystems
• Ecological pattern formation in space and time
• The role of biophysical constraints and evolutionary attractors on species assemblages
• Ecological scaling (scale invariance, scale covariance and dynamics across scales), allometry, and hierarchy theory
• Ecological topology and networks
• Studies towards an ecology of complex systems
• Approaches to complex systems for the study of dynamic human-environment interactions
• Using knowledge of nonlinear phenomena to better guide policy development for adaptation strategies and mitigation to environmental change
• New tools and methods for studying ecological complexity

The papers that should appear in this journal are characterized by:
• Biocomplexity related to the environment and vice versa
• Inter disciplinarity (e.g. biology, ecology, environmental science, mathematics, modelling)
• Integration of natural and social processes (esp. over time)

Original research papers and case studies
Review articles
Special themes issues
Short notes
Viewpoint articles
Letters to the Editor
Book Reviews

Editor-in-Chief
Sergei Petrovskii
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UKEmail Sergei Petrovskii
Founding Editor
B-L. Li
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
Associate Editors
C. Hui
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
J. Kolasa
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
H. Malchow
Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
P.I. Prado
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
R. Tyson
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
Editorial Advisory Board
M. Banerjee
West Bengal, India
E.A. Codling
Colchester, UK
V. Dakos, PhD
Montpellier, France
D.L. DeAngelis
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
M.J. Fortin
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A. Hastings
Davis, California, USA
E. Hernandez-Garcia
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
F. Hilker
Bath, England, UK
S.A. Levin
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
M. Lewis
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
A.B. Medvinsky
Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
D. Mistro
Santa Maria, Brazil
A. Morozov
Leicester, England, UK
J.-C. Poggiale
J.R. Potts, PhD
Sheffield, UK
A. Pugliese
M. Rietkerk
Utrecht, Netherlands
P. Tilles, PhD
Santa Maria, Brazil
Yu. Tyutyunov
Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation