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Theoretical Ecology publishes innovative research in theoretical ecology, broadly defined. Papers should use theoretical approaches to answer questions of ecological interest and appeal to and be readable by a broad audience of ecologists. Work that uses mathematical, statistical, computational, or conceptual approaches is all welcomed, provided that the goal is to increase ecological understanding. Papers that only use existing approaches to analyze data, or are only mathematical analyses that do not further ecological understanding, are not appropriate. Work that bridges disciplinary boundaries, such as the intersection between quantitative social sciences and ecology, or physical influences on ecological processes, will also be particularly welcome.
All areas of theoretical ecology, including ecophysiology, population ecology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology, ecosystem ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem and landscape ecology are all appropriate. Theoretical papers that focus on applied ecological questions are also of particular interest.
Categories of papers include regular articles, review papers, and rapid communications. Review papers will be published after a thorough review process; please contact the reviews editor before submission. We also offer a rapid communications option for short manuscripts of unusually broad interest to the ecological community.

Editor-in-Chief
Alan Hastings
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
USA
E-mail: amhastings@ucdavis.edu
Editorial Board:
Karen Abbott, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Frederic Bartumeus, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes, Girona, Spain
Ludek Berec, Biology Centre ASCR, Czech Republic
Kim Cuddington, University of Waterloo, Canada
Peter De Ruiter, Wageningen University Research Center, The Netherlands
John Drake, University of Georgia, USA
Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Germany
Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA 
Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu University, Japan
Alex James, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Katia Koelle, Duke University, USA
Simon Levin, Princeton University, USA
Mark Lewis, University of Alberta, USA
Pablo Marquet, Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University, USA
Michael Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Otso Ovaskainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, USA
Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota, USA
Axel Rossberg, Queen Mary University of London, UK
James Sanchirico, University of California, Davis, USA
Sebastian Schreiber, The University of California, Davis, USA
Lewi Stone, Tel Aviv University, Israel