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Welcome to the Functional Ecology webpage

Launched in 1987 by the British Ecological Society Functional Ecology is a leading international ecology journal that publishes high quality research papers focussing on organismal ecology with an emphasis on physiological, behavioural and evolutionary ecology, and the implications of organismal ecology for community and ecosystem-level patterns and processes.

Functional Ecology is aimed at a broad readership of ecologists interested in work that explores in depth the links between the development of organisms and their relationship with nature.  Papers published focus on the roles, or functions, that species play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. Physiological, anatomical, and life history characteristics of species are emphasized in standard papers, reviews, technical reports and forum articles.

The Editors of the journal are interested in experimental, comparative and theoretical studies in functional ecology, and in particular research and synthesis that is potentially applicable to other species, populations, communities, or ecosystems.

Papers of a descriptive nature, or that focus on population dynamics (without investigation of the underlying factors) will not be accepted for publication in Functional Ecology

Why publish in Functional Ecology?

• The 2006 Functional Ecology ISI® Impact Factor is 3.417. We are 16th in the ranking of 114 ecology journals

• Average time from submission to first decision is now 39 days. Average time from acceptance to Online Early publication on Blackwell Synergy is now 45 days

• Functional Ecology is included in 'OnlineOpen', a trial pay-to-publish service from Blackwell Publishing. Click here to access those papers now made available free to all in this way

• All papers published in Functional Ecology can be accessed free after 24 months via Blackwell Synergy

• Longevity: all articles published in Functional Ecology between 1987 and 2003 are available via JSTOR

• We have an efficient and author-friendly web-based system for submission and review at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fe-besjournals

Table of Contents

Using the Blackwell Synergy website you can access full contents of the latest issue of Functional Ecology, access the latest articles published Online Early in advance of print publication, and browse Tables of Contents from 1997 (Volume 11) onwards. If you are not already registered to use Blackwell Synergy, please find more details regarding registration here and if you would like to sign up for Functional Ecology table of content alerts follow the instructions at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/fec

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