Functional Ecology

期刊简介：Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.

【译文】功能生态学发表具有重大影响力的论文，这些论文有助于从生物体到生态系统规模对生态模式和过程进行机制理解。由于这一挑战的多方面性质，论文可以基于广泛的方法。因此，稿件可能从生理学、遗传学、生命历史和行为角度进行生物体研究，当目标是理解生态系统和更大规模的生态现象时，可能进行群落和生物地球化学研究。我们认为我们期刊的多样性是一种优势，而不是劣势，我们对我们发表的多种数据、研究方法和研究类型持开放态度。某些关键领域将继续得到强调：将基因组学与生态学相结合的研究，研究生理学（例如，压力）如何影响动物和植物的生态学，或反之，以及进化如何塑造功能与生态性状之间的相互作用。生态学越来越意识到，生物体的性状和活动对于理解群落动态和生态系统过程至关重要，尤其是在应对地球环境发生的快速全球变化时，功能生态学旨在发表这样的综合论文。