Ecological Complexity

期刊简介：Ecological Complexity is an international journal devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of biocomplexity in the environment, theoretical ecology, and special issues on topics of current interest. The scope of the journal is wide and interdisciplinary with an integrated and quantitative approach. The journal particularly encourages submission of papers that integrate natural and social processes at appropriately broad spatio-temporal scales.Ecological Complexity will publish research into the following areas:• All aspects of biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology• Ecosystems and biospheres 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 across scale dynamics), allometry, and hierarchy theory• Ecological topology and networks• Studies towards an ecology of complex systems• Complex systems approaches 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

【译文】生态复杂性是一本国际期刊，致力于发表关于环境生物复杂性、理论生态学以及当前热点话题的专题的高质量、同行评审文章。该期刊范围广泛，跨学科，采用综合和定量方法。期刊特别鼓励提交在适当广泛的时空尺度上整合自然和社会过程的文章。生态复杂性将发表以下领域的研究：• 环境生物复杂性的各个方面和理论生态学• 作为复杂自适应系统的生态系统和生物圈• 空间扩展生态系统的自组织• 复杂生态系统的涌现特性和结构• 空间和时间中的生态模式形成• 生物物理约束和进化吸引子对物种群落的作用• 生态尺度（尺度不变性、尺度协方差和跨尺度动力学）、异速生长和层次理论• 生态拓扑和网络• 向复杂系统生态学的研究迈进• 复杂系统方法研究动态人地相互作用• 利用非线性现象的知识更好地指导适应策略和环境变化的缓解政策发展• 研究生态复杂性的新工具和方法