Ecological Complexity

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 complexityThe 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)

《生态复杂性》是一份国际期刊，致力于出版高质量的、同行评议的文章，内容涉及环境中生物复杂性的各个方面、理论生态学和当前感兴趣的专题。该杂志的范围是广泛的和跨学科的综合和定量的方法。该杂志特别鼓励以适当广泛的时空尺度提交综合自然和社会过程的论文。生态复杂性将发表以下领域的研究:?环境和理论生态学中生物复杂性的所有方面?生态系统和生物圈作为复杂的适应系统?空间扩展的生态系统的自组织?复杂生态系统的突发性和结构?时空生态格局的形成?生物物理约束和进化吸引子对物种组合的作用?生态尺度(尺度不变性、尺度协方差和跨尺度动力学)、异速测量和层次理论?生态拓扑和网络?研究复杂系统的生态学?研究动态人与环境交互的复杂系统方法?利用非线性现象的知识，更好地指导政策制定，以适应战略和减缓环境变化?研究生态复杂性的新工具和方法本杂志应刊登的论文有以下特点:?与环境相关的生物复杂性，反之亦然跨学科(如生物学、生态学、环境科学、数学、建模)?自然和社会过程的整合(尤其是随着时间的推移)