期刊缩写       COMMUNITY ECOL

期刊全称       COMMUNITY ECOLOGY 群落生态学

期刊ISSN      1585-8553

2013-2014最新影响因子     1.200

期刊官方网站       http://ramet.elte.hu/~podani/comecol.html

期刊投稿网址       podani@ludens.elte.hu

通讯方式       AKADEMIAI KIADO RT, PRIELLE K U 19, PO BOX 245,, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, H-1117

涉及的研究方向    环境科学-生态学

出版国家       HUNGARY

出版周期       Irregular

出版年份       0

年文章数       26

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS and GENERAL INFORMATION

 

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY was launched in 2000 following the merger of two well-established ecological periodicals, Coenoses and Abstracta Botanica in an effort to create a common global forum for community ecologists. See the contents of its first eight volumes (2000 - 2007). The scope of the journal includes, but is not restricted to, the following subject areas:

Community-based ecological theory.

Modelling of ecological communities.

Community-based ecophysiology.

Temporal dynamics, including succession.

Trophic interactions, including food webs and competition.

Spatial pattern analysis, including scaling issues.

Community patterns of species richness and diversity.

Sampling ecological communities.

Data analysis methods, including multivariate analysis and geostatistics.

 

Experimentally-based field studies of plant, animal and/or microbial communities, in terrestrial, marine or freshwater systems, are welcome. Purely descriptive studies will not normally be accepted for publication.

From 2006, Community Ecology is covered by Science Citation Index Expanded.

 

 

"Ecological community" redirects here. For human community organized around economic and ecological sustainability, see ecovillage.

 

Interspecific interactions such as predation are a key aspect of community ecology.

In ecology, a community or biocoenosis is an assemblage or associations of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area and in a particular time. The term community has a variety of uses. In its simplest form it refers to groups of organisms in a specific place or time, for example, "the fish community of Lake Ontario before industrialization".

 

Community ecology or synecologyis the study of the interactions between species in communities on many spatial and temporal scales, including the distribution, structure, abundance, demography, and interactions between coexisting populations. The primary focus of community ecology is on the interactions between populations as determined by specific genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. Community ecology has its origin in European plant sociology. Modern community ecology examines patterns such as variation in species richness, equitability, productivity and food web structure (see community structure); it also examines processes such as predator-prey population dynamics, succession, and community assembly.

 

On a deeper level the meaning and value of the community concept in ecology is up for debate. Communities have traditionally been understood on a fine scale in terms of local processes constructing (or destructing) an assemblage of species, such as the way climate change is likely to affect the make-up of grass communities.Recently this local community focus has been criticised. Robert Ricklefs has argued that it is more useful to think of communities on a regional scale, drawing on evolutionary taxonomy and biogeography, where some species or clades evolve and others go extinct.