Journal Title：Functional Ecology

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.

Functional Ecology 发表了影响深远的论文，这些论文能够从机制上理解从有机体到生态系统尺度的生态模式和过程。由于这一挑战的多面性，论文可以基于多种方法。因此，当目标是了解生态系统和更大规模的生态现象时，手稿可能从生物研究的生理学、遗传学、生活史和行为学角度变化到社区和生物地球化学研究。我们相信，我们期刊的多样性是一种优势，而不是劣势，我们对我们发表的各种数据、研究方法和研究类型持开放态度。将继续强调某些关键领域：将基因组学与生态学相结合的研究，研究生理学的关键方面（例如压力）如何影响动植物生态学，反之亦然，以及进化如何塑造功能和生态学之间的相互作用特征。生态学越来越认识到有机体特征和活动对于理解群落动态和生态系统过程至关重要，特别是在应对地球环境中发生的快速全球变化时，功能生态学旨在发表此类综合论文。