Journal Title：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 complexity

Ecological Complexity 是一本国际期刊，致力于发表高质量的同行评议文章，内容涉及环境中生物复杂性的各个方面、理论生态学以及当前感兴趣的主题的特殊问题。该期刊的范围广泛且跨学科，采用综合和定量方法。该杂志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论文。

Ecological Complexity 将发表对以下领域的研究：

• 环境和理论生态学中生物复杂性的各个方面

• 生态系统和生物圈作为复杂的适应性系统

• 空间扩展生态系统的自组织

• 复杂生态系统的新兴特性和结构

• 时空生态格局形成

• 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态）、异速生长和层次理论

• 生态拓扑和网络

• 复杂系统生态学研究

• 用于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，以制定适应战略和缓解环境变化

• 研究生态复杂性的新工具和方法