Elsevier (Netherlands)
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.
The 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)
- Author-paid optional open access
- English