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Ecosystems is an international journal that bridges fundamental ecology, environmental ecology, and environmental problem-solving across diverse temporal and spatial scales.

  • Publishes research, editorials, mini-reviews, and special features.
  • Reviews new tools and methods of broad interest to ecosystem scientists.
  • Publishes papers that integrate biotic, abiotic, and social data in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
  • Studies of ecosystems employ diverse approaches, including theory and modeling, long-term investigations, comparative research and large experiments.
  • Encourages submissions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, specifically SDG 14 Life Below Water and SDG 15 Life on Land.
  • Features distinguished editors-in-chief and an international editorial board

Editors-in-Chief
  • Monica G. Turner,
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
Impact factor
3.7 (2022)
5 year impact factor
4.2 (2022)
Downloads
609,412 (2023)

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    A submission to the journal implies that materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality. Find out more.

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Electronic ISSN
1435-0629
Print ISSN
1432-9840
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  32. Wanfang
  33. Zoological Record
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