Overview
Plant Ecology publishes original scientific papers that report and interpret the findings of pure and applied research into the ecology of vascular plants in terrestrial and wetland ecosystems. Empirical, experimental, theoretical and review papers reporting on ecophysiology, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, molecular and historical ecology are within the scope of the journal.
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- William Edward Rogers,
- Neal Enright
- Impact factor
- 1.7 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 2.0 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 8 days
- Downloads
- 310,804 (2023)
Latest issue
April 2024 |Special Issue: Recent advances in studying vegetation at forest edges
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Recent advances in studying vegetation at forest edges
FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE | Early 2024
UN SDG Target 15.1 (Conserve and Restore Ecosystems); Target 15.5 (Protect Biodiversity and Natural Habitats)
This special issue on edge habitats highlights the need for a better understanding of vegetation patterns at forest edges aids in identifying priority areas for conservation of rare, threatened plants and wildlife species at-risk and predicting how forests will respond to ongoing global change. -
Advances in plant conservation translocation
LATEST SPECIAL ISSUE | Volume 224, issue 9, September 2023
Issue editors: Thomas Abeli & Sarah Dalrymple
This special issue provided an opportunity for IPTC2022 attendees to contribute to the advancement of the field of translocation. -
In Review: Preprint Service
AUTHOR SERVICE
Plant Ecology, in partnership with Research Square, now offers In Review: a journal-integrated preprint service.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-5052
- Print ISSN
- 1385-0237
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- ANVUR
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Gale
- Google Scholar
- JSTOR
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information