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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is the members' journal of the Ecological Society of America. International in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, Frontiers focuses on current ecological issues and environmental challenges.

Frontiers is aimed at professional ecologists and scientists working in related disciplines. With content that is timely, interesting, and accessible, even to those reading outside their area of expertise, it has a broad, interdisciplinary appeal and is relevant to all users of ecological science, including policy makers, resource managers, and educators.

Frontiers covers all aspects of ecology, the environment, and related subjects. You'll read about global issues, broadly impacting research, cross-disciplinary or multi-country endeavors, new techniques and technologies, new approaches to old problems, and practical applications of ecological science.

The journal is sent to all ESA members as part of their membership, and is also available by subscription to non-members and institutions.

Impact Factor
Frontiers' impact factor: 4.269
Ranked 6^th of 160 journals in the Environment category and 13^th of 116 journals in the Ecology category.

• Peer-reviewed, synthetic review articles on all aspects of ecology, the environment and related disciplines
• Short, high-impact research communications of broad interdisciplinary appeal
• Breaking news on people, policy, and research from around the world
• Multi-author and "two views" debates on current issues and controversies
• Regular feature highlighting current legal issues affecting the environment
• A series on how to communicate science effectively to a range of audiences.
• Our resident back-page columnist
• Display and classified advertising opportunities

Abstracting and indexing
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is covered by Current Contents
Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Science Citation Index,
ISI Alerting Services, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Biobase, Geobase, Scopus, CAB
Abstracts, and EBSCO Environmental Issues and Policy Index.

International Advisory Board

Rosina Bierbaum (USA) • Juan Carlos Castilla (Chile) • Andrew Dobson (USA) • Carl Folke (Sweden) • Madhav Gadgil (India) • Kanehiro Kitayama (Japan ) • Simon A. Levin (USA) • Michel Loreau (France) • Thomas Lovejoy (USA) • Jane Lubchenco (USA) • Harold Mooney (USA) • Peter Raven • (USA ) • Robin Reid (Kenya) • Walter Reid (Malaysia) • Dougla Rohrman (USA) • Robert Scholes (South Africa) • Zhao Shidong (China) • William Steffen (Sweden) • Reynaldo Victoria (Brazil) • Diana Wall (USA)

Editorial Board

- Edward Barbier (University of Wyoming, WY, USA)
- Susan Barker (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
- Barbara Bedford (Cornell University, NY, USA)
- Patrick Bohlen (MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center, FL, USA)
- Carol Brewer (University of Montana, MT, USA)
- James Detling (Colorado State University, CO, USA)
- Jeffrey Dukes (University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA)
- Edward Evans (Utah State University, UT, USA)
- Timothy Fahey (Cornell University, NY, USA)
- David Finnoff (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA)
- Thomas Fontaine (USEPA, Corvallis, OR, USA)
- Edwin (Ted) Grosholz (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
- J Morgan Grove (USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, USA)
- Elizabeth A Hadly (Stanford University, CA, USA)
- Louise E Jackson (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
- Stephen T Jackson (University of Wyoming, WY, USA)
- Richard K Kobe (Michigan State University, MI, USA)
- Sam P Lake (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
- Michelle Marvier (Santa Clara University, CA, USA)
- Gary Matlock (NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA)
- Shili Miao (South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
- Robert J Naiman (University of Washington, WA, USA)
- Michael L Pace (Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA)
- Robert R Parmenter (Valles Caldera National Preserve, Jemez Springs, NM, USA)
- Jonathan Patz (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA)
- Louis Pitelka (Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, USA)
- Taylor Ricketts (WWF, Washington, DC, USA)
- Timothy Schowalter (Louisiana State University, LA, USA)
- David P Turner (Oregon State University, OR, USA)

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