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1. ECOGRAPHY PATTERN AND D ee AGI Pe I Or ss ny ECOGRAPHY ECOGRAPHY is a journal issued by the Nordic Ecological Society Oikos representing ecologists in Denmark Finland Iceland Norway and Sweden Ecologists from all countries are invited to publish original results on its pages ECOGRAPHY publishes papers focused on broad spatial and tempo ral patterns particularly studies of population and community ecology macroecology biogeography and ecological conservation Studies in ecological genetics and historical ecology are welcomed in the context of explaining contemporary ecological patterns Manuscripts are expected to address general principles in ecology though they may do so using a specific model system if this frames the problem relative to a generalised ecological issue Papers generally are expected to be based on concise hypotheses or to relate to concise theoretical concepts based on sound natural history Purely descriptive papers are considered only if breaking new ground and or describing patterns seldom explored Manuscripts merely confirming or marginally extending results of previous work are discouraged Papers are judged by virtue of their originality appeal to general interest and their contribution to new developments in ecological research concern ing spatial and temporal patterns There is no bias with regard to taxon biome or biogeographical area Ecography publishes four types of articles2. Original research papers present research focused on ecological and geographical patterns in space and time Theoretically oriented papers are expected to synthesize and move beyond previous know ledge preferably by suggesting new conceptual or methodological approaches to well established problems Among empirical studies those that explore or test clearly stated hypotheses or theoretical predictions and attempt to generalize results to other systems are welcomed Forum papers are commentaries short papers or notes about new ideas alternative ways of evaluating existing information or respons es to recent papers in Ecography or elsewhere that deal with spatio temporal issues in ecology Notes focused on new or improved methods are also welcome Contributions in this category may be submitted or solicited Review amp Synthesis papers provide a critical assessment of the lit erature with emphasis on current topics in which rapid and signifi cant advances are occurring Ecography papers in this category should be more focused than the broad topical reviews typically published elsewhere developing a synthesis that inspires new hypotheses or new methods Contributions in this category may be submitted or solicited Software notes announce new software or software already in use but not previously published in a peer reviewed journal for the study of spatial and temporal patterns in ecology Software notes should pro vide a summary of th
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4. article but does not permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works Special requests should be addressed to journalsrights oxon blackwellpublishing com ECOGRAPHY ISSN 0906 7590 is published monthly USA sub scription price is USD 296 including airspeed delivery US mailing agent Mercury Airfreight International Inc 365 Blair Road Avenel NJ 07001 USA Periodical postage paid at Rahway NJ Postmaster Send all address changes to ECOGRAPHY Journal Customer Services John Wiley amp Sons Inc 350 Main St Malden MA 02148 5020 Manuscripts and correspondence should be directed to the Managing Editor Dr Maria Persson Department of Ecology Lund University Ecology Building SE 223 62 Lund Sweden Phone 46 46 222 37 92 Email Ecography oikosoffice lu se lt www ecography org gt Guide to authors General editorial practice Submit your manuscript at lt http mc manuscriptcentral ecogra gt Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that the work follows ethical guidelines and legislation within the country where it has been carried out that it has not been published before that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and that it has been read and approved by all authors Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form ELF for all papers accepted for publication Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and pa pers will not be passed to the publisher
5. e recommended to follow the guidelines set out in O Connor M 1991 Writing successfully in science Harper Collins Academic London Manuscripts not conforming to the requirements will be returned for revision Abstracted indexed in Biological Abstracts BIOSIS Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Ecological Abstracts Elsevier BIOBASE Current Awareness in Biological Sciences Science Citation Index SCISEARCH Research Alert Current Contents Agri culture Biology amp Environmental Sciences Ecological Abstracts Environmental Periodicals Bibliography Geographical Abstracts Key Work Index of Wildlife Research For further information about the journal please visit our homepage at lt www oikos ekol lu se gt Cover Top image pbdb_map_occur function from the paleobioDB R Package returns a map of the number of fos sil records per cell stored in the Paleobiology Database In this case the image shows the records assigned to Canidae Middle left Common blackbird Turdus image merula on holly Ilex aquifolium Photo by Luis Ojembarrena Center image Description Bia actorion Nymphalidae Brassolini in Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest understory Photo by Phil DeVries Middle right image The Italian festoon in the image Zerynthia cassandra is extremely similar in morphology to the south ern festoon Zerynthia polyxena This is a recently described cryptic species of butterfly that occurs on the Italian penin s
6. e software that describes its benefits and potential application s Software notes are published with high priority and the section is intended as an outlet for the very best software tools in spatio temporal ecology Products that are avialable only on a commercial basis will not be considered ECOGRAPHY appears with one volume 12 issues annually Order of publication is normally chronological but may be modified based on editorial considerations Sponsor ECOGRAPHY is published in cooperation with the journals Oikos Lindbergia Journal of Avian Biology Hereditas Nordic Journal of Botany and the monograph series Ecological Bulletins Editor in Chief Prof Miguel Araujo Imperial College London UK Deputy Editors in Chief Nathan Sanders Univ of Copenhagen Denmark Jens Christian Svenning Univ of Aarhus Denmark Catherine Graham Stony Brook University USA Subject Editors Marti Jane Anderson Massey Univ New Zealand Michel Baguette Mus um National d Histoire Naturelle Brunoy France Robert K Colwell Univ of Connecticut USA Alexandre Diniz Filho Univ Federal de Goi s Brasil Carsten Dormann Univ of Freiburg Ger many Rob Dunn North Carolina State Univ USA Johan Ehrl n Stockholm Univ Sweden Erica Fleishman National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis USA Janet Franklin Arizona State Univ USA Jean Michel Gailland UCB Lyon 1 France Catherine H Graham Stony Brook Univ USA R
7. es In Scheiner S and Gurevitch J eds Design and analysis of ecological experiments Oxford Univ Press pp 134 157 In the text references are given Gavrilets 2004 or at the end of a sentence Gavrilets 2004 Titles of journals should be abbreviated following Biological Abstracts If in doubt give the title in full Do not refer to unpublished material The reference list should be arranged alphabetically on authors names and chronologically per author If the author s name is also mentioned with co authors the following order should be used publications of the single author arranged chronologically publications of the same author with one co author arranged chronologically publications of the author with more than one co author ar ranged chronologically When papers in the reference list have more than one co author please write the first author followed by et al Publications by the same author s in the same year should be listed as 2004a 2004b etc Reference lists not conforming to this format will be returned for revision When in doubt please consult the latest issue of ECOGRAPHY Excessive use of references causes unnecessary long articles To avoid excessive use of references use only the most relevant As a rule avoid using more than 50 references in a regular research paper Acknowledgements Keep them short Appendices Relevant appendices may be posted on the journals homepage Authors ar
8. ommendations for authorship provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors the Vancouver Group see lt www icmje org gt That is authorship of a paper car ries with it responsibility as well as credit All those whose names appear as authors should have played a significant role in designing or carrying out the research writ ing the manuscript or providing extensive guidance to the execution of the project They should be able to present and defend the work in a public forum Honorary au thorship is to be avoided All authors must be in agreement on both the submission and full content of any article carrying their name Any violation of these conditions represents academic misconduct and will be dealt with accordingly Manuscripts Format Manuscripts should be double spaced throughout including tables figure legends appendices literature cited with all lines and pages numbered Specific information for Software notes Abstracts for Software notes have a 100 word length limitation Papers in this section have a 2500 word length limitation for all text excluding tables and legends Submitted notes should be subdivided only into an abstract main text acknowledgements and references Software notes may include a maximum of three tables figures They should provide the basic rationale behind the software its basic functions and sample usage output and interpreta tion A link to a persistent website where the sof
9. ss and email address Page two contains the abstract in which the main results of the work should be summarized The abstract should not contain more than 300 words Begin the introduction on page three Avoid right mar gin justification and hyphenation Double check the contents of your manu script before submitting Only printer mistakes in proofs will be changed free of charge Illustrations All illustrations should bear the authors name Tables and legends of illustrations should be written double spaced on separate sheets Do not incor porate the legend in the figure itself Tables and illustrations should be compre hensible without reference to the text Colour plates may be included at the author s expense Plan your illustrations for the smallest size possible one column Do not submit originals until so instructed Units Use SI units as far as possible Nomenclature Binomial Latin names should be used in accordance with International Rules of Nomenclature References In the list of references the following usage should be conformed to Journal Phillips B L and Shine R 2006 Spatial and temporal variation in the morphology and thus predicted impact of an invasive species in Australia Ecography 29 205 212 Book Gavrilets S 2004 Fitness landscapes and the origin of species Princeton Univ Press Chapter von Ende C N 2001 Repeated measures analysis growth and other time dependent measur
10. tware may be downloaded or used must be provided Software notes are not intended to replace proper user documen tation and the user s manual along with test datasets should be available form the software website The section particularly welcomes user friendly approaches To ensure that software websites referred to in Software notes will be acces sible for years to come the journal requies authors to establish a persistent internet address PURL for the software published in the journal A step by step guide explaining how to do this is provided at the journals PURL page lt www oikos ekol lu se ecoPURL html gt Language Manuscripts should be in English Linguistic usage should be correct Avoid the use of the passive voice Avoid extensive reviews in the Introduction and Discussion Cite only essential sources of a theory or opinion Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English A list of independent suppli ers of editing services can be found at lt www blackwellpublishing com bauthor english_language asp gt All services are paid for and arranged by the author and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication Title The title should be brief and contain words useful for indexing and infor mation retrieval Text The first page should contain only the title and the author s name ad dre
11. ula and on two islands Sicily and Elba The forum paper by Voda et al in this issue highlights the importance of includ ing the cryptic diversity in ecological biodiversity and biogeographic studies to avoid biased results Photo by Roger Vila Bottom image Blooming alpine meadow 2550 m a s l in the southwestern Alps near Lautaret pass France Photo by Philippe Choler
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