Academic Journal
Q1Ecology
About Ecology
Ecology is a scholarly journal published by Ecological Society of America. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 1.767 and an H-index of 357.
Its listed coverage is 1952-1953, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1969-1977, 1979-2026 and its research categories include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 339 documents and 3652 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fish Ecology and Management Studies.
Recent Research Articles
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Drought conditions reorder plant communities through expansion of spatially sparse and temporally intermittent species
Carmen R. E. Watkins, Beatriz A. Aguirre, Y. Anny Chung, Lukas P. Bell‐Dereske et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70478Extraordinary movements connecting distant ecosystems by African wild dogs ( L ycaon pictus )
Scott Creel, Stephani Matsushima, Henry Mwape, Bridget Mayani‐Nkhoma et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70504A DNA sequence variation dataset across the understudied Andean poison frog genus Andinobates
Daniel Mejía‐Vargas, Valeria Ramírez‐Castañeda, Adriana Dorado‐Correa, Yeison Tolosa et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70514Reducing consumer pressure increases community dissimilarity leading to coral‐ or algal‐dominance on a coral reef
Kelly E. Speare, Thomas C. Adam, Allison Aplin, Noe Castañeda et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70507Plant–herbivore–parasitoid food webs across an edge gradient from natural southern beech to plantation pine forests
Guadalupe Peralta, Carol M. Frost, Raphael K. Didham, Jason M. Tylianakis et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70513Dispersal kernels regulate environmental, biotic, and stochastic effects on the maintenance of metacommunity diversity
Nathan I. Wisnoski, Megan C. Szojka, Rachel M. Germain, Tadashi Fukami et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70484Second‐order elasticities for ecology and evolution: Unraveling nonlinear fitness responses to perturbations
Maja Kajin, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Wenyun Zuo, Harman Jaggi et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70479Modularity limits the spatial propagation of disturbance in experimental seagrass networks
Caterina Mintrone, Giulia Proserpio, Lisandro Benedetti‐Cecchi
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70476Invasive Flora Repository: Traits, environmental tolerances, and invasion history of invasive plant species in the United States
Sofia M. A. Al‐Shayeb, Cesilia Aguilar, Mahtab Yousefi, Zaria George et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70492Climate and landscape context drive the functional composition of young tropical forests
Jazz J. M. Kok, Lourens Poorter, Maureen Nieuwschepen, Koen van Steenbeek et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70470Plant biomass and macro‐ and micronutrients jointly drive top‐heavy arthropod trophic pyramids in grassland monocultures
Xiaoming Lu, Xuezhen Zhao, Taiki Tachibana, Ellen A. R. Welti et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70483Accounting for variable detection functions in temporal abundance modeling via transfer learning
Kevin M. Collins, Erin M. Schliep, Tyler Wagner, Christopher K. Wikle et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70491From environmental heterogeneity to stability: Beta‐diversity stabilizes biomass across space
Benedikt Brunner, James G. Hagan, Jesper Hassellöv, Julia Mari Murata et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70498The influence of predator lethality on prey behavior and growth
Haleigh Nogueira, Samuel Sonnega, Eleanor R. DiNuzzo, Sarah C. Donelan et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70482Revealing undocumented cleaning behavior in the vulnerable pink whipray in southern Mozambique
Dércio Maoze, Maria da Graça, Nelson Nhamussua, Mauro Jije‐Gonçalves et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70508Insect defoliators trading spaces in a hemiboreal forest: Implications for diversity–stability and ecosystem resilience
Brian R. Sturtevant, Barry J. Cooke, Daniel Kneeshaw, Louis‐Etienne Robert et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70469Nocturnal host manipulation by nematomorphs is not synchronized with the lunar cycle
Hinako Asakura, Takuya Sato
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70475Urban gardens foster year‐round activity of bumble bee queens
Sylvana R. Finn, Emily Erickson, Elizabeth E. Crone
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70506Growing‐ and nongrowing‐season warming affect invasive plant growth via soil legacy effects
Guoyong Li, Yinzhan Liu, Ayub M. O. Oduor, Luna Zhang et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70446Reviews
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