General Information

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' 2008 Impact Factor: 5.065
Ranked 4^th out of 163 journals in the Environmental Sciences category and 9^th out of 124 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
• 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 (Canada) • Thomas Lovejoy (USA) • Jane Lubchenco (USA) • Harold Mooney (USA) • Robin Reid (Kenya) • Walter Reid (USA) • Robert Scholes (South Africa) • Zhao Shidong (China) • William Steffen (Sweden) • Reynaldo Victoria (Brazil) • Diana Wall (USA)

Editorial Board

» Susan Barker (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
» Barbara Bedford (Cornell University, NY, USA)
» Patrick Bohlen (MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center, FL, USA)
» Brian S Cade (US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
» Sean Connolly (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia)
» Thomas O Crist (USA)
» James Detling (Colorado State University, CO, USA)
» Jeffrey Dukes (University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA)
» Stanley H Faeth (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA)
» Timothy Fahey (Cornell University, NY, USA)
» David Finnoff (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA)
» Thomas Fontaine (USEPA, Corvallis, OR, USA)
» Kathleen A Galvin (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
» Susan Galatowitsch (University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA)
» Edwin (Ted) Grosholz (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
» Joshua J Lawler (USA)
» J Morgan Grove (USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, USA)
» Samuel Gubins (Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
» Jin-Sheng He (Peking University, Beijing, China)
» Bruce A Hungate (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
» Louise E Jackson (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
» Stephen T Jackson (University of Wyoming, WY, USA)
» Frances C James (Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA)
» Richard K Kobe (Michigan State University, MI, USA)
» Brian McGill (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
» Michelle Marvier (Santa Clara University, CA, USA)
» Gary Matlock (NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA)
» Michael L Pace (Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA)
» Robert R Parmenter (Valles Caldera National Preserve, Jemez Springs, NM, USA)
» Louis Pitelka (Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, USA)
» Uma Ramakrishnan (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)
» Taylor Ricketts (WWF, Washington, DC, USA)
» Timothy Schowalter (Louisiana State University, LA, USA)
» Scott M Swinton (USA)
» Heather Tallis (USA)