SECTION	SCOPE
Behavioural Ecology	Cognition & learning Communication Cooperation & conflict Foraging Habitat selection Interspecific interactions Parenting Sexual selection Social organisation
Community Ecology & Biodiversity	Biodiversity - measurement, trends, patterns & causes Biodiversity & ecosystem functioning Competition, niche theory & neutral community ecology Macroecology, including scaling issues Modelling of ecological communities Spatial dynamics, including metacommunities Stability & complexity of ecological systems Temporal dynamics, including succession & non-equilibrium dynamics Trophic interactions, including food webs & host-pathogen interactions
Conservation & Restoration Ecology	Conservation, restoration, & management of biological diversity and ecosystem services Ecological dimensions of conservation interventions (design of protected areas & of protection measures in human-dominated countryside) for conservation of genetic diversity, populations, species, habitats & ecosystems Ecological-economic dimensions of conservation Impacts of human activity on biodiversity (positive & negative)
Ecosystem Ecology	Bioremediation Element cycles Goods & services valuation Managing & sustaining ecosystems Pollution Temporal & spatial heterogeneity & ecosystem dynamics Trophic dynamics Water & energy balance
Evolutionary Ecology	Adaptation, speciation & extinction Adaptive evolution & behaviour Coevolution Functional genomics Life history evolution Maintenance of genetic & phenotypic variation Palaeontology/past environments Parallel cladogenesis Parental investment & matriliny Phylogenetics
Global Change Ecology	Biogeochemical cycles Climate change impacts on the biosphere Human health Invading species Land use (including deforestation, agricultural impacts) Modelling the global biosphere
Marine & Freshwater Ecology	Aquaculture Benthic & hyporheic ecology Biogeochemical Cycles Coral reefs Ecohydrology Ecological structure & function (populations & communities) Ecology & conservation of marine & freshwater animals Ecology of invertebrates Ecosystem effects of over-fishing Ecosystem effects of pollutants (toxins, sediments, nutrients) Ecosystem-based management & restoration Fish Ecology Microbial ecology Oceanography, aquatic ecology, large rivers, lakes Physical processes (currents, flow, waves, sediment transport, weather, extreme events) Plankton ecology Tidal/wetland/riparian ecology
Physiological Ecology	Comparative functional morphology Evolutionary physiology Organismic & tissue energy, water & nutrient balance Organismic biomechanics Performance attributes linked with population & community level theory Physiological & functional genomics Physiological & biochemical adaptations to changing environments Resource allocation Temperature-dependent development
Population Ecology	Biological control Interference & exploitation competition Methods of analysis Modelling of population dynamics Mutualism & positive interactions Parasite-host systems Predation & herbivory
Spatial & Landscape Ecology	Forest ecology (disturbances, modelling) Geostatistics, spatial statistics & simulation modelling Habitat fragmentation Metapopulation ecology Processes (dispersal, land-water interactions) Role of spatial location influencing ecological processes
Theoretical Ecology	Behavioural & evolutionary ecology Biodiversity Community ecology Conservation biology Ecosystems Epidemiology Microbial ecology Modelling methodology Pathogen-host coevolution Population ecology Statistical ecology

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