Ecology
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ecology
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Impact statement
eLife publishes research ranging from chemical and microbial ecology to plant-insect interactions and extinction risk. Learn more about what we publish and sign up for the latest research.
Aims and scope
We aim to publish studies that provide new insights into the different types of interactions that shape the distribution and abundance of organisms on Earth, including everything from new natural history observations to genomic analyses conducted on landscape scales (see also “Ecology in the genomics era of a degraded planet”). We also welcome functional analyses of the traits that matter for an organism’s Darwinian fitness. Read the latest research in this subject area.