Journal Title：Functional Ecology

Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.

《功能生態學》發表具有高影響力的論文，這些論文有助于從有機體到生態系統規模對生態模式和過程進行機械理解。由于這一挑戰具有多面性，因此論文可以基于多種方法。因此，當目標是了解生態系統和更大規模的生態現象時，稿件可能從有機體研究的生理、遺傳、生命史和行為視角到社區和生物地球化學研究不等。我們相信，我們期刊的多樣性是一種優勢，而不是劣勢，我們對我們發表的各種數據、研究方法和研究類型持開放態度。某些關鍵領域將繼續受到重視：將基因組學與生態學相結合的研究、研究生理學的關鍵方面（例如壓力）如何影響動物和植物的生態學（反之亦然）的研究，以及進化如何影響功能和生態特征之間的相互作用。生態學越來越認識到生物體的特征和活動對于理解群落動態和生態系統過程至關重要，特別是對地球環境正在發生的快速全球變化的反應，而《功能生態學》旨在發表這樣的綜合性論文。

Functional Ecology創刊于1987年，由Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋環境科學 - 生態學全領域，在行業領域中學術影響力很大，屬于TOP期刊，國際一流期刊，關注度和專業度非常高，所以對原創文章要求創新性很高，過審難度很高，如果您有志于TOP期刊，建議關注此刊。平均審稿速度 約3.0個月 ，影響因子指數4.6，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。