Editorial board
Editors in Chief:
Plant Interactions: Plant-Microbe and Plant-Animal
Carlos L. Ballaré, PhD, IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ballare@ifeva.edu.ar
Carlos Ballaré leads an editorial office focused on the functioning of plants in their biotic and ecological context. In his own research, Carlos uses a combination of genetic, physiological, and genomic and biochemical tools to understand the mechanisms by which plants perceive their environment and use the information acquired through their sensory systems to optimize growth and defense. His lab group (http://epl.agro.uba.ar/) is interested in how plant molecular mechanisms operate in the natural environment, as well as in the implications for improving agricultural systems and sustainable food production. His editorial office welcomes papers dealing with fundamental aspects of the mechanisms of plant interactions with other organisms, including other plants, beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms, insects and other animals. In his editorial approach, Carlos advocates for novelty and generality. Key questions that he and editors ask about the received submissions are: 1) what are the main new hypotheses that this paper addresses? 2) How do the results contribute to the advancement of the discipline? 3) How might the results be perceived as important by a broad cross-section of ecologists and plant biologists?
Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology
Nina Farwig, PhD, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
oecologia@staff.uni-marburg.de
Nina Farwig leads an editorial office which is mainly dealing with manuscripts on the ecology of invertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems. By training Nina is a conservation ecologist whose research focuses on biodiversity responses to global environmental change. Much of her current work deals with the linkages between environmental drivers, species interactions, and ecological processes with the aim to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb17/disciplines/conservation/farwig-group). Nina has worked on a wide range of taxa and her field sites cover natural and human-modified terrestrial ecosystems in both temperate and tropical areas. Her editorial office welcomes manuscripts addressing innovative ecological question on invertebrate species, communities and their role in terrestrial ecosystems. Manuscripts should be based on theory and should contain hypotheses that advance our ecological understanding.
Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology
Indrikis Krams, PhD, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
indrikis.krams@ut.ee
Indrikis Krams is currently a zoology and animal ecology professor at the University of Latvia in Riga and a professor at the University of Tartu in Estonia. His research program focuses on molecular ecology, predator-prey interactions, habitat quality, cooperation theory, animal communication, life histories, distribution ranges of species and populations driven by climate change, ecological immunology, host-parasite interactions, metabolic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases in humans and other animals. He is not taxa-specific, and his research has been on varied animals, including birds, insects, amphibians, fish, blood parasites, and humans. He has done a series of experimental studies at Harvard University, where he became interested in the biochemical and neurobiological approaches to ecology. He is open to submissions using experimental, theoretical, and integrative approaches to investigate simple ecological ideas and questions of extraordinary complexity.
Plant Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology
Ülo Niinemets, PhD, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Ylo.Niinemets@emu.ee
Ülo Niinemets leads an editorial office dealing with papers on plant ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, integrative ecology, and global change ecology. Ülo is Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Science at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia. He has specific expertise in quantification and predictive modelling of plant carbon gain and trace gas exchange at scales ranging from molecules to leaves, ecosystems, landscapes, and biomes. His current work specifically targets plant stress tolerance and adaptability to globally changing climates with emphasis on the role of species stress resistance in vegetation resilience under more frequent drought and heat spells and on novel crops for future climates. His editorial office encourages submissions looking at biological and environmental controls on and roles of plant plasticity and adaptability in plant performance and vegetation distribution in current and future climates, integration of case studies to reveal fundamentals of ecology, and process-based approaches intending to understand functioning, resilience and change of ecosystems. The submitted manuscripts are expected to pose clear hypotheses and have a potential to reach from case observations to broad ecological generalizations.
Plant Population and Community Ecology
Melinda Smith, PhD, Colorado State University, United States of America
Melinda.smith@colostate.edu
Melinda Smith leads an editorial board focused on topics in plant population and community ecology. Melinda is Professor in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University. Melinda’s research aims to understand the consequences of human-caused global changes, particularly climate change (extremes in precipitation), eutrophication, and altered disturbance regimes, on plant populations and communities. Her lab group addresses long-standing, yet highly relevant, questions about the functional roles of plant species in ecosystems, the causes and impacts of loss and gain of genetic and species diversity (at the population, community, and ecosystem levels), and the factors that influence species coexistence and patterns of species abundance in grassland ecosystems. Melinda’s editorial office welcomes papers that address fundamental ecological questions concerning factors and processes that shape plant populations and communities, as well as papers aimed at understanding the impacts of global changes on the structure, function, and dynamics of plant populations and communities. As editor-in-chief, Melinda seeks papers that are novel in their approach and that seek generality in ecological understanding.
Aquatic Ecology
Joel Trexler, PhD, Florida State University, St. Teresa, FL, United States of America
jtrexler@fsu.edu
Editorial Board:
Special Features and Reviews Editor
Nicolas Lecomte, PhD, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada
Aquatic Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Joel Trexler, PhD, Florida State University, St. Teresa, FL, United States of America)
Handling Editors:
Ross Alford, PhD, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Carla Atkinson, PhD, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America
Leon Barmuta, PhD, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Maarten Boersma, PhD, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helgoland, Germany
Nate Dorn, PhD, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States of America
Don DeAngelis, PhD, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States of America
James Fourqurean, PhD, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America
Donovan German, PhD, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America
Robert O. Hall, PhD, University of Montana, Polson, MT, United States of America
J. Matthew Hoch, PhD, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States of America
Jason T. Hoverman, PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
Pieter Johnson, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America
Osamu Kishida, PhD, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
Jamie Kneitel, PhD, California State University, Sacramento, CA, United States of America
Jeremy Long, PhD, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States of America
Helene Marsh, PhD, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Sophie McCoy, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
Tara Stewart Merrill, PhD, Florida State University, St. Teresa, FL, United States of America
Yannis Papastamatiou, PhD, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America
Peter Petraitis, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
Stuart Sandin, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
Jonathan Shurin, PhD, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States of America
Brian Shuter, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Ulrich Sommer, PhD, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
Thomas Turner, PhD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
Howard Whiteman, PhD, Murray State University, Murray, KY, United States of America
Aaron Wirsing, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
Plant Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Ülo Niinemets, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia)
Handling Editors:
Gerardo Avalos, PhD, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica
Mercedes Bustamante, PhD, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Evan H. DeLucia, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
James R. Ehleringer, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America
Jennifer L. Funk, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America
Arthur Gessler, PhD, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zurich, Switzerland
Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States of America
Stephan Hättenschwiler, PhD, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France
Hermann Heilmeier, PhD, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
Kouki Hikosaka, PhD, Tohoku University, Aoba, Japan
Kaoru Kitajima, PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Jeremy Lichstein, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
Katherine A. McCulloh, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America
Duncan N.L. Menge, PhD, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
Pascal A. Niklaus, PhD, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dennis Otieno Ochuodho, PhD, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo, Kenya
Richard Phillips, PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America
Susana Rodriguez-Echeverria, PhD, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Rowan F. Sage, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Louis S. Santiago, PhD, University of California, Riverside, CA, United States of America
Susan Schwinning, PhD, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States of America
Jed P. Sparks, PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America
Heather Throop, PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America
Rodrigo Vargas, PhD, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America
Plant Population and Community Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Melinda Smith, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States of America)
Handling Editors:
Thomas Carlo, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America
Kendi F. Davies, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, United States of America
Yu-Long Feng, PhD, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
Marie-Josie Fortin, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Douglas A. Frank, PhD, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America
Robert J. Griffin-Nolan, PhD, California State University, Chico, CA, United States of America
Yoshiko Iida, PhD, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Ibaraki, Japan
Johannes Jacobus Le Roux, PhD, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Yanjie Liu, PhD, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Changchun, China
Anne Pringle, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America
Erin Questad, PhD, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, United States of America
Christiane Roscher, PhD, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Carly Stevens, PhD, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Anna Traveset Vilagines, PhD, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain
Casey P. terHorst, PhD, California State University, Northridge, CA, United States of America
Brian Wilsey, PhD, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America
Plant Interactions: Plant-Microbe and Plant-Animal (Editor-in-Chief: Carlos L. Ballaré, IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Handling Editors:
Jared Gregory Ali, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America
Amy T. Austin, PhD, IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kevin Burns, PhD, University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Evan H. DeLucia, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
Laramy Enders, PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
Francisco Fontúrbel, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
Moshe Inbar, PhD, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Merijn Kant, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Richard Karban, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America
Caroline Mueller, PhD, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Colin M. Orians, PhD, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States of America
Corné M. J. Pieterse, PhD, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joel Sachs, PhD, University of California, Riverside, CA, United States of America
Jennifer Thaler, PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America
David Watson, PhD, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
William Wetzel, PhD, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States of America
Susan Whitehead, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America
Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Nina Farwig, Marburg, Germany)
Handling Editors:
David A. Donoso, PhD, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
Konrad Fiedler, PhD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Klaus Fischer, PhD, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
Martin Gossner, PhD, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Kyle Haynes, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
Robert R. Junker, PhD, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Eva Knop, PhD, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Diethart Matthies, PhD, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Wolf M. Mooij, PhD, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands
Sylvain Pincebourde, PhD, University François Rabelais of Tours, Tours, France
Andreas Prinzing, PhD, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France
Liliane Rueß, PhD, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Stefan Scheu, PhD, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Sebastian Seibold, PhD, Technische Universität Dresden, Tharandt, Germany
Evan Siemann, PhD, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America
Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology (Editor-in-Chief: Indrikis Krams, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)
Handling Editors:
Anders Angerbjörn, PhD, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Matthew Crowther, PhD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Frauke Ecke, PhD, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Umeå, Sweden
Jean-Michel Gaillard, PhD, University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Eva Kallio, PhD, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Christian Kiffner, PhD, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Pawel Koteja, PhD, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Joanna E. Lambert, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States of America
Thomas Koert Lameris, PhD, Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Nicolas Lecomte, PhD, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
Jean-Francoise Le Galliard, PhD, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
John Loehr, PhD, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Oliver Love, PhD, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Daniel R. MacNulty, PhD, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States of America
Kevin Matson, PhD, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Donald B. Miles, PhD, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States of America
Seth Newsome, PhD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
Andreas Nord, PhD, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Catherine Price, PhD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Suvi Ruuskanen, PhD, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Tuul Sepp, PhD, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Lin Schwarzkopf, PhD, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Graeme Shannon, PhD, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
Michael Sheriff, PhD, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, United States of America
Kathryn E. Sieving, PhD, University of Florida, Florida, United States of America
Janne Sundell, PhD, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Robert Thomson, PhD, University of Cape Town, Pretoria, South Africa
Raoul Van Damme, PhD, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
Christian Voigt, PhD, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
Chris Whelan, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States of America
Yanyun Zhang, PhD, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China