Learn about publishing Open Access with us Journal metrics 1.185 (2020) Impact factor 1. Main subject areas: (i) community-based ecological theory (ii) modelling of ecological communities (iii) community-based ecophysiology (iv) temporal dynamics, including succession (v) trophic interactions, including food webs and competition (vi) spatial pattern analysis, including scaling issues (vii) community patterns of species richness and diversity (viii) sampling ecological communities (ix) data analysis methods. Professor of Ecology at the University of East Anglia, UK Tonys research focuses mainly on plant ecology in coastal and aquatic systems, ecological restoration and conservation, frequently involving population-based and eco-physiological studies that are aimed at both the advancement of ecological understanding and its practical application. Journal of Ecology publishes original articles on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.We will publish papers concerned solely with cultivated plants and agricultural ecosystems if such articles address important ecological or evolutionary questions. Community Ecology, established by the merger of two ecological periodicals, Coenoses and Abstracta Botanica was launched in an effort to create a common global forum for community ecologists dealing with plant, animal and/or microbial communities from terrestrial, marine or freshwater systems.