Jinyan Yang, Yiqing Guo, Christopher J. Owers, Kate Giljohann, Roozbeh Valavi, Randall Donohue, Kristen J. Williams, Simon Ferrier, Karel Mokany
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Abstract
The condition of terrestrial ecosystems (i.e., structure, function and composition) has been altered by increasing human pressure globally, affecting biodiversity and the sustainability of services that ecosystems provide. Effective conservation and restoration decisions will be supported by a continuous global fine-scale assessment of changes in ecosystem condition over time.
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Global Ecology and Biogeography (GEB) welcomes papers that investigate broad-scale (in space, time and/or taxonomy), general patterns in the organization of ecological systems and assemblages, and the processes that underlie them. In particular, GEB welcomes studies that use macroecological methods, comparative analyses, meta-analyses, reviews, spatial analyses and modelling to arrive at general, conceptual conclusions. Studies in GEB need not be global in spatial extent, but the conclusions and implications of the study must be relevant to ecologists and biogeographers globally, rather than being limited to local areas, or specific taxa. Similarly, GEB is not limited to spatial studies; we are equally interested in the general patterns of nature through time, among taxa (e.g., body sizes, dispersal abilities), through the course of evolution, etc. Further, GEB welcomes papers that investigate general impacts of human activities on ecological systems in accordance with the above criteria.