Functional Ecology
Last updated ISSN 0269-8463
Functional Ecology is published by Wiley in agricultural and biological sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,000.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Functional Ecology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0269-8463, 1365-2435 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,000 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 6,373 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | www.functionalecology.org/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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