Ecography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos covering the field of spatial ecology

Ecology

Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

. It has been published since 1978, the first 14 volumes under the name Holarctic Ecology.

Ecography is published in collaboration with Oikos

Oikos (journal)

Oikos is an international scientific journal published monthly by the Nordic Society Oikos in the field of ecology. It was previously known as Acta Oecologica Scandinavica....

, Lindbergia, the Journal of Avian Biology

Journal of Avian Biology

The Journal of Avian Biology is an international peer-reviewed ornithological journal published bimonthly, currently by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos. The journal is edited by Editor-in-Chief Thomas Alerstam and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Jan-Åke Nilsson.Journal of Avian Biology...

, and with the monograph series Ecological Bulletins.

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 4.417, ranking it 22nd out of 129 journals in the category "Ecology" and 4th out of 33 journals in the category "Biodiversity Conservation".

Scope

The journal covers the following fields:

• population ecology
  Population ecology
  Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment. It is the study of how the population sizes of species living together in groups change over time and space....
  
   and community ecology
• macroecology
  Macroecology
  Macroecology is the subfield of ecology that deals with the study of relationships between organisms and their environment at large spatial scales to characterise and explain statistical patterns of abundance, distribution and diversity...
  
  
• biogeography
  Biogeography
  Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species , organisms, and ecosystems in space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities vary in a highly regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area...
  
  
• ecological conservation

External links

• Journal page at Oikos editorial office
• Virtual Special Issue: The patterns and causes of elevational diversity gradients