BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY Journal of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie) AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.2 • Impact Factor p.2 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 1439-1791 DESCRIPTION . Announcement: From January 2022 Basic and Applied Ecology will become an open access journal. Authors who publish in Basic and Applied Ecology will be able to make their work immediately, permanently, and freely accessible. Basic and Applied Ecology continues with the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. Basic and Applied Ecology authors will pay an article publishing charge (APC), have a choice of license options, and retain copyright to their published work. The APC will be requested after peer review and acceptance. The APC payment will be required for all accepted articles submitted after 1st October 2021 The APC for Basic and Applied Ecology can be found on the open access page. Please note: Authors who have submitted their paper on or before the 30th September 2021, will have their accepted article published in Basic and Applied Ecology at no charge. Authors submitting their paper after this date will be requested to pay the APC. For more details visit our FAQs page. Basic and Applied Ecology provides a forum in which ecological advances and ideas can be rapidly communicated to a wide audience. Basic and Applied Ecology publishes Reviews, Perspectives and Original Contributions from all areas of ecology, complemented by Invited Views, Comments and Special Issues. Ecologists from all countries are invited to publish ecological research of general ecological and international interest on its pages, as there is no bias with regard to taxon or geographical area. Papers in Basic and Applied Ecology include topical research in areas such as biodiversity and associated functions and services, response to global change across latitudes as well as multitrophic interactions. New project designs and methods are also welcome. The main research areas covered by Basic and Applied Ecology are Conservation Ecology, Applied Ecology, Community and Population Ecology, Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology, and Functional Ecology, but contributions from other fields will also be considered. Basic and Applied Ecology actively solicits papers that strive to integrate the various disciplines and issues within the broad field of ecology. Basic and Applied Ecology published its first volumes in 2000 and is the official journal of the "Gesellschaft fur Okologie", the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. For members of the "Gesellschaft fur Okologie" free access to the online version of Basic and Applied Ecology (BAAE) is included in their membership fee (75 Euro per year). Please contact the society's office (E-mail: [email protected]) to become a member. AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/baae 1 AUDIENCE . Ecologists, botanists, zoologists, agroecologists, forest ecologists, tropical ecologists, soil ecologists, aquatic ecologists, geoecologists, landscape ecologists IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 3.414 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . CAB International Chemical Abstracts Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences Biology & Environmental Sciences Elsevier BIOBASE Embase Research Alert Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science Science Citation Index Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Teja Tscharntke, University of Göttingen Agroecology group, Waldweg 26, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany Managing Editor Klaus Hövemeyer, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Book Review Editor Carsten Dormann, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Ecological Statistics Subject Editors Conservation Ecology Anna Bucharova, University of Marburg Faculty of Biology, Marburg, Germany David Kleijn, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, V cr t¢t, Hungary Applied Ecology Alexandra-Maria Klein, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Stacy Philpott, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States of America Tatyana A. Rand, USDA-ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, Sidney, United States of America Catrin Westphal, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Community and Population Ecology Vesna Gagić, Brisbane, Australia Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States of America Lorenzo Marini, University of Padua Department of Agronomy Food Natural Resources Animals and Environment, Legnaro, Italy Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Stanford University, Stanford and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Functional Ecology Katja Andrea Poveda, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America Taryn L. Bauerle, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/baae 2 Stefan Scheu, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Social Media Manager Carolina Ocampo-Ariza, University of Göttingen Agroecology group, Göttingen, Germany AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/baae 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . INTRODUCTION Basic and Applied Ecology (BAAE) seeks reviews, perspectives and original contributions from all areas of basic and applied ecology. Ecologists from all countries are invited to publish ecological research of international interest on its pages. There is no bias with regard to taxon or geographical area. Basic and Applied Ecology is the official journal of the “Gesellschaft für Ökologie”, the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The acceptance of a paper implies that it has been reviewed and recommended by at least two reviewers of which at least one is from the Editors or the Editorial Board. Article types Research papers Research papers report the results of original research. The material must not have been previously published elsewhere. Full length articles are up to 6,000 words. Review articles Reviews summarize the status of research in a field of current interest. Review articles are up to 10,000 words and must include a methods section explaining how the literature for review was selected. Opinion papers (Perspectives and Invited Views) Opinion papers provide a novel, distinctive viewpoint on any subject within the journal's scope. The articles should be well grounded in evidence and adequately supported by citations, but may focus on a stimulating and thought-provoking line of arguments. Opinion papers should not exceed 6,000 words. 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