Introducing ‘Environmental Research: Ecology’—a new journal devoted to addressing global challenges at the interface of environmental and ecological science, biodiversity and conservation

Environmental Research: Ecology is a new open-access journal focused on addressing important global challenges at the interface of environmental science, large scale ecology, biodiversity and conservation in a way that bridges scientific progress and assessment with efforts relating to impacts of global change, vulnerability, resilience, mitigation and adaptation in the broadest sense. While there are many journals addressing various aspects of ecology, those focused on macroscale changes across ecosystems, biomes and at continental to global scale geographies are far fewer. Because ecosystems across the globe are undergoing enormous changes brought about by human-induced transformations and associated feedbacks to and alteration of the climate system, it is more important than ever that a forum exists for addressing these issues in a fully Open Access publishing venue. Environmental Research: Ecology provides that platform and is supported by an Editorial Board of high profile ecologists covering a broad range of disciplines and geographies.