Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.

《功能生态学》发表具有高影响力的论文，这些论文有助于从有机体到生态系统规模对生态模式和过程进行机械理解。由于这一挑战具有多面性，因此论文可以基于多种方法。因此，当目标是了解生态系统和更大规模的生态现象时，稿件可能从有机体研究的生理、遗传、生命史和行为视角到社区和生物地球化学研究不等。我们相信，我们期刊的多样性是一种优势，而不是劣势，我们对我们发表的各种数据、研究方法和研究类型持开放态度。某些关键领域将继续受到重视：将基因组学与生态学相结合的研究、研究生理学的关键方面（例如压力）如何影响动物和植物的生态学（反之亦然）的研究，以及进化如何影响功能和生态特征之间的相互作用。生态学越来越认识到生物体的特征和活动对于理解群落动态和生态系统过程至关重要，特别是对地球环境正在发生的快速全球变化的反应，而《功能生态学》旨在发表这样的综合性论文。

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