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ecology-letters
Use when targeting Ecology Letters (Ecol Lett) or deciding whether an ecology manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Ecology Letters (ecology-letters)
## Journal positioning
Ecology Letters is a Wiley journal published in association with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and it is one of the highest-impact general ecology venues worldwide. Its defining character is concision paired with conceptual ambition: papers are short by ecological-journal standards, and brevity is enforced to force authors to state a single clear idea and defend it rigorously. The journal rewards work that advances ecological theory, reveals a general principle across systems, or integrates theory and data in a way that reframes how ecologists think about a process — not comprehensive species inventories or site-specific natural history. Readership is the broad ecology community, including evolutionary ecologists, macroecologists, and theoretical biologists. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Ecology Letters Wiley site.
## When to trigger
- The author names Ecology Letters as the target venue for a concise, conceptually driven ecology paper.
- A manuscript advances ecological theory or synthesizes theory with data in a way that reveals a general principle, and the author is choosing between Ecology Letters and Nature Ecology & Evolution, Current Biology, or Ecology.
- A paper is too short and focused for a full-length journal but has more conceptual ambition than would suit a note or brief communication at a generalist venue.
- The author needs Ecology Letters' brevity and framing requirements, plus desk-reject criteria, before submission.
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