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Use when targeting Journal of Ecology (J Ecol) or deciding whether a full-length plant-focused or broader ecology manuscript fits this 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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# Journal of Ecology (journal-of-ecology)

## Journal positioning

Journal of Ecology is published by the British Ecological Society with Wiley and is a leading venue for full-length ecological research with a strong plant focus, while welcoming broader ecology that spans population, community, and ecosystem levels. Its defining character is depth and rigor without a brevity constraint: papers are expected to develop a question thoroughly, with adequate replication, careful design, and a substantive discussion. The journal rewards advances in plant population and community ecology, plant-soil interactions, ecosystem processes, demography, and the mechanisms underlying ecological pattern — work that is conceptually motivated and broadly relevant beyond a single site. Readership is the international ecology community, with particular strength in plant and ecosystem ecology. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Journal of Ecology BES/Wiley site.

## When to trigger

- The author names Journal of Ecology as the target for a full-length plant-ecology or broader ecology study with thorough design and analysis.
- A plant population, community, or ecosystem study is choosing between Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters, and Functional Ecology.
- A study has solid empirical depth that exceeds a short-format venue's limits but needs a conceptually general framing to merit a high-impact full-length journal.
- The author needs Journal of Ecology's scope boundaries, data-archiving conventions, and desk-reject criteria before submission.

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