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functional-ecology
Use when targeting Functional Ecology (Funct Ecol) or deciding whether a mechanistic study linking organism function to ecology 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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# Functional Ecology (functional-ecology)
## Journal positioning
Functional Ecology is published by the British Ecological Society with Wiley and is the leading venue for mechanistic functional ecology — work that links the physiology, traits, life history, and performance of organisms to ecological and evolutionary processes. Its defining character is the functional mechanism: the journal asks how organisms work and how that function shapes their interactions, distributions, demography, and responses to the environment. It rewards ecophysiology, trait-based ecology, life-history and resource-allocation studies, behavioural and metabolic ecology, and physiological responses to global change — provided the work moves beyond description to explain function and connect it to ecology. It is not a venue for community-pattern or biogeographic studies lacking a functional mechanism, nor for physiology disconnected from ecological consequence. Readership spans physiological, trait-based, and evolutionary ecologists. 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 Functional Ecology BES/Wiley site.
## When to trigger
- The author names Functional Ecology as the target for a mechanistic study linking organism function — physiology, traits, life history — to ecological process.
- A trait-based or ecophysiology study is choosing between Functional Ecology, Journal of Ecology, and Ecology Letters.
- A study has strong physiological or trait data but the author needs to confirm the link to ecological consequence is explicit enough for this venue.
- The author needs Functional Ecology's mechanistic framing, data-archiving conventions, and desk-reject criteria before submission.
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