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Use when targeting Nature Ecology & Evolution (Nat Ecol Evol) or deciding whether an ecology or evolutionary biology 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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# Nature Ecology & Evolution (nature-ecology-and-evolution)

## Journal positioning

Nature Ecology & Evolution is Springer Nature's primary specialist journal for research across the full breadth of ecology and evolutionary biology, from molecular evolution and phylogenetics through population biology, community ecology, macroecology, and global biodiversity dynamics. The journal targets conceptual advances that reshape how the field understands ecological or evolutionary processes — not incremental empirical additions to a well-established paradigm. Its readership spans evolutionary biologists, ecologists, conservation scientists, and palaeobiologists; a paper must be legible and significant beyond its focal system or taxonomic group. 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 Springer Nature Nat Ecol Evol site.

## When to trigger

- The author names Nature Ecology & Evolution as the target venue for an ecology or evolutionary biology study.
- A manuscript makes a conceptual claim about ecological processes, evolutionary mechanisms, or biodiversity patterns that the author believes has broad significance.
- The author is choosing between Nat Ecol Evol, Ecology Letters, Current Biology, and Nature for an ecology/evolution paper.
- The author needs this journal's desk-reject criteria and a credible alternative list for results that are rigorous but may fall short of the significance bar.

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