From: Janos PodaniSubject: Announcement of a new journal Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to introduce a new journal, ***** COMMUNITY ECOLOGY ***** Established by the merger of two other ecological periodicals, Coenoses and Abstracta Botanica, this new journal is an international forum for original papers, review articles, book reviews, announcements and advertisements of interest to ecologists. Community Ecology is being launched in an effort to create a common global forum for community ecologists dealing with plant, animal and/or microbial communities from terrestrial, marine or freshwater systems. The scope of the journal includes, but is not restricted to, the following subject areas: =B7 community-based ecological theory; =B7 modelling of ecological communities; =B7 community-based ecophysiology; =B7 temporal dynamics, including succession; =B7 trophic interactions, including food webs and competition; =B7 spatial pattern analysis, including scaling issues; =B7 community patterns of species richness and diversity; =B7 sampling ecological communities; =B7 data analysis methods, including multivariate analysis and geostatistics. All papers are peer-reviewed. For more information on submission of manuscripts and subscriptions, please visit http://www.terra.hu/comecol ........................................................................= .... Janos Podani Associate Professor Department of Plant Taxonomy Eotvos University H-1083 Budapest, Ludovika ter 2 Fax: 36 1 3338 764 Web: http://ramet.elte.hu/~podani also http://ramet.elte.hu/~scientia/index.html