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EDITORIAL FOCUS EDITORIAL FOCUS EDITORIAL FOCUS WEnvironment. We hope you will find it interesting, informative, thought-provoking, and elcome to the first issue of the ESAâs new publication, Frontiers in Ecology and the even occasionally entertaining. Mark Twain said âOnly presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial âweâ â, but in this case the âweâ refers to many people, including past and present members of the ESA Governing Board, Frontiersâ Advisory and Editorial Board members, and ESA and journal staff, all of whom have played a part in developing the concept and content of this new addition to the ESAâs family of journals. The proposal to produce a new kind of ESA journal originated in a report from the Visions for the Future of ESA Publications Committee, in 2000. Many members will have followed the story since then, through further announcements in the ESA Bulletin and at the Annual Meetings â the development of a business plan, the successful bid for funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the leasing of offices in Silver Spring, and the appointment of staff. Now we hope very much that you, the readers, will play your part. Over the coming months, let us know what you think about what is, after all, your journal. In future issues, this editorial page will look outwards, commenting on the events and issues of the day, but it seems fitting that here we should look inwards, and introduce the journal to its readers. Dispatches, the international news section, will cover the latest ecological and environmental research findings, policy, politics, people, and events. Being a monthly journal, Frontiers cannot compete with daily and weekly news sources, so the focus will be on stories from around the world, and from the specialist literature. One section you will not find in this issue, but which will appear regularly in the future, are the letters pages, called âWrite Backâ. We hope this will become a platform for lively discussion and debate, not only about articles in the journal, but on any current scientific issues. So please do send in those letters. The main, scientific section of Frontiers will consist of peer-reviewed, synthetic review articles on all aspects of ecology, the environment, and related disciplines, as well as short, high-impact research communications of broad interdisciplinary appeal. (For submission criteria and instructions to authors, see our website at www.frontiersinecology.com). This month, you will also find a Forum, a multi-author debate which, in this case, examines the role of ecologists and environmental scientists in policy making. These and other special features will appear from time to time, after the reviews. A secondary aim of Frontiers is to provide important scientific information to policy makers, resource managers, and other decision makers. The âIn a nutshellâ panel at the beginning of each review is there to help these often non-specialist readers to quickly understand the main points of each article. Other features include the Laws of Nature column, looking at current legal issues; the Websight page, which reviews useful or unusual Internet resources; and our regular columnist Kathy Ellison. Choosing a name for the journal took some time, but Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment clearly sums up the goals of this new publication. These Frontiers represent not only the interface between ecology, environmental science, and other disciplines now collaborating to solve the worldâs ecological problems, but also the boundaries of our knowledge in those fields. When we first began commissioning reviews for the journal, we invited authors to end by speculating on the meaning and consequences of what they had described. This is not something that the ecological and environmental scientific community is used to, or entirely comfortable with. Yet, we feel it is important to allow authors to go that one step further â and suggest where the findings might lead. After all, you cannot name a journal Frontiers and then simply repeat the common wisdom. You may not agree with the authorsâ conclusions, but that is what the letters pages are for! The Vision Committeeâs report called for contents âof broad interest and importance, and written in a jargon-free language, accessible to a wide audienceâ. We invite you to turn the pages, to see if we have succeeded. Dr Sue Silver Editor-in-Chief © The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment – Ecological Society of America
Published: Feb 1, 2003
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