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Plant Ecology publishes original scientific papers that report and interpret the findings of pure and applied research into the ecology of vascular plants in terrestrial and wetland ecosystems. Empirical, experimental, theoretical and review papers reporting on ecophysiology, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, molecular and historical ecology are within the scope of the journal.

Editors-in-Chief:
Neal J. Enright
School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

William E. Rogers
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Associate Editors:

T. Abeli, Third University of Rome, Italy
C. J. Anderson, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
A. Armitage, Texas A&M University at Galveston, TX, USA
S. Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
S. Bartha, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
T. Bell, Chicago State University, IL, USA
L. Biederman, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
C. Birnbaum, Deakin University, Australia
S. Bonser, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, UNSW Sydney, Australia
M. Brundrett,Parks and Wildlife Service, Perth, Australia
B. Butterfield, Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA
C. Carcaillet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
H.J. Dalgleish, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
P.A. Fay, USDA-ARS, Temple, TX, USA
A. Fidelis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil
S.L. Flory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
L. Fraser, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada
R. Froend, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia
K. Harper, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
C. Holzapfel, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
D. Hui, Tennessee State University, Nashville, USA
S.M. Jacobs, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
M.J.E. Jongen, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
J.M. Kalwij, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
C. Kong, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
S. Krauss,Western Australian Ecology Centre, Perth, Australia
K. Kirkman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
P. Ladd, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch, Australia
M. Lawes, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
P.C. Le Roux, University of Pretoria, South Africa
J. Mast, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, USA 
D. A. McGranahan, North Dakota State University, ND, USA
S.J. Meiners, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA
J.D.A. Millington, King's College London, UK
R.A. Montgomery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
G.W. Moore,Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
N.Z. Muth, Juniata College, Huntingdon, USA
T.A. Nagel, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Z. Nagy, Szent Istvan University, Godollo, Hungary
M.A. Nuñez, INIBIOMA, CONICET, Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
I. Olivieri, Université Montpellier 2, France 
W. Polley, USDA Agricultural Research Service, TX, USA
D. L. Potts, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY, USA 
E. Pringle, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
Paul M. Ramsay, Plymouth University, UK
L. Rigg, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA 
L. Russell, Wichita State University, KS,USA 
K. Ruthrof, Murdoch University, Australia
C. Siegert, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
C. Smit, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, The Netherlands
M. Tedder, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
H-H. “Rose” Wang, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA 
M. Westergren, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
E.T.F. Witkowski, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
C.L. Wonkka, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
J. Wunder, Swiss Federal Research Institure WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
L. Yahdjian, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
G. Yan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Hubei, China 
J.C. Zinnert, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA