The Open Ecology Journal

ISSN: 1874-2130 - Volume 3, 2010

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr. Philip H. Crowley
Department of Biology
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA


Editorial Advisory Board:

Joshua T. Ackerman (US Geological Survey, Davis CA, USA)
Claudia C. Bonecker (Universidad Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Brazil)
Gabriela Bujalska (Cardinal Stefan Wysynski University, Warsaw, Poland)
Carlos A. Busso (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
Stefano Cannicci (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy)
Walter P. Carson (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA)
Marcelo H. Cassini (Universidad Nacional de Luján, Luján, Argentina)
Derik Castillo-Guajardo (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico)
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
Alejandro Córdoba Aguilar (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico)
Michel Couderchet (University of Reims, Reims, France)
Donald Cowan (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa)
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
Patricia Dale (Griffith University, Nathan, Australia)
Sasha Dall (University of Exeter, Penryn, UK)
Christian Damgaard (Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark)
Jean Robert David (CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France)
Tamar Dayan (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Donald C. Dearborn (Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA, USA)
Christopher Dickman (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
F. Javier Diego-Rasilla (University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain)
Vincent Dietemann (Research Station Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux ALP, Bern, Switzerland)
Panayiotis Dimitrakopoulos (University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece)
Henry Disney (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Hideyuki Doi (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany)
Xuejun Dong (North Dakota State University, Streeter ND, USA)
Carsten F. Dormann (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany)
Stéphane Dray (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France)
Lori S Eggert (University of Missouri, Columbia MO, USA)
Ali A.M. El-Keblawy (University of United Arab Emirates, Al-Ain, UAE)
Arnaud Estoup (INRA, Montpellier, France)
Nina Farwig (Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
Katharina Foerster (University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Patricia J. Folgarait (National University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Helena Freitas (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
Justin Gerlach (Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles, Victoria, Seychelles)
Volker Grimm (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany)
Sveinn A. Hanssen (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tromsø, Norway)
Lars Hein (Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Charlotte Hemelrijk (University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
Maria-Josefina Hernandez (Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela)
Judi Hewitt (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand)
Jennifer Hill (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Malcolm S. Hill (University of Richmond, Richmond VA, USA)
A. Rus Hoelzel (Durham University, Durham, UK)
Joseph I. Hoffman (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
Zachary Huang (Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, USA)
Robert Jehle (University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK)
Frank Johansson (University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden)
Leslie Ann Knapp (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
Evelyn Korn (University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
Boris Krasnov (Ben-Gurion University, Mispe Ramon, Israel)
Vlastimil Krivan (Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic)
William K. Lauenroth (University of Wyoming, Laramie WY, USA)
John Laundré (State University of New York, Oswego NY, USA)
Sang Don Lee (Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea)
William Z. Lidicker (University of California, Berkeley CA, USA)
Juul Limpens (Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Gabor L. Lövei (Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark)
Rafael D. Loyola (Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Brazil)
Luca Luiselli (Environmental Studies Centre Demetra, Rome, Italy)
Nicolas Mathevon (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France)
Brian C. McCarthy (Ohio University, Athens OH, USA)
Jordi Moya-Laraño (Cantabric Institute of Biodiversity, Oviedo, Spain)
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (University of California, Davis CA, USA)
Pablo Munguia (University of Texas, Austin TX, USA)
Daniel E. Naya (Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay)
R. Thomas Palo (Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden)
Dean Pearson (USDA Forest Service, Missoula MT, USA)
Ming Pei (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK)
Vincenzo Penteriani (Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville, Spain)
Helen Regan (University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA)
Swen Renner (University of Ulm, Ulm, USA)
David Reznick (University of California, Riverside CA, USA)
Bernard D. Roitberg (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)
Valentí Rull (Botanic Institute of Barcelona (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
S.S.S. Sarma (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Tlalnepantla, Mexico)
Frank Seebacher (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
DeWayne Shoemaker (USDA-ARS Entomology Center, Gainesville FL, USA)
Keryea Soong (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China)
Kurt S. Tande (University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway)
Athanassios Tsikliras (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece)
Teresa Vegas Vilarrúbia (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Maxine Watson (Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA)
Cynthia Weinig (University of Wyoming, Laramie WY, USA)
Thierry Wirth (Museum of Natural History, Paris, France)
Jianping Xu (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Jiasui Zhan (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK)
Jin-Tun Zhang (Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China)