Vol. 36 (2021)
No. submitted articles: 267
No. accepted articles: 92
Statistics in the 6 months (2021.07-12)
Days to First Decision (All Manuscripts): 40.9 (days)
Days to First Decision (Mss. with Final Decisions Only): 37.8 (days)
Current issue
(vol. 37, issue 2)
Days for acceptance:
118.71 (58–257)
Days for Early View:
158.43 (90–320)
Days for publication:
227.86 (167–377)
vol. 27 2012
Ecosystem size may be an important factor determining food-chain length. Ecologists have long struggled to understand the causes of variation in foodchain length. The Bahamian Islands (top) in the Atlantic Ocean have many small and large islands along a variety of environmental gradients, offering great opportunities to study the environmental variables that drive variation in food-chain length among islands. Top predators on the islands are orb spiders, such as Argiope argentata (middle), and lizards (Anolis sagrei; bottom). Their trophic position, estimated by stable isotope technique, showed significant increases with island area, being among the first examples from terrestrial systems that food-chain length increases with ecosystem size.
Photos by *Gaku Takimoto
*Gaku Takimoto is the recipient of the 15th Miyadi Award!!
Check his award article
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