ecologia mediterranea publishes original research reports and syntheses in the fields of fundamental and applied ecology of Mediterranean areas, except for descriptive articles or articles about systematic. The editors of ecologia mediterranea invite original contributions in the fields of: bioclimatology, biogeography, conservation biology, restoration ecology, populations biology, genetic ecology, landscape ecology, community ecology, microbial ecology, vegetal and animal ecology, ecophysiology, palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology, except marine ecology. Symposium proceedings, review articles, methodological notes, book reviews, Ph. D. thesis abstracts and comments on recent papers in ecologia mediterranea are also published.

Manuscript reviews

Manuscripts are reviewed by appropriate referees, or by members of the Editorial Board, or by the Editors. The final decision to accept or reject the manuscript is made by the Editors. Please send an electronic copy of your manuscript (doc or rtf files) to our journal (thierry.dutoit@univ-avignon.fr). When the article is accepted, the authors should take reviewer's comments into consideration. They will send back to the journal Editorial Office, within 3 months, an electronic copy of the corrected manuscript (doc or rtf). Pass this delay, the manuscrpt will be considered as a new submission. Enclose the original illustrations. Corrected proofs must be returned to the journal Editorial Office without delay. Books and monographs to be reviewed must be submitted to the Editor-in-chief.

Manuscript preparation

Text

Manuscripts (typewritten with double spacing and A4 size for paper) should be preferably written in French, English. If the language is not English, you should join an English short version and English titles of figures and tables. The manuscript must be complete: e.g. French and English titles, author(s) and address(es), French and English abstracts, an English short version (if English is not the language used in the article), key-words, text, references, acknowledgements, figures and tables. For research papers, the text should normally consist of 4 sections: introduction, methods, results, discussion. In typing the manuscript, please clearly distinguish titles from others paragraphs. Titles and subtitles should not be numbered. Avoid letters to number subtitles. Use lower-case letter type for names. Do not underline any word. In English, there is one blank after any punctuation, never before. Copy editing of manuscripts is performed by the journal.

Authors

The email address of the corresponding author should be mentioned on the manuscript. Each author's address should be specified. The first time, please precise the complete address of the correspondent author to which the proofs should be sent.

Abstracts, key-words and short version

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. The English short version should not exceed one page long (1000 words). Do not use more than six key-words. Key-words should not be present in the title.

References

All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically on author's names, and chronologically for each author. You should abbreviate the titles of periodicals mentioned in the list of references (except if you are not sure of it). Check the manuscripts to make sure that all references are cited and that all citations in the text are included in the references. Use following system to write the references:

- journal article:

Andow D.A., Karieva P., Levin S.A. & Okubo A., 1990. Spread of invading organisms. J. Ecol. 4: 177-188.

- Book:

Harper J.L., 1977. Population biology of plants. Academic Press, London. 300 p.

- Book chapters:

May R.M., 1989. Levels of organisation in ecology. In : Cherret J.M. (ed.), Ecological concepts. Blackwell Scientific Public., Ox-ford : 339-363.

- Conference proceedings:

Grootaert P., 1984. Biodiversity in insects, speciation and behaviour in Diptera. In : Hoffmann M. & Van der Veken P. (eds.), Proceedings of the symposium on " Biodiversity: study, exploration, conservation ", Ghent, 18 November 1992 : 121-141.

Citations in-text

The words " figures " and " tables " announced in-text should be written in extenso and with lower-case letter type. In the text refer to the author's name and year of publication (followed by pages only if it is a quotation). If a publication is written by more than two authors, the name of the first author should be used followed by " et al. " (this indication, however, should never be used in the list of references : first author and co-authors should be mentioned in it). Examples: " Since Dupont (1962) has shown that... ", or " This is in agreement with previous results (Durand et al. 1990 ; Dupond & Dupont 1997) ... ".

Abbreviates, nomenclature and Latin words

Explanation of a technical abbreviate is required when the first use. International convention codes for nomenclature should be used. Latin words should be in italic (et al., a priori, etc.), particularly for plants or animals' denomination (the first time, please precise author's name: for example, Olea europaea L.).

Figures and tables

All illustrations should be submitted separately and they should be preceded by the figures and tables legends on a separate page. Figures and tables should be sent "ready to be printed so their size should be 16 x 22 cm or 8 x 22 cm maximum. All the illustrations being in-text should be cited, increasing numbered, and should have a legend. Computerised table columns should not be represented by signs ( : or | ).

Reprints

Twenty-five reprints and a pdf version will be supplied free of charge. By request, additional reprints can be ordered with charge.