Ecological Monographs

By 1925 an ESA committee was considering publication-space needs and the choice between expanding Ecology and creating another journal.

Ecological Monographs began in January 1931, giving extended investigations a separate publication outlet.

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A new sustaining-membership category directed part of its higher dues toward the journal. ESA also established a publishing relationship with Duke University Press.

The society’s 1976 history connected these arrangements with continued long-form publication, showing the financial and organizational basis of the editorial project.

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The third issue of 1931 included investigations of deep-lake bottom fauna and tobacco-beetle ecology, occupying pages 231–331 and 333–393 respectively.

The issue ranged across aquatic and terrestrial organisms, with extended articles providing space for systematic investigation of particular subjects.

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Published as a continuing journal, Ecological Monographs originally provided an outlet distinguished by extended articles.

Other ESA outlets serve different roles: the Bulletin records society and scholarly activities, Ecology publishes basic research, and Ecological Applications emphasizes science applied to environmental problems.

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