Bryan Grenfell, Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, USA "An excellent and timely idea. The focus on interdisciplinary research is especially welcome." Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK "This is an exciting project to develop a new journal in theoretical ...

Bryan Grenfell, Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, USA "An excellent and timely idea. The focus on interdisciplinary research is especially welcome." Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK "This is an exciting project to develop a new journal in theoretical ecology, the editorial board contains huge depth of experience and the journal looks set to be very influential in the field." Ilkka Hanski, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland "Theoretical ecology has become fundamentally transformed since the early days in the 1960s and 1970s. Mathematical, statistical and computational advances have helped forge a strong link between theoretical and empirical studies, and at last theory is making the contribution to ecological research that has been looked forward. Theoretical Ecology brings a forum that has been lacking. This new journal will undoubtedly play a key role in the coming years in consolid