functional-ecology
Use when targeting Functional Ecology (Funct Ecol) or deciding whether a mechanistic study linking organism function to ecology fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill functional-ecology --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Functional Ecology (functional-ecology) ## Journal positioning Functional Ecology is published by the British Ecological Society with Wiley and is the leading venue for mechanistic functional ecology — work that links the physiology, traits, life history, and performance of organisms to ecological and evolutionary processes. Its defining character is the functional mechanism: the journal asks how organisms work and how that function shapes their interactions, distributions, demography, and responses to the environment. It rewards ecophysiology, trait-based ecology, life-history and resource-allocation studies, behavioural and metabolic ecology, and physiological responses to global change — provided the work moves beyond description to explain function and connect it to ecology. It is not a venue for community-pattern or biogeographic studies lacking a functional mechanism, nor for physiology disconnected from ecological consequence. Readership spans physiological, trait-based, and evolutionary ecologists. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instruct
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the functional-ecology skill do?
Use when targeting Functional Ecology (Funct Ecol) or deciding whether a mechanistic study linking organism function to ecology fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill functional-ecology --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.