''Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology'' is a

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published by the

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It pu ...

on behalf of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The journal publishes original research examining fundamental questions about how the ecological environment and/or evolutionary history interact with physiological function, as well as the ways physiology may constrain behavior. For ''EEP'', physiology denotes the study of function in the broadest sense, across levels of organization from molecules to morphology to organismal performance and on behavior and life history traits. Subdisciplines and topics covered by the journal include

comparative physiology Comparative physiology is a subdiscipline of physiology that studies and exploits the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary physiology and environmental physiology. Many ...

biomechanics Biomechanics is the study of the structure, function and motion of the mechanical aspects of biological systems, at any level from whole organisms to Organ (anatomy), organs, Cell (biology), cells and cell organelles, using the methods of mechani ...

and functional morphology, behavioral endocrinology, ecoimmunology,

ecotoxicology Ecotoxicology is the study of the effects of toxic chemicals on biological organisms, especially at the population biology, population, biological community, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecotoxicology is a multidisciplinary field, ...

ecomorphology Ecomorphology or ecological morphology is the study of the relationship between the ecological, ecological role of an individual and its morphology (biology), morphological adaptations. The term "morphological" here is in the anatomical context. Bo ...

phenotypic plasticity Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the changes in an organism's behavior, morphology and physiology in response to a unique environment. Fundamental to the way in which organisms cope with environmental variation, phenotypic plasticity encompa ...

, energetics,

allometry Allometry (Ancient Greek "other", "measurement") is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in ''On Growth and Form'' and by Jul ...

and scaling,

animal locomotion In ethology, animal locomotion is any of a variety of methods that animals use to move from one place to another. Some modes of locomotion are (initially) self-propelled, e.g., running, swimming, jumping, flight, flying, hopping, soaring and gli ...

and

muscle Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue. There are three types of muscle tissue in vertebrates: skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle. Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to muscle contra ...

function, physiological foundations of behavior, physiological genetics and genomics, individual variation, cardiovascular physiology, sensory physiology, nutrition and digestion, growth and development,

osmoregulation Osmoregulation is the active regulation of the osmotic pressure of an organism's body fluids, detected by osmoreceptors, to maintain the homeostasis of the organism's water content; that is, it maintains the fluid balance and the concentration ...

, epithelial and membrane transport, gas exchange and transport, acid-base homeostasis,

thermoregulation Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different. A thermoconforming organism, by contrast, simply adopts the surrounding temperature ...

, temperature responses and adaptation, structure and function of macromolecules, neuro-endocrine physiology and signal transduction, nitrogen metabolism and excretion. The journal has published a number of Focused Collections based on calls for papers or conference symposia. Examples includ
Conservation PhysiologyEcoimmunologyEarly-Life Effects on the Adult PhenotypeFunctional Morphology and Biomechanics
an
Trade-Offs in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology
The current

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

is Theodore Garland, Jr. (

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Riverside, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of Cali ...

). Previous Editors include Charles Manning Child, Warder Clyde Allee, Clifford Ladd Prosser
Warren W. Burggren

James Hicks
Patricia Schulte, an
Kathleen M Gilmour
The journal was established in 1928 as ''Physiological Zoology'', and the name was changed to ''Physiological and Biochemical Zoology'' in 1999. In 2024, beginning with Volume 97, the journal was renamed again to ''Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology.''

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