Including Global Ecology and Biogeography and Diversity and Distributions. The subjects of biogeography, ecology and biodiversity are now of truly global importance. Recognising this increased significance, the scope of the Journal of Biogeography and its sister publications, Global Ecology and Biogeography and Diversity Distributions, continue to be developed under the guidance of Dr Robert Whittaker and Dr David Richardson respectively, acting as a team with Professor Philip Stott, the Editor of Journal of Biogeography. Diversity and Distributions, new in 1998, aims to take the lead in the increasingly important field of invasion biology.