Plant Ecology publishes original scientific papers that report and interpret the findings of pure and applied research into the ecology of vascular plants in terrestrial and wetland ecosystems. Empirical, experimental, theoretical and review papers reporting on ecophysiology, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, molecular and historical ecology are within the scope of the journal.

植物生態(tài)學(xué)發(fā)表原始科學(xué)論文，報(bào)告和解釋關(guān)于陸地和濕地生態(tài)系統(tǒng)中維管植物生態(tài)學(xué)的純和應(yīng)用研究的結(jié)果。關(guān)于生態(tài)生理學(xué)、人口、社區(qū)、生態(tài)系統(tǒng)、景觀、分子和歷史生態(tài)學(xué)的實(shí)證、實(shí)驗(yàn)、理論和綜述論文均在該期刊的范圍內(nèi)。