Table 2. Annual percentage change in the frequency of domains and topics in ecological research 1980–2010.

		Percent of annual average change (95% CI)
Domain	Topic	All Journals	Core Journals
Single Species	Demography	NS	−2.0 (−0.2– −3.8)*
	Physiology	−3.1 (−5.9– −1.3)***	NS
	Distribution	NS	NS
	Behavior	−5.0 (−7.1–−2.8)***	NS
	Evolution	NS	5.9 (0.2–11.9)*
	Genetics	10.4 (6.9–14.1)***	NS
Single species		NS	NS
Species Interactions	Grazing	NS	−3.2 (−6.0–−0.3)*
	Predation	NS	NS
	Mutualism	NS	NS
	Parasitism	NS	5.2 (0.9–9.7)*
	Competition	NS	NS
Species interactions		NS	NS
Community	Biodiversity	6.0 (2.8– 9.2)***	4.7 (1.4–8.2)**
	Community structure	NS	NS
Community		3.6 (1.3–6.0)***	2.9 (0.6–5.3)**
Ecosystem	Food web	NS	NS
	Climate change	7.7 (0.8–15.0)*	13.9 (4.5–24.2)***
	Vegetation dynamics	NS	−2.7 (−5.2–−0.1)*
	Biomass and productivity	NS	NS
	Biogeochemistry	NS	NS
Ecosystem		NS	NS
Others	Scale	NS	9.0 (2.7–15.7)**
	Statistics	NS	NS

^***Change is significant at the Bonferroni-adjusted level, p<0.001, ** p<0.01, * p<0.05.