An End and a Beginning

When you come to the fork in the road-take it.Yogi Berra.We have come to a fork in the road for this journal.With this issue, we undergo a seemingly drastic transformation.We are changing the name of the journal from Conservation Ecology to Ecology and Society.The journal will continue, but with a new name and a new look.Why such a change?The Resilience Alliance, which funds and publishes the journal, made an executive decision to change the name.This was not done lightly, but after many hours of discussion.The concensus issuing from those discussions was that the old name did not adequately capture the broad scope and content of the journal and did not do justice to the integrative nature of the scholarship that has been and will continue to be published in it.The old name attracted too many narrow conservation studies more suitable for other journals.The journal's new name better reflects its integrative content, and emphasizes the interplay and interdependence between society and ecological systems, on local to global scales.