From submission to acceptance, it took a total of 9 months.
The submission was made in October.
It took nearly three months to find an external reviewer during which no pressure was applied. Two months later, after minor revisions, the paper was directly accepted.
Proofreading took an additional 2 months due to personal delays caused by a business trip.
The paper was officially published in September of the following year.

(0) 讚！ | 蛮子肖

It is an open-access journal of the Ecological Society of America. The overall quality should be good. I previously submitted to Ecological Applications. It took more than 2 months for the review. The review comments were ordinary, but the editor rejected it directly, and suggested transferring it to Ecosphere. I had no choice but transferred it, because the time is limited. I revised it according to the original comments and returned it, and it was accepted in 3 days. Therefore, this journal accepted the manuscript with a short submission date, and the editor is the editor-in-chief. It is likely that the articles are transferred from journals of the Ecological Society, which rejected them.

(3) 讚！ | 科研小生ac

It’s not cheap now. $1750 for non-member, and $1,500 for member. The Ecological Society of America is proficient in making money.

(1) 讚！ | 猪头三四