Ecological Modelling: editorial overview 2000-2005

Ecological Modelling publishes from time to time editorials, that review the development of the journal: after 50 volumes, after 100 volumes and at our 25 years anniversary. This time we celebrate 30 years anniversary and focus on the time 2000-2005, corresponding to the volumes 126-185. Sixty volumes - almost one third of all volumes of Ecological Modelling! We will review the development by means of statistics as we have done previously but this time we will also try to look behind the statistics and try to assess the development in the scientific fields of ecosystem theory (systems ecology) and of ecological modelling. What are the recent research focus in these two subfield of ecology?