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I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Neill Alexander for all his hard work and critical input over the past seven years. Proceedings B has seen tremendous change during his tenure as Editor and he has ensured that the journal has maintained its high standards. During his tenure, submission levels have more than doubled, citation impact has improved and the international profile of the journal has never been stronger. The most significant development was the introduction of the Biology Letters service in 2003. The service has proved so successful that Biology Letters has gained independence from Proceedings B and is now a successful journal in its own right.It has become recognized that the present model of a single editor making decisions on 1300 papers per annum is no longer sustainable. For this reason, the editorial management of the journal has now been restructured. In the new model, as Editor-in-Chief I will oversee a team of Associate Editors. The Associate Editors will be individually responsible for making decisions based on the recommendations of board members and referees, although I will also act as Editor for some papers and be available for Associate Editors to consult. I ask you to bear with us until the new model becomes established, but I am optimistic that it will benefit both our authors and readers. I intend to maintain the high standards of refereeing and editing achieved by Neill Alexander and the Publishing section at the Royal Society.FUTURE PLANSProceedings B has its strongest presence in organismal and population biology, particularly in evolutionary biology, behaviour and ecology. I wish to see a broadening of its coverage, but recognize that it is likely to be in complementary rather than radically different areas. Thus, I particularly welcome papers using molecular methods in areas such as evolution, ecology and systematics, and also functional analysis of, for example, behaviour. I also identify three areas in which I hope to see more submissions, namely plant biology, palaeontology and neuroscience. I welcome submissions of quality in all areas of biology, however, and papers regardless of area will be published based on their merit.I want papers to be of interest and understandable to a broad audience of biologists. They should also be succinct: the standard limit is six printed pages, and that will be exceeded (at a charge) only in cases of particular need; Web archiving is available for large datasets.I look forward to hearing from you.Bill Hill [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]