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Announcement: Launch of BMC Ecology and Evolution
We are pleased to announce that BMC Ecology and BMC Evolutionary Biology will be merged into one journal and re-launched as BMC Ecology and Evolution on January 1st 2021. As a result BMC Ecology is no longer open to new submissions and will not publish any new articles after December 31st 2020. The scope of BMC Evolutionary Biology has now been expanded to include ecology submissions and authors in this field are encouraged to submit to this journal.
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Read MoreFeatured article: How earthworm communities are affected by changes in soil properties
Earthworms are very sensitive to changes in the physio-chemical properties of soil in different agro-ecosystems, potentially having an effect on their diversity, abundance and overall survival. Understanding the physio-chemical properties of soil at a particular site may help to predict what species of earthworms are likely to be present. A study recently published in BMC Ecology looked at the diversity, abundance and distribution of earthworms in both cultivated and non-cultivated agro-ecosystems. Please click the title to read the full article.
Call for papers: Eco-evo-devo
The Editors of BMC Developmental Biology, BMC Ecology and BMC Evolutionary Biology welcome submissions to the cross-journal special issue on eco-evo-devo, the effect of the environment of development and evolution. Please click the above link for further information and to submit to the collection.
The special issue is open for submissions.
BMC Ecology now accepts Registered Reports
From August 24th, BMC Ecology will begin accepting a new type of article: Registered Reports. BMC Ecology is the first ecology journal to consider this innovative article format; please read our blog where we discuss what benefits we believe it can offer to ecologists.
Read MoreBMC Series Focus Issue
October: Animal Models
With World Animal Day falling on October 4th, the BMC series has decided to dedicate this month’s focus issue to animal models. Browse our titles for insight into recent research in the field, including growth regulation, lifespan variation, nephrotoxicity, cancer, lipid metabolism, autism, temperature-dependent development, drug resistance, inflammatory responses, disease resistance, sperm dynamics and antimicrobial residues in fish.
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Dynamics of forage and land cover changes in Teltele district of Borana rangelands, southern Ethiopia: using geospatial and field survey data
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Floral traits are associated with the quality but not quantity of heterospecific stigmatic pollen loads
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Meta-analysis reveals severe pollen limitation for the flowering plants growing in East Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains region
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Hydrogen isotopes reveal evidence of migration of Miniopterus schreibersii in Europe
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A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities
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Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
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Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection
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Love thy neighbour: facilitation through an alternative signalling modality in plants
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Red fluorescence in reef fish: A novel signalling mechanism?
Aims and scope
BMC Ecology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on environmental, behavioral and population ecology as well as biodiversity of plants, animals and microbes.
Editor
- Alison Cuff, BioMed Central
Locum Editor
- Danielle Talbot, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Dylan Smith, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- Jashan Philippe Abraham, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Michel Baguette, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Simon Blanchet, Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS
- Jean Clobert, Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS
- David Hughes, Penn State University
- Luke Jacobus, Indiana University
- Dominique Mazzi, Agroscope
- Sandrine Pavoine, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
- Josef Settele, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Josef Settele, Section Editor
Prof. Dr. Josef Settele is Head of Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany. His research interests are broad, covering conservation and evolutionary biology of insects, biodiversity and land use, and interdisciplinary cooperation and project co-ordination in biodiversity.
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Getting real about kidney transplant timelines
08 October 2020
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Highlights of the BMC Series: August 2020
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2018 Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
2.381 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.922 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.913 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.03 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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Portable Peer Review
The editors of BMC Ecology support initiatives that expedite the peer review process and are happy to consider manuscripts that have been reviewed in Peerage of Science. Please indicate in your cover letter if this applies to your manuscript.
