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BMC Ecology Image Competition 2017 - the winners!

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The winners of our 5th annual Image Competition have been announced. To see the best images from this year's competition please read our accompanying editorial.

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.

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Vole abundance and reindeer carcasses determine breeding activity of Arctic foxes in low Arctic Yamal, Russia

Dorothee Ehrich, Maite Cerezo, Anna Y. Rodnikova, Natalya A. Sokolova, Eva Fuglei, Victor G. Shtro and Aleksandr A. Sokolov

Published on: 16 September 2017
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Environmental drivers of Ixodes ricinus abundance in forest fragments of rural European landscapes

Steffen Ehrmann, Jaan Liira, Stefanie Gärtner, Karin Hansen, Jörg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, Marc Deconchat, Guillaume Decocq, Pieter De Frenne, Pallieter De Smedt, Martin Diekmann, Emilie Gallet-Moron, Annette Kolb, Jonathan Lenoir, Jessica Lindgren, Tobias Naaf…

Published on: 6 September 2017
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Hair cortisol concentrations correlate negatively with survival in a wild primate population

Josué H. Rakotoniaina, Peter M. Kappeler, Eva Kaesler, Anni M. Hämäläinen, Clemens Kirschbaum and Cornelia Kraus

Published on: 1 September 2017
Editorial

BMC ecology image competition 2017: the winning images

Christopher Foote, Chris T. Darimont, Michel Baguette, Simon Blanchet, Luke M. Jacobus, Dominique Mazzi and Josef Settele

Published on: 18 August 2017
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Wind conditions on migration influence the annual survival of a neotropical migrant, the western yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens auricollis)

Andrew C. Huang, Christine A. Bishop, René McKibbin, Anna Drake and David J. Green

Published on: 10 August 2017

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A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities

Alex Hardisty and Dave Roberts

Published on: 15 April 2013
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Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Raf Aerts and Olivier Honnay

Published on: 24 November 2011
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Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection

David P Hughes, Sandra B Andersen, Nigel L Hywel-Jones, Winanda Himaman, Johan Billen and Jacobus J Boomsma

Published on: 9 May 2011
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Genetic censusing identifies an unexpectedly sizeable population of an endangered large mammal in a fragmented forest landscape

Maureen S McCarthy, Jack D Lester, Eric J Howe, Mimi Arandjelovic, Craig B Stanford and Linda Vigilant

Published on: 25 August 2015
Editorial

BMC Ecologyimage competition 2014: the winning images

Simon Harold, Caspar Henderson, Michel Baguette, Michael B Bonsall, David Hughes and Josef Settele

Published on: 29 August 2014

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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.

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Ying Lou, BioMed Central

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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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A hazardous undertaking: how ant queens prevent disease during colony foundation

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Vole abundance and reindeer carcasses determine breeding activity of Arctic foxes in low Arctic Yamal, Russia

Environmental drivers of Ixodes ricinus abundance in forest fragments of rural European landscapes

Hair cortisol concentrations correlate negatively with survival in a wild primate population

BMC ecology image competition 2017: the winning images

Wind conditions on migration influence the annual survival of a neotropical migrant, the western yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens auricollis)

A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities

Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection

Genetic censusing identifies an unexpectedly sizeable population of an endangered large mammal in a fragmented forest landscape

BMC Ecologyimage competition 2014: the winning images

Aims and scope

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Section Editors

Josef Settele, Section Editor

Data support service

BMC Series blog

Predicting a soldier’s potential for developing depression and PTSD

11th International Conference on Behavior, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife

A hazardous undertaking: how ant queens prevent disease during colony foundation

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