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For the fifth year, BMC Ecology is proud to present the winning images from our annual image competition. The 2017 edition received entries by talented shutterbug-ecologists from across the world, showcasing rese...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:28
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research Article
Long-distance migratory birds in North America have undergone precipitous declines over the past half-century. Although the trend is clear, for many migrating species underpinning the exact causes poses a chal...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:29
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research Article
Body size is a major factor in the nutritional ecology of ruminant mammals. Females, due to their smaller size and smaller rumen, have more rapid food-passage times than males and thereby require higher qualit...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:27
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research Article
Defensive symbionts can provide significant fitness advantages to their hosts. Facultative symbionts can protect several species of aphid from fungal pathogens, heat shock, and parasitism by parasitoid wasps. ...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:26
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research Article
Ongoing conversion, disturbance and fragmentation of tropical forests stress this ecosystem and cause the decline or disappearance of many species. Particular traits have been identified which indicate an incr...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:25
Published on: 28 June 2017
Research article
Amphibians and reptiles are among the most endangered vertebrate species worldwide. However, little is known how they are affected by road-kills on tertiary roads and whether the surrounding landscape structur...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:24
Published on: 26 June 2017
Research Article
Species richness affects processes and functions in many ecosystems. Since management of temperate grasslands is directly affecting species composition and richness, it can indirectly govern how systems respon...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:23
Published on: 17 June 2017
Research article
Human food subsidies can provide predictable food sources in large quantities for wildlife species worldwide. In the boreal forest of Fennoscandia, gut piles from moose (Alces alces) harvest provide a potentially...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:22
Published on: 15 June 2017
Research article
Understanding how species adapt to new niches is a central issue in evolutionary ecology. Nutrition is vital for the survival of all organisms and impacts species fitness and distribution. While most Drosophila s...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:21
Published on: 7 June 2017
Research article
Mass occurrences of cyanobacteria frequently cause detrimental effects to the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Consequently, attempts haven been made to control cyanobacterial blooms through naturally co-occ...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:20
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research Article
Habitat fragmentation is considered to be a main reason for decreasing genetic diversity of plant species. However, the results of many fragmentation studies are inconsistent. This may be due to the influence ...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:19
Published on: 24 April 2017
Research Article
Understanding whether species’ elevational range is shifting in response to directional changes in climate and whether there is a predictable pattern in that response is one of the major challenges in ecology....
BMC Ecology 2017 17:17
Published on: 20 April 2017
Research Article
Natural red fluorescence is particularly conspicuous in the eyes of some small, benthic, predatory fishes. Fluorescence also increases in relative efficiency with increasing depth, which has generated speculat...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:18
Published on: 20 April 2017
Research Article
Rodents of the genus Rattus are among the most pervasive and successful invasive species, causing major vicissitudes in native ecological communities. A broad and flexible generalist diet has been suggested as ke...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:16
Published on: 17 April 2017
Research Article
Invasions pose a large threat to native species, but the question of why some species are more invasive, and some communities more prone to invasions than others, is far from solved. Using 10 different three-s...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:15
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research Article
Establishing populations in ecologically marginal habitats may require substantial phenotypic changes that come about through phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation, or both. West-Eberhard’s “plasticity-first...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:14
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research article
Species recovery after disturbances depends on the strength and duration of disturbance, on the species traits and on the biotic interactions with other species. In order to understand these complex relationsh...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:13
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research Article
Plant strategies to resist herbivory include tolerance and avoidance. Tolerance strategies, such as rapid regrowth which increases the palatability of new shoots, can lead to positive feedback loops between pl...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:12
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Adjusting the timing of annual events to gradual changes in environmental conditions is necessary for population viability. However, adaptations to weather extremes are poorly documented in migratory species. ...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:11
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
At high densities, terrestrial and marine species often employ alternate reproductive tactics (ARTs) to maximize reproductive benefits. We describe ARTs in a high-density and unfished spawning aggregation of t...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:10
Published on: 28 February 2017
Research article
In Europe, bank voles (Myodes glareolus) are widely distributed and can transmit Puumala virus (PUUV) to humans, which causes a mild to moderate form of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, called nephropathia...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:9
Published on: 28 February 2017
Research article
Phenotypic plasticity is commonplace and enables an organism to respond to variations in the environment. Plastic responses often modify a suite of traits and can be triggered by both abiotic and biotic change...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:8
Published on: 27 February 2017
Methodology article
Different methods have been used to map species and habitat distributions. In this paper, similarity-based reasoning—a methodological approach that has received less attention—was applied to estimate the distr...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:7
Published on: 21 February 2017
Research article
Insect pollinators play an important role in crop pollination, but the relative contribution of wild pollinators and honey bees to pollination is currently under debate. There is virtually no information avail...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:6
Published on: 21 February 2017
Research article
Herbivore-induced changes in plant traits can cause indirect interactions between spatially and/or temporally separated herbivores that share the same host plant. Feeding modes of the herbivores is one of the ...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:5
Published on: 8 February 2017
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