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Section edited by Simon Blanchet and Jean Clobert
This section considers studies into the interactions between organisms and their environment both on the individual, community and large scale level.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nematodes play a key role in soil processes with alterations in the nematode community structure having the potential to considerably influence ecosystem functioning. As a result fluctuations in nematode diver...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:55
Published on: 1 December 2016
Research article
The Belly River Group of southern Alberta is one of the best-sampled Late Cretaceous terrestrial faunal assemblages in the world. This system provides a high-resolution biostratigraphic record of terrestrial v...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:52
Published on: 15 November 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Ecology 2017 17:1
Research article
Aquatic habitats have been altered over the past century due to a variety of anthropogenic influences. Ecomorphology is an area of aquatic ecology that can both directly and indirectly assess the effects of ha...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:48
Published on: 20 October 2016
Research article
Climate change factors such as elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations (e[CO2]) and altered rainfall patterns can alter leaf composition and phenology. This may subsequently impact insect herbivory. In...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:47
Published on: 19 October 2016
Research article
Geographic isolation is an important factor that limit species dispersal and thereby affects genetic diversity. Because islands are often small and surrounded by a natural water barrier to dispersal, they gene...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:46
Published on: 13 October 2016
Research article
As a means of biologically controlling Mikania micrantha H.B.K. in Yunnan, China, the influence of sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] on its reproductive characteristics was studied. The trial utilized a de...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:30
Published on: 20 June 2016
Research article
How floral traits and community composition influence plant specialization is poorly understood and the existing evidence is restricted to regions where plant diversity is low. Here, we assessed whether plant ...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:26
Published on: 24 May 2016
Research Article
Vegetation change in high latitude tundra ecosystems is expected to accelerate due to increased wildfire activity. High-severity fires increase the availability of mineral soil seedbeds, which facilitates recr...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:25
Published on: 11 May 2016
Research article
Worldwide, natural communities are invaded by non-native species, with potentially devastating effects on the native communities. A large part of past research aimed at finding traits and characteristics of th...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:23
Published on: 26 April 2016
Research article
It is known that during plant community assembly, the early colonizing species can affect the establishment, growth or reproductive success of later arriving species, often resulting in unpredictable assembly ...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:22
Published on: 26 April 2016
Research article
Climate warming is a challenge for many plants and animals as they have to respond to rising temperature. Rising temperature was observed to affect herbivores and predators. Activity-density of abundant predat...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:21
Published on: 15 April 2016
Research article
Microbes are common inhabitants of floral nectar and are capable of influencing plant-pollinator interactions. All studies so far investigated microbial communities in floral nectar in plant populations that w...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:18
Published on: 30 March 2016
Methodology article
Propagule retention time is a key factor in determining propagule dispersal distance and the shape of “seed shadows”. Propagules dispersed by animal vectors are either ingested and retained in the gut until de...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:3
Published on: 1 February 2016
Research article
An in depth understanding of mosquito breeding biology and factors regulating population sizes is fundamental for vector population control. This paper presents results from a survey of mosquito breeding habit...
BMC Ecology 2015 15:8
Published on: 8 March 2015
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