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Section edited by Josef Settele
This section considers studies into the conservation of species or ecosystems alongside research into the biodiversity of plants, animals and microbes.
Research Article
The castor bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) transmits infectious diseases such as Lyme borreliosis, which constitutes an important ecosystem disservice. Despite many local studies, a comprehensive understanding of the ...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:31
Published on: 6 September 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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are major crop pests. On olive (Olea europaea), they significantly contribute to economic losses in the top-ten olive producing countries in the world especially in nurseries and u...
BMC Ecology 2017 17:4
Published on: 6 February 2017
Research article
Conifer populations appear disproportionately threatened by global change. Most examples are, however, drawn from the northern hemisphere and long-term rates of population decline are not well documented as hi...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:53
Published on: 30 November 2016
Research article
Nepal provides habitat for approximately 100–125 wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Although a small proportion of the world population of this species, this group is important for maintaining the genetic di...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:54
Published on: 17 November 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Ecology 2016 16:56
Software
Making forecasts about biodiversity and giving support to policy relies increasingly on large collections of data held electronically, and on substantial computational capability and capacity to analyse, model...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:49
Published on: 20 October 2016
Research article
Overexploitation and persecution of large carnivores resulting from conflict with humans comprise major causes of declines worldwide. Although little is known about the interplay between these mortality types,...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:44
Published on: 11 October 2016
Research article
The grey partridge (Perdix perdix) and the common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) are galliform birds typical of arable lands in Central Europe and exhibit a partly dramatic negative population trend. In order to ...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:39
Published on: 9 September 2016
Research article
The western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) occurs throughout western North America in various habitats such as desert, short-grass prairie and shrub-steppe, among others, where the main threat for th...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:38
Published on: 26 August 2016
Research article
Seed dressing with pesticides is widely used to protect crop seeds from pest insects and fungal diseases. While there is mounting evidence that especially neonicotinoid seed dressings detrimentally affect inse...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:37
Published on: 17 August 2016
Research article
Speciality rice, in general, and aromatic rice in particular, possess enormous market potential for enhancing farm profits. However, systematic characterization of the diversity present in this natural wealth ...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:36
Published on: 9 August 2016
Research article
One of the central issues in microbial ecology is to understand the parameters that drive diversity. Among these parameters, size has often been considered to be the main driver in many different ecosystems. S...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:12
Published on: 23 March 2016
Research
At the forefront of ecosystems adversely affected by climate change, coral reefs are sensitive to anomalously high temperatures which disassociate (bleaching) photosynthetic symbionts (Symbiodinium) from coral ho...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:10
Published on: 21 March 2016
Research Article
Nematodes are a very diverse and extremely abundant group of animals, but their occurrence in the tropics is surprisingly little understood. We investigated the meiofauna of epiphytic tank bromeliads in the lo...
BMC Ecology 2016 16:9
Published on: 15 March 2016
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