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  1. Evidence is accumulating that telomere length is a good predictor of life expectancy, especially early in life, thus calling for determining the factors that affect telomere length at this stage. Here, we inve...

    Authors: Marie Voillemot, Kathryn Hine, Sandrine Zahn, François Criscuolo, Lars Gustafsson, Blandine Doligez and Pierre Bize
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:17
  2. Deployment of cultivars with different resistance in mixtures is one means to manage plant diseases and prolong the life of resistance genes. One major concern in adopting mixtures is the development of ‘super...

    Authors: Xiangming Xu
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:16
  3. The effective management and conservation of biodiversity is predicated on clearly defined conservation targets. Species number is frequently used as a metric for conservation prioritization and monitoring cha...

    Authors: Joshua A Drew, Charlene L Buxman, Darcae D Holmes, Joanna L Mandecki, Augustine J Mungkaje, Amber C Richardson and Mark W Westneat
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:15
  4. Theory suggests that biodiversity can act as a buffer against disturbances and environmental variability via two major mechanisms: Firstly, a stabilising effect by decreasing the temporal variance in ecosystem...

    Authors: Silke Langenheder, Mark T Bulling, James I Prosser and Martin Solan
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:14
  5. Although inducible defences have been studied extensively, only little is known about how the presence of parasites might interfere with these anti-predator adaptations. Both parasites and predators are import...

    Authors: Olivia Hesse, Wolfgang Engelbrecht, Christian Laforsch and Justyna Wolinska
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:12
  6. A central question for ecologists is the extent to which anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. tourism) might impact wildlife and affect the systems under study. From a research perspective, identifying the effects of...

    Authors: Vincent A Viblanc, Andrew D Smith, Benoit Gineste and René Groscolas
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:10
  7. Kirtland’s warblers are the rarest songbird species in North America, rarity due in part to a reliance on early successional Jack Pine forests. Habitat loss due to fire suppression led to population declines t...

    Authors: Amy S Wilson, Peter P Marra and Robert C Fleischer
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:8
  8. The outcome of male-male competition can be predicted from the relative fighting qualities of the opponents, which often depend on their age. In insects, freshly emerged and still sexually inactive males are m...

    Authors: Sylvia Cremer, Masaki Suefuji, Alexandra Schrempf and Jürgen Heinze
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:7
  9. Theory predicts a nonlinear response of dispersal evolution to habitat fragmentation. First, dispersal will be favoured in line with both decreasing area of habitat patches and increasing inter-patch distances...

    Authors: Benjamin Bergerot, Thomas Merckx, Hans Van Dyck and Michel Baguette
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:5
  10. Studies of host-parasite interactions have the potential to provide insights into the ecology of both organisms involved. We monitored the movement of sucking lice (Lemurpediculus verruculosus), parasites that re...

    Authors: Sarah Zohdy, Addison D Kemp, Lance A Durden, Patricia C Wright and Jukka Jernvall
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:4
  11. Disturbance is an important process structuring ecosystems worldwide and has long been thought to be a significant driver of diversity and dynamics. In forests, most studies of disturbance have focused on larg...

    Authors: Simon A Queenborough, Margaret R Metz, Thorsten Wiegand and Renato Valencia
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:3
  12. Most species of brown macroalgae recruit exclusively sexually. However, Fucus radicans, a dominant species in the northern Baltic Sea, recruits new attached thalli both sexually and asexually. The level of asexua...

    Authors: Kerstin Johannesson, Helena Forslund, Nastassja Åstrand Capetillo, Lena Kautsky, Daniel Johansson, Ricardo T Pereyra and Sonja Råberg
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:2
  13. The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most data-poor, biologically rich, and rapidly changing areas of the world. Conservation scientists agree that this area hosts extremely high endemism, ...

    Authors: Jennifer J Swenson, Bruce E Young, Stephan Beck, Pat Comer, Jesús H Córdova, Jessica Dyson, Dirk Embert, Filomeno Encarnación, Wanderley Ferreira, Irma Franke, Dennis Grossman, Pilar Hernandez, Sebastian K Herzog, Carmen Josse, Gonzalo Navarro, Víctor Pacheco…
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2012 12:1
  14. Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, is a globally distributed zoonotic pathogen that continues to be a veterinary and human health problem in Central Asia. We used a database of anthrax outbreak l...

    Authors: Jocelyn Mullins, Larissa Lukhnova, Alim Aikimbayev, Yerlan Pazilov, Matthew Van Ert and Jason K Blackburn
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:32
  15. There are a growing number of genomes sequenced with tentative functions assigned to a large proportion of the individual genes. Model organisms in laboratory settings form the basis for the assignment of gene...

    Authors: Scott A Pavey, Ben JG Sutherland, Jong Leong, Adrienne Robb, Kris von Schalburg, Troy R Hamon, Ben F Koop and Jennifer L Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:31
  16. Globally, forests cover nearly one third of the land area and they contain over 80% of terrestrial biodiversity. Both the extent and quality of forest habitat continue to decrease and the associated loss of bi...

    Authors: Raf Aerts and Olivier Honnay
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:29
  17. To identify the determinants of invasiveness, comparisons of traits of invasive and native species are commonly performed. Invasiveness is generally linked to higher values of reproductive, physiological and g...

    Authors: Annabel J Porté, Laurent J Lamarque, Christopher J Lortie, Richard Michalet and Sylvain Delzon
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:28
  18. South America is one of the most species diverse continents in the world. Within South America diversity is not distributed evenly at both local and continental scales and this has led to the recognition of va...

    Authors: Tiina Särkinen, João RV Iganci, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Marcelo F Simon and Darién E Prado
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:27
  19. The Svalbard endemic aphid Acyrthosiphon svalbardicum (Heikinheimo, 1968) is host specific to Dryas octopetala L. ssp octopetala (Rosaceae). It has been hypothesized that the aphid is present on those areas with ...

    Authors: María L Ávila-Jiménez and Stephen J Coulson
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:25
  20. Sand fly saliva can drive the outcome of Leishmania infection in animal models, and salivary components have been postulated as vaccine candidates against leishmaniasis. In the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi, natu...

    Authors: Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu, Rami Mukbel, Hanafi A Hanafi, Emad Y Fawaz, Shabaan S El-Hossary, Mariha Wadsworth, Gwen Stayback, Dilkushi A Pitts, Mahmoud Abo-Shehada, David F Hoel, Shaden Kamhawi, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigão and Mary Ann McDowell
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:24
  21. Understanding the phenotypic consequences of interactions between arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) and their mosquito hosts has direct implications for predicting the evolution of these relationships and ...

    Authors: Alexander T Ciota, Linda M Styer, Mark A Meola and Laura D Kramer
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:23
  22. Morphological data suggest that, unlike most other groups of marine organisms, scleractinian corals of the genus Stylophora are more diverse in the western Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea than in the central Indo...

    Authors: Jean-François Flot, Jean Blanchot, Loïc Charpy, Corinne Cruaud, Wilfredo Y Licuanan, Yoshikatsu Nakano, Claude Payri and Simon Tillier
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:22
  23. Predicting the geographic distribution of widespread species through modeling is problematic for several reasons including high rates of omission errors. One potential source of error for modeling widespread s...

    Authors: Sergio C Gonzalez, J Angel Soto-Centeno and David L Reed
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:20
  24. When a specimen belongs to a species not yet represented in DNA barcode reference libraries there is disagreement over the effectiveness of using sequence comparisons to assign the query accurately to a higher...

    Authors: John James Wilson, Rodolphe Rougerie, Justin Schonfeld, Daniel H Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Ian J Kitching, Jean Haxaire and Paul DN Hebert
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:18
  25. Patterns in the association of individuals can shed light on the underlying conditions and processes that shape societies. Here we characterize patterns of association in a population of wild Asian Elephants a...

    Authors: Shermin de Silva, Ashoka DG Ranjeewa and Sergey Kryazhimskiy
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:17
  26. A territory as a prerequisite for breeding limits the maximum number of breeders in a given area, and thus lowers the proportion of breeders if population size increases. However, some territorially breeding a...

    Authors: Jana A Eccard, Ilmari Jokinen and Hannu Ylönen
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:16
  27. Stable isotope ratios (13C/12C and 18O/16O) in fossil teeth and bone provide key archives for understanding the ecology of extinct horses during the Plio-Pleistocene in South America; however, what happened in ar...

    Authors: José L Prado, Begoña Sánchez and María T Alberdi
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:15
  28. Regular seasonal changes in prevalence of infectious diseases are often observed in nature, but the mechanisms are rarely understood. Empirical tests aiming at a better understanding of seasonal prevalence pat...

    Authors: Sandra Lass, Jürgen W Hottinger, Thomas Fabbro and Dieter Ebert
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:14
  29. Parasites that manipulate host behavior can provide prominent examples of extended phenotypes: parasite genomes controlling host behavior. Here we focus on one of the most dramatic examples of behavioral manip...

    Authors: David P Hughes, Sandra B Andersen, Nigel L Hywel-Jones, Winanda Himaman, Johan Billen and Jacobus J Boomsma
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:13
  30. Protected areas are the most common and important instrument for the conservation of biological diversity and are called for under the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity. Growing human population ...

    Authors: Mungla Sieck, Pierre L Ibisch, Kirk A Moloney and Florian Jeltsch
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:12
  31. Science-based wildlife management relies on genetic information to infer population connectivity and identify conservation units. The most commonly used genetic marker for characterizing animal biodiversity an...

    Authors: Brian J Knaus, Richard Cronn, Aaron Liston, Kristine Pilgrim and Michael K Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:10
  32. Natural communities are structured by intra-guild competition, predation or parasitism and the abiotic environment. We studied the relative importance of these factors in two host-social parasite ecosystems in...

    Authors: Inon Scharf, Birgit Fischer-Blass and Susanne Foitzik
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:9
  33. Understanding the effects of anthropogenically-driven changes in global temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide and biodiversity on the functionality of marine ecosystems is crucial for predicting and managing...

    Authors: Natalie Hicks, Mark T Bulling, Martin Solan, Dave Raffaelli, Piran CL White and David M Paterson
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:7
  34. The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, is a widespread invasive ant species that has successfully established in nearly all continents across the globe. Argentine ants are characterised by a social structure know...

    Authors: Natasha P Mothapo and Theresa C Wossler
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:6
  35. A key challenge for conservation biologists is to determine the most appropriate demographic and genetic management strategies for wildlife populations threatened by disease. We explored this topic by examinin...

    Authors: Walter M Boyce, Mara E Weisenberger, M Cecilia T Penedo and Christine K Johnson
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:5
  36. The genetic structure of populations can be influenced by geographic isolation (including physical distance) and ecology. We examined these effects in Leptopilina boulardi, a parasitoid of Drosophila of African o...

    Authors: Majeed Askari Seyahooei, Jacques JM van Alphen and Ken Kraaijeveld
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:4
  37. Oxygen availability in aquatic habitats is a major environmental factor influencing the ecology, behaviour, and physiology of fishes. This study evaluates the contribution of source population and hypoxic accl...

    Authors: Mery L Martínez, Erin L Raynard, Bernard B Rees and Lauren J Chapman
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2011 11:2
  38. Intense consumer pressure strongly affects the structural organization and function of marine ecosystems, while also having a profound effect on the phenotype of both predator and prey. Allelochemicals produce...

    Authors: Kristen E Whalen, Victoria R Starczak, David R Nelson, Jared V Goldstone and Mark E Hahn
    Citation: BMC Ecology 2010 10:24