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BMC Ecology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in environmental, behavioral and population ecology of plants, animals, and microbes.
BMC Ecology (ISSN 1472-6785) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Zoological Record and Google Scholar.
BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :1
Mating calls are energetically costly for male European treefrogs, consequently consuming additional food alters breeding behavior by allowing them to return to the chorus sooner and engage in calling at the higher rate preferred by females treefrogs.
BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :21
The Australian lungfish has a complex color vision system, similar to that of terrestrial and secondarily aquatic vertebrates, suggesting that lungfishes could be closely related to a shallow-water-dwelling ancestral tetrapod.
BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :16
Reef fish at depths below ten meters dwell in an environment lacking ambient red light, yet some species generate red fluorescent pigmentation patterns that indicate a potential mechanism for attraction signals or communication between closely related species.
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Supplementary feeding affects the breeding behaviour of male European treefrogs (Hyla arborea) Ivonne Meuche, T. ULMAR Grafe BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :1 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Fish communities in coastal freshwater ecosystems: the role of the physical and chemical setting Kristin K Arend, Mark B Bain BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :23 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Local and regional factors influence the structure of treehole metacommunities Christopher J Paradise, Jarrod D Blue, John Q Burkhart, Justin Goldberg, Lauren Harshaw, Katherine D Hawkins, Benjamin Kegan, Tyler Krentz, Leslie Smith, Shawn Villalpando BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :22 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Visual ecology of the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) Nathan S Hart, Helena J Bailes, Misha Vorobyev, N JUSTIN Marshall, Shaun P Collin BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :21 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Competition between the invasive macrophyte Caulerpa taxifolia and the seagrass Posidonia oceanica : contrasting strategies G BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :20 (11 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Foraging under uniform risk from different types of predators T Liesenjohann, JA Eccard BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :19 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Predictors for presence and abundance of small mammals in households of villages endemic for commensal rodent plague in Yunnan Province, China Jia-Xiang Yin, Alan Geater, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Xing-Qi Dong, Chun-Hong Du, You-Hong Zhong, Edward McNeil BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :18 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Interactions between herbivory and warming in aboveground biomass production of arctic vegetation Christian Pedersen, Eric Post BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :17 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Red fluorescence in reef fish: A novel signalling mechanism? Nico K Michiels, Nils Anthes, Nathan S Hart, J BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :16 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [F1000 Biology ]
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Net ecosystem production and carbon dioxide fluxes in the Scheldt estuarine plume Alberto V Borges, Kevin Ruddick, Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte, Bruno Delille BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :15 (8 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Sex-specific dispersal and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations infected by male killing endosymbionts Dries Bonte, Thomas Hovestadt, Hans-Joachim Poethke BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :16 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Accounting for risk in valuing forest carbon offsets Matthew D Hurteau, Bruce A Hungate, George W Koch Carbon Balance and Management 2009, 4 :1 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takahiro Hosokawa, Naruo Nikoh, Xian-Ying Meng, Yoichi Kamagata, Takema Fukatsu BMC Biology 2009, 7 :2 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Recombination in Glomus intraradices, a supposed ancient asexual arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Daniel Croll, Ian R Sanders BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :13 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A software pipeline for processing and identification of fungal ITS sequences
Henrik R. Nilsson, Gunilla Bok, Martin Ryberg, Erik Kristiansson, Nils Hallenberg Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2009, 4 :1 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Social and environmental malaria risk factors in urban areas of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Meili Baragatti, Florence Fournet, Marie-Claire Henry, Serge Assi, Herman Ouedraogo, Christophe Rogier, Gerard Salem Malaria Journal 2009, 8 :13 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mobile genetic elements in the genome of the beneficial rhizobacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 Dmitri V Mavrodi, Joyce E Loper, Ian T Paulsen, Linda S Thomashow BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :8 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Functional morphology and integration of corvid skulls - a 3D geometric morphometric approach Christoph Kulemeyer, Kolja Asbahr, Philipp Gunz, Sylke Frahnert, Franz Bairlein Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6 :2 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Parallel shifts in ecology and natural selection in an island lizard Ryan Calsbeek, Wolfgang Buermann, Thomas B. Smith BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :3 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Vectors and transmission dynamics for Setaria tundra (Filarioidea; Onchocercidae), a parasite of reindeer in Finland Sauli Laaksonen, Milla Solismaa, Raine Kortet, Jussi Kuusela, Antti Oksanen Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2 :3 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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