BMC Ecology is now accepting Registered Reports!
From August 24th, BMC Ecology will begin accepting a new type of article: Registered Reports. BMC Ecology is the first ecology journal to consider… Read more »
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How do animals respond to human disturbance?
In this guest blog, Sabrina McNew, discusses her research published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology, which examines the effects of urbanization on… Read more »
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The curious case of the color-changing slug
The Kerry spotted slug (Geomalacus maculosus), an EU protected species only found in parts of Ireland and Iberia, has the unusual… Read more »
BMC Ecology Image Competition 2017: the winning images!
Today, BMC Ecology announces the winners of our 2017 Image Competition. Here we share our overall winning images - enjoy!
Out of Africa – The new origin story for Malaria
New sampling and sequencing of malaria parasite from apes and monkeys is re-writing the phylogeny and origin story of one of… Read more »
The gut microbiota and Parkinson’s disease – what we know so far
From our metabolism to our immune system, we are just beginning to scratch the surface on the impact of our microbiome. Its… Read more »
Space invaders: the challenges of studying microbes in space
Conducting research on Earth is challenging enough for most of us, but what if your research specialty is studying organisms in… Read more »
Let’s leverage herbaria impact through Deep Learning
Across the world, museums and institutions maintain herbaria containing millions of plant specimens collected over hundreds of… Read more »
The secret to a long life could be the right job (at least for ants)
In this guest blog, Julia Giehr discusses her new research, recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, that finds the… Read more »
Decline in malaria funding may put malaria elimination efforts at risk
Rima Shretta and her colleagues, recently published their findings on how the recent decline in funding could impact malaria… Read more »