BMC Ecology Image Competition Announcement 2017
We are delighted to announce that the 5th annual BMC Ecology image competition launches today! We are calling for ecologists around the world to submit their… Read more »
Christopher Foote
Chris is the Editor of BMC Cell Biology, BMC Ecology, and BMC Evolutionary Biology. Before joining BioMed Central in 2012, he did a PhD at the University of Glasgow and post-doctoral research at Iowa State University.
Latest posts by Christopher Foote (see all)
- Neanderthals, troubles with children, and influential spiders – news from ESEB 2017 - 31st August 2017
- BMC Ecology is now accepting Registered Reports! - 24th August 2017
- BMC Ecology Image Competition 2017: the winning images! - 18th August 2017
Picking a lemur out of a line-up: introducing LemurFaceID, a facial recognition system for wild lemurs
For primate researchers, long-term tracking of known-individuals is crucial, but identification relies on costly, difficult, and potentially inaccurate methods.… Read more »
Video blog: Taking over the nest: when parasite chicks are brought up by cavity nesting hosts
Cuckoos, parasitic birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species who then raise their young, have become a classic model of host-parasite coevolution.… Read more »
BMC Evolutionary Biology: our 10 most popular articles of 2016
While space is lacking to discuss all of the excellent research published by BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2016, here we look back at the 10 articles (in… Read more »
12 months, 12 pictures: the best images from 2016 in BMC Evolutionary Biology
We look back at 12 images from articles published in BMC Evolutionary Biology during 2016 that particularly caught our editor's eye.
BMC Ecology: 2016 in review
BMC Ecology continued its recent success in 2016, publishing more articles than ever before. We look back, in chronological order, at 10 articles from 2016 that… Read more »
Then and now: documenting the collapse of South Africa’s iconic evergreen tree
In a new video, we look at research - recently published in BMC Ecology - that compares historical photos with modern recreations to track the decline of one of… Read more »
The first ever salmonfly fossil
In this video we uncover the recent discovery of the first known salmonfly fossil, as recently described in BMC Evolutionary Biology, which pushes the existence… Read more »
Modern evolutionary lessons from Darwin’s finches and Galapagos parasitic flies
This video summarises new research, recently published in BMC Zoology, on the threat that invasive fly parasites pose to the survival of the iconic Darwin's… Read more »
The evolution of bitter taste in New World monkeys
In this video we take a look at new research, recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, finding that evolution of bitter taste receptors has varied among… Read more »