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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.



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BMC Ecology 2008, 8:10
Artificially modeling how the environment affects sleep shows that food source depletion and patchy food distribution reduces sleep time and extensive traveling to find food selects for a single period of sleep each day.
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:4
Increasing rainfall in simulation studies, mimicking the effect of climate change, increases the soil water reservoirs of arid sites leading to greater annual plant productivity and population persistence.
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:3
The mosquito Anopheles darlingi, the most important malaria vector in the neotropics, has five genetically distinct subpopulations, with the greatest differentiation being found between Central American and Amazonian populations correlating with physical separation.


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Research article
Experimental insight into the proximate causes of male persistence variation among two strains of the androdioecious Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda)
Viktoria Wegewitz, Hinrich Schulenburg, Adrian Streit
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:12 (13July2008)
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To what extent does Tobler's 1st law of geography apply to macroecology? A case study using American palms (Arecaceae)
Stine Bjorholm, Jens-Christian Svenning, Flemming Skov, Henrik Balslev
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:11 (22May2008)
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To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms
Alberto Acerbi, Patrick McNamara, Charles L Nunn
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:10 (14May2008)
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Responses of five small mammal species to micro-scale variations in vegetation structure in secondary Atlantic Forest remnants, Brazil
Thomas Pttker, Renata Pardini, Yvonne Meyer-Lucht, Simone Sommer
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:9 (5May2008)
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The influence of weather conditions on the activity of high-arctic arthropods inferred from long-term observations
Toke T Hye, Mads C Forchhammer
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:8 (2May2008)
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Assessing meiofaunal variation among individuals utilising morphological and molecular approaches: an example using the Tardigrada
Chester J Sands, Peter Convey, Katrin Linse, Sandra J McInnes
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:7 (30April2008)
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A comparison of plotless density estimators using Monte Carlo simulation on totally enumerated field data sets
Neil A White, Richard M Engeman, Robert T Sugihara, Heather W Krupa
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:6 (17April2008)
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Effects of intraspecific competition on the life cycle of the stonefly, Nemurella pictetii (Plecoptera: Nemouridae)
Reimo Lieske, Peter Zwick
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:5 (16April2008)
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Effects of simulated daily precipitation patterns on annual plant populations depend on life stage and climatic region
Martin Kchy
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:4 (27March2008)
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Microsatellite data suggest significant population structure and differentiation within the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi in Central and South America
Lisa Mirabello, Joseph H Vineis, Stephen P Yanoviak, Vera M Scarpassa, Marinete M Pvoa, Norma Padilla, Nicole L Achee, Jan E Conn
BMC Ecology 2008, 8:3 (26March2008)
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