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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 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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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 (13 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (14 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Responses of five small mammal species to micro-scale variations in vegetation structure in secondary Atlantic Forest remnants, Brazil Thomas P BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :9 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The influence of weather conditions on the activity of high-arctic arthropods inferred from long-term observations Toke T H BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :8 (2 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (17 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Effects of simulated daily precipitation patterns on annual plant populations depend on life stage and climatic region Martin K BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :4 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 P BMC Ecology 2008, 8 :3 (26 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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LAMINA: a tool for rapid quantification of leaf size and shape parameters Max Bylesjo, Vincent Segura, Raju Y Soolanayakanahally, Anne M Rae, Johan Trygg, Petter Gustafsson, Stefan Jansson, Nathaniel R Street BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :82 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology
Blocking primers to enhance PCR amplification of rare sequences in mixed samples - a case study on prey DNA in Antarctic krill stomachs Hege Vestheim, Simon N. Jarman Frontiers in Zoology 2008, 5 :12 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Composition and structure of the parasite faunas of cod, Gadus morhua L. (Teleostei: Gadidae), in the North East Atlantic Diana Perdiguero-Alonso, Francisco E. Montero, Juan Antonio Raga, Aneta Kostadinova Parasites & Vectors 2008, 1 :23 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Outlining eicosanoid biosynthesis in the crustacean Daphnia Lars-Henrik Heckmann, Richard M Sibly, Martijn JTN Timmermans, Amanda Callaghan Frontiers in Zoology 2008, 5 :11 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The risk of pathogenic intestinal parasite infections in Kisii Municipality, Kenya Robert M Nyarango, Peninah A Aloo, Ephantus W Kabiru, Benson O Nyanchongi BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :237 (14 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Male silver eels mature by swimming Arjan P Palstra, Denhi Schnabel, Maaike C Nieveen, Herman P Spaink, Guido EEJM van den Thillart BMC Physiology 2008, 8 :14 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Adult nutrition and butterfly fitness: effects of diet quality on reproductive output, egg composition, and egg hatching success Thorin L Geister, Matthias W Lorenz, Klaus H Hoffmann, Klaus Fischer Frontiers in Zoology 2008, 5 :10 (10 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna Jerome Fuchs, Jean-Marc Pons, Steven M Goodman, Vincent Bretagnolle, Martim Melo, Rauri CK Bowie, David Currie, Roger Safford, Munir Z Virani, Simon Thomsett, Alawi Hija, Corinne Cruaud, Eric Pasquet BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :197 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Habitat shifts in the evolutionary history of a Neotropical flycatcher lineage from forest and open landscapes Frank E Rheindt, Les Christidis, Janette A Norman BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :193 (7 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Recent reduction in the water level of Lake Victoria has created more habitats for Anopheles funestus Noboru Minakawa, George Sonye, Gabriel O Dida, Kyoko Futami, Satoshi Kaneko Malaria Journal 2008, 7 :119 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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