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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, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, Agricola and Google Scholar.



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BMC Ecology 2010, 10:2
The geographic origins of 46 chimpanzees who found refuge at the Limbe Wildlife Centre are traced by genotyping, indicating that hunting and the smuggling of live animals is widespread throughout Cameroon.
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BMC Ecology 2010, 10:1
Over the last decades dunlins wintering on the Fraser River estuary in British Columbia have changed their body mass and roosting behavior in adaptation to increased predation by peregrine falcons.
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The formation of multiple trails by free-ranging horses in a Californian desert reduces vegetation cover and compacts soils, but, together with horse feces, increases native plant diversity.


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Bayesian salamanders: analysing the demography of an underground population of the European plethodontid Speleomantes strinatii with state-space modelling
Jan Lindstrom, Richard Reeve, Sebastiano Salvidio
BMC Ecology 2010, 10:4 (2February2010)
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Changes in gene expression linked with adult reproductive diapause in a northern malt fly species: a candidate gene microarray study
Maaria Kankare, Tiina Salminen, Asta Laiho, Laura Vesala, Anneli Hoikkala
BMC Ecology 2010, 10:3 (1February2010)
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Tracing the origins of rescued chimpanzees reveals widespread chimpanzee hunting in Cameroon
Lora Ghobrial, Felix Lankester, John A Kiyang, Akih E Akih, Simone de Vries, Roger Fotso, Elizabeth L Gadsby, Peter D Jenkins Jr, Mary K Gonder
BMC Ecology 2010, 10:2 (22January2010)
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Winter body mass and over-ocean flocking as components of danger management by Pacific dunlins
Ronald C Ydenberg, Dick Dekker, Gary Kaiser, Philippa CF Shepherd, Lesley Evans Ogden, Karen Rickards, David B Lank
BMC Ecology 2010, 10:1 (21January2010)
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Environmental DNA sequencing primers for eutardigrades and bdelloid rotifers
Michael S Robeson II, Elizabeth K Costello, Kristen R Freeman, Jeremy Whiting, Byron Adams, Andrew P Martin, Steve K Schmidt
BMC Ecology 2009, 9:25 (11December2009)
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Temporal development and collapse of an Arctic plant-pollinator network
Clementine Pradal, Jens M Olesen, Carsten Wiuf
BMC Ecology 2009, 9:24 (4December2009)
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Spurious and functional correlates of the isotopic composition of a generalist across a tropical rainforest landscape
Terrence P McGlynn, Hee K Choi, Stefanie T Mattingly, Angela Upshaw, Evan K Poirson, Justin Betzelberger
BMC Ecology 2009, 9:23 (24November2009)
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Impacts of feral horses on a desert environment
Stacey D Ostermann-Kelm, Edward A Atwill, Esther S Rubin, Larry E Hendrickson, Walter M Boyce
BMC Ecology 2009, 9:22 (10November2009)
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Generalist dinoflagellate endosymbionts and host genotype diversity detected from mesophotic (67-100 m depths) coral Leptoseris
Yvonne L Chan, Xavier Pochon, Marla A Fisher, Daniel Wagner, Gregory T Concepcion, Samuel E Kahng, Robert J Toonen, Ruth D Gates
BMC Ecology 2009, 9:21 (11September2009)
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Geographical patterning of sixteen goat breeds from Italy, Albania and Greece assessed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Lorraine Pariset, Antonella Cuteri, Christina Ligda, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Alessio Valentini, ECONOGENE Consortium
BMC Ecology 2009, 9:20 (2September2009)
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Proteomic analysis of the metabolic adaptation of the biocontrol agent Pseudozyma flocculosa leading to glycolipid production
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Proteome Science 2010, 8:7 (9February2010)
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Can differences in phosphorus uptake kinetics explain the distribution of cattail and sawgrass in the Florida Everglades?
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Mopane worm allergy in a 36-year-old woman: a case report
Okechukwu A Okezie, Koloi K Kgomotso, Mavis M Letswiti
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, 4:42 (6February2010)
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Further studies on the phlebotomine sandflies of the kala-azar endemic lowlands of Humera-Metema (north-west Ethiopia) with observations on their natural blood meal sources
Teshome Gebre-Michael, Meshesha Balkew, Nega Berhe, Asrat Hailu, Yalemtsehay Mekonnen
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Assessing local determinants of neural tube defects in the Heshun Region, Shanxi Province, China
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Factors influencing the production of stilbenes by the knotweed, Reynoutria xbohemica
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BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10:19 (29January2010)
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Valentina I Pushkareva, Svetlana A Ermolaeva
BMC Microbiology 2010, 10:26 (28January2010)
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Malaria incidence and prevalence on Pemba Island before the onset of the successful control intervention on the Zanzibar Archipelago
Thomas Jaenisch, David J Sullivan, Arup Dutta, Saikat Deb, Mahdi Ramsan, Mashavu K Othman, Roger Gaczkowski, James Tielsch, Sunil Sazawal
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:32 (25January2010)
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Blood feeding patterns of mosquitoes: random or structured?
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