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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 2009, 9 :22
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.
BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :21
Species of Leptoseris, a light-dependent coral found at depths of 67– 100 m, harbor the common shallow-water dinoflagellate Symbiodinium, suggesting that adaptation of Leptoseris to deep water does not depend on a specialist symbiont.
BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :19
Spatial genetic patterns of the coral Pocillopora damicornis across East African reefs reveal variable degrees of ecological and evolutionary isolation and help to identify potential source reefs and genetically isolated reefs to aid management decisions
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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 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (11 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 (2 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Patterns of genetic structuring in the coral Pocillopora damicornis on reefs in East Africa Petra Souter, Oskar Henriksson, Niklas Olsson, Mats Grahn BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :19 (26 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on the population dynamics of four animal species in a Danish landscape Richard M Sibly, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Mads C Forchhammer, Valery E Forbes, Christopher J Topping BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :18 (23 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Ecological niche partitioning between Anopheles gambiae molecular forms in Cameroon: the ecological side of speciation Fr BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :17 (21 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [Cited on BioMed Central ]
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Living at the edge: biogeographic patterns of habitat segregation conform to speciation by niche expansion in Anopheles gambiae Carlo Costantini, Diego Ayala, Wamdaogo M Guelbeogo, Marco Pombi, Corentin Y Some, Imael HN Bassole, Kenji Ose, Jean-Marie Fotsing, N'Fal BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :16 (21 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [Cited on BioMed Central ]
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Radical loss of an extreme extra-pair mating system Sjouke A Kingma, Michelle L Hall, Gernot Segelbacher, Anne Peters BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :15 (19 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Life cycle and population growth rate of Caenorhabditis elegans studied by a new method Daniel Muschiol, Fabian Schroeder, Walter Traunspurger BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :14 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Crop and non-crop productivity in a traditional maize agroecosystem of the highland of Mexico Rosa M Gonzalez-Amaro, Angelica Martinez-Bernal, Francisco Basurto-Pena, Heike Vibrans Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009, 5 :38 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Commentary
On fair, effective and efficient REDD mechanism design Michael Obersteiner, Michael Huettner, Florian Kraxner, Ian McCallum, Kentaro Aoki, Hannes Bottcher, Steffen Fritz, Mykola Gusti, Petr Havlik, Georg Kindermann, Ewald Rametsteiner, Belinda Reyers Carbon Balance and Management 2009, 4 :11 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Environmental factors associated with the malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus in Kenya Louise A Kelly-Hope, Janet Hemingway, F Ellis McKenzie Malaria Journal 2009, 8 :268 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Have giant lobelias evolved several times independently? Life form shifts and historical biogeography of the cosmopolitan and highly diverse subfamily Lobelioideae (Campanulaceae) Alexandre Antonelli BMC Biology 2009, 7 :82 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Development and validation of an oligonucleotide microarray to characterise ectomycorrhizal fungal communities Marlis Reich, Annegret Kohler, Francis Martin, Marc Buee BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :241 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Association between the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T Polymorphism and hepatocellular carcinoma risk: A meta-analysis Fei Jin, Li-Shuai Qu, Xi-Zhong Shen Diagnostic Pathology 2009, 4 :39 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Review
Biodiversity of poly-extremophilic Bacteria : Does combining the extremes of high salt, alkaline pH and elevated temperature approach a physico-chemical boundary for life? Karen J Bowers, Noha M Mesbah, Juergen Wiegel Saline Systems 2009, 5 :9 (23 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Hunting and use of terrestrial fauna used by Cai Natalia Hanazaki, R Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009, 5 :36 (21 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The risks of malaria infection in Kenya in 2009 Abdisalan M Noor, Peter W Gething, Victor A Alegana, Anand P Patil, Simon I Hay, Eric Muchiri, Elizabeth Juma, Robert W Snow BMC Infectious Diseases 2009, 9 :180 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Short Report
Puma predation on radiocollared and uncollared bighorn sheep Sean M Clemenza, Esther S Rubin, Christine K Johnson, Randall A Botta, Walter M Boyce BMC Research Notes 2009, 2 :230 (18 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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