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Herbivory of an invasive slug is affected by earthworms and the composition of plant communities
Johann G Zaller, Myriam Parth, Ilona Szunyogh, Ines Semmelrock, Susanne Sochurek, Marcia Pinheiro, Thomas Frank, Thomas Drapela BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :20 (13 May 2013)
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Herbivory by an invasive slug species is dramatically reduced by both the presence of earthworms and the composition of plant species within experimental communities, highlighting how belowground effects can influence aboveground processes.
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Detection experiments with humans implicate visual predation as a driver of colour polymorphism dynamics in pygmy grasshoppers
Einat Karpestam, Sami Merilaita, Anders Forsman BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :17 (2 May 2013)
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A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities
Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, The Biodiversity Informatics Community BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :16 (15 April 2013)
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Alex Hardisty and Dave Roberts outline a grand vision for the future of biodiversity research that is based on a fully integrated e-infrastructure, following a huge community consultation effort with the Biodiversity Informatics Community.
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Feeding height stratification among the herbivorous dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada
Jordan C Mallon, David C Evans, Michael J Ryan, Jason S Anderson BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :14 (4 April 2013)
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Stratification of feeding heights among herbivorous dinosaurs of the Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada, is unlikely to have played a role in dietary niche partitioning, suggesting another evolutionary mechanism drove the diversification of dinosaurs in this region.
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Insights into biodiversity sampling strategies for freshwater microinvertebrate faunas through bioblitz campaigns and DNA barcoding
Brandon J Laforest, Amanda K Winegardner, Omar A Zaheer, Nicholas W Jeffery, Elizabeth E Boyle, Sarah J Adamowicz BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :13 (4 April 2013)
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BMC Ecology image competition: the winning images
Simon Harold, Yan Wong, Michel Baguette, Michael B Bonsall, Jean Clobert, Nick J Royle, Josef Settele BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :6 (22 March 2013)
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Guest judge Yan Wong and the Editorial Board of BMC Ecology announce the winners of their first Ecology Image Competition, and explain how each of the winning entries represents an evocative portrait of ecology in action.
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DNA barcoding unmasks overlooked diversity improving knowledge on the composition and origins of the Churchill algal flora
Gary W Saunders, Daniel C McDevit BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :9 (16 March 2013)
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Capturing chloroplast variation for molecular ecology studies: a simple next generation sequencing approach applied to a rainforest tree
Hannah McPherson, Marlien van der Merwe, Sven K Delaney, Mark A Edwards, Robert J Henry, Emma McIntosh, Paul D Rymer, Melita L Milner, Juelian Siow, Maurizio Rossetto BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :8 (14 March 2013)
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SymbioGBR : a web-based database of Symbiodinium associated with cnidarian hosts on the Great Barrier Reef
Linda Tonk, Pim Bongaerts, Eugenia M Sampayo, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :7 (13 March 2013)
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DNA barcoding facilitates associations and diagnoses for Trichoptera larvae of the Churchill (Manitoba, Canada) area
David E Ruiter, Elizabeth E Boyle, Xin Zhou BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :5 (20 February 2013)
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Population demography of an endangered lizard, the Blue Mountains Water Skink
Sylvain Dubey, Ulrich Sinsch, Maximilian J Dehling, Maya Chevalley, Richard Shine BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :4 (13 February 2013)
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A survey of the population demographics of the endangered Blue Mountains Water Skink in Australia pinpoints that low adult survival rates and specialisation on a threatened habitat may be contributing to the continued decline of this rare species.
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DNA barcoding reveals diversity of Hymenoptera and the dominance of parasitoids in a sub-arctic environment
Julie K Stahlhut, José Fernández-Triana, Sarah J Adamowicz, Matthias Buck, Henri Goulet, Paul DN Hebert, John T Huber, Mark T Merilo, Cory S Sheffield, Thomas Woodcock, M Alex Smith BMC Ecology 2013, 13 :2 (26 January 2013)
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DNA barcoding of hymenopteran diversity in a sub-Arctic region reveals a far greater richness of parasitoid species than previously expected, highlighting the need for future research efforts to investigate the high diversity of potential host species.
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Assessing biodiversity of a freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate community through non-destructive environmental barcoding of DNA from preservative ethanol
Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Jennifer L Spall, Shadi Shokralla, Steven van Konynenburg BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :28 (23 December 2012)
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Identification of the vascular plants of Churchill, Manitoba, using a DNA barcode library
Maria L Kuzmina, Karen L Johnson, Hannah R Barron, Paul DN Hebert BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :25 (28 November 2012)
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DNA barcoding of Northern Nearctic Muscidae (Diptera) reveals high correspondence between morphological and molecular species limits
Anaïs K Renaud, Jade Savage, Sarah J Adamowicz BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :24 (23 November 2012)
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The Hawaiian Freshwater Algal Database (HfwADB): a laboratory LIMS and online biodiversity resource
Alison R Sherwood, Norman Wang, Amy L Carlile, Jessica M Neumann, Thomas K Wolfgruber, Gernot G Presting BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :22 (25 October 2012)
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The Hawaiian Freshwater Algal Database is a comprehensive and searchable publicly-available database containing photographs and micrographs of samples and collection sites, geo-referenced collecting information, taxonomic data and standardized DNA sequence data for Hawaiian non-marine algal data.
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The phylogenetic signal of species co-occurrence in high-diversity shrublands: different patterns for fire-killed and fire-resistant species
Marcel Cardillo BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :21 (27 September 2012)
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Fire-killed and fire-resistant Banksia species show different community phylogenetic patterns, suggesting that analyses based on pairwise species co-occurrence may be more informative than those based on whole community structure metrics.
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Silent Spring, the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s book
David Pimentel BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :20 (27 September 2012)
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David Pimentel offers a personal reflection on the impact of Silent Spring, Rachel Carsons landmark book about the environmental effects of pesticides, on the 50th anniversary of its publication.
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Contrasting habitat associations of imperilled endemic stream fishes from a global biodiversity hot spot
Albert Chakona, Ernst R Swartz BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :19 (26 September 2012)
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Biodiversity inventories and conservation of the marine fishes of Bootless Bay, Papua New Guinea
Joshua A Drew, Charlene L Buxman, Darcae D Holmes, Joanna L Mandecki, Augustine J Mungkaje, Amber C Richardson, Mark W Westneat BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :15 (1 August 2012)
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A new biodiversity inventory of marine fish in the Bootless Bay ecosystem of Papua New Guinea provides an important baseline for future surveys in the Coral Triangle, and highlights low levels of fish diversity in the region.
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Role of functionally dominant species in varying environmental regimes: evidence for the performance-enhancing effect of biodiversity
Silke Langenheder, Mark T Bulling, James I Prosser, Martin Solan BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :14 (30 July 2012)
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Scale-dependent effects of habitat area on species interaction networks: invasive species alter relationships
Shinji Sugiura, Hisatomo Taki BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :11 (20 July 2012)
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Habitat fragmentation impacts mobility in a common and widespread woodland butterfly: do sexes respond differently?
Benjamin Bergerot, Thomas Merckx, Hans Van Dyck, Michel Baguette BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :5 (27 April 2012)
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Dispersal of the woodland butterfly, Pararge aegeria, is lower in highly fragmented urban landscapes compared to fragmented agricultural and continuous woodland landscapes, with males more likely to remain in large patches than females.
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Palms, peccaries and perturbations: widespread effects of small-scale disturbance in tropical forests
Simon A Queenborough, Margaret R Metz, Thorsten Wiegand, Renato Valencia BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :3 (19 March 2012)
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Large fruiting palm trees exert a significant effect on the spatial structure, population dynamics and species diversity of neighbouring sapling and seedling communities, which is not reflected by non-fruiting palms, suggesting seed predators as the cause
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Phenotypic variation in sexually and asexually recruited individuals of the Baltic Sea endemic macroalga Fucus radicans : in the field and after growth in a common-garden
Kerstin Johannesson, Helena Forslund, Nastassja Capetillo, Lena Kautsky, Daniel Johansson, Ricardo T Pereyra, Sonja Råberg BMC Ecology 2012, 12 :2 (22 February 2012)
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