Spatial patterns of genetic diversity, community composition and occurrence of native and non-native amphipods in naturally replicated tributary streams
Worldwide, natural communities are invaded by non-native species, with potentially devastating effects on the native communities. A large part of past research aimed at finding traits and characteristics of th... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - April 26, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Florian Altermatt, Roman Alther and Elvira Mächler Source Type: research
A test of priority effect persistence in semi-natural grasslands through the removal of plant functional groups during community assembly
It is known that during plant community assembly, the early colonizing species can affect the establishment, growth or reproductive success of later arriving species, often resulting in unpredictable assembly ... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - April 26, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Kenny Helsen, Martin Hermy and Olivier Honnay Source Type: research
Predatory beetles feed more pest beetles at rising temperature
Climate warming is a challenge for many plants and animals as they have to respond to rising temperature. Rising temperature was observed to affect herbivores and predators. Activity-density of abundant predat... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - April 15, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Thomas Frank and Martin Bramböck Source Type: research
Host choice in a bivoltine bee: how sensory constraints shape innate foraging behaviors
Many insects have multiple generations per year and cohorts emerging in different seasons may evolve their own phenotypes if they are subjected to different selection regimes. The bivoltine bee Andrena bicolor is... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - April 11, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Paulo Milet-Pinheiro, Kerstin Herz, Stefan Dötterl and Manfred Ayasse Source Type: research
Convergence of soil microbial properties after plant colonization of an experimental plant diversity gradient
Several studies have examined the effects of plant colonization on aboveground communities and processes. However, the effects of plant colonization on soil microbial communities are less known. We addressed t... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - April 7, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Katja Steinauer, Britta Jensen, Tanja Strecker, Enrica de Luca, Stefan Scheu and Nico Eisenhauer Source Type: research
Microbial diversity in the floral nectar of Linaria vulgaris along an urbanization gradient
Microbes are common inhabitants of floral nectar and are capable of influencing plant-pollinator interactions. All studies so far investigated microbial communities in floral nectar in plant populations that w... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - March 30, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Jacek Bartlewicz, Bart Lievens, Olivier Honnay and Hans Jacquemyn Source Type: research
Vertebrate bacterial gut diversity: size also matters
One of the central issues in microbial ecology is to understand the parameters that drive diversity. Among these parameters, size has often been considered to be the main driver in many different ecosystems. S... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - March 23, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Jean-Jacques Godon, Pugazhendi Arulazhagan, Jean-Philippe Steyer and Jérôme Hamelin Source Type: research
Seasonal cues induce phenotypic plasticity of Drosophila suzukii to enhance winter survival
As global climate change and exponential human population growth intensifies pressure on agricultural systems, the need to effectively manage invasive insect pests is becoming increasingly important to global ... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - March 22, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Peter W. Shearer, Jessica D. West, Vaughn M. Walton, Preston H. Brown, Nicolas Svetec and Joanna C. Chiu Source Type: research
Skeletal light-scattering accelerates bleaching response in reef-building corals
At the forefront of ecosystems adversely affected by climate change, coral reefs are sensitive to anomalously high temperatures which disassociate (bleaching) photosynthetic symbionts (Symbiodinium) from coral ho... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - March 21, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Timothy D. Swain, Emily DuBois, Andrew Gomes, Valentina P. Stoyneva, Andrew J. Radosevich, Jillian Henss, Michelle E. Wagner, Justin Derbas, Hannah W. Grooms, Elizabeth M. Velazquez, Joshua Traub, Brian J. Kennedy, Arabela A. Grigorescu, Mark W. Westneat, Source Type: research
What´s in the tank? Nematodes and other major components of the meiofauna of bromeliad phytotelms in lowland Panama
Nematodes are a very diverse and extremely abundant group of animals, but their occurrence in the tropics is surprisingly little understood. We investigated the meiofauna of epiphytic tank bromeliads in the lo... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - March 15, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Gerhard Zotz and Walter Traunspurger Source Type: research
A metabarcoding framework for facilitated survey of endolithic phototrophs with tufA
In spite of their ecological importance as primary producers and microbioeroders of marine calcium carbonate (CaCO3) substrata, endolithic phototrophs spanning both prokaryotic (the cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic ... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - March 10, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Thomas Sauvage, William E. Schmidt, Shoichiro Suda and Suzanne Fredericq Source Type: research
Effects of salinity on nest-building behaviour in a marine fish
Parental allocation and reproductive success are often strongly influenced by environmental factors. In this respect, salinity is a key factor influencing species distributions and community structure in aquat... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - February 29, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Topi K. Lehtonen, Bob B. M. Wong and Charlotta Kvarnemo Source Type: research
Social structure and Escherichia coli sharing in a group-living wild primate, Verreaux’s sifaka
Epidemiological models often use information on host social contacts to predict the potential impact of infectious diseases on host populations and the efficiency of control measures. It can be difficult, howe... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - February 12, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Andrea Springer, Alexander Mellmann, Claudia Fichtel and Peter M. Kappeler Source Type: research
BMC Ecology reviewer acknowledgement 2015
The editors of BMC Ecology would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 15 (2015). (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - February 11, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Julia Simundza Source Type: research
Strategies of offspring investment and dispersal in a spatially structured environment: a theoretical study using ants
Offspring investment strategies vary markedly between and within taxa, and much of this variation is thought to stem from the trade-off between offspring size and number. While producing larger offspring can i... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - February 5, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Adam L. Cronin, Nicolas Loeuille and Thibaud Monnin Source Type: research
