Getting the Big Picture: BMC Ecology Image Competition Winners [Slide Show]
With the snap of a camera or the click of a mouse, participants in this year's BioMed Central image contest provided a peek into the intricate relationships uniting members of our biosphere
Credits: Moritz Muschick, postdoctoral researcher, University of Sheffield
Getting the Big Picture: BMC Ecology Image Competition Winners [Slide Show]
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EDITOR’S PICK: Your morning joe might be affecting bird habitats in South America: Surveying old-growth secondary forest to determine the impact of coffee cultivation on bird conservation on the Rio Tunquimayo in Peru. Raf Aerts, postdoctoral researcher, K.U. Leuven, Belgium and the University of Utah
THEORETICAL ECOLOGY AND MODELS SECTION WINNER: This colorful data visualization shows how species interact to maintain biodiversity. Chaitanya Gokhale, postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY AND ECOSYSTEMS SECTION WINNER: A rice paddy provides a glimpse of human-mediated landscape engineering in Yuanyang County, China. : Yulin Jia, research plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center
CONSERVATION ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY SECTION WINNER: A Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) takes the road most traveled, Santa Cruz Island. Hara Woltz, conservation biologist, Columbia University
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COMMUNITY, POPULATION AND MACROECOLOGY SECTION WINNER: Three levels on the food chain captured at once: A scarce swallowtail butterfly (Iphiclides podalirius) perches on a scabious flower (Scabiosa columbaria) while a Polistine wasp (Polistes dominulus) hovers nearby. Michael Siva-Jothy, professor, University of Sheffield, England
BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY WINNER: Two male southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) battle for control of a harem of 127 females. Laetitia Kernaleguen, PhD student, Deakin University, Australia
RUNNER-UP: Flowers in a subalpine meadow; Colorado. Benjamin Blonder, PhD student, University of Arizona
WINNER: Now you see me, now you don’t: Timema poppensis partially camouflaged on its host, coast redwood Sequoia sempervirens; California. Moritz Muschick, postdoctoral researcher, University of Sheffield
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