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Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding
Guest Editors:
Carmel McDougall: University of St Andrews, Scotland
Nancy Shackelford: University of Victoria, Canada
Submission Status: Open until 7 March 2024
Agroecology: protecting, restoring, and promoting biodiversity
Guest Editors:
Jessica Knapp: Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Andrea Sciarretta: Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Submission Status: Open until 27 December 2023
Paleoecology of extinct species
Guest Editors:
Michael Pittman: School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Yucheng Wang: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Submission Status: Open until 06 December 2023
Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution
Guest Editors:
Isabel Barrio: Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland
Alessandro Rapini: The State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil
Submission Status: Open until 27 November 2023
Evolutionary biology and ecology of cancer
Guest Editors:
David Basanta: Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Ignacio González Bravo: CNRS Montpellier, France
Submission Status: Open until 9 January 2024
Published
2022
Biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development
Collection closed
2021
Applications of environmental DNA and RNA in ecology
Collection closed
Retrospective cross journal collection
BMC Series focus issue: Our changing environment
Collection published: April 2021
2014
Cross journal collection
Avian genomes collection
Collection published: 11 December 2014
Cross journal collection
Reviewer acknowledgements 2013
Collection published: 26 February 2014
2011
Cross journal collection
The tammar wallaby genome and transcriptome
Collection published: 10 August 2011
2010
Cross journal collection
Zebra finch: the companion papers for the publication of the zebra finch genome sequence
Collection published: 30 October 2010
Cross journal collection
Open Access Biodiversity Research
Collection published: 25 May 2010
2009
Cross journal collection
Bovine: the companion papers for the publication of the bovine genome sequence
Collection published: 24 April 2009
Cross journal collection
Daphnia: the companion papers for the genome sequence
Collection published: 3 April 2009
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