Simon Harold's research while affiliated with The College of Central London and other places
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Publications (26)
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology was created from the merger of two journals within the BMC series published by BioMed Central: BMC Pharmacology and BMC Clinical Pharmacology. BMC Pharmacology operated anonymous peer review whereas BMC Clinical Pharmacology operated a fully open peer review policy where the identity of the reviewers was known to the...
As part of BioMed Central’s open science mission, we are pleased to announce that two of our journals have integrated with the open data repository Dryad. Authors submitting their research to either BMC Ecology or BMC Evolutionary Biology will now have the opportunity to deposit their data directly into the Dryad archive and will receive a permanen...
As part of BioMed Central’s open science mission, we are pleased to announce that two of our journals have integrated with the open data repository Dryad. Authors submitting their research to either BMC Ecology or BMC Evolutionary Biology will now have the opportunity to deposit their data directly into the Dryad archive and will receive a permanen...
BioMed Central is a Science, Technology and Medical publisher of online, open access journals. We have always endeavoured to ensure that our journals adhere to the norms of the research communities we serve (Knapp et al ., 2011; Krell 2012; Sands & Moylan 2012). We were therefore somewhat bewildered by the tone of the piece from Dubois et al. (2013...
“Blue Tide. Seasonal winds can cause the upwelling of nutrients which in turn can cause plankton populations to bloom as "red tides." Here, a dinoflagellate population (Noctiluca sp.) turns the ocean a luminous blue colour as the disturbance by the wind triggers a light-generating chemical reaction. The production of light is thought to attract fis...
“It’s a stinky feast! Blowflies just can’t resist the attraction of the orchid Captured during an orchid pollination observation in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia, this photograph shows the orchid flowers of Bulbophyllum lasianthum Lindl surrounded by flies. During anthesis, these attractive purplish-red flowers emit a strong foul odour similar to that...
“Indirect gradient analysis is a powerful tool in community ecology to link species patterns to patterns of environmental variables including human disturbance. During a field mission to Ethiopia, I gave an introduction to gradient analysis for researchers at Jimma University, with whom we investigate the effects of coffee cultivation on the divers...
“Carrying vegetation survey equipment to a forest dynamics plot, Puerto Rico” Attribution: Benjamin Blonder (University of Arizona).
“Multitrophic interactions in action” Attribution: Anne Ebeling (University of Jena).
“The 2 frogs way enjoying the sun on the branch when the duck jumped up on the branch. The frogs jumped for their lives!” Attribution: Thomas Jensen (Medical Prognosis Institute, Denmark).
“Collecting pollen from Vellozia, Serra do Cipó, Brazil”. Attribution: Daniel Wisbech Carstensen (Instituto de Biociências, Brazil). Biology Image Library ID: 64983.
“This cricket was singing at dusk at the edge of secondary forest in Borneo. He had crawled into the natural funnel of a ginger plant which was being used to amplify the sound of the song. I really liked the composition and decided I had to take it in natural light - this meant opening the aperture right up and slowing the shutter to 1/60. The effe...
“Rare large individual of Ceiba pentandra in lowland tropical forest” Attribution: Benjamin Blonder (University of Arizona).
“With a refined and tenacious tactic of predation, the European squid (Loligo vulgaris) has captured a bream (Sparus aurata) launching its tentacles and applying a lethal bite in the prey column. The image captures the moment when the squid seizes the prey with his arms.” Attribution: Miguel Cabanellas (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies)...
“Communication in bulldog ants (Myrmecia nigriscapa,) Sydney, Australia” Attribution: Sylvain Dubey (University of Lausanne). Biology Image Library ID: 65360.
) (Puerto Rico)” Attribution: Benjamin Blonder (University of Arizona).
BMC Ecology announces the winning entries in its inaugural Ecology Image Competition, open to anyone affiliated with a research institute. The competition, which received more than 200 entries from international researchers at all career levels and a wide variety of scientific disciplines, was looking for striking visual interpretations of ecologic...
“To well understand all the ecological process that drive the physiology and behavior of animals in the nature, it appears really important to study organisms on the field. It is also important for the scientists to estimate our impact during study on the free living species. Here, we measured the heart rate (HR) excess (the number of heart beats p...
“Caterpillar of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) killed by the gregarious braconid wasp (Glyptapantheles liparidis). This parasitoid is a major natural enemy of the worldwide known forest pest. 48 larvae developed in a single host and pupated under it after leaving the agonizing caterpillar’s body.” Attribution: György Csóka (Forest Research Institute...
“Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) group allopreening in front of a neighboring group during a border confrontation.” Attribution: Yitzchak Ben Mocha (Tel Aviv University). Image Library ID 63580.
“A male Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus), visits a scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata) flower at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. These migratory hummingbirds fly from Mexico to Colorado each summer to reproduce, and are the primary pollinators of scarlet gilia flowers. Long-term studies of the phenology of t...
“I think that this photo shows one of the most important issue in nature conservation nowadays. And it is known because of habitat loss that a lot of species are facing big troubles to survive. So, people are trying to create reserves and refugees for animals. But the encroachment due to sprawling of cities highlights the problem of saving either o...
“A small crab, Planes minutus (Columbus crab), living on an individual of Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). This crab is known to prey upon other sea turtles epibionts.” Attribution: Maristella D'Addario (University of Rome).
“This image is of a constructed colony of decoy Northern Gannets on the North Island of New Zealand. Calls are broadcast through solar powered speakers, and the decoys were set up to try to re-establish gannets on a preserved piece of land where Northern Gannets historically were found. I took this photograph while I was participating in a large sc...
Contributing reviewers
The editors of BMC Genetics would like to thank all of our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 13 (2012).
Citations
... We are thrilled to announce the winning images of our annual BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition. Like in previous years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], we received a spectacular collection of images from ecologists and evolutionary biologists from around the globe. BMC Ecology and Evolution invited anyone affiliated with a research institution to submit to one of the following four categories: 'Research in Action' , 'Protecting our planet' , 'Plants and Fungi' and 'Paleoecology' . ...
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... To achieve this, Tennant (2018) noted newer journals without a prior history of DBPR are better placed to achieve consensus in OR practice than journals transitioning into OR from DBPR. For journals making the common transition from DBPR to OR, Moylan et al.'s (2014) study into the merged science journals recommended critical reflection into the effect of OR on younger reviewers reluctant to move away from anonymity. In this sense, our objective of a level playing field must consider the relative positioning of authors, reviewers and editors. ...
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... Publish your data when the phase of scientific collection/compilation is complete and before you begin writing the associated preprint, report, or paper. Share the data and metadata openly in a data repository with a DOI (digital online identifier to enable citation and permanence) and versioning (i.e., updated versions are tracked and listed) (Kenall et al., 2014;Michener, 2015b). This is not an entirely novel proposal, but it is also not the norm in the historical or even contemporary culture of many scientific disciplines including Ecology and Evolution (Allen & Mehler, 2019). ...
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... At the moment we lack sufficient data to meet these challenges , largely because species interactions are hard to sample (Jordano 2016). Over the past few decades biodiversity data has become increasingly available through remotely collected data and adoption of open data practices (Kenall et al. 2014;Stephenson 2020). Still, interaction data remains relatively scarce because sampling typically requires human observation. ...
... A detailed presentation of the changes brought to the Code regarding the nomenclatural availability of electronic papers by the 2012 Amendment of the Code (Anonymous 2012; designated below as 'A-2012' for more brevity) was provided in Dubois et al. (2013), which should be consulted in this respect. In fact this paper provided a very thorough analysis of the problems posed by these changes and should have prompted a reflexion of the Commission and of publishers of electronic papers to provide solutions to these problems, but the blunt denial of their existence by both groups and their refusal to discuss the points raised in this paper (Anonymous 2014, Moylan et al. 2014) resulted in a persistence, and even in some respect an increase, of these problems, as we will see below. ...
... We are thrilled to announce the winning images of our annual BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition. Like in previous years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], we received a spectacular collection of images from ecologists and evolutionary biologists from around the globe. BMC Ecology and Evolution invited anyone affiliated with a research institution to submit to one of the following four categories: 'Research in Action' , 'Protecting our planet' , 'Plants and Fungi' and 'Paleoecology' . ...
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