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Ecology of soils

Guest Editors
Jerome Hui, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Derrick Y. F. Lai, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Lucie Malard, PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Submission Status: Open until 2 June 2026

Evolution of disease: From pathogens to proliferating cells

Guest Editors
Nathânia Dábilla Alves Silva, PhD, MSc, National Institute of Health – NIH, USA
Patrick T Dolan, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease – NIAID-NIH, USA
Imroze Khan, PhD, Ashoka University, India

Submission Status: Open until 5 March 2026

Nighttime ecology and evolutionary adaptations to low-light environments

Guest Editors
Maria Cocurullo, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria
Kristin Tessmar-Raible, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria
Mark Wong, PhD, University of Western Australia, Australia

Submission Status: Open until 23 February 2026

Evolutionary biomechanics

Guest Editors
Scott Hartman, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Pranav Khandelwal, PhD, Virginia Tech, USA
Jake Socha, PhD, Virginia Tech, USA

Submission Status: Open until 12 January 2026

Impact of climate change on ecology and evolution

Guest Editors:
Andrea Chiocchio, PhD, Tuscia University, Italy
Wenxing Long, PhD, Hainan University, China
Hu Zi-Min, PhD, Yantai University, China

Submission Status: Open until 4 December 2025

Ancient DNA and ancient proteins

Guest Editors:
Edana Lord, PhD, Research Center for Ecosystem Resilience, Australia
Yucheng Wang, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK

Submission Status: Open until 28 November 2025

Bioacoustics and soundscape ecology

Guest Editors
Ashish Kumar Arya, PhD, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), India
Almo Farina, PhD, University of Urbino, Italy
Daniela Silvia Pace, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, CNR-IAS Capo Granitola, Italy

Submission Status: Open until 27 December 2025

Evolution of vertebrate flight

Guest Editors
Thomas Alexander Dececchi, PhD –Biology, Assistant Professor-Biology Dakota State University, USA
Norberto Pedro Giannini, PhD, Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, CONICET – Fundación Miguel Lillo, Argentina
Michael Pittman, PhD, MSc, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Submission Status: Open until 31 December 2025

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Citizen science in ecological research

Guest Editors:
Gerid Hager, MSD, MScBA, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Benjamin Kent Haywood, PhD, Furman University, USA

Chemical signaling in plant and animal interactions

Guest Editors
Deguang Liu, PhD, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China
Amélie Saunier, PhD, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), France

Ecology and evolution of plant–pollinator interactions

Guest Editors
Jay D. Evans, PhD, USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, USA
Coline Jaworski, PhD, INRAE Sophia-Antipolis, France

Biological invasions

Guest Editors
Gary Bucciarelli, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, UC Davis, US
Victoria Dominguez Almela, PhD, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
Josie South, PhD, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Automated and remote biodiversity monitoring

Guest Editors:
Jenni Raitoharju, PhD, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Luiz G. M. Silva, PhD, ETH-Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland

Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding

Guest Editors:
Carmel McDougall: University of St Andrews, Scotland
Nancy Shackelford: University of Victoria, Canada

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

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

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

Evolutionary biology and ecology of cancer

Guest Editors:
David Basanta: Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Ignacio González Bravo: CNRS Montpellier, France

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