BMC Ecology
Last updated ISSN 1472-6785
BMC Ecology is published by BioMed Central in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Ecology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1472-6785 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 612 |
| Publishing since | 1984 |
| Journal website | bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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