title: BMC Ecology image competition: the winning images.
abstract: 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 ecological processes. In this Editorial, our academic Section Editors and guest judge Dr Yan Wong explain what they found most appealing about their chosen winning entries, and highlight a few of the outstanding images that didn't quite make it to the top prize.
authors.affiliation: BioMed Central, Floor 6, 236 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB, UK. simon.harold@biomedcentral.com
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harold
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baguette
authors.forename: Michael B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Bonsall
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clobert
authors.forename: Nick J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Royle
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Settele
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D004463:Ecology; D010781:Photography