Ecology Journals Celebrate Diverse Wildlife and Fieldwork in Annual Photo Contest

The BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition recognized a wide range of ecological subjects, awarding the grand prize to Sritam Kumar Sethy for a damselfly photographed in an Odisha wetland. Australian researchers also earned honors, with Victor Huertas Martin winning the Relationship category for a photo of giant cuttlefish battling during their breeding season in Spencer Gulf near Whyalla, and Alwin Hardenbol receiving runner-up for a brown goshawk versus friarbirds encounter at Mulligans Flat in the ACT.

In the Protecting Our Planet category, Allen Tian’s image of a dam-created island chain on the St Lawrence Seaway highlighted a bird sanctuary, while a runner-up showed community volunteers assisting olive-ridley turtle hatchlings on India’s west coast. The Research In Action awards featured students fitting a transmitter onto a northern red-legged frog and undergraduates sorting a beach seine net in New Brunswick, Canada. Additional commendations went to Luke Jeffrey’s self-portrait in a Northern Territory wetland and Vineet Kumar’s cave photo from a Himalayan bear-search expedition.