"Captivating Nature: Winners of the 2023 BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition"

The winners and runners-up of the BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition showcase a range of captivating images from the animal and fungal kingdoms. The winning images include a shot of an invasive orange pore fungus in the Australian rainforest, a beached whale undergoing a necropsy, bees involved in a sustainable beekeeping project, a researcher releasing a newborn blacktip reef shark, and a digital reconstruction of a developing hadrosaur within its egg. These images highlight the diverse ways in which humans study and protect the natural world.