Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) fruit germinating on tropical beach, Keeling Islands, Australia

Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) fruit germinating on tropical beach, Keeling Islands, Australia

Heike Odermatt / New growth in recently burnt heathland, Netherlands

Jeff Foott / Deciduous forest and pond in autumn, Jordan Pond, Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine

Jeff Foott / Deciduous forest in autumn, Acadia National Park, Maine

Jeff Foott / Deciduous forest in autumn, Acadia National Park, Maine

Ingo Arndt / Four spotted libellula dragonfly / (Libellula quadrimaculata) adult freshly emerged from larval case, Germany.

Chien Lee / Fan Palm (Licuala sp) trees in lowland rainforest, Nimbokrang, New Guinea, Indonesia

Tim Fitzharris / Coniferous forest in winter, Aspen Vista, Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico

Sven Zacek / Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis) white morph and normal blue morph, Southern Estonia, April.

Juergen Freund / Gorgonian fan coral (Gorgonaceae) in the shallow mangroves, split level. North Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Second Place in the Portfolio Award of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards Competit...

Staffan Widstrand / Moss covered fallen trees in old mixed conifer and broadleaf forest, Punia Forest Reserve, Lithuania, May.