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Toward a global scientific consensus: identifying vulnerable marine ecosystems through imagery
Climate change and carnivores: shifts in the distribution and effectiveness of protected areas in the Amazon
Optimization of oil industry wastewater treatment system and proposing empirical correlations for chemical oxygen demand removal using electrocoagulation and predicting the system’s performance by artificial neural network
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PeerJ announces Open Advances, a new journal series to address the world’s biggest challenges by unlocking Open Access
Integrating Robotics into Wildlife Conservation: Enhancing Predator Deterrents through Innovative Movement Strategies
Spinosaur Britain: multiple different species likely roamed Cretaceous Britain
PeerJ announces a new Open Access model and the University of Bath as their first institutional partner
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Evaluation of DNA metabarcoding for identifying fish eggs: a case study on the West Florida Shelf
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Completing the long-standing puzzle of biodiversity: How ecology can help us identify missing pieces
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Decline in wild bee species richness associated with honey bee abundance in an urban ecosystem
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Fish-like marine reptile buried in its own blubber in Southern Germany 150 million years ago
A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Province, South China
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New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa
A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia
Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness
Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatuson the basis of new cranial remains
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PeerJ appoints Director of Communities
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Open Access publisher PeerJ launches five new peer-reviewed journals in chemistry
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An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou
Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
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Rare tooth find reveals horned dinosaurs in eastern North America
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Neck ribs in woolly mammoths provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
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System-wide analyses have underestimated protein abundances and the importance of transcription in animals
Asian elephants reassure others in distress
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Publish Open Access for free until end of the year in PeerJ
Announcing unlimited free publishing in PeerJ Preprints
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UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge enter into Institutional Arrangements for PeerJ publishing plans
Positive emotion influences a depressive-to-happy state and increases life satisfaction
New study shows scientific reproducibility is hampered by a lack of specificity of the material resources
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PeerJ Announces the First Institutions to Provide lifetime publishing plans to their Faculty
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