Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

North Atlantic right whales

June 3, 2014

Notifying speeding mariners lowers ship speeds in areas with North Atlantic Right Whales

There are only around 500 North Atlantic right whales alive today. In an effort to further protect them, a recent NOAA regulation required large vessels to reduce speed in areas seasonally occupied by the whales. The policy of notifying speeding vessels in protected areas was effective in lowering their speeds, helping to protect these magnificent creatures from ship collisions -

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June 17, 2014

Diversity and antimicrobial potential of culturable heterotrophic bacteria associated with the endemic marine sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis

Cintia P.J. Rua, Amaro E. Trindade-Silva, Luciana R. Appolinario, Tainá M. Venas, Gizele D. Garcia, Lucas S. Carvalho, Alinne Lima, Ricardo Kruger, Renato C. Pereira, Roberto G.S. Berlinck, Rogério A.B. Valle, Cristiane C. Thompson, Fabiano Thompson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.419 PubMed 25024903

June 10, 2014

Diversity of introduced terrestrial flatworms in the Iberian Peninsula: a cautionary tale

Marta Álvarez-Presas, Eduardo Mateos, Àngels Tudó, Hugh Jones, Marta Riutort

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.430 PubMed 24949245

June 26, 2014

Bird-window collisions in the summer breeding season

Stephen B. Hager, Matthew E. Craig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.460 PubMed 25024923

June 17, 2014

Laboratory generation of new parthenogenetic lineages supports contagious parthenogenesis in Artemia

Marta Maccari, Francisco Amat, Francisco Hontoria, Africa Gómez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.439 PubMed 25024909

June 19, 2014

Photobacterium sanctipauli sp. nov. isolated from bleached Madracis decactis (Scleractinia) in the St Peter & St Paul Archipelago, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Brazil

Ana Paula B. Moreira, Gwen Duytschaever, Luciane A. Chimetto Tonon, Adriana M. Fróes, Louisi S. de Oliveira, Gilberto M. Amado-Filho, Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho, Paul De Vos, Jean Swings, Cristiane C. Thompson, Fabiano L. Thompson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.427 PubMed 25024905

June 26, 2014

Drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure in unmodified streams

Jonathan D. Tonkin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.465 PubMed 25024926

June 12, 2014

Modelling the impacts of an invasive species across landscapes: a step-wise approach

Darren Ward, Fraser Morgan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.435 PubMed 24949248

June 17, 2014

Cascading effects of a highly specialized beech-aphid–fungus interaction on forest regeneration

Susan C. Cook-Patton, Lauren Maynard, Nathan P. Lemoine, Jessica Shue, John D. Parker