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November 2015

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Can we measure beauty?

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

November 24, 2015

Are neonicotinoid insecticides driving declines of widespread butterflies?

Andre S. Gilburn, Nils Bunnefeld, John McVean Wilson, Marc S. Botham, Tom M. Brereton, Richard Fox, Dave Goulson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1402 PubMed 26623186

November 19, 2015

A new threat to bees? Entomopathogenic nematodes used in biological pest control cause rapid mortality in Bombus terrestris

Alexandrea Dutka, Alison McNulty, Sally M. Williamson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1413 PubMed 26618084

November 5, 2015

The Bulimulidae (Mollusca: Pulmonata) from the Región de Atacama, northern Chile

Juan Francisco Araya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1383 PubMed 26587346

November 5, 2015

Use of video surveillance to measure the influences of habitat management and landscape composition on pollinator visitation and pollen deposition in pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) agroecosystems

Benjamin W. Phillips, Mary M. Gardiner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1342 PubMed 26587337

November 19, 2015

Trait correlates of distribution trends in the Odonata of Britain and Ireland

Gary D. Powney, Steve S.A. Cham, Dave Smallshire, Nick J.B. Isaac

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1410 PubMed 26618083

November 19, 2015

Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean—a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a ‘widespread species’

Austin Dziki, Greta J. Binford, Jonathan A. Coddington, Ingi Agnarsson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1422 PubMed 26618089

November 30, 2015

Preference of a native beetle for “exoticism,” characteristics that contribute to invasive success of Costelytra zealandica (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Marie-Caroline Lefort, Stéphane Boyer, Jessica Vereijssen, Rowan Sprague, Travis R. Glare, Susan P. Worner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1454 PubMed 26644985

November 19, 2015

Testing the enemy release hypothesis in a native insect species with an expanding range

Julia J. Mlynarek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1415 PubMed 26618085

November 24, 2015

Datziinae as a new subfamily name for the unavailable name Protopsychodinae Stebner et al., 2015, (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Frauke Stebner, Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Rüdiger Wagner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1423 PubMed 26623188

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