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July 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other
behaviors

Great-tailed grackle

July 12, 2016

Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other behaviors

Researchers investigated whether 'reversal learning' performance was linked to other behaviors in great-tailed grackles. The results provide potential insights into why this invasive species has been able to succeed.

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July 13, 2016

Dominant forest tree species are potentially vulnerable to climate change over large portions of their range even at high latitudes

Catherine Périé, Sylvie de Blois

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2218 PubMed 27478706

July 28, 2016

The potential effects of climate change on amphibian distribution, range fragmentation and turnover in China

Ren-Yan Duan, Xiao-Quan Kong, Min-Yi Huang, Sara Varela, Xiang Ji

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2185 PubMed 27547522

July 7, 2016

Dugong dugon feeding in tropical Australian seagrass meadows: implications for conservation planning

Samantha J. Tol, Rob G. Coles, Bradley C. Congdon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2194 PubMed 27441123

July 5, 2016

Differences in meiofauna communities with sediment depth are greater than habitat effects on the New Zealand continental margin: implications for vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance

Norliana Rosli, Daniel Leduc, Ashley A. Rowden, Malcolm R. Clark, P. Keith Probert, Katrin Berkenbusch, Carlos Neira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2154 PubMed 27441114

July 5, 2016

Scarcity of ecosystem services: an experimental manipulation of declining pollination rates and its economic consequences for agriculture

Harpinder Sandhu, Benjamin Waterhouse, Stephane Boyer, Steve Wratten

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2099 PubMed 27441108

July 6, 2016

The implementation of rare events logistic regression to predict the distribution of mesophotic hard corals across the main Hawaiian Islands

Lindsay M. Veazey, Erik C. Franklin, Christopher Kelley, John Rooney, L. Neil Frazer, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2189 PubMed 27441122

July 5, 2016

The effect of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) on the size and weight of mangos (Mangifera indica L.)

Shafqat Saeed, Muhammad Nadir Naqqash, Waqar Jaleel, Qamar Saeed, Fozia Ghouri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2076 PubMed 27441107

July 14, 2016

A practical application of reduced-copper antifouling paint in marine biological research

Andrea S. Jerabek, Kara R. Wall, Christopher D. Stallings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2213 PubMed 27478704

July 26, 2016

Morphometric comparisons of plant-mimetic juvenile fish associated with plant debris observed in the coastal subtropical waters around Kuchierabu-jima Island, southern Japan

Alexya Cunha de Queiroz, Yoichi Sakai, Marcelo Vallinoto, Breno Barros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2268 PubMed 27547571

July 14, 2016

Human population and socioeconomic modulators of conservation performance in 788 Amazonian and Atlantic Forest reserves

Ana Alice B. de Marques, Mauricio Schneider, Carlos A. Peres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2206 PubMed 27478703

July 14, 2016

Meter scale variation in shrub dominance and soil moisture structure Arctic arthropod communities

Rikke Reisner Hansen, Oskar Liset Pryds Hansen, Joseph J. Bowden, Urs A. Treier, Signe Normand, Toke Høye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2224 PubMed 27478709

July 27, 2016

Competition-function tradeoffs in ectomycorrhizal fungi

Holly V. Moeller, Kabir G. Peay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2270 PubMed 27547573

July 20, 2016

DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa

Jonathan A. Coddington, Ingi Agnarsson, Ren-Chung Cheng, Klemen Čandek, Amy Driskell, Holger Frick, Matjaž Gregorič, Rok Kostanjšek, Christian Kropf, Matthew Kweskin, Tjaša Lokovšek, Miha Pipan, Nina Vidergar, Matjaž Kuntner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2201 PubMed 27547527

July 28, 2016

Site fidelity, size, and morphology may differ by tidal position for an intertidal fish, Bathygobius cocosensis (Perciformes-Gobiidae), in Eastern Australia

Lucie A. Malard, Katrina McGuigan, Cynthia Riginos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2263 PubMed 27547568

July 6, 2016

Characterisation of an atypical manifestation of black band disease on Porites lutea in the Western Indian Ocean

Mathieu Séré, David A. Wilkinson, Michael H. Schleyer, Pascale Chabanet, Jean-Pascal Quod, Pablo Tortosa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2073 PubMed 27441106

July 26, 2016

Flower diversity and bee reproduction in an arid ecosystem

Jimena Dorado, Diego P. Vázquez