Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 31, 2016

Continent-wide survey reveals massive decline in African savannah elephants

129 citations

6,342 downloads

53,302 views

Michael J. Chase, Scott Schlossberg, Curtice R. Griffin, Philippe J.C. Bouché, Sintayehu W. Djene, Paul W. Elkan, Sam Ferreira, Falk Grossman, Edward Mtarima Kohi, Kelly Landen, Patrick Omondi, Alexis Peltier, S.A. Jeanetta Selier, Robert Sutcliffe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2354 PubMed 27635327

August 9, 2016

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

63 citations

2,509 downloads

13,600 views

Mark J.F. Brown, Lynn V. Dicks, Robert J. Paxton, Katherine C.R. Baldock, Andrew B. Barron, Marie-Pierre Chauzat, Breno M. Freitas, Dave Goulson, Sarina Jepsen, Claire Kremen, Jilian Li, Peter Neumann, David E. Pattemore, Simon G. Potts, Oliver Schweiger, Colleen L. Seymour, Jane C. Stout

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2249 PubMed 27602260

August 18, 2016

Diet of otters (Lutra lutra) in various habitat types in the Pannonian biogeographical region compared to other regions of Europe

13 citations

623 downloads

2,220 views

József Lanszki, István Lehoczky, Antoinette Kotze, Michael J. Somers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2266 PubMed 27602262

August 23, 2016

I-HEDGE: determining the optimum complementary sets of taxa for conservation using evolutionary isolation

13 citations

390 downloads

1,843 views

Evelyn L. Jensen, Arne Ø. Mooers, Adalgisa Caccone, Michael A. Russello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2350 PubMed 27635324

August 16, 2016

An energetics-based honeybee nectar-foraging model used to assess the potential for landscape-level pesticide exposure dilution

12 citations

615 downloads

2,678 views

Johannes M. Baveco, Andreas Focks, Dick Belgers, Jozef J.M. van der Steen, Jos J.T.I. Boesten, Ivo Roessink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2293 PubMed 27602273

August 31, 2016

Joint estimation of crown of thorns (Acanthaster planci) densities on the Great Barrier Reef

12 citations

445 downloads

2,441 views

M. Aaron MacNeil, Camille Mellin, Morgan S. Pratchett, Jessica Hoey, Kenneth R.N. Anthony, Alistair J. Cheal, Ian Miller, Hugh Sweatman, Zara L. Cowan, Sascha Taylor, Steven Moon, Chris J. Fonnesbeck

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2310 PubMed 27635314

August 17, 2016

Selection of a marker gene to construct a reference library for wetland plants, and the application of metabarcoding to analyze the diet of wintering herbivorous waterbirds

8 citations

922 downloads

3,283 views

Yuzhan Yang, Aibin Zhan, Lei Cao, Fanjuan Meng, Wenbin Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2345 PubMed 27602302

August 18, 2016

Temporal overlaps of feral cats with prey and competitors in primary and human-altered habitats on Bohol Island, Philippines

8 citations

795 downloads

3,794 views

Vlastimil Bogdan, Tomáš Jůnek, Pavla Jůnková Vymyslická

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2288 PubMed 27602271

August 23, 2016

Effects of cattle grazing on small mammal communities in the Hulunber meadow steppe

7 citations

453 downloads

1,671 views

Chan Cao, Ling-Ying Shuai, Xiao-Ping Xin, Zhi-Tao Liu, Yan-Ling Song, Zhi-Gao Zeng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2349 PubMed 27635323

August 16, 2016

Effect of wetland management: are lentic wetlands refuges of plant-species diversity in the Andean–Orinoco Piedmont of Colombia?

5 citations

696 downloads

2,397 views

Johanna I. Murillo-Pacheco, Matthias Rös, Federico Escobar, Francisco Castro-Lima, José R. Verdú, Germán M. López-Iborra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2267 PubMed 27602263

August 30, 2016

Microsatellite loci in the tiger shark and cross-species amplification using pyrosequencing technology

4 citations

341 downloads

1,640 views

Natália J. Mendes, Vanessa P. Cruz, Fernando Y. Ashikaga, Sâmia M. Camargo, Claudio Oliveira, Andrew N. Piercy, George H. Burgess, Rui Coelho, Miguel N. Santos, Fernando F. Mendonça, Fausto Foresti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2205 PubMed 27635306

August 23, 2016

You can hide but you can’t run: apparent competition, predator responses and the decline of Arctic ground squirrels in boreal forests of the southwest Yukon

2 citations

417 downloads

2,475 views

Jeffery R. Werner, Elizabeth A. Gillis, Rudy Boonstra, Charles J. Krebs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2303 PubMed 27635312

August 24, 2016

Effects of yearling, juvenile and adult survival on reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) demography

1 citation

509 downloads