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June 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

African penguins follow the gaze direction of conspecifics

Experimental setup for gaze testing

June 12, 2017

African penguins follow the gaze direction of conspecifics

Representing some of the first work in this area, the observations made are a starting point for future cross-species comparisons with other members of the penguin family.

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June 21, 2017

The biochronology and palaeobiogeography of Baru (Crocodylia: Mekosuchinae) based on new specimens from the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia

1 citation

563 downloads

2,633 views

Adam M. Yates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3458 PubMed 28649471

June 7, 2017

Gamebird responses to anthropogenic forest fragmentation and degradation in a southern Amazonian landscape

6 citations

481 downloads

2,629 views

Fernanda Michalski, Carlos A. Peres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3442 PubMed 28607839

June 22, 2017

Climate, soil or both? Which variables are better predictors of the distributions of Australian shrub species?

12 citations

724 downloads

2,533 views

Yasmin Hageer, Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez, John B. Baumgartner, Linda J. Beaumont

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3446 PubMed 28652933

June 30, 2017

Long-term monitoring reveals an avian species credit in secondary forest patches of Costa Rica

5 citations

474 downloads

2,529 views

Steven C. Latta, Nathan L. Brouwer, Alison Olivieri, Julie Girard-Woolley, Judy F. Richardson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3539 PubMed 28674671

June 28, 2017

A fossil unicorn crestfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Lophotidae) from the Eocene of Iran

1 citation

484 downloads

2,521 views

Donald Davesne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3381 PubMed 28674642

June 6, 2017

Spatial variation in coral reef fish and benthic communities in the central Saudi Arabian Red Sea

13 citations

488 downloads

2,481 views

Maha T. Khalil, Jessica Bouwmeester, Michael L. Berumen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3410 PubMed 28603671

June 28, 2017

Pleistocene reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea: environmental change and community persistence

6 citations

673 downloads

2,308 views

Lorraine R. Casazza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3504 PubMed 28674659

June 15, 2017

Taxonomic richness and abundance of cryptic peracarid crustaceans in the Puerto Morelos Reef National Park, Mexico

4 citations

384 downloads

1,915 views

Luz Veronica Monroy-Velázquez, Rosa Elisa Rodríguez-Martínez, Fernando Alvarez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3411 PubMed 28630800

June 15, 2017

Effects of a wind farm installation on the understory bat community of a highly biodiverse tropical region in Mexico

1 citation

513 downloads

1,840 views

Miguel Briones-Salas, Mario C. Lavariega, Claudia E. Moreno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3424 PubMed 28630802

June 8, 2017

Ecophylogeny of the endospheric root fungal microbiome of co-occurring Agrostis stolonifera

16 citations

435 downloads

1,834 views

Amandine Lê Van, Achim Quaiser, Marie Duhamel, Sophie Michon-Coudouel, Alexis Dufresne, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3454 PubMed 28607843

June 20, 2017

Determinants of seasonal changes in availability of food patches for elephants (Loxodonta africana) in a semi-arid African savanna

3 citations

445 downloads

1,769 views

Bruce W. Clegg, Timothy G. O’Connor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3453 PubMed 28649470

June 13, 2017

Getting off to a good start? Genetic evaluation of the ex situ conservation project of the Critically Endangered Montseny brook newt (Calotriton arnoldi)

1 citation

442 downloads

1,684 views

Emilio Valbuena-Ureña, Anna Soler-Membrives, Sebastian Steinfartz, Mònica Alonso, Francesc Carbonell, Raquel Larios-Martín, Elena Obon, Salvador Carranza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3447 PubMed 28626615

June 12, 2017

Discrimination of Picea chihuahuana Martinez populations on the basis of climatic, edaphic, dendrometric, genetic and population traits

2 citations

449 downloads

1,642 views

Iliana Karina Dominguez-Guerrero, Samantha del Rocío Mariscal-Lucero, José Ciro Hernández-Díaz, Berthold Heinze, José Ángel Prieto-Ruiz, Christian Wehenkel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3452 PubMed 28626616

June 30, 2017

Non-bleached colonies of massive Porites may attract fishes for selective grazing during mass bleaching events

366 downloads

1,612 views

Eri Ikeuchi, Yoshikazu Ohno, Akira Iguchi, Takashi Nakamura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3470 PubMed 28674649

June 29, 2017

Contrasting biological features in morphologically cryptic Mediterranean sponges

1 citation

242 downloads

1,349 views