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Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

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February 6, 2018

Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

This study explores the relationship between 2D and 3D metrics of coral size. Researchers used a photogrammetric approach, with open-source software, to estimate the ability of photogrammetry to provide measurement estimates of corals in 3D

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February 20, 2018

The Far East taiga forest: unrecognized inhospitable terrain for migrating Arctic-nesting waterbirds?

Xin Wang, Lei Cao, Inga Bysykatova, Zhenggang Xu, Sonia Rozenfeld, Wooseog Jeong, Didier Vangeluwe, Yunlin Zhao, Tianhe Xie, Kunpeng Yi, Anthony David Fox

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4353 PubMed 29479493

February 16, 2018

High-resolution modeling of thermal thresholds and environmental influences on coral bleaching for local and regional reef management

Naoki H. Kumagai, Hiroya Yamano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4382 PubMed 29473007

February 28, 2018

Outplanting technique, host genotype, and site affect the initial success of outplanted Acropora cervicornis

Elizabeth A. Goergen, David S. Gilliam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4433 PubMed 29507829

February 20, 2018

Ground beetles in city forests: does urbanization predict a personality trait?

Wiebke Schuett, Berit Delfs, Richard Haller, Sarah Kruber, Simone Roolfs, Desiree Timm, Magdalena Willmann, Claudia Drees

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4360 PubMed 29479494

February 15, 2018

Life histories predict genetic diversity and population structure within three species of octopus targeted by small-scale fisheries in Northwest Mexico

José F. Domínguez-Contreras, Adrian Munguia-Vega, Bertha P. Ceballos-Vázquez, Marcial Arellano-Martínez, Francisco J. García-Rodríguez, Melanie Culver, Hector Reyes-Bonilla

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4295 PubMed 29472993

February 12, 2018

Estimating common dolphin bycatch in the pole-and-line tuna fishery in the Azores

Maria João Cruz, Miguel Machete, Gui Menezes, Emer Rogan, Mónica A. Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4285 PubMed 29456883

February 23, 2018

Quantifying the effectiveness of shoreline armoring removal on coastal biota of Puget Sound

Timothy S. Lee, Jason D. Toft, Jeffery R. Cordell, Megan N. Dethier, Jeffrey W. Adams, Ryan P. Kelly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4275 PubMed 29492331

February 21, 2018

Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP™) genotyping of 48 polymorphisms at different caprine loci in French Alpine and Saanen goat breeds and their association with milk composition

Szilvia Kusza, Ludovic Toma Cziszter, Daniela Elena Ilie, Maria Sauer, Ioan Padeanu, Dinu Gavojdian