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February 2018

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Relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

Adapted from Figure 2

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

February 26, 2018

Regenerative agriculture: merging farming and natural resource conservation profitably

Claire E. LaCanne, Jonathan G. Lundgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4428 PubMed 29503771

February 21, 2018

Repeatability of glucocorticoid hormones in vertebrates: a meta-analysis

Kelsey L. Schoenemann, Frances Bonier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4398 PubMed 29492340

February 6, 2018

Moving to 3D: relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume

Jenny E. House, Viviana Brambilla, Luc M. Bidaut, Alec P. Christie, Oscar Pizarro, Joshua S. Madin, Maria Dornelas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4280 PubMed 29435392

February 8, 2018

Forecasting biodiversity in breeding birds using best practices

David J. Harris, Shawn D. Taylor, Ethan P. White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4278 PubMed 29441230

February 7, 2018

Detection of stable community structures within gut microbiota co-occurrence networks from different human populations

Matthew A. Jackson, Marc Jan Bonder, Zhana Kuncheva, Jonas Zierer, Jingyuan Fu, Alexander Kurilshikov, Cisca Wijmenga, Alexandra Zhernakova, Jordana T. Bell, Tim D. Spector, Claire J. Steves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4303 PubMed 29441232

February 12, 2018

Desiccation resistance: effect of cuticular hydrocarbons and water content in Drosophila melanogaster adults

Jean-Francois Ferveur, Jérôme Cortot, Karen Rihani, Matthew Cobb, Claude Everaerts

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4318 PubMed 29456884

February 12, 2018

Genus-level phylogeny of cephalopods using molecular markers: current status and problematic areas

Gustavo Sanchez, Davin H.E. Setiamarga, Surangkana Tuanapaya, Kittichai Tongtherm, Inger E. Winkelmann, Hannah Schmidbaur, Tetsuya Umino, Caroline Albertin, Louise Allcock, Catalina Perales-Raya, Ian Gleadall, Jan M. Strugnell, Oleg Simakov, Jaruwat Nabhitabhata

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4331 PubMed 29456885

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 27, 2018

High variability of dung beetle diversity patterns at four mountains of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Alfonsina Arriaga-Jiménez, Matthias Rös, Gonzalo Halffter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4468 PubMed 29507842

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 9, 2018

A new species of Amazonian snouted treefrog (Hylidae: Scinax) with description of a novel species-habitat association for an aquatic breeding frog

Miquéias Ferrão, Rafael de Fraga, Jiří Moravec, Igor L. Kaefer, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4321 PubMed 29441233

February 15, 2018

COREMIC: a web-tool to search for a niche associated CORE MICrobiome

Richard R. Rodrigues, Nyle C. Rodgers, Xiaowei Wu, Mark A. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4395 PubMed 29473009

February 22, 2018

Evolutionary radiation of earless frogs in the Andes: molecular phylogenetics and habitat shifts in high-elevation terrestrial breeding frogs

Rudolf von May, Edgar Lehr, Daniel L. Rabosky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4313 PubMed 29492332

February 9, 2018

Use and misuse of temperature normalisation in meta-analyses of thermal responses of biological traits

Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos, Bernardo García-Carreras, Sofía Sal, Thomas P. Smith, Samraat Pawar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4363 PubMed 29441242

February 21, 2018

Deficit irrigation and fertilization strategies to improve soil quality and alfalfa yield in arid and semi-arid areas of northern China

Qianmin Jia, Muhammad Kamran, Shahzad Ali, Lefeng Sun, Peng Zhang, Xiaolong Ren, Zhikuan Jia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4410 PubMed 29492344

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 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 28, 2018

Intraspecific functional and genetic diversity of Petriella setifera

Giorgia Pertile, Jacek Panek, Karolina Oszust, Anna Siczek, Magdalena Frąc

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4420 PubMed 29507826

February 19, 2018

Ants contribute to pollination but not to reproduction in a rare calcareous grassland forb

Michael Rostás, Felix Bollmann, David Saville, Michael Riedel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4369 PubMed 29479496

February 14, 2018

Benthic grazing in a eutrophic river: cascading effects of zoobenthivorous fish mask direct effects of herbivorous fish

Madlen Gerke, Daniel Cob Chaves, Marc Richter, Daniela Mewes, Jörg Schneider, Dirk Hübner, Carola Winkelmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4381 PubMed 29473006

February 27, 2018

Seasonal variation in the abundance and distribution of Anomalocardia flexuosa (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Veneridae) in an estuarine intertidal plain

Jacqueline S. Silva-Cavalcanti, Monica F. Costa, Luis H.B. Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4332 PubMed 29507822

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