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May 2018

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Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Tracks of five wide-ranging blue whales tagged in Chilean Northern Patagonia.

April 30, 2018

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Researchers tracked 10 blue whales and documented their individual variations in departure time, northbound migratory routes and potential wintering grounds in the Eastern South Pacific.

May 24, 2018

Water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of riparian springs in a small lowland river valley: what are the key factors for species distribution?

Andrzej Zawal, Robert Stryjecki, Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński, Joanna Pakulnicka, Aleksandra Bańkowska, Tomasz Czernicki, Katarzyna Janusz, Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska, Vladimir Pešić

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4797 PubMed 29844962

May 29, 2018

Genomic analysis of red-tide water bloomed with Heterosigma akashiwo in Geoje

Hye-Eun Kang, Tae-Ho Yoon, Sunyoung Yoon, Hak Jun Kim, Hyun Park, Chang-Keun Kang, Hyun-Woo Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4854 PubMed 29868269

May 10, 2018

Exotic lagomorph may influence eagle abundances and breeding spatial aggregations: a field study and meta-analysis on the nearest neighbor distance

Facundo Barbar, Gonzalo O. Ignazi, Fernando Hiraldo, Sergio A. Lambertucci

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4746 PubMed 29761058

May 31, 2018

Some like it hot: factors impacting thermal preferences of two Ponto-Caspian amphipods Dikerogammarus villosus (Sovinsky, 1894) and Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwald, 1841)

Michał Rachalewski, Jarosław Kobak, Eliza Szczerkowska-Majchrzak, Karolina Bącela-Spychalska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4871 PubMed 29868278

May 2, 2018

Stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata), which species have the longest sting?

Emily A. Sadler, James P. Pitts, Joseph S. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4743 PubMed 29736350

May 18, 2018

A quantitative approach to determine the taxonomic identity and ontogeny of the pycnodontiform fish Pycnodus (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the Eocene of Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy

John Joseph Cawley, Giuseppe Marramà, Giorgio Carnevale, Jürgen Kriwet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4809 PubMed 29796348

May 25, 2018

Do latitudinal gradients exist in New Zealand stream invertebrate metacommunities?

Jonathan D. Tonkin, Russell G. Death, Timo Muotka, Anna Astorga, David A. Lytle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4898 PubMed 29844999

May 8, 2018

Asymmetries in mother-infant behaviour in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

Barbara Regaiolli, Caterina Spiezio, William Donald Hopkins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4736 PubMed 29761052

May 8, 2018

The brown anole dewlap revisited: do predation pressure, sexual selection, and species recognition shape among-population signal diversity?

Simon Baeckens, Tess Driessens, Raoul Van Damme

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4722 PubMed 29761044

May 30, 2018

Assessment of the ecotoxicity of urban estuarine sediment using benthic and pelagic copepod bioassays

Maria P. Charry, Vaughan Keesing, Mark Costello, Louis A. Tremblay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4936 PubMed 29868297

May 30, 2018

Urbanization alters small rodent community composition but not abundance

Jessica N. Alvarez Guevara, Becky A. Ball

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4885 PubMed 29868284

May 21, 2018

Living upside down: patterns of red coral settlement in a cave

Federica Costantini, Luca Rugiu, Carlo Cerrano, Marco Abbiati

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4649 PubMed 29844950

May 16, 2018

Coarse- and fine-scale patterns of distribution and habitat selection places an Amazonian floodplain curassow in double jeopardy

Gabriel A. Leite, Izeni P. Farias, André L. S. Gonçalves, Joseph E. Hawes, Carlos A. Peres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4617 PubMed 29785338

May 29, 2018

Changes in species abundance after seven years of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and warming in a Subarctic birch forest understorey, as modified by rodent and moth outbreaks

Brita M. Svensson, Bengt Å. Carlsson, Jerry M. Melillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4843 PubMed 29868267

May 30, 2018

Variations in early life history traits of Japanese anchovy Engraulis japonicus in the Yangtze River Estuary

Chunlong Liu, Weiwei Xian, Shude Liu, Yifeng Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4789 PubMed 29868255

May 30, 2018

Comparisons of weed community, soil health and economic performance between wheat-maize and garlic-soybean rotation systems under different weed managements

Mahmud A. Muminov, Liyue Guo, Yanjie Song, Xian Gu, Yu Cen, Jie Meng, Gaoming Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4799 PubMed 29868258

May 3, 2018

Patterns of genetic structuring at the northern limits of the Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) cryptic species complex

Md Rakeb-Ul Islam, Daniel J. Schmidt, David A. Crook, Jane M. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4654 PubMed 29736331

May 16, 2018

Geographical variation in colour of female threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Connor M. French, Travis Ingram, Daniel I. Bolnick

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4807 PubMed 29785354

May 29, 2018

Resurrection and typification of Elatine campylosperma (Elatinaceae), a long-forgotten waterwort species

Attila Takács, Attila Molnár V., Balázs A. Lukács, Timea Nagy, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Andy J. Green, Agnieszka Popiela, Lajos Somlyay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4913 PubMed 29868294

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