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Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

June 5, 2018

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

The pond turtle Emys trinacris is an endangered endemic species of Sicily. In this study, researchers modelled the potential distribution of the species under current and future climatic conditions.

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June 15, 2018

Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich, Sidney Gouveia, Ricardo Dobrovolski, K.A.I. Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, Anthony B. Rylands, Fiona Maisels, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Julio Bicca-Marques, Agustin Fuentes, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Steig Johnson, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, Leonardo Oliveira, Christoph Schwitzer, Christian Roos, Susan M. Cheyne, Maria Cecilia Martins Kierulff, Brigitte Raharivololona, Mauricio Talebi, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Jatna Supriatna, Ramesh Boonratana, Made Wedana, Arif Setiawan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4869 PubMed 29922508

June 22, 2018

Cities may save some threatened species but not their ecological functions

Álvaro Luna, Pedro Romero-Vidal, Fernando Hiraldo, Jose L. Tella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4908 PubMed 29942675

June 13, 2018

Genetic differentiation, local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in fragmented populations of a rare forest herb

Rodolfo Gentili, Aldo Solari, Martin Diekmann, Cecilia Duprè, Gianna Serafina Monti, Stefano Armiraglio, Silvia Assini, Sandra Citterio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4929 PubMed 29915689

June 8, 2018

Does bathymetry drive coastal whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregations?

Joshua P. Copping, Bryce D. Stewart, Colin J. McClean, James Hancock, Richard Rees