August 2018

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Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures

Dr. Keisha Bahr surveying a healthy coral colony

August 7, 2018

Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures

Scientists replicated a landmark study to determine changes in coral sea temperature tolerance over time. In the three species of Hawaiian corals retested, bleaching occurred later, with higher survivorship and growth rates than the same species of corals in 1970. However, scientists warn that temperatures are rising faster than corals can change.

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August 16, 2018
A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic Spinosaurus Stromer, 1915 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
9 citations
2,502 downloads
28,401 views
paleontology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5409 PubMed 30128195
August 24, 2018
A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico
3 citations
1,797 downloads
9,871 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5435 PubMed 30155354
August 3, 2018
A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia
1 citation
1,193 downloads
7,000 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
taxonomy
zoology
histology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5300 PubMed 30083450
August 7, 2018
Triassic pentadactyl tracks from the Los Menucos Group (Río Negro province, Patagonia Argentina): possible constraints on the autopodial posture of Gondwanan trackmakers
10 citations
703 downloads
3,581 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5358 PubMed 30123702
August 14, 2018
Fossil snakes (Squamata, Serpentes) from the tar pits of Venezuela: taxonomic, palaeoenvironmental, and palaeobiogeographical implications for the North of South America during the Cenozoic/Quaternary boundary
3 citations
515 downloads
3,027 views
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biogeography
evolutionary-studies
paleontology
taxonomy
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5402 PubMed 30128192
August 29, 2018
A new lower actinopterygian fish from the Upper Mississippian Bluefield Formation of West Virginia, USA
421 downloads
2,939 views
paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5533 PubMed 30186696
August 28, 2018
Anatomical notes and discussion of the first described aetosaur Stagonolepis robertsoni (Archosauria: Suchia) from the Upper Triassic of Europe, and the use of plesiomorphies in aetosaur biochronology
3 citations
892 downloads
2,757 views
paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5455 PubMed 30186682
August 10, 2018
The palate and choanae structure of the Susisuchus anatoceps (Crocodyliformes, Eusuchia): phylogenetic implications
6 citations
773 downloads
2,709 views
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paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5372 PubMed 30128185
August 6, 2018
Fossil mammals from the Gondolin Dump A ex situ hominin deposits, South Africa
1 citation
567 downloads
2,631 views
anthropology
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5393 PubMed 30123713
August 22, 2018
Paleoneuroanatomy of the aetosaur Neoaetosauroides engaeus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its paleobiological implications among archosauriforms
4 citations
788 downloads
2,200 views
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biodiversity
evolutionary-studies
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5456 PubMed 30155359
August 25, 2018
A well-preserved partial scapula from Japan and the reconstruction of the triosseal canal of plotopterids
3 citations
512 downloads
2,114 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5391 PubMed 30155348
August 27, 2018
Eocene Western European endemic genus Thaumastosaurus: new insights into the question “Are the Ranidae known prior to the Oligocene?”
4 citations
412 downloads
1,976 views
biodiversity
biogeography
paleontology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5511 PubMed 30186689
Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures

Dr. Keisha Bahr surveying a healthy coral colony

August 7, 2018

Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures

Scientists replicated a landmark study to determine changes in coral sea temperature tolerance over time. In the three species of Hawaiian corals retested, bleaching occurred later, with higher survivorship and growth rates than the same species of corals in 1970. However, scientists warn that temperatures are rising faster than corals can change.

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