Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 21, 2018

Seasonal and predator-prey effects on circadian activity of free-ranging mammals revealed by camera traps

Anthony Caravaggi, Maria Gatta, Marie-Claire Vallely, Kayleigh Hogg, Marianne Freeman, Erfan Fadaei, Jaimie T.A. Dick, W. Ian Montgomery, Neil Reid, David G. Tosh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5827 PubMed 30498626

November 28, 2018

Effects of waste stream combinations from brewing industry on performance of Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Shaphan Y. Chia, Chrysantus M. Tanga, Isaac M. Osuga, Samira A. Mohamed, Fathiya M. Khamis, Daisy Salifu, Subramanian Sevgan, Komi K.M. Fiaboe, Saliou Niassy, Joop J.A. van Loon, Marcel Dicke, Sunday Ekesi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5885 PubMed 30519507

November 7, 2018

Geophysical upheavals and evolutionary diversification of plant species in the Himalaya

Kumar Manish, Maharaj K. Pandit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5919 PubMed 30425898

November 2, 2018

Home sick: impacts of migratory beekeeping on honey bee (Apis mellifera) pests, pathogens, and colony size

Samantha A. Alger, P. Alexander Burnham, Zachary S. Lamas, Alison K. Brody, Leif L. Richardson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5812 PubMed 30405967

November 8, 2018

A taxonomically and geographically constrained information base limits non-native reptile and amphibian risk assessment: a systematic review

Nicola J. van Wilgen, Micaela S. Gillespie, David M. Richardson, John Measey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5850 PubMed 30425887

November 27, 2018

Differences in persistence between dogs and wolves in an unsolvable task in the absence of humans

Akshay Rao, Lara Bernasconi, Martina Lazzaroni, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Friederike Range

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5944 PubMed 30515358

November 16, 2018

An emerging viral pathogen truncates population age structure in a European amphibian and may reduce population viability

Lewis J. Campbell, Trenton W.J. Garner, Giulia Tessa, Benjamin C. Scheele, Amber G.F. Griffiths, Lena Wilfert, Xavier A. Harrison

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5949 PubMed 30479902

November 7, 2018

Wild bees of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: richness, abundance, and spatio-temporal beta-diversity

Olivia Messinger Carril, Terry Griswold, James Haefner, Joseph S. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5867 PubMed 30425889

November 7, 2018

Hemiparasitic plants increase alpine plant richness and evenness but reduce arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization in dominant plant species

Michael McKibben, Jeremiah A. Henning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5682 PubMed 30425882

November 6, 2018

Host anemone size as a determinant of social group size and structure in the orange clownfish (Amphiprion percula)

Juliette Chausson, Maya Srinivasan, Geoffrey P. Jones

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5841 PubMed 30416882

November 29, 2018

Ecology and life history of Meta bourneti (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)

Enrico Lunghi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6049 PubMed 30519514

November 14, 2018

Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia

Chava L. Weitzman, Karen Gibb, Keith Christian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5960 PubMed 30479906

November 5, 2018

All you can eat: the functional response of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus feeding on krill and copepods

Juan Höfer, Humberto E. González, Jürgen Laudien, Gertraud M. Schmidt, Verena Häussermann, Claudio Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5872 PubMed 30416885

November 7, 2018

Field evaluation of the potential for avian exposure to clothianidin following the planting of clothianidin-treated corn seed

Sean McGee, Melissa Whitfield-Aslund, Daiana Duca, Nicole Kopysh, Tereza Dan, Loren Knopper, Larry Brewer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5880 PubMed 30425890

November 29, 2018

Decline in coral cover and flattening of the reefs around Mauritius (1998–2010)

Jennifer A. Elliott, Mark R. Patterson, Caroline G. Staub, Meera Koonjul, Stephen M. Elliott

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6014 PubMed 30519511

November 21, 2018

Catch fast and kill quickly: do tiger beetles use the same strategies when hunting different types of prey?

Tomasz Rewicz, Radomir Jaskuła

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5971 PubMed 30498639

November 30, 2018

The double role of pigmentation and convolute leaves in community assemblage of Amazonian epiphytic Lejeuneaceae

Sylvia Mota de Oliveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5921 PubMed 30533291

November 8, 2018

Amphibian life history in a temperate environment of the Mexican Plateau: dimorphism, phenology and trophic ecology of a hylid frog, Hyla eximia (=Dryophytes eximius)

Uriel Hernández-Salinas, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Barry P. Stephenson, Raciel Cruz-Elizalde, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Carlos Jesús Balderas-Valdivia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5897 PubMed 30473932

November 30, 2018

Anti-predator defences of a bombardier beetle: is bombing essential for successful escape from frogs?

Shinji Sugiura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5942 PubMed 30533294

November 30, 2018

The proportion of core species in a community varies with spatial scale and environmental heterogeneity

Molly F. Jenkins, Ethan P. White, Allen H. Hurlbert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6019 PubMed 30533308

November 7, 2018

Migration and transformation of dissolved carbon during accumulated cyanobacteria decomposition in shallow eutrophic lakes: a simulated microcosm study

Zhichun Li, Yanping Zhao, Xiaoguang Xu, Ruiming Han, Mingyue Wang, Guoxiang Wang