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March 2019

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A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Live images of Astrobatrachus kurichiyana

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Researchers describe a new species, Astrobatrachus kurichiyana sp. nov. The discovery of this species adds to the list of deeply divergent and monotypic or depauperate lineages with narrow geographic ranges in the southern massifs of the Western Ghats

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March 4, 2019

Capturing complexity: field-testing the use of ‘structure from motion’ derived virtual models to replicate standard measures of reef physical structure

10 citations

673 downloads

2,254 views

Daniel T.I. Bayley, Andrew O.M. Mogg, Heather Koldewey, Andy Purvis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6540 PubMed 30863678

March 29, 2019

Using road patrol data to identify factors associated with carnivore roadkill counts

8 citations

626 downloads

2,096 views

Samual T. Williams, Wendy Collinson, Claire Patterson-Abrolat, David G. Marneweck, Lourens H. Swanepoel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6650 PubMed 30956899

March 7, 2019

Exotic urban trees conserve similar natural enemy communities to native congeners but have fewer pests

6 citations

704 downloads

1,667 views

Steven D. Frank, Kristi M. Backe, Casey McDaniel, Matthew Green, Sarah Widney, Robert R. Dunn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6531 PubMed 30867988

March 14, 2019

Effects of habitat fragmentation and human disturbance on the population dynamics of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey from 1994 to 2016

5 citations

721 downloads

1,535 views

Xumao Zhao, Baoping Ren, Dayong Li, Zuofu Xiang, Paul A. Garber, Ming Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6633 PubMed 30886785

March 19, 2019

Large carnivore habitat suitability modelling for Romania and associated predictions for protected areas

3 citations

649 downloads

2,519 views

Bogdan Cristescu, Csaba Domokos, Kristine J. Teichman, Scott E. Nielsen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6549 PubMed 30918752

March 21, 2019

Comparative analysis of the liver transcriptome in the red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans under chronic salinity stress

3 citations

446 downloads

1,265 views

Meiling Hong, Aiping Jiang, Na Li, Weihao Li, Haitao Shi, Kenneth B. Storey, Li Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6538 PubMed 30923649

March 27, 2019

Old wild wolves: ancient DNA survey unveils population dynamics in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian remains

2 citations

621 downloads

3,353 views

Marta Maria Ciucani, Davide Palumbo, Marco Galaverni, Patrizia Serventi, Elena Fabbri, Gloria Ravegnini, Sabrina Angelini, Elena Maini, Davide Persico, Romolo Caniglia, Elisabetta Cilli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6424 PubMed 30944772

March 12, 2019

Habitat differentiation and conservation gap of Magnolia biondii, M. denudata, and M. sprengeri in China

2 citations

597 downloads

1,065 views

Chuangye Song, Huiming Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6126 PubMed 30886767

March 15, 2019

Vocal recognition of a nest-predator in black grouse

2 citations

307 downloads