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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

March 27, 2019

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

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 13, 2019

Just a small bunch of flowers: the botanical knowledge of students and the positive effects of courses in plant identification at German universities

Thorsten Buck, Ines Bruchmann, Pascale Zumstein, Claudia Drees

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6581 PubMed 30886774

March 29, 2019

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

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

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

March 19, 2019

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

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

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

March 4, 2019

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

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

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

March 13, 2019

Identification of Austwickia chelonae as cause of cutaneous granuloma in endangered crocodile lizards using metataxonomics

Haiying Jiang, Xiujuan Zhang, Linmiao Li, Jinge Ma, Nan He, Haiyang Liu, Richou Han, Huiming Li, Zhengjun Wu, Jinping Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6574 PubMed 30886772

March 14, 2019

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

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

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

March 7, 2019

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

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 21, 2019

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

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 21, 2019

The chemical composition of a new “mica sandwich” foraminiferal species from the East Coast of Korea: Capsammina crassa sp. nov.

Somin Lee, Eric Armynot du Châtelet, Andrew J. Gooday, François Guillot, Philippe Recourt, Fabrizio Frontalini, Wonchoel Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6642 PubMed 30923656

March 29, 2019

Using opportunistic sightings to infer differential spatio-temporal use of western Mediterranean waters by the fin whale

Estefanía Torreblanca, Juan Antonio Camiñas, David Macías, Salvador García-Barcelona, Raimundo Real, José Carlos Báez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6673 PubMed 30956904

March 20, 2019

Low genetic diversity in captive populations of the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) revealed by a panel of novel microsatellites

Guoling Chen, Chenqing Zheng, Nelson Wan, Daoqiang Liu, Vivian Wing Kan Fu, Xu Yang, Yat-tung Yu, Yang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6643 PubMed 30918762

March 15, 2019

Vocal recognition of a nest-predator in black grouse

Richard Policht, Vlastimil Hart, Denis Goncharov, Peter Surový, Vladimír Hanzal, Jaroslav Červený, Hynek Burda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6533 PubMed 30891367

March 12, 2019

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

Chuangye Song, Huiming Liu

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

March 19, 2019

Fine-scale substrate heterogeneity does not affect arthropod communities on green roofs

Bracha Y. Schindler, Amiel Vasl, Leon Blaustein, David Gurevich, Gyongyver J. Kadas, Merav Seifan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6445 PubMed 30918748

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