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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 22, 2019

Evidence of cryptic lineages within a small South American crocodilian: the Schneider’s dwarf caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Alligatoridae: Caimaninae)

Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Zilca Campos, Fábio de Lima Muniz, Boris Marioni, Bruno Campos Souza, Ronis Da Silveira, Benoit de Thoisy, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6580 PubMed 30931177

March 5, 2019

Potential invasive plant expansion in global ecoregions under climate change

Chun-Jing Wang, Qiang-Feng Li, Ji-Zhong Wan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6479 PubMed 30863672

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 21, 2019

Maintenance of dominant populations in heavily grazed grassland: Inference from a Stipa breviflora seed germination experiment

Wenting Liu, Zhijun Wei, Xiaoxia Yang