Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 19, 2019

The newly described Araguaian river dolphins, Inia araguaiaensis (Cetartiodactyla, Iniidae), produce a diverse repertoire of acoustic signals

Gabriel Melo-Santos, Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo Rodrigues, Rodrigo Hipólito Tardin, Israel de Sá Maciel, Miriam Marmontel, Maria Luisa Da Silva, Laura Johanna May-Collado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6670 PubMed 31041149

April 12, 2019

Marine biodiversity research in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: current status and trends

James Davis Reimer, Piera Biondi, Yee Wah Lau, Giovanni Diego Masucci, Xuan Hoa Nguyen, Maria E.A. Santos, Hin Boo Wee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6532 PubMed 31011490

April 29, 2019

Shared genomic outliers across two divergent population clusters of a highly threatened seagrass

Nikki Leanne Phair, Robert John Toonen, Ingrid Knapp, Sophie von der Heyden

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6806 PubMed 31106053

April 5, 2019

Diet and mitochondrial DNA haplotype of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) found dead off Jurong Island, Singapore

Marcus A.H. Chua, David J.W. Lane, Seng Keat Ooi, Serene H.X. Tay, Tsunemi Kubodera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6705 PubMed 30984481

April 8, 2019

Vegetation dynamics of abandoned paddy fields and surrounding wetlands in the lower Tumen River Basin, Northeast China

Guanglan Cao, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Weihong Zhu, Toshiya Okuro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6704 PubMed 30993042

April 9, 2019

Throwing light on dark diversity of vascular plants in China: predicting the distribution of dark and threatened species under global climate change

Lili Tang, Runxi Wang, Kate S. He, Cong Shi, Tong Yang, Yaping Huang, Pufan Zheng, Fuchen Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6731 PubMed 30993048

April 30, 2019

A citizen science approach to evaluating US cities for biotic homogenization

Misha Leong, Michelle Trautwein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6879 PubMed 31106074

April 10, 2019

Decoupling species richness variation and spatial turnover in beta diversity across a fragmented landscape

Guang Hu, Maxwell C. Wilson, Jianguo Wu, Jingjing Yu, Mingjian Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6714 PubMed 30993046

April 9, 2019

From climate zone to microhabitat—environmental factors affecting the coastal distribution of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in the south-eastern European biodiversity hotspot

Radomir Jaskuła, Mateusz Płóciennik, Axel Schwerk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6676 PubMed 30993037

April 2, 2019

Environmental modulation of the proteomic profiles from closely phylogenetically related populations of the red seaweed Plocamium brasiliense

Gabriela Calegario, Lucas Freitas, Eidy Santos, Bruno Silva, Louisi Oliveira, Gizele Garcia, Cláudia Omachi, Renato Pereira, Cristiane Thompson, Fabiano Thompson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6469 PubMed 30972241

April 16, 2019

Distribution of crabs along a habitat gradient on the Yellow Sea coast after Spartina alterniflora invasion

Pan Chen, Yan Zhang, Xiaojing Zhu, Changhu Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6775 PubMed 31024775

April 11, 2019

Variation in ant-mediated seed dispersal along elevation gradients

Israel Del Toro, Relena R. Ribbons

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6686 PubMed 30997286