Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 31, 2019

Hans-Peter Schmidt, Nikolas Hagemann, Kathleen Draper, Claudia Kammann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7373 PubMed 31396445

July 15, 2019

Establishing an ecological security pattern for urban agglomeration, taking ecosystem services and human interference factors into consideration

Dongchuan Wang, Junhe Chen, Lihui Zhang, Zhichao Sun, Xiao Wang, Xian Zhang, Wei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7306 PubMed 31341745

July 12, 2019

BioDinamica: a toolkit for analyses of biodiversity and biogeography on the Dinamica-EGO modelling platform

Ubirajara Oliveira, Britaldo Soares-Filho, Rômulo Fernandes Machado Leitão, Hermann O. Rodrigues

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7213 PubMed 31338256

July 4, 2019

Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils

Gareth Trubl, Simon Roux, Natalie Solonenko, Yueh-Fen Li, Benjamin Bolduc, Josué Rodríguez-Ramos, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, Virginia I. Rich, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7265 PubMed 31309007

July 15, 2019

Predicting the potential distribution of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama), in China using the MaxEnt model

Rulin Wang, Hua Yang, Wei Luo, Mingtian Wang, Xingli Lu, Tingting Huang, Jinpeng Zhao, Qing Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7323 PubMed 31341749

July 23, 2019

Growth and development of soybean under changing light environments in relay intercropping system

Muhammad Ali Raza, Ling Yang Feng, Nasir Iqbal, Mukhtar Ahmed, Yuan Kai Chen, Muhammad Hayder Bin Khalid, Atta Mohi Ud Din, Ahsin Khan, Waqas Ijaz, Anwaar Hussain, Muhammad Atif Jamil, Muhammd Naeem, Sadam Hussain Bhutto, Muhammad Ansar, Feng Yang, Wenyu Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7262 PubMed 31372317

July 22, 2019

Extinction risk of narrowly distributed species of seed plants in Brazil due to habitat loss and climate change

José Maria Cardoso da Silva, Alessandro Rapini, Luis Cláudio F. Barbosa, Roger R. Torres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7333 PubMed 31367486

July 31, 2019

Taxonomic, biological and geographical traits of species in a coastal dune flora in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region: regional and global comparisons

Richard M. Cowling, Caryl Logie, Joan Brady, Margie Middleton, B. Adriaan Grobler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7336 PubMed 31396438

July 12, 2019

Functional properties of bacterial communities in water and sediment of the eutrophic river-lake system of Poyang Lake, China

Ze Ren, Xiaodong Qu, Wenqi Peng, Yang Yu, Min Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7318 PubMed 31338262

July 15, 2019

Multi-scale relationship between land use/land cover types and water quality in different pollution source areas in Fuxian Lake Basin

Shihua Li, Shuangyun Peng, Baoxuan Jin, Junsong Zhou, YingXin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7283 PubMed 31341740

July 2, 2019

Population demography of Oldham’s leaf turtle (Cyclemys oldhamii) in protected and disturbed habitats in Thailand

Sengvilay Seateun, Nancy E. Karraker, Bryan L. Stuart, Anchalee Aowphol

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7196 PubMed 31304062

July 22, 2019

First ex situ outplanting of the habitat-forming seaweed Cystoseira amentacea var. stricta from a restoration perspective

Gina De La Fuente, Mariachiara Chiantore, Valentina Asnaghi, Sara Kaleb, Annalisa Falace

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7290 PubMed 31367482

July 19, 2019

Microbial taxonomical composition in spruce phyllosphere, but not community functional structure, varies by geographical location

Yunshi Li, Xiukun Wu, Wanfu Wang, Minghao Wang, Changming Zhao, Tuo Chen, Guangxiu Liu, Wei Zhang, Shiweng Li, Huaizhe Zhou, Minghui Wu, Ruiqi Yang, Gaosen Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7376 PubMed 31355059

July 17, 2019

Microbial regulation of soil carbon properties under nitrogen addition and plant inputs removal

Ran Wu, Xiaoqin Cheng, Wensong Zhou, Hairong Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7343 PubMed 31346503

July 2, 2019

The impact of one-decade ecological disturbance on genetic changes: a study on the brine shrimp Artemia urmiana from Urmia Lake, Iran

Alireza Asem, Amin Eimanifar, Gilbert van Stappen, Shi-Chun Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7190 PubMed 31304060

July 16, 2019

Marine biodiversity from zero to a thousand meters at Clipperton Atoll (Île de La Passion), Tropical Eastern Pacific

Alan M. Friedlander, Jonatha Giddens, Enric Ballesteros, Shmulik Blum, Eric K. Brown, Jennifer E. Caselle, Bradley Henning, Christian Jost, Pelayo Salinas-de-León, Enric Sala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7279 PubMed 31341739

July 10, 2019

Testing relationship between plant productivity and diversity in a desertified steppe in Northwest China

Yang Yang, Bingru Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7239 PubMed 31333905

July 10, 2019

Recently-adopted foraging strategies constrain early chick development in a coastal breeding gull

Alejandro Sotillo, Jan M. Baert, Wendt Müller, Eric W.M. Stienen, Amadeu M.V.M. Soares, Luc Lens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7250 PubMed 31333907

July 16, 2019

The relationship between fish abundance and benthic community structure on artificial reefs in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, and the importance of sea whip corals Leptogorgia virgulata

Cara C. Schweitzer, Bradley G. Stevens