Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 30, 2019

Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean alter the trophic structure of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum

Nancy Cabanillas-Terán, Héctor A. Hernández-Arana, Miguel-Ángel Ruiz-Zárate, Alejandro Vega-Zepeda, Alberto Sanchez-Gonzalez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7589 PubMed 31531271

August 14, 2019

Borneo coral reefs subject to high sediment loads show evidence of resilience to various environmental stressors

Nicola Browne, Christina Braoun, Jennifer McIlwain, Ramasamy Nagarajan, Jens Zinke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7382 PubMed 31428541

August 26, 2019

Effectiveness of small road tunnels and fences in reducing amphibian roadkill and barrier effects at retrofitted roads in Sweden

Jan Olof Helldin, Silviu O. Petrovan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7518 PubMed 31523500

August 19, 2019

Global distribution and diversity of Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae): integration of classical and novel strategies

Daniele De Luca, Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra, Diana Sarno, Chetan C. Gaonkar, Roberta Piredda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7410 PubMed 31489261

August 30, 2019

Age, growth, reproduction and management of Southwestern Atlantic’s largest and endangered herbivorous reef fish, Scarus trispinosus Valenciennes, 1840

Matheus O. Freitas, Marília Previero, Jonas R. Leite, Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho, Carolina V. Minte-Vera, Rodrigo L. Moura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7459 PubMed 31531268

August 15, 2019

Experimental removal of introduced slider turtles offers new insight into competition with a native, threatened turtle

Max R. Lambert, Jennifer M. McKenzie, Robyn M. Screen, Adam G. Clause, Benjamin B. Johnson, Genevieve G. Mount, H Bradley Shaffer, Gregory B. Pauly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7444 PubMed 31435491

August 15, 2019

Factors associated with the composition and diversity of the cervical microbiota of reproductive-age Black South African women: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Harris Onywera, Anna-Lise Williamson, Zizipho Z.A. Mbulawa, David Coetzee, Tracy L. Meiring

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7488 PubMed 31435492

August 12, 2019

Pollen report: quantitative review of pollen crude protein concentrations offered by bee pollinated flowers in agricultural and non-agricultural landscapes

Tobias Pamminger, Roland Becker, Sophie Himmelreich, Christof W. Schneider, Matthias Bergtold

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7394 PubMed 31423355

August 9, 2019

Potential benefits from global warming to the thermal biology and locomotor performance of an endangered Patagonian lizard

Facundo Cabezas-Cartes, Jimena B. Fernández, Fernando Duran, Erika L. Kubisch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7437 PubMed 31413930

August 14, 2019

Conspicuous colours reduce predation rates in fossorial uropeltid snakes

Vivek Philip Cyriac, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7508 PubMed 31428543

August 22, 2019

Seasonal dynamics of microbial diversity in the rhizosphere of Ulmus pumila L. var. sabulosa in a steppe desert area of Northern China

Tianyu Liang, Guang Yang, Yunxia Ma, Qingzhi Yao, Yuan Ma, Hui Ma, Yang Hu, Ying Yang, Shaoxiong Wang, Yiyong Pan, Gangtie Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7526 PubMed 31497396

August 29, 2019

Effects of shading on the growth and leaf photosynthetic characteristics of three forages in an apple orchard on the Loess Plateau of eastern Gansu, China

Mei Yang, Minguo Liu, Jiaoyun Lu, Huimin Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7594 PubMed 31528505

August 13, 2019

The effect of mangrove restoration on avian assemblages of a coastal lagoon in southern Mexico

Julio Cesar Canales-Delgadillo, Rosela Perez-Ceballos, Mario Arturo Zaldivar-Jimenez, Martin Merino-Ibarra, Gabriela Cardoza, Jose-Gilberto Cardoso-Mohedano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7493 PubMed 31423362

August 26, 2019

Filter feeding in Late Jurassic pterosaurs supported by coprolite contents

Martin Qvarnström, Erik Elgh, Krzysztof Owocki, Per E. Ahlberg, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7375 PubMed 31523493

August 8, 2019

Communities of oil palm flower-visiting insects: investigating the covariation of Elaeidobius kamerunicus and other dominant species

Akhmad Rizali, Bambang Tri Rahardjo, Sri Karindah, Fatma Ramadhani Wahyuningtyas, Nurindah, Bandung Sahari, Yann Clough

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7464 PubMed 31410312

August 14, 2019

Latitudinal variation in phlorotannin contents from Southwestern Atlantic brown seaweeds

Glaucia Ank, Bernardo Antônio Perez da Gama, Renato Crespo Pereira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7379 PubMed 31428540

August 20, 2019

Effects of digging by a native and introduced ecosystem engineer on soil physical and chemical properties in temperate grassy woodland

Catherine E. Ross, Nicola T. Munro, Philip S. Barton, Maldwyn J. Evans, John Gillen, Ben C.T. Macdonald, Sue McIntyre, Saul A. Cunningham, Adrian D. Manning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7506 PubMed 31497393

August 8, 2019

Image based quantitative comparisons indicate heightened megabenthos diversity and abundance at a site of weak hydrocarbon seepage in the southwestern Barents Sea

Arunima Sen, Cheshtaa Chitkara, Wei-Li Hong, Aivo Lepland, Sabine Cochrane, Rolando di Primio, Harald Brunstad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7398 PubMed 31410307

August 21, 2019

Diet and wild ungulate preferences of wolves in northwestern Anatolia during winter

Deniz Mengüllüoğlu, Eylül İlaslan, Hasan Emir, Anne Berger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7446 PubMed 31497386

August 14, 2019

Variation in denitrifying bacterial communities along a primary succession in the Hailuogou Glacier retreat area, China