Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 30, 2019

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

9 citations

793 downloads

2,932 views

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

8 citations

561 downloads

1,487 views

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

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

August 19, 2019

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

7 citations

603 downloads

1,413 views

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

6 citations

731 downloads

1,522 views

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 22, 2019

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

6 citations

597 downloads

865 views

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 14, 2019

Conspicuous colours reduce predation rates in fossorial uropeltid snakes

6 citations

527 downloads

1,907 views

Vivek Philip Cyriac, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

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

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

6 citations

355 downloads

1,108 views

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

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

August 26, 2019

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

5 citations

937 downloads

4,448 views

Jan Olof Helldin, Silviu O. Petrovan

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

August 15, 2019

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

5 citations

868 downloads

3,908 views

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 9, 2019

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

4 citations

442 downloads

1,280 views

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

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

August 14, 2019

Latitudinal variation in phlorotannin contents from Southwestern Atlantic brown seaweeds

4 citations

335 downloads

775 views

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

3 citations

526 downloads

1,179 views

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 20, 2019

Twisted tale of the tiger: the case of inappropriate data and deficient science

3 citations

418 downloads

3,168 views

Qamar Qureshi, Rajesh Gopal, Yadvendradev Jhala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7482 PubMed 31489264

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

3 citations

295 downloads

1,072 views

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 13, 2019

Grazing effects on woody and herbaceous plant biodiversity on a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia

2 citations

637 downloads

1,028 views

David Anthony Kirk, Katherine Hébert, Frank Barrie Goldsmith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7296 PubMed 31428536

August 30, 2019

Post-fledging habitat use in a declining songbird

2 citations

363 downloads

943 views

Clayton D. Delancey, Kamal Islam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7358 PubMed 31531266

August 6, 2019

First report of cestode infection in the crustacean Artemia persimilis from Southern Chilean Patagonia and its relation with the Neotropical aquatic birds

2 citations

320 downloads

804 views

Stella Redón, Gergana P. Vasileva, Boyko B. Georgiev, Gonzalo Gajardo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7395 PubMed 31403003

August 13, 2019

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

1 citation

633 downloads

1,685 views

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 8, 2019

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

1 citation

626 downloads

931 views

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 21, 2019

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

1 citation

576 downloads