Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 28, 2020

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Per G.P. Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225 PubMed 32025365

January 21, 2020

Predicting hedgehog mortality risks on British roads using habitat suitability modelling

Patrick G.R. Wright, Frazer G. Coomber, Chloe C. Bellamy, Sarah E. Perkins, Fiona Mathews

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8154 PubMed 31998548

January 13, 2020

Response of total phenols, flavonoids, minerals, and amino acids of four edible fern species to four shading treatments

Yanlin Wang, Shanshan Gao, Xingyuan He, Yan Li, Yue Zhang, Wei Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8354 PubMed 31976179

January 22, 2020

Shifts in soil nutrient concentrations and C:N:P stoichiometry during long-term natural vegetation restoration

Rentian Ma, Feinan Hu, Jingfang Liu, Chunli Wang, Zilong Wang, Gang Liu, Shiwei Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8382 PubMed 32002329

January 10, 2020

Morphological variation of leaf traits in the Ternstroemia lineata species complex (Ericales: Penthaphylacaceae) in response to geographic and climatic variation

Othón Alcántara-Ayala, Ken Oyama, César A. Ríos-Muñoz, Gerardo Rivas, Santiago Ramirez-Barahona, Isolda Luna-Vega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8307 PubMed 31942256

January 2, 2020

Questioning the proverb ‘more haste, less speed’: classic versus metabarcoding approaches for the diet study of a remote island endemic gecko

Vanessa Gil, Catarina J. Pinho, Carlos A.S. Aguiar, Carolina Jardim, Rui Rebelo, Raquel Vasconcelos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8084 PubMed 31915567

January 27, 2020

Airborne microbial biodiversity and seasonality in Northern and Southern Sweden

Edvin Karlsson, Anna-Mia Johansson, Jon Ahlinder, Moa J. Lundkvist, Navinder J. Singh, Tomas Brodin, Mats Forsman, Per Stenberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8424 PubMed 32025374

January 27, 2020

Effects of precipitation changes on soil bacterial community composition and diversity in the Junggar desert of Xinjiang, China

Ke Wu, Wenxuan Xu, Weikang Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8433 PubMed 32025376

January 22, 2020

Rapid digitization to reclaim thematic maps of white-tailed deer density from 1982 and 2003 in the conterminous US

Brice Hanberry, Phillip Hanberry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8262 PubMed 32002322

January 3, 2020

Temporal and spatial variability of terrestrial diatoms at the catchment scale: controls on communities

Jasper Foets, Carlos E. Wetzel, Adriaan J. Teuling, Laurent Pfister

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8296 PubMed 31915584

January 27, 2020

Effects of silver-graphene oxide on seed germination and early growth of crop species

Min-Ji Kim, Woong Kim, Haegeun Chung

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8387 PubMed 32025369

January 23, 2020

Developing and assessing a density surface model in a Bayesian hierarchical framework with a focus on uncertainty: insights from simulations and an application to fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus)

Douglas B. Sigourney, Samuel Chavez-Rosales, Paul B. Conn, Lance Garrison, Elizabeth Josephson, Debra Palka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8226 PubMed 32002319

January 23, 2020

Occurrence, ecological function and medical importance of dermestid beetle hastisetae

Enrico Ruzzier, Marcin Kadej, Andrea Battisti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8340 PubMed 32002326

January 2, 2020

Testing marine regional-scale hypotheses along the Yucatan continental shelf using soft-bottom macrofauna

Ivan Hernandez-Avila, Frank A. Ocaña, Daniel Pech

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8227 PubMed 31915571

January 15, 2020

Comparison of bacterial diversity and abundance between sexes of Leptocybe invasa Fisher & La Salle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from China

Chunhui Guo, Xin Peng, Xialin Zheng, Xiaoyun Wang, Ruirui Wang, Zongyou Huang, Zhende Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8411 PubMed 31988811

January 9, 2020

Temporal dynamics of the hummingbird-plant interaction network of a dry forest in Chamela, Mexico: a 30-year follow-up after two hurricanes

Sergio Díaz Infante, Carlos Lara, Maria del Coro Arizmendi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8338 PubMed 31942258

January 9, 2020

Elucidating physiological and biochemical alterations in giant duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza L. Schleiden) under diethyl phthalate stress: insights into antioxidant defence system

Ritika Sharma, Rajinder Kaur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8267 PubMed 31942254

January 20, 2020

Ecology of an ocelot population at the northern edge of the species’ distribution in northern Sonora, Mexico

James C. Rorabaugh, Jan Schipper, Sergio Avila-Villegas, Jessica A. Lamberton-Moreno, Timothy Flood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8414 PubMed 31998562

January 22, 2020

High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation

Brandon W. McDonald, Troi Perkins, Robert R. Dunn, Jennifer McDonald, Holly Cole, Robert S. Feranec, Roland Kays

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8337 PubMed 32002325

January 2, 2020

Use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in streams to detect feral swine (Sus scrofa)

Amberly N. Hauger, Karmen M. Hollis-Etter, Dwayne R. Etter, Gary J. Roloff, Andrew R. Mahon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8287 PubMed 31915583

January 20, 2020

Experimental evaluation of genomic DNA degradation rates for the pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) in bat guano

Jenny Urbina, Tara Chestnut, Donelle Schwalm, Jenn Allen, Taal Levi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8141 PubMed 31998550

January 6, 2020

Assessment of a Takagi–Sugeno-Kang fuzzy model assembly for examination of polyphasic loglinear allometry

Hector A. Echavarria-Heras, Juan R. Castro-Rodriguez, Cecilia Leal-Ramirez, Enrique Villa-Diharce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8173 PubMed 31934498

January 3, 2020

Osmotrophic glucose and leucine assimilation and its impact on EPA and DHA content in algae

Elina T. Peltomaa, Sami Taipale

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8363 PubMed 31915592

January 9, 2020

Genetic structure of Australian glass shrimp, Paratya australiensis, in relation to altitude

Sharmeen Rahman, Daniel Schmidt, Jane M. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8139 PubMed 31942250

January 6, 2020

Effects of environmental variables on abundance of ammonia-oxidizing communities in sediments of Luotian River, China

Amjed Ginawi, Lixiao Wang, Huading Wang, Bingbing Yu, Yan Yunjun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8256 PubMed 31934502

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