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June 2020

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

June 3, 2020

Culicidae-centric metabarcoding through targeted use of D2 ribosomal DNA primers

Pedro M. Pedro, Jandui Amorim, Martha V.R. Rojas, Ivy Luizi Sá, Allan Kardec Ribeiro Galardo, Noel Fernandes Santos Neto, Dario Pires de Carvalho, Kaio Augusto Nabas Ribeiro, Maria Tereza Pepe Razzolini, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9057 PubMed 32607275

June 3, 2020

Incorporating reef fish avoidance behavior improves accuracy of species distribution models

Kostantinos A. Stamoulis, Jade M.S. Delevaux, Ivor D. Williams, Alan M. Friedlander, Jake Reichard, Keith Kamikawa, Euan S. Harvey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9246 PubMed 32547871

June 12, 2020

Epiphytic bryophyte biomass estimation on tree trunks and upscaling in tropical montane cloud forests

Guan-Yu Lai, Hung-Chi Liu, Ariel J. Kuo, Cho-ying Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9351 PubMed 32566412

June 25, 2020

A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled

Erin T. Spencer, Emilie Richards, Blaire Steinwand, Juliette Clemons, Jessica Dahringer, Priya Desai, Morgan Fisher, Sloane Fussell, Olivia Gorman, Diamond Jones, Amanda Le, Kayla Long, Cammie McMahan, Caitlin Moscarito, Catherine Pelay, Erica Price, Anna Smith, Allison VanSant, John F. Bruno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9218 PubMed 32617188

June 18, 2020

Parents know best: transgenerational predator recognition through parental effects

Jennifer A. Atherton, Mark I. McCormick

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9340 PubMed 32596050

June 23, 2020

Assessing bias in demographic estimates from joint live and dead encounter models

Mitch D. Weegman, Scott Wilson, Ray T. Alisauskas, Dana K. Kellett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9382 PubMed 32612891

June 15, 2020

Quantitatively assessing mekosuchine crocodile locomotion by geometric morphometric and finite element analysis of the forelimb

Michael D. Stein, Suzanne J. Hand, Michael Archer, Stephen Wroe, Laura A.B. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9349 PubMed 32587803

June 1, 2020

Status of coral reefs in Antigua & Barbuda: using data to inform management

Ruleo Camacho, Sophia Steele, Shanna Challenger, Mark Archibald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9236 PubMed 32547869

June 11, 2020

A non-invasive method to assess environmental contamination with avian pathogens: beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) detection in nest boxes

Johanne M. Martens, Helena S. Stokes, Mathew L. Berg, Ken Walder, Shane R. Raidal, Michael J.L. Magrath, Andrew T.D. Bennett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9211 PubMed 32566393

June 8, 2020

Age-dependent differences in iris colouration of passerines during autumn migration in Central Europe

Michał Polakowski, Krzysztof Stępniewski, Joanna Śliwa-Dominiak, Magdalena Remisiewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9188 PubMed 32551192

June 4, 2020

Bee diversity in secondary forests and coffee plantations in a transition between foothills and highlands in the Guatemalan Pacific Coast

Gabriela Armas-Quiñonez, Ricardo Ayala-Barajas, Carlos Avendaño-Mendoza, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros, Ek del-Val

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9257 PubMed 32547874

June 23, 2020

Effects of Stellera chamaejasme removal on the nutrient stoichiometry of S. chamaejasme-dominated grasslands in the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau

Meiling Song, Yuqin Wang, Gensheng Bao, Hongsheng Wang, Yali Yin, Xiuzhang Li, Chunping Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9239 PubMed 32612880

June 2, 2020

Limpet disturbance effects on barnacle recruitment are related to recruitment intensity but not recruit size

Julius A. Ellrich, Takefumi Yorisue, Kyosuke Momota

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9190 PubMed 32547863

June 2, 2020

Repurposing a traditional Japanese method of pest control for wintering pine moths, Komo-trap, for use against summer and winter populations of fall webworms

Osamu K. Mikami, Misaki Takamatsu, Rika Yarita

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9244 PubMed 32547870

June 3, 2020

Clonal diversity and genetic variation of the sedge Carex nigra in an alpine fen depend on soil nutrients

Christoph Reisch, Stefanie Meier, Christoph Schmid, Maik Bartelheimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8887 PubMed 32547850

June 1, 2020

Woodlice change the habitat use of spiders in a different food chain

Stefanie M. Guiliano, Cerina M. Karr, Nathalie R. Sommer, Robert W. Buchkowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9184 PubMed 32547862

June 24, 2020

Ocean warming is the key filter for successful colonization of the migrant octocoral Melithaea erythraea (Ehrenberg, 1834) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Michal Grossowicz, Or M. Bialik, Eli Shemesh, Dan Tchernov, Hubert B. Vonhof, Guy Sisma-Ventura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9355 PubMed 32612887

June 24, 2020

A new species of frog (Terrarana, Strabomantidae, Phrynopus) from the Peruvian Andean grasslands

Germán Chávez, Luis Alberto García Ayachi, Alessandro Catenazzi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9433 PubMed 32612895

June 10, 2020

Non-linear responses of net ecosystem productivity to gradient warming in a paddy field in Northeast China

Yulu Sun, Fuyao Qu, Xianjin Zhu, Bei Sun, Guojiao Wang, Hong Yin, Tao Wan, Xiaowen Song, Qian Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9327 PubMed 32607282

June 15, 2020

Physiological and anatomical differentiation of two sympatric weed populations

Barbara Neuffer, Michael Schorsch, Steffen Hameister, Johannes Knuesting, Jennifer Selinski, Renate Scheibe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9226 PubMed 32587795

June 16, 2020

State-space modeling of the dynamics of temporal plant cover using visually determined class data

Hiroki Itô

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9383 PubMed 32587805

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