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September 2020

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

September 28, 2020

No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF

Alexander Zizka, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Alice Calvente, Mabel Rocio Baez-Lizarazo, Andressa Cabral, Jéssica Fernanda Ramos Coelho, Matheus Colli-Silva, Mariana Ramos Fantinati, Moabe F. Fernandes, Thais Ferreira-Araújo, Fernanda Gondim Lambert Moreira, Nathália Michellyda Cunha Santos, Tiago Andrade Borges Santos, Renata Clicia dos Santos-Costa, Filipe C. Serrano, Ana Paula Alves da Silva, Arthur de Souza Soares, Paolla Gabryelle Cavalcante de Souza, Eduardo Calisto Tomaz, Valéria Fonseca Vale, Tiago Luiz Vieira, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9916 PubMed 33062422

September 18, 2020

Native trees of Mexico: diversity, distribution, uses and conservation

Oswaldo Tellez, Efisio Mattana, Mauricio Diazgranados, Nicola Kühn, Elena Castillo-Lorenzo, Rafael Lira, Leobardo Montes-Leyva, Isela Rodriguez, Cesar Mateo Flores Ortiz, Michael Way, Patricia Dávila, Tiziana Ulian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9898 PubMed 32999763

September 22, 2020

No Mow May lawns have higher pollinator richness and abundances: An engaged community provides floral resources for pollinators

Israel Del Toro, Relena R. Ribbons

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10021 PubMed 33024642

September 17, 2020

Wild meat hunting and use by sedentarised Baka Pygmies in southeastern Cameroon

Eva Avila Martin, Guillermo Ros Brull, Stephan M. Funk, Luca Luiselli, Robert Okale, Julia E. Fa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9906 PubMed 32995086

September 30, 2020

Genetic identification and hybridization in the seagrass genus Halophila (Hydrocharitaceae) in Sri Lankan waters

Shang Yin Vanson Liu, Terney Pradeep Kumara, Chi-Hsuan Hsu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10027 PubMed 33062439

September 18, 2020

Assessing the responses of Sphagnum micro-eukaryotes to climate changes using high throughput sequencing

Monika K. Reczuga, Christophe Victor William Seppey, Matthieu Mulot, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Alexandre Buttler, Sandra Słowińska, Michał Słowiński, Enrique Lara, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Edward A.D. Mitchell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9821 PubMed 32999758

September 8, 2020

Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in dung beetle assemblages in a heterogeneous tropical landscape

Jose D. Rivera, Benigno Gómez, Darío A. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Lorena Ruíz-Montoya, Leonardo Delgado, Mario E. Favila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9860 PubMed 33665001

September 2, 2020

Structural and functional microbial diversity of sandy soil under cropland and grassland

Magdalena Frąc, Jerzy Lipiec, Bogusław Usowicz, Karolina Oszust, Małgorzata Brzezińska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9501 PubMed 32953254

September 16, 2020

An empirical examination of sample size effects on population demographic estimates in birds using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data

Jessica F. McLaughlin, Kevin Winker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9939 PubMed 32995092

September 16, 2020

If you build it, they will come: rapid colonization by dragonflies in a new effluent-dependent river reach

Michael T. Bogan, Drew Eppehimer, Hamdhani Hamdhani, Kelsey Hollien

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9856 PubMed 32995082

September 16, 2020

Density and diversity of macroinvertebrates in Colombian Andean streams impacted by mining, agriculture and cattle production

Ana M. Meza-Salazar, Giovany Guevara, Lucimar Gomes-Dias, Carlos A. Cultid-Medina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9619 PubMed 32995074

September 11, 2020

Unexpected diversity in the host-generalist oribatid mite Paraleius leontonychus (Oribatida, Scheloribatidae) phoretic on Palearctic bark beetles

Sylvia Schäffer, Stephan Koblmüller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9710 PubMed 32974091

September 7, 2020

Adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)

Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Rahul Koshy, Ryan Alwiel, Aryeh Grossman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9866 PubMed 33194359

September 15, 2020

Ground beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae) as an indicator of ongoing changes in forest habitats due to increased water retention

Emilia Ludwiczak, Mariusz Nietupski, Agnieszka Kosewska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9815 PubMed 32983638

September 14, 2020

Seasonal and successional dynamics of size-dependent plant demographic rates in a tropical dry forest

Irving Saenz-Pedroza, Richard Feldman, Casandra Reyes-García, Jorge A. Meave, Luz Maria Calvo-Irabien, Filogonio May-Pat, Juan M. Dupuy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9636 PubMed 32983631

September 4, 2020

Five new pseudocryptic land planarian species of Cratera (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) unveiled through integrative taxonomy

Ana Paula Goulart Araujo, Fernando Carbayo, Marta Riutort, Marta Álvarez-Presas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9726 PubMed 32983634

September 23, 2020

A comparison of common metrics used to quantify the effectiveness of conservation interventions

Igor Khorozyan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9873 PubMed 33024627

September 11, 2020

Nepenthes maximoides (Nepenthaceae) a new, critically endangered (possibly extinct) species in Sect. Alatae from Luzon, Philippines showing striking pitcher convergence with N. maxima (Sect. Regiae) of Indonesia

Charles King, Martin Cheek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9899 PubMed 32974102

September 18, 2020

Radiolarian assemblages in the shelf area of the East China Sea and Yellow Sea and their ecological indication of the Kuroshio Current derivative branches

Hanxue Qu, Yong Xu, Jinbao Wang, Xin-Zheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9976 PubMed 32999769

September 3, 2020

Tuber melanosporum shapes nirS-type denitrifying and ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in Carya illinoinensis ectomycorrhizosphere soils

Zongjing Kang, Jie Zou, Yue Huang, Xiaoping Zhang, Lei Ye, Bo Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Xiaolin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9457 PubMed 32953252

September 24, 2020

Life history and habitat do not mediate temporal changes in body size due to climate warming in rodents

Aluwani Nengovhela, Christiane Denys, Peter J. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9792 PubMed 33024624

September 8, 2020

Identification of priority shorebird conservation areas in the Caribbean

Jessica R. Cañizares, J. Michael Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9831 PubMed 33194350

September 22, 2020

Quinquelaophonte enormis sp. nov., a new interstitial copepod (Harpacticoida: Laophontidae) from Korea

Jaehyun Kim, Eunjung Nam, Wonchoel Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10007 PubMed 33024639

September 21, 2020

Genetic diversity and structure of the critically endangered Artocarpus annulatus, a crop wild relative of jackfruit (A. heterophyllus)

Leta Dickinson, Hilary Noble, Elliot Gardner, Aida Shafreena Ahmad Puad, Wan Nuur Fatiha Wan Zakaria, Nyree J.C. Zerega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9897 PubMed 33005490

September 11, 2020

First report of lionfish prey from Western Florida waters as identified by DNA barcoding

Carlos A. Santamaria, James Locascio, Taylor M. Greenan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9922 PubMed 32974106

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