Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 23, 2020

Two new species of Tardigrada from moss cushions (Grimmia sp.) in a xerothermic habitat in northeast Tennessee (USA, North America), with the first identification of males in the genus Viridiscus

Diane R. Nelson, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Roberto Guidetti, Milena Roszkowska, Daria Grobys, Łukasz Kaczmarek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10251 PubMed 33282552

November 4, 2020

Mortality of native and invasive ladybirds co-infected by ectoparasitic and entomopathogenic fungi

Danny Haelewaters, Thomas Hiller, Emily A. Kemp, Paul S. van Wielink, David I. Shapiro-Ilan, M. Catherine Aime, Oldřich Nedvěd, Donald H. Pfister, Ted E. Cottrell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10110 PubMed 33194385

November 27, 2020

Data quantity is more important than its spatial bias for predictive species distribution modelling

Willson Gaul, Dinara Sadykova, Hannah J. White, Lupe Leon-Sanchez, Paul Caplat, Mark C. Emmerson, Jon M. Yearsley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10411 PubMed 33312769

November 23, 2020

A meta-analysis contrasting active versus passive restoration practices in dryland agricultural ecosystems

M. Florencia Miguel, H. Scott Butterfield, Christopher J. Lortie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10428 PubMed 33282566

November 11, 2020

Fire weather effects on flammability of indigenous and invasive alien plants in coastal fynbos and thicket shrublands (Cape Floristic Region)

Samukelisiwe T. Msweli, Alastair J. Potts, Herve Fritz, Tineke Kraaij

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10161 PubMed 33240598

November 19, 2020

Wing morphological responses to latitude and colonisation in a range expanding butterfly

Evelyn D. Taylor-Cox, Callum J. Macgregor, Amy Corthine, Jane K. Hill, Jenny A. Hodgson, Ilik J. Saccheri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10352 PubMed 33240660

November 18, 2020

Vascular plant species diversity of Mt. Etna (Sicily): endemicity, insularity and spatial patterns along the altitudinal gradient of the highest active volcano in Europe

Saverio Sciandrello, Pietro Minissale, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9875 PubMed 33240583

November 3, 2020

Habitat preference, movements and growth of giant mottled eels, Anguilla marmorata, in a small subtropical Amami-Oshima Island river

Hikaru Itakura, Ryoshiro Wakiya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10187 PubMed 33194404

November 18, 2020

Behavioural patterns of free roaming wild boar in a spatiotemporal context

Dana Erdtmann, Oliver Keuling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10409 PubMed 33240682

November 13, 2020

Cytokine RT-qPCR and ddPCR for immunological investigations of the endangered Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) and other mammals

María-Ignacia Meza Cerda, Rachael Gray, Damien P. Higgins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10306 PubMed 33240637

November 20, 2020

Morph-specific seasonal variation of aggressive behaviour in a polymorphic lizard species

Alan Jioele Coladonato, Marco Mangiacotti, Stefano Scali, Marco A. L. Zuffi, Carlotta Pasquariello, Cristian Matellini, Simone Buratti, Mara Battaiola, Roberto Sacchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10268 PubMed 33240621

November 20, 2020

Response of Bolivian gray titi monkeys (Plecturocebus donacophilus) to an anthropogenic noise gradient: behavioral and hormonal correlates

Lucero M. Hernani Lineros, Amélie Chimènes, Audrey Maille, Kimberly Dingess, Damián I. Rumiz, Patrice Adret

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10417 PubMed 33240684

November 25, 2020

Three new deep-sea species of Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the abyssal plain of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and hadal depths of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

Gennady M. Kamenev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10405 PubMed 33304654

November 24, 2020

Modelling the effects of Spartina alterniflora invasion on the landscape succession of Yancheng coastal natural wetlands, China

Lingjun Dai, Hongyu Liu, Gang Wang, Cheng Wang, Ziru Guo, Yi Zhou, Yufeng Li