Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 13, 2021

Geographic potential of the world’s largest hornet, Vespa mandarinia Smith (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), worldwide and particularly in North America

Claudia Nuñez-Penichet, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Victor H. Gonzalez, Marlon E. Cobos, Laura Jiménez, Devon A. DeRaad, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Rusby G. Contreras-Díaz, Angela Nava-Bolaños, Kaera Utsumi, Uzma Ashraf, Adeola Adeboje, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10690 PubMed 33520462

January 11, 2021

Diversity of microbes colonizing forages of varying lignocellulose properties in the sheep rumen

Mohammad Farhad Vahidi, Javad Gharechahi, Mehrdad Behmanesh, Xue-Zhi Ding, Jian-Lin Han, Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10463 PubMed 33510967

January 12, 2021

Present practices and emerging opportunities in bioengineering for slope stabilization in Malaysia: An overview

Deivaseeno Dorairaj, Normaniza Osman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10477 PubMed 33520435

January 11, 2021

The 2020 elephant die-off in Botswana

Rudi J. van Aarde, Stuart L. Pimm, Robert Guldemond, Ryan Huang, Celesté Maré

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10686 PubMed 33510975

January 6, 2021

Genomic diversity of Escherichia coli from healthy children in rural Gambia

Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Usman N. Ikumapayi, Golam Sarwar, Catherine Okoi, Peggy-Estelle Maguiagueu Tientcheu, Marianne Defernez, Justin O’Grady, Martin Antonio, Mark J. Pallen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10572 PubMed 33505796

January 6, 2021

Does Drosophila sechellia escape parasitoid attack by feeding on a toxic resource?

Laura Salazar-Jaramillo, Bregje Wertheim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10528 PubMed 33505786

January 13, 2021

Acoustic monitors and direct observations provide similar but distinct perspectives on bird assemblages in a lowland forest of eastern Ecuador

John G. Blake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10565 PubMed 33520440

January 7, 2021

Synergism between calcium nitrate applications and fungal endophytes to increase sugar concentration in Festuca sinensis under cold stress

Lianyu Zhou, Chunjie Li, James F. White, Richard D. Johnson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10568 PubMed 35070512

January 19, 2021

Impact of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae on juvenile bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) survival in the northern Basin and Range ecosystem

Robert S. Spaan, Clinton W. Epps, Rachel Crowhurst, Donald Whittaker, Mike Cox, Adam Duarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10710 PubMed 33552728

January 21, 2021

The influence of rare birds on observer effort and subsequent rarity discovery in the American birdwatching community

Jesse A. Laney, Tyler A. Hallman, Jenna R. Curtis, W. Douglas Robinson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10713 PubMed 33552730

January 15, 2021

KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models—II: model description, implementation and testing

Omar Flores, Gaby Deckmyn, Jorge Curiel Yuste, Mathieu Javaux, Alexei Uvarov, Sietse van der Linde, Bruno De Vos, Harry Vereecken, Juan Jiménez, Olga Vinduskova, Andrea Schnepf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10707 PubMed 33520468

January 5, 2021

Improving insect conservation across heterogeneous landscapes using species–habitat networks

Andree Cappellari, Lorenzo Marini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10563 PubMed 33505794

January 28, 2021

Effect of salt stress in urban conditions on two Acer species with different sensitivity

Wojciech Dmuchowski, Aneta Baczewska-Dąbrowska, Dariusz Gozdowski, Paulina Brągoszewska, Barbara Gworek, Irena Suwara, Tadeusz Chojnacki, Adam Jóźwiak, Ewa Swiezewska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10577 PubMed 33575122

January 4, 2021

The tail-tale of stress: an exploratory analysis of cortisol levels in the tail-hair of captive Asian elephants

Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel, Hiroki Yoneda, Moe Yanagi, Raman Sukumar, Kodzue Kinoshita

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10445 PubMed 33505782

January 5, 2021

Grazer density and songbird counts in a restored conservation area

Lilla Lovász, Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Valentin Amrhein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10657 PubMed 33505805

January 28, 2021

Evaluation of effective quantum yields of photosystem II for CO₂ leakage monitoring in carbon capture and storage sites

Wenmei He, Gayoung Yoo, Youngryel Ryu