Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 27, 2021

Variation in purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) morphological traits in relation to resource availability

Joshua G. Smith, Sabrina C. Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11352 PubMed 33987021

April 30, 2021

Continuous bubble streams for controlling marine biofouling on static artificial structures

Grant A. Hopkins, Fletcher Gilbertson, Oli Floerl, Paula Casanovas, Matt Pine, Patrick Cahill

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11323 PubMed 33987009

April 22, 2021

Stable isotope and fatty acid analyses reveal significant differences in trophic niches of smooth hammerhead Sphyrna zygaena (Carcharhiniformes) among three nursery areas in northern Humboldt Current System

Eduardo Segura-Cobeña, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Jeffrey Mangel, Angel Urzua, Konrad Górski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11283 PubMed 33981504

April 13, 2021

Influence of hunting strategy on foraging efficiency in Galapagos sea lions

Jessica-Anne Blakeway, John P.Y. Arnould, Andrew J. Hoskins, Patricia Martin-Cabrera, Grace J. Sutton, Luis A. Huckstadt, Daniel P. Costa, Diego Páez-Rosas, Stella Villegas-Amtmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11206 PubMed 33954042

April 14, 2021

A quantitative comparison of towed-camera and diver-camera transects for monitoring coral reefs

Anna K. Cresswell, Nicole M. Ryan, Andrew J. Heyward, Adam N. H. Smith, Jamie Colquhoun, Mark Case, Matthew J. Birt, Mark Chinkin, Mathew Wyatt, Ben Radford, Paul Costello, James P. Gilmour

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11090 PubMed 33954031

April 23, 2021

Planktonic associations between medusae (classes Scyphozoa and Hydrozoa) and epifaunal crustaceans

Kaden Muffett, Maria Pia Miglietta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11281 PubMed 33981503

April 6, 2021

Quantitative study of the behavior of two broadcast spawners, the sea urchins Strongylocentrotus intermedius and Mesocentrotus nudus, during mass spawning events in situ

Peter M. Zhadan, Marina A. Vaschenko, Peter A. Permyakov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11058 PubMed 33868807

April 2, 2021

The role of the isolation of the marginal seas during the Pleistocene in the genetic structure of black sea bream Acanthopagrus schlegelii (Bleeker, 1854) in the coastal waters of Japan

Yutaro Yamashita, Gustavo Sanchez, Kentaro Kawai, Satoshi Tomano, Hiroki Fujita, Tetsuya Umino