Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 1, 2021

Alien plants of Europe: introduction pathways, gateways and time trends

Margarita Arianoutsou, Ioannis Bazos, Anastasia Christopoulou, Yannis Kokkoris, Andreas Zikos, Sevasti Zervou, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Ivan Deriu, Eugenio Gervasini, Konstantinos Tsiamis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11270 PubMed 34141463

June 21, 2021

Grab what you can—an evaluation of spatial replication to decrease heterogeneity in sediment eDNA metabarcoding

Jon T. Hestetun, Anders Lanzén, Thomas G. Dahlgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11619 PubMed 34221724

June 30, 2021

Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax

Matthew M. Prebus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11514 PubMed 34249486

June 28, 2021

Characterization of the microbiome of the invasive Asian toad in Madagascar across the expansion range and comparison with a native co-occurring species

Bárbara Santos, Molly C. Bletz, Joana Sabino-Pinto, Walter Cocca, Jean Francois Solofoniaina Fidy, Karen LM Freeman, Sven Kuenzel, Serge Ndriantsoa, Jean Noel, Tsanta Rakotonanahary, Miguel Vences, Angelica Crottini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11532 PubMed 34249488

June 1, 2021

A new pterosaur tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous of Wuerho, Junggar Basin, China: inferring the first putative pterosaur trackmaker

Yang Li, Xiaolin Wang, Shunxing Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11361 PubMed 34131515

June 8, 2021

Effects of short-term grazing prohibition on soil physical and chemical properties of meadows in Southwest China

Guiqing Zhu, Chaoxiang Yuan, Hede Gong, Yanling Peng, Changjiang Huang, Chuansheng Wu, Huachao Duan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11598 PubMed 34164237

June 7, 2021

A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia

Scott A. Hocknull, Melville Wilkinson, Rochelle A. Lawrence, Vladislav Konstantinov, Stuart Mackenzie, Robyn Mackenzie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11317 PubMed 34164230

June 16, 2021

Factors affecting livestock depredation by snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in the Himalayan region of Nepal

Ajay Karki, Saroj Panthi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11575 PubMed 34178460

June 18, 2021

Evolutionary and ecological processes influencing chemical defense variation in an aposematic and mimetic Heliconius butterfly

Anniina L. K. Mattila, Chris D. Jiggins, Øystein H. Opedal, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich, Érika C. Pinheiro de castro, W. Owen McMillan, Caroline Bacquet, Marjo Saastamoinen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11523 PubMed 34178447

June 22, 2021

Host migration and environmental temperature influence avian haemosporidians prevalence: a molecular survey in a Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

Raquel A. Rodrigues, Gabriel M.F. Felix, Mauro Pichorim, Patricia A. Moreira, Erika M. Braga

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11555 PubMed 34221715

June 14, 2021

Genetic connectivity between Atlantic bluefin tuna larvae spawned in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean Sea

Carolina Johnstone, Montse Pérez, Estrella Malca, José María Quintanilla, Trika Gerard, Diego Lozano-Peral, Francisco Alemany, John Lamkin, Alberto García, Raúl Laiz-Carrión

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11568 PubMed 34178457

June 30, 2021

The impact of PIT tags on the growth and survival of pythons is insignificant in randomised controlled trial

Patrick L. Taggart, Stephen Morris, Charles G.B. Caraguel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11531 PubMed 34249487

June 4, 2021

Spondias mombin as a reservoir of fruit fly parasitoid populations in the Eastern Amazon: an undervalued ecosystem service

Maria do Socorro Miranda de Sousa, Ezequiel de Deus, Adilson Lopes Lima, Cristiane Ramos de Jesus, Salustiano Vilar da Costa Neto, Lailson do Nascimento Lemos, Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado, Richard J. Ladle, Ricardo Adaime

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11530 PubMed 34141484

June 24, 2021

Malagasy Polka Dot Moths (Noctuoidea: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Syntomini) of Ambohitantely—endemism in the most important relict of Central Plateau rainforest in Madagascar

Marcin Wiorek, Kamila Malik, David Lees, Łukasz Przybyłowicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11688 PubMed 34239780

June 25, 2021

Insect taxonomy can be difficult: a noctuid moth (Agaristinae: Aletopus imperialis) and a geometrid moth (Sterrhinae: Cartaletis dargei) combined into a cryptic species complex in eastern Africa (Lepidoptera)

Pasi Sihvonen, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Niklas Wahlberg, Axel Hausmann, Alberto Zilli, Michael Ochse, Hermann S. Staude

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11613 PubMed 34277147

June 17, 2021

Shifting cultivation and hunting across the savanna-forest mosaic in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela: facing changes

Izabela Stachowicz, José R. Ferrer-Paris, Ada Sanchez-Mercado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11612 PubMed 34178472

June 18, 2021

Phytocenosis biodiversity at various water levels in mesotrophic Lake Arakhley, Lake Baikal basin, Russia

Gazhit Ts. Tsybekmitova, Larisa D. Radnaeva, Natalya A. Tashlykova, Valentina G. Shiretorova, Balgit B. Bazarova, Arnold K. Tulokhonov, Marina O. Matveeva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11628 PubMed 34178479

June 22, 2021

Bin Liu, Guohai Wang, Yuting An, Dandan Xue, Libo Wang, Changhu Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11672 PubMed 34221739

June 24, 2021

Using an integrative taxonomic approach to delimit a sibling species, Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos sp. nov. (Formicidae: Attini: Attina)

Cody Raul Cardenas, Amy Rongyan Luo, Tappey H. Jones, Ted R. Schultz, Rachelle M.M. Adams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11622 PubMed 34221725

June 29, 2021

Evolutionary relationships among the snakelike pygopodid lizards: a review of phylogenetic studies of an enigmatic Australian adaptive radiation

W. Bryan Jennings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11502 PubMed 34249485