Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 27, 2021

Long distance (>20 km) downstream detection of endangered stream frogs suggests an important role for eDNA in surveying for remnant amphibian populations

Cecilia Villacorta-Rath, Conrad J. Hoskin, Jan M. Strugnell, Damien Burrows

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12013 PubMed 34692243

September 30, 2021

Turf performance and physiological responses of native Poa species to summer stress in Northeast China

Yajun Chen, Zhixin Guo, Lili Dong, Zhenxuan Fu, Qianjiao Zheng, Gaoyun Zhang, Ligang Qin, Xiaoyang Sun, Zhenjie Shi, Shah Fahad, Fuchun Xie, Shah Saud

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12252 PubMed 34703673

September 13, 2021

Catostylus tagi (Class: Scyphozoa, Order: Discomedusae, Suborder: Rhizostomida, Family: Catostylidae) life cycle and first insight into its ecology

Sonia K.M. Gueroun, Tatiana M. Torres, Antonina Dos Santos, Nuno Vasco-Rodrigues, João Canning-Clode, Carlos Andrade

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12056 PubMed 34603850

September 8, 2021

High throughput sequencing-based analysis of the soil bacterial community structure and functions of Tamarix shrubs in the lower reaches of the Tarim River

Fangnan Xiao, Yuanyuan Li, Guifang Li, Yaling He, Xinhua Lv, Li Zhuang, Xiaozhen Pu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12105 PubMed 34589303

September 21, 2021

Response of plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties to different gap sizes in a Pinus massoniana plantation

Qian Lyu, Jiangli Liu, Junjie Liu, Yan Luo, Luman Chen, Gang Chen, Kuangji Zhao, Yuqin Chen, Chuan Fan, Xianwei Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12222 PubMed 34616636

September 3, 2021

Spatial distribution of parrotfishes and groupers in an Okinawan coral reef: size-related associations in relation to habitat characteristics

Atsushi Nanami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12134 PubMed 34557361

September 14, 2021

High-resolution prediction of American red squirrel in Interior Alaska: a role model for conservation using open access data, machine learning, GIS and LIDAR

Richard B. Robold, Falk Huettmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11830 PubMed 34611502

September 27, 2021

Evolutionary drivers of the hump-shaped latitudinal gradient of benthic polychaete species richness along the Southeastern Pacific coast

Rodrigo A. Moreno, Fabio A. Labra, Darko D. Cotoras, Patricio A. Camus, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Luis Aguirre, Nicolás Rozbaczylo, Elie Poulin, Nelson A. Lagos, Daniel Zamorano, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12010 PubMed 34692242

September 23, 2021

Land use changes in Zhangjiakou from 2005 to 2025 and the importance of ecosystem services

Kaipeng Xu, Yanyan Chi, Rongfeng Ge, Xiahui Wang, Siyang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12122 PubMed 34631313

September 24, 2021

The modeled distribution of corals and sponges surrounding the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges with implications for high seas conservation

Samuel Georgian, Lance Morgan, Daniel Wagner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11972 PubMed 34631308

September 29, 2021

Discordance in maternal and paternal genetic markers in lesser long-nosed bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, a migratory bat: recent expansion to the North and male phylopatry

Roberto-Emiliano Trejo-Salazar, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, DulceCarolina Hernández-Rosales, Niza Gámez, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Miguel Rene Morales Garza, Rodrigo Medellin, Luis E. Eguiarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12168 PubMed 34703665

September 23, 2021

C₃ plant isotopic variability in a boreal mixed woodland: implications for bison and other herbivores

Jessica Z. Metcalfe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12167 PubMed 34631314

September 21, 2021

Impact of urbanization on functional diversity in macromycete communities along an urban ecosystem in Southwest Mexico

Marko Gómez-Hernández, Emily Avendaño-Villegas, María Toledo-Garibaldi, Etelvina Gándara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12191 PubMed 34616630

September 16, 2021

Determining relevant traits for selecting landrace accessions of Phaseolus lunatus L. for insect resistance

Roberto Rafael Ruiz-Santiago, Horacio Salómon Ballina-Gómez, Esau Ruiz-Sánchez, Jaime Martínez-Castillo, René Garruña-Hernández, Rubén Humberto Andueza-Noh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12088 PubMed 34616606

September 15, 2021

Public perception of ecosystem services provided by the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis related to anthropogenic activities

Veiga Puri, Moreira Juan, Ramos-Oliveira Catarina, Sampaio Leandro, Marcos Rubal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11975 PubMed 34616593

September 15, 2021

Post-fire dynamics of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest of Poland

Jacek Olchowik, Dorota Hilszczańska, Marcin Studnicki, Tadeusz Malewski, Khalil Kariman, Zbigniew Borowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12076 PubMed 34616604

September 10, 2021

Seagrass contribution to blue carbon in a shallow karstic coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico

Tania C. Cota Lucero, Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12109 PubMed 34595067

September 30, 2021

Dynamic changes in moisture content and applicability analysis of a typical litter prediction model in Yunnan Province

Yunlin Zhang, Lingling Tian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12206 PubMed 34703666

September 29, 2021

Anthropogenic transformations of river ecosystems are not always bad for the environment: Multi-taxa analyses of changes in aquatic and terrestrial environments after dredging of a small lowland river

Robert Stryjecki, Andrzej Zawal, Tomasz Krepski, Edyta Stępień, Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński, Stanisław Czachorowski, Łukasz Jankowiak, Joanna Pakulnicka, Anna Sulikowska-Drozd, Vladimir Pešić, Grzegorz Michoński, Michał Grabowski, Aleksandra Jabłońska, Magdalena Achrem, Tomasz Olechwir, Lech Pietrzak, Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12224 PubMed 34703668

September 1, 2021

Towards a pragmatic use of statistics in ecology

Leonardo Braga Castilho, Paulo Inácio Prado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12090 PubMed 34557352

September 17, 2021

Variability in deer diet and plant vulnerability to browsing among forests with different establishment years of sika deer

Yuzu Sakata, Nami Shirahama, Ayaka Uechi, Kunihiro Okano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12165 PubMed 34616621

September 21, 2021

Fungi in soil and understory have coupled distribution patterns

André Boraks, Anthony S. Amend