Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 20, 2022

Should I use fixed effects or random effects when I have fewer than five levels of a grouping factor in a mixed-effects model?

Dylan G.E. Gomes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12794 PubMed 35116198

January 6, 2022

Uvariopsis dicaprio (Annonaceae) a new tree species with notes on its pollination biology, and the Critically Endangered narrowly endemic plant species of the Ebo Forest, Cameroon

George Gosline, Martin Cheek, Jean Michel Onana, Eric Ngansop Tchatchouang, Xander M. van der Burgt, Lorna MacKinnon, Léo-Paul M. J. Dagallier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12614 PubMed 35036131

January 5, 2022

Effectiveness of antifungal treatments during chytridiomycosis epizootics in populations of an endangered frog

Roland A. Knapp, Maxwell B. Joseph, Thomas C. Smith, Ericka E. Hegeman, Vance T. Vredenburg, James E. Erdman Jr, Daniel M. Boiano, Andrea J. Jani, Cheryl J. Briggs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12712 PubMed 35036095

January 4, 2022

Human-wildlife conflicts with crocodilians, cetaceans and otters in the tropics and subtropics

Patrick Cook, Joseph E. Hawes, João Vitor Campos-Silva, Carlos A. Peres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12688 PubMed 35036162

January 12, 2022

Old trees are perceived as a valuable element of the municipal forest landscape

Marzena Suchocka, Magdalena Wojnowska-Heciak, Magdalena Błaszczyk, Agnieszka Gawłowska, Joanna Ciemniewska, Agata Jarska, Jakub Heciak, Beata Pachnowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12700 PubMed 35070501

January 27, 2022

Leopard and spotted hyena densities in the Lake Mburo National Park, southwestern Uganda

Aleksander Braczkowski, Ralph Schenk, Dinal Samarasinghe, Duan Biggs, Allie Richardson, Nicholas Swanson, Merlin Swanson, Arjun Dheer, Julien Fattebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12307 PubMed 35127275

January 24, 2022

Impervious surface and local abiotic conditions influence arthropod communities within urban greenspaces

Garrett M. Maher, Graham A. Johnson, Justin D. Burdine

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12818 PubMed 35127289

January 19, 2022

Effective asexual reproduction of a widespread soft coral: comparative assessment of four different fragmentation methods

Sohyoung Kim, Christian Wild, Arjen Tilstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12589 PubMed 35111389

January 20, 2022

Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers

Washington Tapia, James P. Gibbs