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 13, 2022

ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls

Tamás Görföl, Joe Chun-Chia Huang, Gábor Csorba, Dorottya Győrössy, Péter Estók, Tigga Kingston, Kriszta Lilla Szabadi, Ellen McArthur, Juliana Senawi, Neil M. Furey, Vuong Tan Tu, Vu Dinh Thong, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Emy Ritta Jinggong, Melissa Donnelly, Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran, Jian-Nan Liu, Shiang-Fan Chen, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Ying-Yi Ho, Heng-Chia Chang, Nurul-Ain Elias, Nur-Izzati Abdullah, Lee-Sim Lim, C Daniel Squire, Sándor Zsebők

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445 PubMed 35070499

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 14, 2022

Using InVEST to evaluate water yield services in Shangri-La, Northwestern Yunnan, China

Yuanhe Yu, Xingqi Sun, Jinliang Wang, Jianpeng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12804 PubMed 35174014

January 10, 2022

DNA barcoding and morphological identification of spiny lobsters in South Korean waters: a new record of Panulirus longipes and Panulirus homarus homarus

Sachithra Amarin Hettiarachchi, Ji-Yeon Hyeon, Angka Mahardini, Hyung-Suk Kim, Jun-Hwan Byun, Han-Jun Kim, Jong-Gyun Jeong, Jung-Kyu Yeo, Shin-Kwon Kim, Se-Jae Kim, Youn-Seong Heo, Jonathan Sathyadith, Do-Hyung Kang, Sung-Pyo Hur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12744 PubMed 35047236

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 3, 2022

Land-use history impacts spatial patterns and composition of woody plant species across a 35-hectare temperate forest plot

David A. Orwig, Jason A. Aylward, Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, Aaron M. Ellison

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12693 PubMed 35036094

January 20, 2022

Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers

Washington Tapia, James P. Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12711 PubMed 35116195

January 10, 2022

Effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition in Chinese forests: a meta-analysis

Peng Zan, Zijun Mao, Tao Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12747 PubMed 35047237

January 25, 2022

Seasonal and diel variations in the vertical distribution, composition, abundance and biomass of zooplankton in a deep Chilean Patagonian Fjord

Nur Garcia-Herrera, Astrid Cornils, Jürgen Laudien, Barbara Niehoff, Juan Höfer, Günter Försterra, Humberto E. González, Claudio Richter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12823 PubMed 35127292

January 18, 2022

Morphological and biochemical responses of tropical seagrasses (Family: Hydrocharitaceae) under colonization of the macroalgae Ulva reticulata Forsskål

Lau Sheng Hann Emmclan, Muta Harah Zakaria, Shiamala Devi Ramaiya, Ikhsan Natrah, Japar Sidik Bujang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12821 PubMed 35111414

January 26, 2022

Potential impacts from simulated vessel noise and sonar on commercially important invertebrates

David M. Hudson, Jason S. Krumholz, Darby L. Pochtar, Natasha C. Dickenson, Georges Dossot, Gillian Phillips, Edward P. Baker, Tara E. Moll

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12841 PubMed 35127295

January 27, 2022

Maple and hickory leaf litter fungal communities reflect pre-senescent leaf communities

Julian A. Liber, Douglas H. Minier, Anna Stouffer-Hopkins, Judson Van Wyk, Reid Longley, Gregory Bonito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12701 PubMed 35127279

January 11, 2022

Spatiotemporal variations in length-weight relationship, growth pattern and condition factor of Periophthalmus variabilis Eggert, 1935 in Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen, Giang Van Tran, Ngon Trong Truong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12798 PubMed 35070511

January 10, 2022

Identifying and prioritising climate change adaptation actions for greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) conservation in Nepal

Ganesh Pant, Tek Maraseni, Armando Apan, Benjamin L. Allen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12795 PubMed 35047240

January 19, 2022

DnoisE: distance denoising by entropy. An open-source parallelizable alternative for denoising sequence datasets

Adrià Antich, Creu Palacín, Xavier Turon, Owen S. Wangensteen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12758 PubMed 35111399

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 12, 2022

Communities of T4-like bacteriophages associated with bacteria in Lake Baikal: diversity and biogeography

Sergey Anatoljevich Potapov, Irina Vasilievna Tikhonova, Andrey Yurjevich Krasnopeev, Maria Yurjevna Suslova, Natalia Albertovna Zhuchenko, Valentin Valerianovich Drucker, Olga Ivanovna Belykh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12748

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 19, 2022

Effect of fire on the palatability of plants in an African woodland savanna: varying impacts depending on plant functional groups

Caroline Stolter, David F. Joubert, Nekulilo Uunona, Elise Nghalipo, Vistorina Amputu, Annika M. Felton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12721 PubMed 35111393

January 13, 2022

Trophic niche but not abundance of Collembola and Oribatida changes with drought and farming system

Svenja Meyer, Dominika Kundel, Klaus Birkhofer, Andreas Fliessbach, Stefan Scheu