Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 23, 2022

Growth and survival among Hawaiian corals outplanted from tanks to an ocean nursery are driven by individual genotype and species differences rather than preconditioning to thermal stress

E. Michael Henley, Jessica Bouwmeester, Christopher P. Jury, Robert J. Toonen, Mariko Quinn, Claire V.A. Lager, Mary Hagedorn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13112 PubMed 35345587

March 18, 2022

Two new glassfrogs (Centrolenidae: Hyalinobatrachium) from Ecuador, with comments on the endangered biodiversity of the Andes

Juan M. Guayasamin, Rebecca M. Brunner, Anyelet Valencia-Aguilar, Daniela Franco-Mena, Eva Ringler, Anderson Medina Armijos, Carlos Morochz, Lucas Bustamante, Ross J. Maynard, Jaime Culebras

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13109 PubMed 35321409

March 25, 2022

Crop damage by vertebrates in Latin America: current knowledge and potential future management directions

Adrián Alejandro Cuesta Hermira, Fernanda Michalski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13185 PubMed 35356474

March 11, 2022

A review of the opportunities to support pollinator populations in South African cities

Peta Brom, Les G. Underhill, Kevin Winter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12788 PubMed 35295555

March 9, 2022

Optimizing seawater temperature conditions to increase the productivity of ex situ coral nurseries

Dakotah E. Merck, Chelsea G. Petrik, Alicia A. Manfroy, Erinn M. Muller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13017 PubMed 35287349

March 22, 2022

Bird protection treatments reduce bird-window collision risk at low-rise buildings within a Pacific coastal protected area

Krista L. De Groot, Amy G. Wilson, René McKibbin, Sarah A. Hudson, Kimberly M. Dohms, Andrea R. Norris, Andrew C. Huang, Ivy B. J. Whitehorne, Kevin T. Fort, Christian Roy, Julie Bourque, Scott Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13142 PubMed 35341053

March 29, 2022

Faecal DNA metabarcoding reveals novel bacterial community patterns of critically endangered Southern River Terrapin, Batagur affinis

Mohd Hairul Mohd Salleh, Yuzine Esa, Mohamad Syazwan Ngalimat, Pelf Nyok Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12970 PubMed 35368336

March 29, 2022

Mechanisms and potential immune tradeoffs of accelerated coral growth induced by microfragmentation

Louis Schlecker, Christopher Page, Mikhail Matz, Rachel M. Wright

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13158 PubMed 35368334

March 29, 2022

Synergistic effects of climate and landscape change on the conservation of Amazonian lizards

Cássia de Carvalho Teixeira, Leonardo Carreira Trevelin, Maria Cristina dos Santos-Costa, Ana Prudente, Daniel Paiva Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13028 PubMed 35368330

March 7, 2022

Sea urchin harvest inside marine protected areas: an opportunity to investigate the effects of exploitation where trophic upgrading is achieved

Giulia Ceccherelli, Piero Addis, Fabrizio Atzori, Nicoletta Cadoni, Marco Casu, Stefania Coppa, Mario De Luca, Giuseppe Andrea de Lucia, Simone Farina, Nicola Fois, Francesca Frau, Vittorio Gazale, Daniele Grech, Ivan Guala, Mariano Mariani, Massimo SG Marras, Augusto Navone, Arianna Pansini, Pieraugusto Panzalis, Federico Pinna, Alberto Ruiu, Fabio Scarpa, Luigi Piazzi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12971 PubMed 35282273

March 21, 2022

N-mixture models provide informative crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) abundance estimates in dynamic environments

José António Lemos Barão-Nóbrega, Mauricio González-Jaurégui, Robert Jehle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12906 PubMed 35341055

March 10, 2022

First observations of ovary regeneration in an amphipod, Ampelisca eschrichtii Krøyer, 1842

Valentina B. Durkina, John W. Chapman, Natalia L. Demchenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12950 PubMed 35291485