Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 26, 2022

Need for split: integrative taxonomy reveals unnoticed diversity in the subaquatic species of Pseudohygrohypnum (Pylaisiaceae, Bryophyta)

Vladimir E. Fedosov, Anna V. Shkurko, Alina V. Fedorova, Elena A. Ignatova, Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, John C. Brinda, Michael S. Ignatov, Jan Kučera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13260 PubMed 35497188

April 5, 2022

Comparison of gut microbiome in the Chinese mud snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis) and the invasive golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata)

Zihao Zhou, Hongying Wu, Dinghong Li, Wenlong Zeng, Jinlong Huang, Zhengjun Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13245 PubMed 35402093

April 5, 2022

Vertical distribution of soil seed bank and the ecological importance of deeply buried seeds in alkaline grasslands

Ágnes Tóth, Balázs Deák, Katalin Tóth, Réka Kiss, Katalin Lukács, Zoltán Rádai, Laura Godó, Sándor Borza, András Kelemen, Tamás Miglécz, Zoltán Bátori, Tibor József Novák, Orsolya Valkó

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13226 PubMed 35402097

April 18, 2022

Water stress and nitrogen supply affect floral traits and pollination of the white mustard, Sinapis alba (Brassicaceae)

Asma Akter, Jan Klečka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13009 PubMed 35462774

April 21, 2022

Foliar nutrient concentrations of six northern hardwood species responded to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization but did not predict tree growth

Daniel S. Hong, Kara E. Gonzales, Timothy J. Fahey, Ruth D. Yanai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13193 PubMed 35474687

April 8, 2022

Times and partners are a-changin’: relationships between declining food abundance, breeding success, and divorce in a monogamous seabird species

David Pelletier, Magella Guillemette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13073 PubMed 35419215

April 29, 2022

How beavers affect riverine aquatic macroinvertebrates: a review

Susan Washko, Nigel Willby, Alan Law

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13180 PubMed 35509966

April 28, 2022

Differentiated historical demography and ecological niche forming present distribution and genetic structure in coexisting two salamanders (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae) in a small island, Japan

Keita Niwa, Dung Van Tran, Kanto Nishikawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13202 PubMed 35505683

April 25, 2022

A DNA barcode survey of insect biodiversity in Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq, Arif M. Khan, Akhtar Rasool, Saleem Akhtar, Naila Nazir, Nazeer Ahmed, Farkhanda Manzoor, Jayme Sones, Kate Perez, Ghulam Sarwar, Azhar A. Khan, Muhammad Akhter, Shafqat Saeed, Riffat Sultana, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad A. Rafi, Romana Iftikhar, Muhammad Tayyib Naseem, Mariyam Masood, Muhammad Tufail, Santosh Kumar, Sabila Afzal, Jaclyn McKeown, Ahmed Ali Samejo, Imran Khaliq, Michelle L. D’Souza, Shahid Mansoor, Paul D. N. Hebert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13267 PubMed 35497186

April 28, 2022

Acidity and availability of aluminum, iron and manganese as factors affecting germination in European acidic dry and alkaline xerothermic grasslands

Mateusz Wala, Jeremi Kołodziejek, Tomasz Wilk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13255 PubMed 35505676

April 26, 2022

Dynamics of human take and animal predation on sea turtle nests in Northwest Costa Rica

Janie L. Reavis, Daniela Rojas-Cañizales, Carmen Mejías-Balsalobre, Isabel Naranjo, Randall Arauz, Jesse F. Senko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12925 PubMed 35497194

April 20, 2022

Population biological traits of Periophthalmus chrysospilos Bleeker, 1853 in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Quang Minh Dinh, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen, Tran Thi Huyen Lam, Ngon Trong Truong, Dinh Dac Tran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13289 PubMed 35469199

April 20, 2022

Ubaldo Márquez-Luna, Carlos Lara, Pablo Corcuera, Pedro Luis Valverde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13331 PubMed 35469196

April 14, 2022

The potency of minerals to reduce oriental fruit fly infestation in chili fruits

Josua Crystovel Pangihutan, Danar Dono, Yusup Hidayat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13198 PubMed 35441060

April 5, 2022

Does size matter? An analysis of the niche width and vulnerability to climate change of fourteen species of the genus Crotalus from North America

Jorge Luis Becerra-López, Raciel Cruz-Elizalde, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Itzel Magno-Benítez, Claudia Ballesteros-Barrera, Javier Alvarado-Díaz, Robert W. Bryson Jr, Uriel Hernández-Salinas, César A. Díaz-Marín, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Karen Fraire-Galindo, Juan Tello-Ruiz, Alexander Czaja, María Guadalupe Torres-Delgado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13154 PubMed 35402099

April 14, 2022

Using a mechanistic framework to model the density of an aquatic parasite Ceratonova shasta

H. Eve Robinson, Julie D. Alexander, Jerri L. Bartholomew, Sascha L. Hallett, Nicholas J. Hetrick, Russell W. Perry, Nicholas A. Som

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13183 PubMed 35441056

April 6, 2022

Depth effect on the prokaryotic community assemblage associated with sponges from different rocky reefs

Bárbara González-Acosta, Aarón Barraza, César Guadarrama-Analco, Claudia J. Hernández-Guerrero, Sergio Francisco Martínez-Díaz, César Salvador Cardona-Félix, Ruth Noemí Aguila-Ramírez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13133 PubMed 35411254

April 4, 2022

Biochemical composition and function of subalpine shrubland and meadow soil microbiomes in the Qilian Mountains, Qinghai–Tibetan plateau, China

Qiuyun Fan, Yuguo Yang, Yuqing Geng, Youlin Wu, Zhanen Niu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13188 PubMed 35402098

April 19, 2022

The management success of the invasive late goldenrod (Solidago gigantea Aiton.) in a nature conservation area is strongly related to site, control measures and environmental factors

Rea Maria Hall, Bernhard Urban, Hans-Peter Kaul

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13161 PubMed 35462761

April 27, 2022

Predicting crown width using nonlinear mixed-effects models accounting for competition in multi-species secondary forests

Rui Hou, Zongzheng Chai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13105 PubMed 35502203

April 11, 2022

Ecomorphospace occupation of large herbivorous dinosaurs from Late Jurassic through to Late Cretaceous time in North America

Taia Wyenberg-Henzler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13174 PubMed 35433123

April 29, 2022

The influencing factors for distribution patterns of resident and migrant bird species richness along elevational gradients

Jin-Yong Kim, Jongmin Yoon, Yu-Seong Choi, Soo Hyung Eo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13258 PubMed 35509964

April 5, 2022

Sequentiality of beetle communities in the longitudinal gradient of a lowland river in the context of the river continuum concept

Joanna Pakulnicka, Paweł Buczyński, Edyta Buczyńska, Edyta Stępień, Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska, Robert Stryjecki, Aleksandra Bańkowska, Vladimir Pešić, Ewa Filip, Andrzej Zawal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13232 PubMed 35402090

April 27, 2022

Winter diet of Burrowing Owls in the Llano La Soledad, Galeana, Nuevo León, México

Jose I. Gonzalez Rojas, Miguel Angel Cruz Nieto, Antonio Guzmán Velasco, Irene Ruvalcaba-Ortega, Alina Olalla-Kerstupp, Gabriel Ruiz-Ayma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13324 PubMed 35502207

April 18, 2022

The sterile insect technique is protected from evolution of mate discrimination

James J. Bull, Richard Gomulkiewicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13301 PubMed 35462772