Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 17, 2022

Species level mapping of a seagrass bed using an unmanned aerial vehicle and deep learning technique

Satoru Tahara, Kenji Sudo, Takehisa Yamakita, Masahiro Nakaoka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14017 PubMed 36275465

October 18, 2022

Artificial light at night correlates with seabird groundings: mapping city lights near a seabird breeding hotspot

Ariel-Micaiah Heswall, Lynn Miller, Ellery J. McNaughton, Amy L. Brunton-Martin, Kristal E. Cain, Megan R. Friesen, Anne C. Gaskett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14237 PubMed 36275461

October 25, 2022

Changes in ecological conditions may influence intraguild competition: inferring interaction patterns of snow leopard with co-predators

Ranjana Pal, Anshu Panwar, Surendra P. Goyal, Sambandam Sathyakumar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14277 PubMed 36312761

October 6, 2022

Vegetation height and structure drive foraging habitat selection of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) in intensive agricultural landscapes

Sara Cioccarelli, Anna Terras, Giacomo Assandri, Alessandro Berlusconi, Nunzio Grattini, Alessandro Mercogliano, Aliona Pazhera, Andrea Sbrilli, Jacopo G. Cecere, Diego Rubolini, Michelangelo Morganti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13979 PubMed 36221268

October 17, 2022

Six new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Llanganates National Park and Sangay National Park in Amazonian cloud forests of Ecuador

Jhael A. Ortega, Jorge Brito, Santiago R. Ron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13761 PubMed 36275471

October 24, 2022

Diversity and distribution of Symbiodiniaceae detected on coral reefs of Lombok, Indonesia using environmental DNA metabarcoding

Arief Pratomo, Dietriech G. Bengen, Neviaty P. Zamani, Christopher Lane, Austin T. Humphries, Erin Borbee, Beginer Subhan, Hawis Madduppa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14006 PubMed 36312748

October 18, 2022

The complete organellar genomes of the entheogenic plant Psychotria viridis (Rubiaceae), a main component of the ayahuasca brew

Alessandro M. Varani, Saura R. Silva, Simone Lopes, Jose Beethoven Figueiredo Barbosa, Danilo Oliveira, Maria Alice Corrêa, Ana Paula Moraes, Vitor F.O. Miranda, Francisco Prosdocimi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14114 PubMed 36275467

October 3, 2022

The fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans is not detected in wild and captive amphibians from Mexico

M. Delia Basanta, Victor Avila-Akerberg, Allison Q. Byrne, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Tanya M. González Martínez, Yurixhi Maldonado-López, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Ireri Suazo-Ortuño, Gabriela Parra Olea, Eria A. Rebollar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14117 PubMed 36213512

October 25, 2022

We’re building it up to burn it down: fire occurrence and fire-related climatic patterns in Brazilian biomes

Luisa Maria Diele Viegas, Lilian Sales, Juliana Hipólito, Claudjane Amorim, Eder Johnson de Pereira, Paulo Ferreira, Cody Folta, Lucas Ferrante, Philip Fearnside, Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado, Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha, Mariana M. Vale

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14276 PubMed 36312759

October 6, 2022

Shallow epifaunal sea cucumber densities and their relationship with the benthic community in the Okinawa Islands

Kohei Hamamoto, Angelo Poliseno, Taha Soliman, James Davis Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14181 PubMed 36221267

October 14, 2022

Automated mapping of Portulacaria afra canopies for restoration monitoring with convolutional neural networks and heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle imagery

Nicholas C. Galuszynski, Robbert Duker, Alastair J. Potts, Teja Kattenborn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14219 PubMed 36262418

October 14, 2022

Genetic species identification and population structure of grouper Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton, 1822) collected from fish markets along the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea

Parviz Tavakoli-Kolour, Ahmad Farhadi, Ashkan Ajdari, Dara Bagheri, Sanaz Hazraty-Kari, Ahmad Ghasemi, Arya Vazirzadeh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14179 PubMed 36262409

October 28, 2022

Luminescent characteristics and mitochondrial COI barcodes of nine cohabitated Taiwanese fireflies

King-Siang Goh, Liang-Jong Wang, Jing-Han Ni, Tzi-Yuan Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14195 PubMed 36325176

October 18, 2022

Fossil Sirenia from the Pleistocene of Qatar: new questions about the antiquity of sea cows in the Gulf Region

Nicholas D. Pyenson, Mehsin Al-Ansi, Clare M. Fieseler, Khalid Hassan Al Jaber, Katherine D. Klim, Jacques LeBlanc, Ahmad Mujthaba Dheen Mohamed, Ismail Al-Shaikh, Christopher D. Marshall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14075 PubMed 36275454

October 7, 2022

Spatiotemporal relationships of coyotes and free-ranging domestic cats as indicators of conflict in Culver City, California

Rebecca N. Davenport, Melinda Weaver, Katherine C. B. Weiss, Eric G. Strauss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14169 PubMed 36225908

October 14, 2022

Coral reef fish assemblages exhibit signs of depletion in two protected areas from the eastern of Los Canarreos archipelago (Cuba, Caribbean Sea)

Zenaida María Navarro-Martínez, Maickel Armenteros, Leonardo Espinosa, Patricia González-Díaz, Amy Apprill

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14229 PubMed 36262415

October 20, 2022

Anthropogenic influences on the distribution of a threatened apex-predator around sustainable-use reserves following hydropower dam installation

Deborah C. Dávila Raffo, Darren Norris, Sandra Maria Hartz, Fernanda Michalski