Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 19, 2022

Morphometric and meristic diversity of the species Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz R. Alqahtani, Ahmed Badry, Fahd Mohammed Abd Al Galil, Zuhair S. Amr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14198 PubMed 36281363

October 31, 2022

Bioacoustic differentiation of calls in the chiffchaff complex

Maria Calviño-Cancela, Laura Piña, Julio Martín-Herrero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14261 PubMed 36340206

October 19, 2022

Description of the new species Sigambra nkossa (Annelida, Pilargidae), with an analysis of the distribution patterns of polychaetes associated with artificially hydrocarbon-enriched bottoms

Daniel Martin, João Gil, Claude-Henri Chaineau, Sébastien Thorin, Romain Le Gall, Eric Dutrieux

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13942 PubMed 36281365

October 4, 2022

Daphnia japonica sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cladocera) an eastern Palearctic montane species with mitochondrial discordance

Alexey A. Kotov, Derek J. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14113 PubMed 36213509

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 3, 2022

First eumonostiliferous nemertean from the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, Genrokunemertes obesa gen. et sp. nov. (Eumonostilifera, Nemertea)

Natsumi Hookabe, Keita Koeda, Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Shinji Tsuchida, Rei Ueshima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13857 PubMed 36213503

October 7, 2022

Interactions between two functionally distinct aquatic invertebrate herbivores complicate ecosystem- and population-level resilience

Jo A. Werba, Alexander C. Phong, Lakhdeep Brar, Acacia Frempong-Manso, Ofure Vanessa Oware, Jurek Kolasa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14103 PubMed 36225899