Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 14, 2022

biomonitoR: an R package for managing ecological data and calculating biomonitoring indices

Alex Laini, Simone Guareschi, Rossano Bolpagni, Gemma Burgazzi, Daniel Bruno, Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Rafael Miranda, Cédric Mondy, Gábor Várbíró, Tommaso Cancellario

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14183

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 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 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

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 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 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 19, 2022

Genomics and cellulolytic, hemicellulolytic, and amylolytic potential of Iocasia fonsfrigidae strain SP3-1 for polysaccharide degradation

Sobroney Heng, Sawannee Sutheeworapong, Verawat Champreda, Ayaka Uke, Akihiko Kosugi, Patthra Pason, Rattiya Waeonukul, Ruben Michael Ceballos, Khanok Ratanakhanokchai, Chakrit Tachaapaikoon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14211 PubMed 36281362

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 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 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 19, 2022

Xenobennettella coralliensis a new monoraphid diatom genus characterized by the alveolate sternum valve with cavum, observed from coral reef habitats

Andrzej Witkowski, Catherine Riaux-Gobin, Adrian Kryk, Tomasz Płociński, Izabela Zgłobicka, Krzysztof Kurzydłowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13977 PubMed 36281364

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 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