Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 24, 2022

Scientists’ warning of the impacts of climate change on mountains

Jasper Knight

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14253 PubMed 36312749

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

Computer vision supports primary access to meat by early Homo 1.84 million years ago

Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Marcos Pizarro-Monzo, Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas, Blanca Jiménez García, Natalia Abellán Beltrán, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Audax Mabulla, Enrique Baquedano, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14148 PubMed 36275476

October 26, 2022

Benthic ecosystem functioning under climate change: modelling the bioturbation potential for benthic key species in the southern North Sea

Michael Weinert, Ingrid Kröncke, Julia Meyer, Moritz Mathis, Thomas Pohlmann, Henning Reiss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14105 PubMed 36317120

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 PubMed 39552792

October 27, 2022

Exploring the effect of Jasmonic Acid for Aphids control for improving the yield of Triticum aestivum varieties

Huma Aslam, Sajida Mushtaq, Sadia Maalik, Naheed Bano, Emad M. Eed, Amir Bibi, Ayesha Tahir, Iram Ijaz, Samina Tanwir, Amany S. Khalifa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14018 PubMed 36320566

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 11, 2022

Intensive hunting changes human-wildlife relationships

Arielle Waldstein Parsons, Martin Wikelski, Brigitta Keeves von Wolff, Jan Dodel, Roland Kays

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14159 PubMed 36248718

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 7, 2022

Changes in whistle parameters of two common bottlenose dolphin ecotypes as a result of the physical presence of the research vessel

Simone Antichi, Jorge Urbán R., Sergio Martínez-Aguilar, Lorena Viloria-Gómora

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14074 PubMed 36225904

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 21, 2022

Ontogenetic growth in the crania of Exaeretodon argentinus (Synapsida: Cynodontia) captures a dietary shift

Brenen Wynd, Fernando Abdala, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14196 PubMed 36299507

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 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 6, 2022

The cloacal microbiome of a cavity-nesting raptor, the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Alessandra Costanzo, Roberto Ambrosini, Andrea Franzetti, Andrea Romano, Jacopo G. Cecere, Michelangelo Morganti, Diego Rubolini, Isabella Gandolfi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13927 PubMed 36221261

October 10, 2022

A new bilaterally injured trilobite presents insight into attack patterns of Cambrian predators

Ruiwen Zong, Russell D.C. Bicknell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14185 PubMed 36248717

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 24, 2022

High susceptibility of Tetranychus merganser (Acari: Tetranychidae), an emergent pest of the tropical crop Carica papaya, towards Metarhizium anisopliae s.l. and Beauveria bassiana strains

Elizabeth Alfaro-Valle, Aída Martínez-Hernández, Gabriel Otero-Colina, Joel Lara-Reyna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14064 PubMed 36312755

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 13, 2022

Planting Cyperus esculentus augments soil microbial biomass and diversity, but not enzymatic activities

Yulong Duan, Wei Ren, Jianhua Zhao, Chun Luo, Yang Liu