Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 15, 2022

A manager’s guide to using eDNA metabarcoding in marine ecosystems

Zachary Gold, Adam R. Wall, Teia M. Schweizer, N. Dean Pentcheff, Emily E. Curd, Paul H. Barber, Rachel S. Meyer, Robert Wayne, Kevin Stolzenbach, Kat Prickett, Justin Luedy, Regina Wetzer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14071 PubMed 36405018

November 17, 2022

Conservation genomics of Agave tequilana Weber var. azul: low genetic differentiation and heterozygote excess in the tequila agave from Jalisco, Mexico

Karen Yazmin Ruiz Mondragon, Erika Aguirre-Planter, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Anastasia Klimova, Roberto-Emiliano Trejo-Salazar, Marco Antonio Reyes Guerra, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Daniel Piñero, Rafael Lira, Luis E. Eguiarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14398 PubMed 36415865

November 25, 2022

Trends and biases in African large carnivore population assessments: identifying priorities and opportunities from a systematic review of two decades of research

Paolo Strampelli, Liz AD Campbell, Philipp Henschel, Samantha K. Nicholson, David W. Macdonald, Amy J. Dickman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14354 PubMed 36452072

November 11, 2022

Marine or freshwater: the role of ornamental fish keeper’s preferences in the conservation of aquatic organisms in Brazil

Anna Karolina Martins Borges, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14387 PubMed 36389422

November 9, 2022

Long-term monitoring projects of Brazilian marine and coastal ecosystems

Cesar A.M.M. Cordeiro, Anaide W. Aued, Francisco Barros, Alex C. Bastos, Mariana Bender, Thiago C. Mendes, Joel C. Creed, Igor C.S. Cruz, Murilo S. Dias, Lohengrin D.A. Fernandes, Ricardo Coutinho, José E.A. Gonçalves, Sergio R. Floeter, Juliana Mello-Fonseca, Andrea S. Freire, Douglas F.M. Gherardi, Luiz E.O. Gomes, Fabíola Lacerda, Rodrigo L. Martins, Guilherme O. Longo, Ana Carolina Mazzuco, Rafael Menezes, José H. Muelbert, Rodolfo Paranhos, Juan P. Quimbayo, Jean L. Valentin, Carlos E.L. Ferreira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14313 PubMed 36389402

November 2, 2022

Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration

Rebecca Vega Thurber, Emily R. Schmeltzer, Andréa G. Grottoli, Robert van Woesik, Robert J. Toonen, Mark Warner, Kerri L. Dobson, Rowan H. McLachlan, Katie Barott, Daniel J. Barshis, Justin Baumann, Leila Chapron, David J. Combosch, Adrienne MS Correa, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Mary Hagedorn, Laetitia Hédouin, Kenneth Hoadley, Thomas Felis, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Carly Kenkel, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Jennifer Matthews, Mónica Medina, Christopher Meyer, Corinna Oster, James Price, Hollie M. Putnam, Yvonne Sawall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14176 PubMed 36345483

November 11, 2022

Season of prescribed burns and management of an early successional species affect flower density and pollinator activity in a pine savanna ecosystem

Opeyemi A. Adedoja, Raelene M. Crandall, Rachel E. Mallinger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14377 PubMed 36389407

November 11, 2022

Human access and deterministic processes play a major role in structuring planktonic and sedimentary bacterial and eukaryotic communities in lakes

John K. Pearman, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Lucy Thompson, Sean Waters, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Jamie D. Howarth, Ian C. Duggan, Ian D. Hogg, Susanna A. Wood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14378 PubMed 36389411

November 9, 2022

Feeding ecology of invasive lionfish in the Punta Frances MPA, Cuba: insight into morphological features, diet and management

Laura del Río, Zenaida María Navarro-Martínez, Alexei Ruiz-Abierno, Pedro Pablo Chevalier-Monteagudo, Jorge A. Angulo-Valdes, Leandro Rodriguez-Viera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14250 PubMed 36389413

November 15, 2022

Conservation implications of herbicides on seagrasses: sublethal glyphosate exposure decreases fitness in the endangered Zostera capensis

Johanna W. van Wyk, Janine B. Adams, Sophie von der Heyden

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14295 PubMed 36405027

November 25, 2022

Scaredy-cats don’t succeed: behavioral traits predict problem-solving success in captive felidae

Victoria L. O’Connor, Jennifer Vonk