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 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 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 17, 2022

Genetic divergence at species boundaries of the dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

Maried Ochoa-Zavala, Pindaro Diaz-Jaimes, Sofía Ortega-García, Felipe Galván-Magaña

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14389 PubMed 36415864

November 18, 2022

Growing up is hard to do: a demographic model of survival and growth of Caribbean octocoral recruits

Howard R. Lasker, Ángela Martínez-Quintana