Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 1, 2022

Establishment of the non-native horned-face bee Osmia cornifrons and the taurus mason bee Osmia taurus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada

J. Scott MacIvor, Charlotte W. de Keyzer, Madison S. Marshall, Graham S. Thurston, Thomas M. Onuferko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14216 PubMed 36518272

December 20, 2022

Opening the black box of bird-window collisions: passive video recordings in a residential backyard

Brendon Samuels, Brock Fenton, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14604 PubMed 36570015

December 6, 2022

N-mixture model-based estimate of relative abundance of sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in response to biotic and abiotic factors in a human-dominated landscape of central India

Sankarshan Chaudhuri, Rajasekar Rajaraman, Sankar Kalyanasundaram, Sambandam Sathyakumar, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13649 PubMed 36523470

December 15, 2022

Neospongodes atlantica, a potential case of an early biological introduction in the Southwestern Atlantic

Ralf T.S. Cordeiro, Ágatha Nascimento Carpinelli, Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho, Barbara de Moura Neves, Carlos D. Pérez, Umberto de Oliveira, Paulo Sumida, Henrique Maranhão, Leonardo H.U. Monteiro, Pedro Carneiro, Marcelo V. Kitahara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14347 PubMed 36540794

December 15, 2022

Functional groups of Afrotropical EPT (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera) as bioindicators of semi-urban pollution in the Tsitsa River Catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Frank Chukwuzuoke Akamagwuna, Augustine Ovie Edegbene, Phindiwe Ntloko, Francis Ofurum Arimoro, Chika Felicitas Nnadozie, Dennis Junior Choruma, Oghenekaro Nelson Odume

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13970 PubMed 36540799

December 12, 2022

Quantifying the impacts of symbiotic interactions between two invasive species: the tawny crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva) tending the sorghum aphid (Melanaphis sorghi)

Jocelyn R. Holt, Antonino Malacrinò, Raul F. Medina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14448 PubMed 36530409

December 8, 2022

Generation of raptor diversity in Europe: linking speciation with climate changes and the ability to migrate

Juan J. Negro, Eduardo J. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Airam Rodríguez, Keith Bildstein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14505 PubMed 36523450

December 19, 2022

Palaeoecology of the Hiraiso Formation (Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) and implications for the recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

William J. Foster, Amanda Godbold, Arnaud Brayard, Anja B. Frank, Stephen E. Grasby, Richard J. Twitchett, Tatsuo Oji