Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 12, 2022

Wildlife overpass structure size, distribution, effectiveness, and adherence to expert design recommendations

Liam Brennan, Emily Chow, Clayton Lamb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14371 PubMed 36530405

December 12, 2022

Habitat loss estimation for assessing terrestrial mammalian species extinction risk: an open data framework

Mariella Butti, Luciana Pacca, Paloma Santos, André C. Alonso, Gerson Buss, Gabriela Ludwig, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Amely B. Martins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14289 PubMed 36530404

December 14, 2022

Bird diversity-environment relationships in urban parks and cemeteries of the Neotropics during breeding and non-breeding seasons

Lucas M. Leveau, Mariana Lucia Bocelli, Sergio Gabriel Quesada-Acuña, César González-Lagos, Pablo Gutiérrez Tapia, Gabriela Franzoi Dri, Carlos A. Delgado-V., Álvaro Garitano-Zavala, Jackeline Campos, Yanina Benedetti, Rubén Ortega-Álvarez, Antonio Isain Contreras Rodríguez, Daniela Souza López, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Thaiane Weinert da Silva, Sarah Sandri Zalewski Vargas, María Cecília Barbosa Toledo, Juan Andres Sarquis, Alejandro Giraudo, Ada Lilian Echevarria, María Elisa Fanjul, Maria Valeria Martínez, Josefina Haedo, Luis Gonzalo Cano Sanz, Yuri Peña, Viviana Fernandez, Verónica Marinero, Vinícius Abilhoa, Rafael Amorin, Juan Fernando Escobar Ibáñez, María Dolores Juri, Sergio Camín, Luis Marone, Augusto João Piratelli, Alexandre Gabriel Franchin, Larissa Crispim, Federico Morelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14496

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 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 6, 2022

Mitochondrial genomes assembled from non-invasive eDNA metagenomic scat samples in the endangered Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica

J. Antonio Baeza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14428 PubMed 36523460

December 12, 2022

Composition of terrestrial mammal assemblages and their habitat use in unflooded and flooded blackwater forests in the Central Amazon

André L. S. Gonçalves, Tadeu G. de Oliveira, Alexander R. Arévalo-Sandi, Lucian V. Canto, Tsuneaki Yabe, Wilson R. Spironello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14374 PubMed 36530392

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 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 12, 2022

DNA barcoding unveils a high diversity of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in the Mount Halimun Salak National Park (West Java; Indonesia)

Isabel C. Kilian, Marianne Espeland, Wolfram Mey, Daisy Wowor, Renny K. Hadiaty, Thomas von Rintelen, Fabian Herder

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14182 PubMed 36530410

December 15, 2022

Patch and matrix characteristics determine the outcome of ecosystem engineering by mole rats in dry grasslands

Orsolya Valkó, András Kelemen, Orsolya Kiss, Balázs Deák

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14582 PubMed 36540798

December 2, 2022

Effects of PAHs on meiofauna from three estuaries with different levels of urbanization in the South Atlantic

Renan B. da Silva, Giovanni A. P. Dos Santos, Ana Luiza L. de Farias, Débora A. A. França, Raianne Amorim Cavalcante, Eliete Zanardi-Lamardo, Jose Roberto Botelho de Souza, Andre M. Esteves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14407 PubMed 36518285

December 1, 2022

Spatial and temporal trends in western polecat road mortality in Wales

Allison Barg, Jenny MacPherson, Anthony Caravaggi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14291 PubMed 36518279

December 7, 2022

Sex ratio and relatedness in the Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) population of Serbia

Slobodan Davidović, Saša Marinković, Irena Hribšek, Aleksandra Patenković, Marina Stamenković-Radak, Marija Tanasković

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14477 PubMed 36523455

December 14, 2022

EcoCountHelper: an R package and analytical pipeline for the analysis of ecological count data using GLMMs, and a case study of bats in Grand Teton National Park

Hunter J. Cole, Dylan GE Gomes, Jesse R. Barber