Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 7, 2023

Body size and trophic level increase with latitude, and decrease in the deep-sea and Antarctica, for marine fish species

Han-Yang Lin, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15880 PubMed 37701825

September 28, 2023

Areas of spatial overlap between common bottlenose dolphin, recreational boating, and small-scale fishery: management insights from modelling exercises

Gabriella La Manna, Fabio Ronchetti, Francesco Perretti, Giulia Ceccherelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16111 PubMed 37790616

September 15, 2023

Divergent recovery trajectories of intertidal and subtidal coral communities highlight habitat-specific recovery dynamics following bleaching in an extreme macrotidal reef environment

P. Elias Speelman, Michael Parger, Verena Schoepf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15987 PubMed 37727686

September 22, 2023

Trophic assessment of three sympatric batoid species in the Southern Gulf of California

Arturo Bell Enríquez-García, Víctor Hugo Cruz-Escalona, José D. Carriquiry, Nicolás R. Ehemann, Paola A. Mejía-Falla, Emigdio Marín-Enríquez, Christina Treinen-Crespo, José R. Vélez-Tacuri, Andrés F. Navia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16117 PubMed 37753172

September 27, 2023

Enhancing survivorship and growth of juvenile Montipora capitata using the Hawaiian collector urchin Tripneustes gratilla

Andrew R. Barrows, Joshua R. Hancock, David L. Cohen, Patrick Gorong, Matthew Lewis, Sean Louie, Lani Musselman, Carlo Caruso, Spencer Miller, Crawford Drury

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16113 PubMed 37790625

September 21, 2023

Combining passive acoustic data from a towed hydrophone array with visual line transect data to estimate abundance and availability bias of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)

Douglas B. Sigourney, Annamaria DeAngelis, Danielle Cholewiak, Debra Palka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15850 PubMed 37750078

September 11, 2023

Spawning aggregations of checkered snapper (Lutjanus decussatus) and blackspot snapper (L. fulviflamma): seasonality, lunar-phase periodicity and spatial distribution within spawning ground

Atsushi Nanami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15991 PubMed 38077430

September 27, 2023

Gut content metabarcoding of specialized feeders is not a replacement for environmental DNA assays of seawater in reef environments

Joseph D. DiBattista, Shang Yin Vanson Liu, Maarten De Brauwer, Shaun P. Wilkinson, Katrina West, Adam Koziol, Michael Bunce