Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

February 26, 2024

TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment

Shaun P. Wilkinson, Amy A. Gault, Susan A. Welsh, Joshua P. Smith, Bruno O. David, Andy S. Hicks, Daniel R. Fake, Alastair M. Suren, Megan R. Shaffer, Simon N. Jarman, Michael Bunce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16963 PubMed 38426140

February 26, 2024

New records of immature aquatic Diptera from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand, and their biogeographic implications

Viktor O. Baranov, Joachim T. Haug, Uwe Kaulfuss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17014 PubMed 38426144

February 9, 2024

Seed germination and vegetative and in vitro propagation of Hieracium lucidum subsp. lucidum (Asteraceae), a critically endangered endemic taxon of the Sicilian flora

Valeria Gianguzzi, Emilio Di Gristina, Giulio Barone, Francesco Sottile, Gianniantonio Domina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16839 PubMed 38348103

February 27, 2024

Discovering unknown Madagascar biodiversity: integrative taxonomy of raft spiders (Pisauridae: Dolomedes)

Kuang-Ping Yu, Matjaž Kuntner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16781 PubMed 38435991

February 29, 2024

Microbiota associated with urban forests

Xin Wan, Runyang Zhou, Yingdan Yuan, Wei Xing, Sian Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16987 PubMed 38444615

February 28, 2024

Double jeopardy: global change and interspecies competition threaten Siberian cranes

Linqiang Gao, Chunrong Mi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17029 PubMed 38436031

February 23, 2024

Looking for the sponge loop: analyses of detritus on a Caribbean forereef using stable isotope and eDNA metabarcoding techniques

Lauren K. Olinger, Beverly McClenaghan, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Nicole Fahner, Lesley Berghuis, Hoda Rajabi, Patrick Erwin, Chad S. Lane, Joseph R. Pawlik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16970 PubMed 38410802

February 21, 2024

Exotic and native plants play equally important roles in supporting and structuring plant-hummingbird networks within urban green spaces

Monserrat Sánchez Sánchez, Carlos Lara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16996 PubMed 38406283

February 26, 2024

Conservation gaps and priorities of range-restricted birds in the Northern Andes

Wilderson Medina, Stuart L. Pimm, Ryan M. Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16893 PubMed 38426143

February 29, 2024

Intensive pasture management alters the composition and structure of plant-pollinator interactions in Sibiu, Romania

Ana-Maria Neacă, Julia Meis, Tiffany Knight, Demetra Rakosy