Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

April 18, 2025

Ex-situ avian sex skews: determinants and implications for conservation

Clancy A. Hall, Gabriel C. Conroy, Dominique A. Potvin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19312 PubMed 40260192

April 4, 2025

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite and T3 profiles of orphaned elephants differ from non-orphaned elephants in Zambia

Daniella E. Chusyd, Janine L. Brown, Steve Paris, Nicole Boisseau, Webster Mwaanga, Moses Kasongo, Lisa Olivier, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Bailey Ortyl, Tessa Steiniche, Steven N. Austad, David B. Allison, Michael D. Wasserman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19122 PubMed 40196305

April 22, 2025

eDNA metabarcoding shows highly diverse but distinct shallow, mid-water, and deep-water eukaryotic communities within a marine biodiversity hotspot

Patricia Cerrillo-Espinosa, Luis Eduardo Calderón-Aguilera, Pedro Medina-Rosas, Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Amílcar Leví Cupul-Magaña, Ollin Tezontli González Cuellar, Adrian Munguia-Vega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19249 PubMed 40292110

April 29, 2025

Spatial planning model for optimizing conservation priorities for local community utilization on Arefi Island in the Raja Ampat Marine Protected Area (MPA) Southwest Papua, Indonesia

Mulyanto Darmawan, Debora Christi Simamora, Irmadi Nahib, Fadhlullah Ramadhani, Dewayany Sutrisno, Fahmi Amhar, Muhammad Ramdhan, Sitarani Safitri, Bayu Sutejo, Samsul Arifin, Syamsul Bahri Agus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19292 PubMed 40321818

April 1, 2025

Comparative larval morphology of four Pteroptyx (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae) species in Thailand

Suparada Boonloi, Parichart Laksanawimol, Soraya Jaikla, Marc A. Branham, Anchana Thancharoen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19190 PubMed 40191752

April 16, 2025

Azov-type spits: long-term monitoring of morphodynamics and vegetation in response to changing environment

Oksana Tyshchenko, Volodymyr Tyshchenko, Svitlana Boychenko, Andrii Tarieiev, Vasyl Tkachenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18369 PubMed 40256733

April 21, 2025

A study of diel and seasonal patterns of loss of commercial lychee fruits to vertebrate frugivores: implications for mitigating a human-wildlife conflict

Geetika Bhanda, Ryszard Z. Oleksy, Raphaël D. Reinegger, Cláudia Baider, F.B. Vincent Florens