Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 8, 2025

Effect of ecological restoration on carbon storage of damaged mountain slope in China’s East Ussuri River Basin

Jianjun Zhu, Shilei Zhang, Chen Chen, Chunlin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19854 PubMed 40792008

August 25, 2025

No pump, no problem: evaluating passive eDNA sampling for marine biomonitoring of a nuisance macroalga

Patrick K. Nichols, Peter B. Marko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19939 PubMed 40895069

August 12, 2025

A workflow of open-source tools for drone-based photogrammetry of marine megafauna

K.C. Bierlich, Josh Hewitt, Clara N. Bird, David W. Johnston, Julian Dale, Enrico Pirotta, Robert S. Schick, Joshua D. Stewart, Leslie New, Elliott Chimienti, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Ari S. Friedlaender, Mauricio Cantor, Leigh G. Torres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19768 PubMed 40821991

August 5, 2025

Characteristics of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids in artificial, black-soil mountain degraded, and natural grasslands in the source region of the Three Rivers

Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Yuan Ma, Xiaoli Wang, Ying Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19837 PubMed 40786110

August 4, 2025

Response surface optimization for cadmium biosorption onto the pre-treated biomass of red algae Digenia simplex as a sustainable indigenous biosorbent

Sedky H.A. Hassan, Maryam M. Alomran, Nada I.A. Alsugiran, Mostafa Koutb, Hassan Ahmed, Mustafa A. Fawzy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19776 PubMed 40777079

August 29, 2025

Analysis of microbial diversity and functions in sediments and overlying water of the Shiliu River

Yazi Li, Shuhong Zhang, Yumei Guo, Ke Xu, Xiqing Zhang, Mengfei Pan, Qiaoping Sun, Yanfang Zhang, Yongshan Fan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19979 PubMed 40900750

August 29, 2025

Seasonally frugivorous forest birds and window collision fatalities: novel integration of bird counts in fall improves assessment of species vulnerability to collisions

Viviane Zulian, Louise K. Blight, Jon Osborne, Adam C. Smith, Andrea R. Norris, Rebecca Golat, Krista L. De Groot

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19943 PubMed 40900753

August 28, 2025

Peanut oil is more environmentally sustainable than rapeseed oil from a carbon and nitrogen footprint perspective in China

Fen Ma, Mingbao He, Yingchun Li, Yanqun Wang, Zhengping Peng, Yinlong Xu, Bohan Zhao, Jingyu Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19941 PubMed 40895062

August 26, 2025

Diurnal moths have larger hearing organs: evidence from comparative 3D morphometric study on geometrid moths

Pritha Dey, Max Söderholm, Pasi Sihvonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19834 PubMed 40895051

August 22, 2025

Between a rock and a hard place: experimental assessment of recruitment patterns in a bathyal environment of the Low Arctic

Sophie Wolvin, Jean-François Hamel, Annie Mercier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19850 PubMed 40860674

August 22, 2025

Prepollination barriers prevent gene flow between co-occurring bat-pollinated bromeliads in a montane forest

Stephanie Núñez-Hidalgo, Alfredo Cascante-Marín

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19652 PubMed 40860673

August 18, 2025

Functional characterization of antennae-enriched chemosensory protein 4 in emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis

Ren Li, Zehua Wang, Fan Yang, Guanghang Qiao, Jingjing Tu, Ang Sun, Shanning Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19812 PubMed 40852383

August 13, 2025

The importance of individuals of different sizes in the population maintenance of a palm species used by the Fulni-ô Indigenous People in northeast Brazil

Juliana Loureiro Almeida Campos, Elcida de Lima Araújo, Aldicir Scariot, Eduardo Teles Barbosa Mendes, Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19739 PubMed 40821984

August 12, 2025

Road ecology of a Chihuahuan Desert snake community: size-based mortality sets the stage for evolutionary change in a widespread pitviper

Daniel F. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19871 PubMed 40821980

August 12, 2025

Ecotoxicological effects of CuO and TiO₂ nanoparticles dietary exposure on the marine gastropod Littorina brevicula

Sergey Kukla, Victor Chelomin, Andrey Mazur, Nadezhda Dovzhenko, Valentina Slobodskova, Evgeniy Elovskiy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19838 PubMed 40821979

August 12, 2025

Substrate type and light intensity determine lampenflora concentration on paleontological remains in show caves

Elena Piano, Marta Zunino, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Isabella Nicole Pisoni, Alice Cimenti, Alberto Cina, Marco Isaia