Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 16, 2025

Experimental assessment of the effects of sustainable landscaping practices on beetles in a new residential land development

Alessandra Pandolfi, Patrick J. Bohlen, Basil V. Iannone III, Brooke L. Moffis, Paul E. Skelley, David G. Jenkins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20415

December 19, 2025

Harungana madagascariensis (Hypericaceae) is a key phorophyte for native epiphytes and lianas during ecological restoration: case study on an oceanic island

François M.M.P. Baguette, Cláudia Baider, François Benjamin Vincent Florens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20520

December 19, 2025

A systematic review of global publications on clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa): identifying the publication trends, research gaps, and future directions to strengthen its conservation

Nikita Phuyal, Nishan Kc, Neeta Pokharel, Shreejan Gautam, Nitu Adhikari, Bijaya Dhami, Saurav Lamichhane, Mahamad Sayab Miya, Abhinaya Pathak, Bijaya Neupane

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20421

December 19, 2025

Fish community structure and diversity in the Ningxia section of the main stream of the Yellow River in China

Jiacheng Liu, Shuhan Xiong, Peilun Li, Yanbin Liu, Yongjie Wang, Kai Liu, Jilong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20228

December 18, 2025

Mechanistic study on integrated water-fertilizer management to alleviate Na⁺ toxicity and enhance salt tolerance and yield of pakchoi under salt stress

Jin Li, Hongcheng Li, Zizheng Li, Huirong Su, Tingting Duan, Zhong Lin, Yinling Zhu, Xiaoli Chen, Xianmin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20431

December 17, 2025

Factors constraining natural recovery of Diadema antillarum following a mass die-off: a case study near the island of Saba, Caribbean Netherlands

Alwin Hylkema, Oliver J. Klokman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20418

December 17, 2025

Elephant seal dive behaviour responds consistently to changes in foraging success regardless of sex or ocean habitat

David B. Green, Sophie Bestley, Clive R. McMahon, Mary-Anne Lea, Robert G. Harcourt, Christophe Guinet, Mark A. Hindell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20378

December 16, 2025

Experimental tests of habitat preferences in the Comal Springs dryopid beetle, Stygoparnus comalensis

Matthew R. Pintar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20507

December 12, 2025

Revisiting the Poison Dart Frog Ameerega ingeri (Anura: Dendrobatidae): external morphology, tadpoles, natural history, distribution, advertisement call, phylogenetic position and conservation

Juan C. Diaz-Ricaurte, Alejandro Navarro-Morales, César Malambo, Junner F. González-Ibarra, Yulfreiler Garavito-David, Felipe Silva de Andrade, Mario A. Madrid-Ordoñez, Maykoll J. Parra-Olarte, Diego Huseth Ruiz-Valderrama, Betselene Murcia-Ordoñez, Amanda Varago, Diego J. Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20078 PubMed 41403759

December 10, 2025

High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys

Nicholas D. Pyenson, Ferhan Sakal, Jacques LeBlanc, Jon Blundell, Katherine D. Klim, Christopher D. Marshall, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Katherine Wolfe, Faisal Al-Naimi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20030 PubMed 41394419

December 9, 2025

Sex ratios in flux: seasonal dynamics and methodological insights in Rumex species

Barbara Pawełek, Dagmara Kwolek, Grzegorz Góralski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20391 PubMed 41394413

December 5, 2025

Are we throwing away good data? Evaluation of chimera detection algorithms on long-read amplicons reveals high false-positive rates across algorithms

Ali Hakimzadeh, Vladimir Mikryukov, Martin Metsoja, Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20456 PubMed 41368503

December 5, 2025

The Nextflow nf-core/metatdenovo pipeline for reproducible annotation of metatranscriptomes, and more

Danilo Di Leo, Emelie Nilsson, Arianna Krinos, Jarone Pinhassi, Daniel Lundin