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May 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Environmental Sciences Articles)

Protecting the Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef

Examples of species that are under threat at a global scale but whose regional status is not known.

May 8, 2018

Protecting the Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef

Scientists reviewed the literature to report on processes threatening species on the Great Barrier Reef, the status of marine biodiversity, and the extent of species-level monitoring and reporting.

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May 3, 2018

Quantitative estimation of soil salinity by means of different modeling methods and visible-near infrared (VIS–NIR) spectroscopy, Ebinur Lake Wetland, Northwest China

Jingzhe Wang, Jianli Ding, Aerzuna Abulimiti, Lianghong Cai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4703 PubMed 29736341

May 22, 2018

Effect of Reactive Black 5 azo dye on soil processes related to C and N cycling

Khadeeja Rehman, Tanvir Shahzad, Amna Sahar, Sabir Hussain, Faisal Mahmood, Muhammad H. Siddique, Muhammad A. Siddique, Muhammad I. Rashid

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4802 PubMed 29844965

May 30, 2018

Multi-dimensional Precision Livestock Farming: a potential toolbox for sustainable rangeland management

Agustina di Virgilio, Juan M. Morales, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Emily L.C. Shepard, Rory P. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4867 PubMed 29868276

May 23, 2018

Predicting the potential distributions of the invasive cycad scale Aulacaspis yasumatsui (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) under different climate change scenarios and the implications for management

Jiufeng Wei, Qing Zhao, Wanqing Zhao, Hufang Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4832 PubMed 29844981

May 18, 2018

Effect of elevated temperature on membrane lipid saturation in Antarctic notothenioid fish

Vanita C. Malekar, James D. Morton, Richard N. Hider, Robert H. Cruickshank, Simon Hodge, Victoria J. Metcalf

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4765 PubMed 29796342

May 30, 2018

Top-down and bottom-up controls on southern New England salt marsh crab populations

Kenneth B. Raposa, Richard A. McKinney, Cathleen Wigand, Jeffrey W. Hollister, Cassie Lovall, Katelyn Szura, Jr., John A. Gurak, Jason McNamee, Christopher Raithel, Elizabeth B. Watson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4876 PubMed 29868281

May 8, 2018

Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef—how adequately is it protected?

Zoe T. Richards, Jon C. Day

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4747 PubMed 29761059

May 18, 2018

Effects of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) removal on shallow-water sediments in Fiji

Steven Lee, Amanda K. Ford, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Christian Wild, Sebastian C.A. Ferse

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4773 PubMed 29796344

May 28, 2018

Tea cultivar classification and biochemical parameter estimation from hyperspectral imagery obtained by UAV

Yexin Tu, Meng Bian, Yinkang Wan, Teng Fei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4858 PubMed 29868272

May 25, 2018

Allocation pattern and accumulation potential of carbon stock in natural spruce forests in northwest China

Jun-Wei Yue, Jin-Hong Guan, Lei Deng, Jian-Guo Zhang, Guoqing Li, Sheng Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4859 PubMed 29844994

May 17, 2018

Comparing the catch composition, profitability and discard survival from different trammel net designs targeting common spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas) in a Mediterranean fishery

Gaetano Catanese, Hilmar Hinz, Maria del Mar Gil, Miquel Palmer, Michael Breen, Antoni Mira, Elena Pastor, Amalia Grau, Andrea Campos-Candela, Elka Koleva, Antoni Maria Grau, Beatriz Morales-Nin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4707 PubMed 29785340

May 7, 2018

Small tropical islands with dense human population: differences in water quality of near-shore waters are associated with distinct bacterial communities

Hauke F. Kegler, Christiane Hassenrück, Pia Kegler, Tim C. Jennerjahn, Muhammad Lukman, Jamaluddin Jompa, Astrid Gärdes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4555 PubMed 29761035

May 30, 2018

Assessment of the ecotoxicity of urban estuarine sediment using benthic and pelagic copepod bioassays

Maria P. Charry, Vaughan Keesing, Mark Costello, Louis A. Tremblay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4936 PubMed 29868297

May 30, 2018

Urbanization alters small rodent community composition but not abundance

Jessica N. Alvarez Guevara, Becky A. Ball