Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

January 14, 2019

Method for the quantitative evaluation of ecosystem services in coastal regions

Tomonari Okada, Yugo Mito, Erina Iseri, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Takanori Sugano, Yoshihiro B. Akiyama, Kenta Watanabe, Toko Tanaya, Hiroaki Sugino, Kanae Tokunaga, Takahiro Kubo, Tomohiro Kuwae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6234 PubMed 30671289

January 14, 2019

Variation in wild pea (Pisum sativum subsp. elatius) seed dormancy and its relationship to the environment and seed coat traits

Iveta Hradilová, Martin Duchoslav, Jan Brus, Vilém Pechanec, Miroslav Hýbl, Pavel Kopecký, Lucie Smržová, Nikola Štefelová, Tadeáš Vaclávek, Michael Bariotakis, Jitka Machalová, Karel Hron, Stergios Pirintsos, Petr Smýkal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6263 PubMed 30656074

January 9, 2019

Amelioration of drought effects in wheat and cucumber by the combined application of super absorbent polymer and potential biofertilizer

Yongbin Li, Haowen Shi, Haowei Zhang, Sanfeng Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6073 PubMed 30643688

January 11, 2019

Individual tree crown delineation and tree species classification with hyperspectral and LiDAR data

Michele Dalponte, Lorenzo Frizzera, Damiano Gianelle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6227 PubMed 30648002

January 11, 2019

Effects of Trichoderma seedling treatment with System of Rice Intensification management and with conventional management of transplanted rice

Ram B. Khadka, Norman Uphoff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5877 PubMed 30693151

January 11, 2019

Use of a leaf chlorophyll content index to improve the prediction of above-ground biomass and productivity

Chuang Liu, Yi Liu, Yanhong Lu, Yulin Liao, Jun Nie, Xiaoliang Yuan, Fang Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6240 PubMed 30648006

January 4, 2019

Using the wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens

Rafael J. Hernandez, Elze Hesse, Andrea J. Dowling, Nicola M. Coyle, Edward J. Feil, Will H. Gaze, Michiel Vos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6150 PubMed 30631644

January 15, 2019

Common garden comparisons confirm inherited differences in sensitivity to climate change between forest tree species

Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Antoine Kremer, László Nagy, Éva Újvári-Jármay, Alexis Ducousso, Anikó Kóczán-Horváth, Jon Kehlet Hansen, Csaba Mátyás

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6213 PubMed 30671299

January 30, 2019

Spatial variability in soil pH and land use as the main influential factor in the red beds of the Nanxiong Basin, China

Ping Yan, Hua Peng, Luobin Yan, Shaoyun Zhang, Aimin Chen, Kairong Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6342 PubMed 30723625

January 11, 2019

The effects of afforestation on soil bacterial communities in temperate grassland are modulated by soil chemical properties

Shu-Hong Wu, Bing-Hong Huang, Jian Gao, Siqi Wang, Pei-Chun Liao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6147 PubMed 30648012

January 8, 2019

Advances in cultivation, wastewater treatment application, bioactive components of Caulerpa lentillifera and their biotechnological applications

Xiaolin Chen, Yuhao Sun, Hong Liu, Song Liu, Yukun Qin, Pengcheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6118 PubMed 30643691

January 10, 2019

Different ecological processes determined the alpha and beta components of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity for plant communities in dryland regions of Northwest China

Jianming Wang, Chen Chen, Jingwen Li, Yiming Feng, Qi Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6220 PubMed 30648001

January 9, 2019

Carabid community structure in northern China grassland ecosystems: Effects of local habitat on species richness, species composition and functional diversity

Noelline Tsafack, François Rebaudo, Hui Wang, Dávid D. Nagy, Yingzhong Xie, Xinpu Wang, Simone Fattorini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6197 PubMed 30643684

January 16, 2019

Inverse modelling for predicting both water and nitrate movement in a structured-clay soil (Red Ferrosol)

James M. Kirkham, Christopher J. Smith, Richard B. Doyle, Philip H. Brown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6002 PubMed 30671285

January 25, 2019

The complete chloroplast genomes of three Betulaceae species: implications for molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography

Zhen Yang, Guixi Wang, Qinghua Ma, Wenxu Ma, Lisong Liang, Tiantian Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6320 PubMed 30701138

January 14, 2019

Using lidar to assess the development of structural diversity in forests undergoing passive rewilding in temperate Northern Europe

Henrik Thers, Peder Klith Bøcher, Jens-Christian Svenning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6219 PubMed 30656068

January 14, 2019

Comparative genomics of 16 Microbacterium spp. that tolerate multiple heavy metals and antibiotics

Deric R. Learman, Zahra Ahmad, Allison Brookshier, Michael W. Henson, Victoria Hewitt, Amanda Lis, Cody Morrison, Autumn Robinson, Emily Todaro, Ethan Wologo, Sydney Wynne, Elizabeth W. Alm, Peter S. Kourtev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6258 PubMed 30671291

January 3, 2019

Toxicity of TiO₂, SiO₂, ZnO, CuO, Au and Ag engineered nanoparticles on hatching and early nauplii of Artemia sp.

Rohit Rekulapally, Lakshmi Narsimha Murthy Chavali, Mohammed M. Idris, Shashi Singh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6138 PubMed 30627483

January 3, 2019

Polyphasic evaluation of key cyanobacteria in biocrusts from the most arid region in Europe

Beatriz Roncero-Ramos, M. Ángeles Muñoz-Martín, Sonia Chamizo, Lara Fernández-Valbuena, Diego Mendoza, Elvira Perona, Yolanda Cantón, Pilar Mateo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6169 PubMed 30627491

January 9, 2019

Survival under anthropogenic impact: the response of dragonflies (Odonata), beetles (Coleoptera) and caddisflies (Trichoptera) to environmental disturbances in a two-way industrial canal system (central Poland)

Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński