Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

August 21, 2020

Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primate conservation

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Abhishek Chaudhary

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9816 PubMed 32884865

August 12, 2020

Global expansion of COVID-19 pandemic is driven by population size and airport connections

Marco Tulio Pacheco Coelho, João Fabrício Mota Rodrigues, Anderson Matos Medina, Paulo Scalco, Levi Carina Terribile, Bruno Vilela, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Ricardo Dobrovolski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9708

August 19, 2020

Using organic fertilizers to increase crop yield, economic growth, and soil quality in a temperate farmland

Yu Cen, Liyue Guo, Meizhen Liu, Xian Gu, Caihong Li, Gaoming Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9668 PubMed 32879791

August 11, 2020

Antibacterial activity and mechanism of sanguinarine against Providencia rettgeri in vitro

Qian Zhang, Yansi Lyu, Jingkai Huang, Xiaodong Zhang, Na Yu, Ziping Wen, Si Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9543 PubMed 32864203

August 4, 2020

Identifying agricultural pesticides that may pose a risk for birds

Cannelle Tassin de Montaigu, Dave Goulson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9526 PubMed 32832262

August 31, 2020

Response of grassland productivity to climate change and anthropogenic activities in arid regions of Central Asia

Xu Bi, Bo Li, Lixin Zhang, Bo Nan, Xinshi Zhang, Zihan Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9797 PubMed 32944421

August 12, 2020

Multivariate statistical evaluation of dissolved heavy metals and a water quality assessment in the Lake Aha watershed, Southwest China

Shilin Gao, Zhuhong Wang, Qixin Wu, Jie Zeng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9660

August 3, 2020

Effects of cost surface uncertainty on current density estimates from circuit theory

Jeff Bowman, Elizabeth Adey, Siow Y.J Angoh, Jennifer E. Baici, Michael G.C Brown, Chad Cordes, Arthur E. Dupuis, Sasha L. Newar, Laura M. Scott, Kirsten Solmundson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9617 PubMed 32832267

August 28, 2020

Physiological, biochemical and genetic responses of Caucasian tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze) genotypes under cold and frost stress

Lidiia S. Samarina, Lyudmila S. Malyukova, Alexander M. Efremov, Taisiya A. Simonyan, Alexandra O. Matskiv, Natalia G. Koninskaya, Ruslan S. Rakhmangulov, Maya V. Gvasaliya, Valentina I. Malyarovskaya, Alexey V. Ryndin, Yuriy L. Orlov, Wei Tong, Magda-Viola Hanke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9787 PubMed 32923182

August 5, 2020

Spatio-temporal variation of ecosystem services value in the Northern Tianshan Mountain Economic zone from 1980 to 2030

Lei Shi, Ümüt Halik, Zulpiya Mamat, Zhicheng Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9582 PubMed 32844057

August 13, 2020

Vegetation influences soil properties along riparian zones of the Beijiang River in Southern China

Qinghe Zhao, Shengyan Ding, Qian Liu, Shuoqian Wang, Yaru Jing, Mengwen Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9699

August 19, 2020

Population genomics reveals a mismatch between management and biological units in green abalone (Haliotis fulgens)

Paulina Mejía-Ruíz, Ricardo Perez-Enriquez, Jorge Alberto Mares-Mayagoitia, Fausto Valenzuela-Quiñonez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9722 PubMed 32879800

August 13, 2020

Evaluation of salt tolerance in Eruca sativa accessions based on morpho-physiological traits

Sadia Afsar, Gulnaz Bibi, Raza Ahmad, Muhammad Bilal, Tatheer Alam Naqvi, Ayesha Baig, Mohammad Maroof Shah, Bangquan Huang, Jamshaid Hussain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9749

August 21, 2020

Chemotype classification and biomarker screening of male Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. flower core collections using UPLC-QTOF/MS-based non-targeted metabolomics

Panfeng Liu, Lu Wang, Qingxin Du, Hongyan Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9786 PubMed 32884862

August 20, 2020

Improving the physical, mechanical and energetic properties of Quercus spp. wood pellets by adding pine sawdust

Víctor Daniel Núñez-Retana, Rigoberto Rosales-Serna, José Ángel Prieto-Ruíz, Christian Wehenkel, Artemio Carrillo-Parra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9766 PubMed 32879806

August 31, 2020

Contributions of burning incense on indoor air pollution levels and on the health status of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Su-Er Guo, Miao-Ching Chi, Chieh-Mo Lin, Tsung-Ming Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9768 PubMed 32944420

August 4, 2020

Taxonomic affiliation influences the selection of medicinal plants among people from semi-arid and humid regions—a proposition for the evaluation of utilitarian equivalence in Northeast Brazil

Rafael Reinaldo, Ulysses Albuquerque, Patrícia Medeiros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9664 PubMed 32832277

August 13, 2020

Steroid hormones and chondrichthyan reproduction: physiological functions, scientific research, and implications for conservation

Edgar Eduardo Becerril-García, Marcial Arellano-Martínez, Daniela Bernot-Simon, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Céline Godard-Codding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9686

August 19, 2020

Comparative assessment of single-stage and two-stage anaerobic digestion for biogas production from high moisture municipal solid waste

Wattananarong Markphan, Chonticha Mamimin, Wantanasak Suksong, Poonsuk Prasertsan, Sompong O-Thong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9693 PubMed 32879796

August 18, 2020

Transcriptome analysis provides a blueprint of coral egg and sperm functions

Julia Van Etten, Alexander Shumaker, Tali Mass, Hollie M. Putnam, Debashish Bhattacharya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9739 PubMed 32874783

August 26, 2020

Idiosyncratic liver pigment alterations of five frog species in response to contrasting land use patterns in the Brazilian Cerrado

Lilian Franco-Belussi, Diogo B. Provete, Rinneu E. Borges, Classius De Oliveira, Lia Raquel S. Santos