Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

October 12, 2023

Towards a scientific community consensus on designating Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems from imagery

Amy R. Baco, Rebecca Ross, Franziska Althaus, Diva Amon, Amelia E. H. Bridges, Saskia Brix, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Ana Colaco, Marina Carreiro-Silva, Malcolm R. Clark, Cherisse Du Preez, Mari-Lise Franken, Matthew Gianni, Genoveva Gonzalez-Mirelis, Thomas Hourigan, Kerry Howell, Lisa A. Levin, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Tina N. Molodtsova, Nicole Morgan, Telmo Morato, Beatriz E. Mejia-Mercado, David O’Sullivan, Tabitha Pearman, David Price, Katleen Robert, Laura Robson, Ashley A. Rowden, James Taylor, Michelle Taylor, Lissette Victorero, Les Watling, Alan Williams, Joana R. Xavier, Chris Yesson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16024 PubMed 37846312

October 9, 2023

Assessing the effect of heavy metals on maize (Zea mays L.) growth and soil characteristics: plants-implications for phytoremediation

Muhammad Imran Atta, Syeda Sadaf Zehra, Habib Ali, Basharat Ali, Syed Naveed Abbas, Sara Aimen, Sadia Sarwar, Ijaz Ahmad, Mumtaz Hussain, Ibrahim Al-Ashkar, Dinakaran Elango, Ayman El Sabagh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16067

October 3, 2023

An acoustic-based method for locating maternity colonies of rare woodland bats

Kieran D. O’Malley, Henry Schofield, Patrick G.R. Wright, Daniel Hargreaves, Tom Kitching, Marina Bollo Palacios, Fiona Mathews

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15951 PubMed 37810793

October 10, 2023

Predicting the contribution of climate change on North Atlantic underwater sound propagation

Luca Possenti, Gert-Jan Reichart, Lennart de Nooijer, Frans-Peter Lam, Christ de Jong, Mathieu Colin, Bas Binnerts, Amber Boot, Anna von der Heydt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16208 PubMed 37842042

October 12, 2023

Spatial effects of trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), and natural resource rents on carbon productivity in the GCC region

Haider Mahmood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16281 PubMed 37846313

October 19, 2023

Fishery catch records support machine learning-based prediction of illegal fishing off US West Coast

Jordan T. Watson, Robert Ames, Brett Holycross, Jenny Suter, Kayleigh Somers, Camille Kohler, Brian Corrigan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16215 PubMed 37872950

October 19, 2023

Response of soil extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry to short-term warming and phosphorus addition in desert steppe

Lingxia Feng, Bing Cao, Xiaojia Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16227 PubMed 37872947

October 9, 2023

Bird diversity along an urban to rural gradient in large tropical cities peaks in mid-level urbanization

Marcela Suarez-Rubio, Paul J.J. Bates, Thein Aung, Nay Myo Hlaing, Sai Sein Lin Oo, Yu Kay Zin Htun, Saw Myat Ohn Mar, Aye Myint, Thin Lae Lae Wai, Pann Mo Mo, Lutz Fehrmann, Nils Nölke, Christoph Kleinn, Swen C. Renner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16098 PubMed 37842049

October 11, 2023

Dead but not forgotten: complexity of Acropora palmata colonies increases with greater composition of dead coral

Abigail Engleman, Kieran Cox, Sandra Brooke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16101 PubMed 37842045

October 11, 2023

Impacts of land use change on native plant-butterfly interaction networks from central Mexico

Deysi Muñoz-Galicia, Carlos Lara, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Mariana Cuautle, Claudia Rodríguez-Flores

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16205 PubMed 37842070

October 5, 2023

Impact of forest disturbance on microarthropod communities depends on underlying ecological gradients and species traits

Davide Nardi, Diego Fontaneto, Matteo Girardi, Isaac Chini, Daniela Bertoldi, Roberto Larcher, Cristiano Vernesi