Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

November 9, 2023

Impact analysis of moisture stress on growth and yield of cotton using DSSAT-CROPGRO-cotton model under semi-arid climate

Rotash Kumar, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, Kulvir Singh, Ibrahim Al-Ashkar, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Muhammad Noor Muzamil, Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Ayman El Sabagh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16329 PubMed 38025731

November 29, 2023

Using transplantation to restore seagrass meadows in a protected South African lagoon

Katie M. Watson, Deena Pillay, Sophie von der Heyden

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16500 PubMed 38047028

November 14, 2023

Assessing the ecological risk of heavy metal sediment contamination from Port Everglades Florida USA

Dimitrios G. Giarikos, Laura White, Andre M. Daniels, Radleigh G. Santos, Paul E. Baldauf, Amy C. Hirons

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16152 PubMed 38025702

November 20, 2023

Intensive sea urchin harvest rescales Paracentrotus lividus population structure and threatens self-sustenance

Nicole Ruberti, Gianni Brundu, Giulia Ceccherelli, Daniele Grech, Ivan Guala, Barbara Loi, Simone Farina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16220 PubMed 38025682

November 15, 2023

Impact of nitrogen application and crop stage on epiphytic microbial communities on silage maize leaf surfaces

Dan Wu, Xueling Ma, Yuanyan Meng, Rongjin Cai, Xiaolong Zhang, Li Liu, Lianping Deng, Changjing Chen, Fang Wang, Qingbiao Xu, Bin He, Mingzhu He, Rensheng Hu, Jinjing Zhen, Yan Han, Shaoshen He, Liuxing Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16386 PubMed 38025755

November 3, 2023

Enhancing wheat production and quality in alkaline soil: a study on the effectiveness of foliar and soil applied zinc

Farhat Ullah Khan, Adnan Anwar Khan, Yuanyuan Qu, Qi Zhang, Muhammad Adnan, Shah Fahad, Fatima Gul, Muhammad Ismail, Shah Saud, Shah Hassan, Xuexuan Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16179 PubMed 37941932

November 7, 2023

Leaf defenses of subtropical deciduous and evergreen trees to varying intensities of herbivory

Xiaoyu Liu, Carri J. LeRoy, Guobing Wang, Yuan Guo, Shuwang Song, Zhipei Wang, Jingfang Wu, Fenggang Luan, Qingni Song, Xiong Fang, Qingpei Yang, Dongmei Huang, Jun Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16350 PubMed 37953769

November 30, 2023

Potential of psychrotolerant rhizobacteria for the growth promotion of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Muhammad Abdullah, Mohsin Tariq, Syeda Tahseen Zahra, Azka Ahmad, Marriam Zafar, Shad Ali

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16399 PubMed 38050608

November 21, 2023

Future habitat changes of Bactrocera minax Enderlein along the Yangtze River Basin using the optimal MaxEnt model

Chun Fu, Xian Wang, Tingting Huang, Rulin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16459 PubMed 38025688

November 20, 2023

Long-term toxicity of chlorpromazine, diclofenac and two lanthanides on three generations of Ceriodaphnia dubia

Brigita Gylytė, Viktoria Martinyuk, Reda Cimmperman, Rolandas Karitonas, Oksana Stoliar, Levonas Manusadžianas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16472 PubMed 38025671

November 23, 2023

Genomic analyses indicate resilience of a commercially and culturally important marine gastropod snail to climate change

Matt J. Nimbs, Curtis Champion, Simon E. Lobos, Hamish A. Malcolm, Adam D. Miller, Kate Seinor, Stephen D.A. Smith, Nathan Knott, David Wheeler, Melinda A. Coleman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16498 PubMed 38025735

November 24, 2023

Differentiating wild from captive animals: an isotopic approach

Luiza Brasileiro, Rodrigo Ribeiro Mayrink, André Costa Pereira, Fabio José Viana Costa, Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16460 PubMed 38025752

November 28, 2023

Co-inoculation of mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria improve growth, biochemical and physiological attributes in Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. under water deficit stress

Saeid Gasemi, Hassan Mahdavikia, Esmaeil Rezaei-Chiyaneh, Farzad Banaei-Asl, Aria Dolatabadian, Amir Sadeghpour

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16474 PubMed 38047030

November 1, 2023

Trends in soil organic matter and topsoil thickness under regenerative practices at the University of Washington student farm

Julia E. Macray, David R. Montgomery

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16336 PubMed 37927779

November 28, 2023

Diversity and ice nucleation activity of Pseudomonas syringae in drone-based water samples from eight lakes in Austria

Regina Hanlon, Celia Jimenez-Sanchez, James Benson, Ken Aho, Cindy Morris, Teresa M. Seifried, Philipp Baloh, Hinrich Grothe, David Schmale

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16390 PubMed 38047025

November 20, 2023

Factors affecting the relative abundance in an overfished stock: red grouper (Epinephelus morio) in the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico

Iván Oribe-Pérez, Iván Velázquez-Abunader, Carmen Monroy-García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16490 PubMed 38025673

November 29, 2023

An ecological transcriptome approach to capture the molecular and physiological mechanisms of mass flowering in Shorea curtisii

Ahmad Husaini Suhaimi, Masaki J. Kobayashi, Akiko Satake, Ching Ching Ng, Soon Leong Lee, Norwati Muhammad, Shinya Numata, Tatsuya Otani, Toshiaki Kondo, Naoki Tani, Suat Hui Yeoh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16368 PubMed 38047035

November 14, 2023

Seasonal benthic species composition linked to coastal defense structures (CDS) in Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

Nur Fazne Ibrahim, Muzzalifah Abd Hamid, Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir, Meng Chuan Ong, Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat, Izwandy Idris

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16203 PubMed 38025728

November 1, 2023

Conservation tillage and fertiliser management strategies impact on basmati rice (Oryza sativa L): crop performance, crop water productivity, nutrient uptake and fertility status of the soil under rice-wheat cropping system

Mandapelli Sharath Chandra, R.K. Naresh, Rajan Bhatt, Praveen V. Kadam, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Abdel-Rhman Z. Gaafar, Md Atikur Rahman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16271 PubMed 37927793

November 9, 2023

Confidence intervals for ratio of means of delta-lognormal distributions based on left-censored data with application to rainfall data in Thailand

Warisa Thangjai, Sa-Aat Niwitpong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16397 PubMed 38025676

November 1, 2023

Shining a light on duckweed: exploring the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on growth and pigmentation

Totoro Nakagawa-Lagisz, Malgorzata Lagisz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16371 PubMed 37927782

November 15, 2023

High variability of perezone content in rhizomes of Acourtia cordata wild plants, environmental factors related, and proteomic analysis

Ma del Carmen García Méndez, Sergio Encarnación-Guevara, Ángel Gabriel Martínez Batallar, Leopoldo Gómez-Caudillo, Roque Bru-Martínez, Ascensión Martínez Márquez, Susana Selles Marchart, Efraín Tovar-Sánchez, Laura Álvarez-Berber, Silvia Marquina Bahena, Irene Perea-Arango, José de Jesús Arellano-García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16136 PubMed 38025722

November 29, 2023

Rhizocompartmental microbiomes of arrow bamboo (Fargesia nitida) and their relation to soil properties in Subalpine Coniferous Forests

Nan Nan Zhang, Xiao Xia Chen, Jin Liang, Chunzhang Zhao, Jun Xiang, Lin Luo, En Tao Wang, Fusun Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16488 PubMed 38047031

November 8, 2023

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alter rhizosphere fungal community characteristics of Acorus calamus to improve Cr resistance

Guodong Xia, Sixi Zhu, Wei Zhao, Xiuqing Yang, Luying Sheng, Huan Mao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15681 PubMed 37953782

November 23, 2023

Individual and combined ecotoxic effects of water-soluble polymers

Olcay Hisar, Jörg Oehlmann