Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

December 13, 2023

Landscape predictors influencing livestock depredation by leopards in and around Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Saurav Lamichhane, Divya Bhattarai, Tek Maraseni, Kyle J. Shaney, Jhamak Bahadur Karki, Binaya Adhikari, Pratik Pandeya, Bikram Shrestha, Hari Adhikari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16516 PubMed 38107575

December 6, 2023

Anabolic metabolism of autotoxic substance coumarins in plants

Bei Wu, Shangli Shi, Huihui Zhang, Baofu Lu, Pan Nan, Yun A

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16508 PubMed 38077428

December 20, 2023

A taxonomic revision of Garcinia section Xanthochymus (Clusiaceae) in Thailand

Chatchai Ngernsaengsaruay, Pichet Chanton, Minta Chaiprasongsuk, Nisa Leksungnoen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16572 PubMed 38144192

December 21, 2023

Data science competition for cross-site individual tree species identification from airborne remote sensing data

Sarah J. Graves, Sergio Marconi, Dylan Stewart, Ira Harmon, Ben Weinstein, Yuzi Kanazawa, Victoria M. Scholl, Maxwell B. Joseph, Joseph McGlinchy, Luke Browne, Megan K. Sullivan, Sergio Estrada-Villegas, Daisy Zhe Wang, Aditya Singh, Stephanie Bohlman, Alina Zare, Ethan P. White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16578 PubMed 38144190

December 5, 2023

How does abstract and concrete garbage classification signage influence waste sorting behavior?

Gai Cao, Rong Cao, Peng Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16597 PubMed 38077411

December 5, 2023

Acute heat priming promotes short-term climate resilience of early life stages in a model sea anemone

Benjamin H. Glass, Katelyn G. Jones, Angela C. Ye, Anna G. Dworetzky, Katie L. Barott

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16574 PubMed 38077426

December 19, 2023

Digestive glycosidases from cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus sp. 2): identification and temporal-spatial variability

Raul Balam Martinez-Perez, Jorge A. Rodriguez, Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata, Luis Alonso Leyva Soto, Pablo Gortáres-Moroyoqui, Ana Renteria-Mexia, Edna Abigail Hernandez Corral, Lourdes M. Diaz-Tenorio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16417 PubMed 38144177

December 12, 2023

The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa

Richard M. Cowling, Hayley Cawthra, Sean Privett, B. Adriaan Grobler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16427 PubMed 38107568

December 7, 2023

Understanding fatality patterns and sex ratios of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) at wind energy facilities in western California and Texas

Sarah T. LiCari, Amanda M. Hale, Sara P. Weaver, Sarah Fritts, Todd Katzner, David M. Nelson, Dean A. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16580 PubMed 38084143

December 14, 2023

Living on the edge: urban fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

Cisteil X. Pérez-Hernández, Ana María Gutiérrez Mancillas, Ek del-Val, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16622 PubMed 38107586

December 18, 2023

Temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI) for drought monitoring in the Guangdong Province from 2000 to 2019

Ailin Chen, Jiajun Jiang, Yong Luo, Guoqi Zhang, Bin Hu, Xiao Wang, Shiqi Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16337 PubMed 38130929

December 4, 2023

Cytogenotoxic potential and toxicity in adult Danio rerio (zebrafish) exposed to chloramine T

Carla Letícia Gediel Rivero-Wendt, Ana Luisa Miranda Vilela, Luana GarciaFernandes, Andreza Negreli Santos, Igor Leal, Jeandre Jaques, Carlos Eurico Fernandes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16452 PubMed 38077413

December 21, 2023

Response of nine triticale genotypes to different salt concentrations at the germination and early seedling stages

Ebrahim Ramadan, Haytham A. Freeg, Nagwa Shalaby, Mosa S. Rizk, Jun Ma, Wenhua Du, Omar M. Ibrahim, Khairiah M. Alwutayd, Hamada AbdElgawad, Ick-Hyun Jo, Amira M. El-Tahan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16256 PubMed 38152345

December 12, 2023

Impact of livestock grazing management on carbon stocks: a case study in sparse elm woodlands of semi-arid lands

Yi Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16629 PubMed 38107561

December 13, 2023

Invasive success of star weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) through alteration in structural and functional peculiarities

Ummar Iqbal, Zartasha Usman, Akkasha Azam, Hina Abbas, Ansar Mehmood, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16609 PubMed 38107576

December 11, 2023

Composite environmental indices—a case of rickety rankings

Shelley M. Stevens, Michael K. Joy, Wokje Abrahamse, Taciano L. Milfont, Lynda M. Petherick

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16325 PubMed 38099306

December 14, 2023

Analysis and pollution evaluation of heavy metal content in soil of the Yellow River Wetland Reserve in Henan

Xiaolong Chen, Cora Un In Wong, Hongfeng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16454 PubMed 38107560

December 1, 2023

Ground beetle assemblages inhabiting various age classes of Norway spruce stands in north-eastern Poland

Mariusz Nietupski, Agnieszka Kosewska, Emilia Ludwiczak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16502 PubMed 38054021

December 15, 2023

Carbon mapping in pine-oak stands under timber management in southern Mexico

Ashmir Ambrosio-Lazo, Gerardo Rodríguez-Ortiz, Joaquín Alberto Rincón-Ramírez, Vicente Arturo Velasco-Velasco, José Raymundo Enríquez-del Valle, Judith Ruiz-Luna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16431 PubMed 38111657

December 14, 2023

Drivers and decoupling analysis of carbon emissions in the non-ferrous metal industry-evidence from 28 provinces in China

Guohua Zeng, Minglong Zhong, Chengzhang Xiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16575 PubMed 38107567

December 15, 2023

Foliar spraying of indoleacetic acid (IAA) enhances the phytostabilization of Pb in naturally tolerant ryegrass by limiting the root-to-shoot transfer of Pb and improving plant growth

Chengqiang Zhu, Runhai Jiang, Shaofu Wen, Tiyuan Xia, Saiyong Zhu, Xiuli Hou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16560 PubMed 38111653

December 18, 2023

Waste animal fat with hydrothermal liquefaction as a potential route to marine biofuels

Efraim Steinbruch, Siddaq Singh, Maya Mosseri, Michael Epstein, Abraham Kribus, Michael Gozin, Dušan Drabik, Alexander Golberg