Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

February 19, 2024

Using vulnerability assessment to characterize coastal protection benefits provided by estuarine habitats of a dynamic intracoastal waterway

Gregory M. Verutes, Philip F. Yang, Scott F. Eastman, Cheryl L. Doughty, Therese E. Adgie, Kaitlyn Dietz, Nicole G. Dix, Allix North, Gregory Guannel, Samantha K. Chapman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16738 PubMed 38390391

February 29, 2024

Estimation of the percentile of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and its application to PM2.5 in Northern Thailand

Warisa Thangjai, Sa-Aat Niwitpong, Suparat Niwitpong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17019 PubMed 38436012

February 14, 2024

Biomarker selection depends on gene function and organ: the case of the cytochrome P450 family genes in freshwater fish exposed to chronic pollution

Jorge Cortés-Miranda, Noemí Rojas-Hernández, Gigliola Muñoz, Sylvia Copaja, Claudio Quezada-Romegialli, David Veliz, Caren Vega-Retter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16925 PubMed 38371375

February 21, 2024

Heavy metal movement through insect food chains in pristine thermal springs of Yellowstone National Park

Braymond Adams, John Bowley, Monica Rohwer, Erik Oberg, Kelly Willemssens, Wendy Wintersteen, Robert K.D. Peterson, Leon G. Higley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16827 PubMed 38406272

February 8, 2024

3D bioprinting in bioremediation: a comprehensive review of principles, applications, and future directions

Abraham Samuel Finny

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16897 PubMed 38344299

February 23, 2024

Looking for the sponge loop: analyses of detritus on a Caribbean forereef using stable isotope and eDNA metabarcoding techniques

Lauren K. Olinger, Beverly McClenaghan, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Nicole Fahner, Lesley Berghuis, Hoda Rajabi, Patrick Erwin, Chad S. Lane, Joseph R. Pawlik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16970 PubMed 38410802

February 26, 2024

Emergent trees in Colophospermum mopane woodland: influence of elephant density on persistence versus attrition

Timothy O’Connor, Angela Ferguson, Bruce W. Clegg, Nita Pallett, Jeremy J. Midgley, Julius Shimbani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16961 PubMed 38426137

February 26, 2024

Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on blueberry growth and rhizosphere soil microenvironment

Mengjiao Wang, Xinlong Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16992 PubMed 38426138

February 14, 2024

Alteration of bacterial community composition in the sediments of an urban artificial river caused by sewage discharge

Yishi Li, Daoming Lou, Xiaofei Zhou, Xuchao Zhuang, Chuandong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16931 PubMed 38371377

February 26, 2024

Biodegradation of polyethylene in digestive gland homogenates of marine invertebrates

Aleksandra Istomina, Victor Chelomin, Andrey Mazur, Avianna Zhukovskaya, Alexander Karpenko, Marina Mazur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17041 PubMed 38426135

February 27, 2024

Domestic sewage dispersion scenarios as a subsidy to the design of urban sewage systems in the Lower Amazon River, Amapá, Brazil

Carlos Henrique Medeiros de Abreu, Elizandra Perez Araújo, Helenilza Ferreira Albuquerque Cunha, Marcelo Teixeira, Alan Cavalcanti da Cunha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16933

February 29, 2024

Susceptibility of flexible plastic foodstuffs packaging against Monomorium indicum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) household ants

Muhammad Junaid Iqbal, Muhammad Waqar Hassan, Ghulam Sarwar, Moazzam Jamil, Tanveer Hussain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16782 PubMed 38435990

February 7, 2024

Peanut-based intercropping systems altered soil bacterial communities, potential functions, and crop yield

Zhu Liu, Zhenwu Nan, Songming Lin, Weiwei Meng, Liyong Xie, Haiqiu Yu, Zheng Zhang, Shubo Wan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16907 PubMed 38344295

February 28, 2024

The toxicity assessment of phosmet on development, reproduction, and gene expression in Daphnia magna

Mustafa Ataş, Ceyhun Bereketoglu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17034 PubMed 38436013

February 5, 2024

Geographic source of bats killed at wind-energy facilities in the eastern United States

Jamin G. Wieringa, Juliet Nagel, C.J. Campbell, David M. Nelson, Bryan C. Carstens, H. Lisle Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16796 PubMed 38332805

February 28, 2024

Vegetative cell wall protein OsGP1 regulates cell wall mediated soda saline-alkali stress in rice

Fengjin Zhu, Huihui Cheng, Jianan Guo, Shuomeng Bai, Ziang Liu, Chunxi Huang, Jiayi Shen, Kai Wang, Chengjun Yang, Qingjie Guan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16790 PubMed 38436004

February 21, 2024

Would future climate warming cause zoonotic diseases to spread over long distances?

Fan Bu, Xiuxian Yue, Shanshan Sun, Yongling Jin, Linlin Li, Xin Li, Rong Zhang, Zhenghaoni Shang, Haiwen Yan, Haoting Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Xiaodong Wu, Heping Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16811 PubMed 38406275

February 29, 2024

Analysis of the differences in physicochemical properties, volatile compounds, and microbial community structure of pit mud in different time spaces

Baolin Han, Hucheng Gong, Xiaohu Ren, Shulin Tian, Yu Wang, Shufan Zhang, Jiaxu Zhang, Jing Luo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17000 PubMed 38435984

February 28, 2024

Raised water temperature enhances benthopelagic links via intensified bioturbation and benthos-mediated nutrient cycling

Eilish M. Farrell, Andreas Neumann, Jan Beermann, Alexa Wrede

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17047

February 29, 2024

Mowing wet meadows reduces the health of their snail communities

Roland Farkas, Miklós Bán, Zoltán Barta