Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

November 24, 2025

Elemental pollution and risk assessment of soils and Gundelia tournefortii in a multi-sector industrial zone with a history of agricultural use

Ayşenur Özuysal, Fariborz Fadaeivash, Görkem Akıncı

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20374

November 21, 2025

Leaf-branch-root trait relationships in Quercus rehderiana across rocky and non-rocky desertification habitats in China

Xiaolong Bai, Shun Zou, Tu Feng, Dongpeng Lv, Bin He, Wangjun Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20367

November 21, 2025

Occurrence, composition, sources, and ecological-health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Chinese water bodies: a review

Qu Chen, Tianwen Song, Jingjing Kong, Jingjing Zhang, Lei Zhu, Hailong Li, Yizhe Wang, Di Xiao, Tingting Tang, Haili Zhang, Zichu Zhao, Qingli Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20300

November 21, 2025

Carbon capture, photosynthesis, and leaf gas exchange of shade tree species and Arabica coffee varieties in coffee agroforestry systems in Veracruz state, Mexico

Daniel Cabrera-Santos, Patricia Dávila, Isela Rodríguez-Arévalo, Anabel Ruiz-Flores, Josefina Vázquez-Medrano, Salvador Sampayo-Maldonado, Cesar Ordoñez-Salanueva, Maraeva Gianella, Elizabeth Bell, María Toledo-Garibaldi, Robert Manson, Flor G. Vázquez-Corzas, Jazmin Cobos-Silva, Cesar Mateo Flores Ortiz, Tiziana Ulian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20255

November 20, 2025

Effects of foliar applied asparagine, glycine and citric acid on cadmium uptake and yield in wheat

Özlem Ete Aydemir

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20102

November 19, 2025

Insights into antibiotic resistomes from metagenome-assembled genomes and gene catalogs of soil microbiota across environments

Xuemei Han, Huan Liu, Xue Bai, Diyan Li, Tao Wang, Hang Zhong, Yongfang Yao, Jing Sun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20348 PubMed 41282978

November 19, 2025

A Bayesian model for assessing organic matter supply in complex marine food webs using amino acid stable isotope analysis

Connor H.H. Shea, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Brian N. Popp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20220 PubMed 41282994

November 19, 2025

Effect of rainfall on metagenomics in a sewage environment in Hongta District, Yuxi city, Yunnan Province

Senquan Jia, Wenpeng Gu, Lili Jiang, Yong Zhang, Xiaoqing Fu, Jianwen Yin, Yongming Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20199 PubMed 41282988

November 17, 2025

Estuarine bivalve metabolic response mediated by environmental drivers

Orlando Lam-Gordillo, Emily J. Douglas, Sarah F. Hailes, Andrew M. Lohrer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20357 PubMed 41282979

November 13, 2025

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and earthworms on plant-soil systems of urban turf grasses

Ying Hou, Zongying Zhang, Yue Yuan, Xinyu Zhu, Jinping Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20289 PubMed 41250756

November 13, 2025

Differential responses of hard coral Montipora digitata and soft coral Xenia umbellata to nutrient stoichiometry under heat stress

Selma D. Mezger, Sophie Littke, Malte Ostendarp, Mareike de Breuyn, Christian Wild

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20273 PubMed 41250758

November 11, 2025

Geographical and seasonal distribution of the Short-crested Coquette hummingbird: a microendemic and endangered species

Pablo Sierra-Morales, Octavio R. Rojas-Soto, Luis A. Sánchez-González, Carina Gutiérrez-Flores, R. Carlos Almazán-Núñez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20312 PubMed 41244200

November 11, 2025

Impact of historical land use change on the brown bear habitat connectivity in the Polish Carpathians

Anna Szwagierczak, El.zbieta Ziółkowska, Joanna Wąs, Michał Jakiel, Dominik Kaim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20295 PubMed 41244212

November 10, 2025

A preliminary assessment of population genetic structure of the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) in Colombia

Paige Van de Vuurst, Analorena Cifuentes-Rincon, Andrea S. Bertke, Diego Soler-Tovar, Nicolás Reyes-Amaya, Fabiola Rodriguez Arévalo, Julieth Stella Cárdenas Hincapié, Jhon Rivera-Monroy, Luis E. Escobar, Eric Hallerman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20306 PubMed 41244201

November 6, 2025

Are caves enough to represent karst groundwater biodiversity? Insights from geospatial analyses applied to European obligate groundwater-dwelling copepods

Emma Galmarini, Mattia Di Cicco, Barbara Fiasca, Nataša Mori, Mattia Iannella, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Francesco Cerasoli, Diana Maria Paola Galassi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20285 PubMed 41215805

November 4, 2025

Quantifying the scale dependence of primary productivity-species-richness relationships

Brian G. Tavernia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20297 PubMed 41211321

November 4, 2025

A machine learning approach to managing game bird introductions

Austin M. Smith, Jr, Wendell P. Cropper, Michael P. Moulton