Welcome to your community’s home at PeerJ. Sections are community led and exemplify a research community’s shared values, norms and interests. The citation average is 5.1 (view impact metrics).
39,750 Followers

Section Highlights View all Biodiversity and Conservation articles

Untangling the taxonomic knot of Croton anomalus (Euphorbiaceae), a Neotropical dry forest shrub
"Resolve relationships within a taxonomically complex group by using several approaches"
Gabriele Casazza, Handling Editor
EcoNicheS: enhancing ecological niche modeling, niche overlap and connectivity analysis using the shiny dashboard and R package
"Makes ecological niche modelling more accessible to a wider audience."
Dirk Steinke, Handling Editor
Use and application of iNaturalist on land snails from Argentina
"This article highlights how citizen sourced scientific activities may significantly increase natural history knowledge, especially in highly diverse, understudied taxonomic groups."
Daniel Lahr, Handling Editor
Leveraging machine learning to uncover multi-pathogen infection dynamics across co-distributed frog families
"Scope, scale, and analytical approach all imppressive"
Daniel Hughes, Handling Editor
Habitat sharing and interspecies interactions in caves used by bats in the Republic of Congo
"Bats are known reservoirs hosts for many zoonotic pathogens of public health importance, however they are not the only ones implicated in the disease transmission network. Better understanding of the ecology and behavior of bats and their complex ecosystem is fundamental to be able to predict and prevent emergence of new pathogens. This papers offers important data on the richness and complexity of the species interactions around and within bat caves in the Republic of Congo and can help gain new perspectives on spillover dynamics."
Carla Mavian, Handling Editor
The evolution of resource management in Taiwanese fisheries: coastal and offshore perspectives
"The study reveals changes in Taiwan's fisheries with a long-term dataset. It fills important gaps for the region in the sustainable use of fish stocks."
Sercan Yapıcı, Handling Editor
Effects of plastic ingestion on blood chemistry, gene expression and body condition in wedge-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna pacifica)
"New approaches to explore impacts of plastic ingestion in highly impacted species. Important for bird conservation"
Patricia Gandini, Section Editor
Prioritising non-native fish species for management actions in three Polish rivers using the newly developed tool—dispersal-origin-status-impact scheme
"The article touches on some important methodological aspects."
Dirk Steinke, Handling Editor
Is it worth the extra mile? Comparing environmental DNA and RNA metabarcoding for vertebrate and invertebrate biodiversity surveys in a lowland stream
Sercan Yapıcı, Handling Editor
Ceciamaralia, a new genus of Dorvilleidae (Annelida) from deep waters of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean and an insight into its relationship within the family
"."
Christopher Glasby, Handling Editor
39,750 Followers

Section Editors

Section Editors provide editorial oversight and community leadership, ensuring a fair and consistent peer review process, and the highest standards of scientific practice in their fields.

MIT

Your institution may have Open Access funds available for qualifying authors. See if you qualify

Publish for free

Comment on Articles or Preprints and we'll waive your author fee
Learn more

Five new journals in Chemistry

Free to publish • Peer-reviewed • From PeerJ
Find out more