Ecology

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DNA metabarcoding allows non-invasive identification of arthropod prey provisioned to nestling Rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)
Alison J. Moran, Sean W.J. Prosser, Jonathan A. Moran
Acquisition of fungi from the environment modifies ambrosia beetle mycobiome during invasion
Davide Rassati, Lorenzo Marini, Antonino Malacrinò

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19 August 2020
Using organic fertilizers to increase crop yield, economic growth, and soil quality in a temperate farmland
Yu Cen, Liyue Guo, Meizhen Liu, Xian Gu, Caihong Li, Gaoming Jiang
–– The experiment made in this manuscript clearly shows that the use of organic fertilizers can be effective on the crop yield, economic growth, and soil quality of a winter wheat-summer maize rotation system, bringing new advances in this important field related to food systems and food security issues.
17 August 2020
Database limitations for studying the human gut microbiome
Camila K Dias, Robert Starke, Victor S. Pylro, Daniel K. Morais
–– A good example of why multiple tools and resources are ideal for analyzing microbiome data.
12 August 2020
Prevalence of and risk factors associated with latent tuberculosis infection in a Latin American region
Javier Andrés Bustamante-Rengifo, Luz Ángela González-Salazar, Nicole Osorio-Certuche, Yesica Bejarano-Lozano, José Rafael Tovar Cuevas, Miryam Astudillo-Hernández, Maria del Pilar Crespo-Ortiz
–– There is limited understanding of latent tb infection and prevalence. This article helps understand the risk factors that may be responsible for the latent tuberculosis infection and prevalence in resource limited countries. Studies such as this helps design better treatment and TB Transmission control programs.
12 August 2020
Perils and pitfalls of mixed-effects regression models in biology
Matthew J. Silk, Xavier A. Harrison, David J. Hodgson
–– This manuscript outlines several common pitfalls that can be avoided by researchers using mixed effect models to deal with difficult data sets, and promotes more informed statistical modelling.
27 July 2020
Exploring the socio-economic and environmental components of infectious diseases using multivariate geovisualization: West Nile Virus
Abhishek K. Kala, Samuel F. Atkinson, Chetan Tiwari
–– This research employed spatial visualization method to study the relationship between population vulnerability and the West Nile Virus. It is a cross-disciplinary work that could be interesting to public health, environment, GIS, and Epidemiology.
23 July 2020
Outstanding performance of an invasive alien tree Bischofia javanica relative to native tree species and implications for management of insular primary forests
Tetsuto Abe, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yoshikazu Shimizu
–– Only few studies were conducted to examine the effects of invasive alien tree species on insular native forests.
21 July 2020
Habitat preferences rather than morphological traits affect the recovery process of Collembola (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) on a bare saline–alkaline land
Zhen Ni, Xiumin Yan, Liang Chang, Xin Sun, Donghui Wu, Bing Zhang
–– The study reveals that habitat preferences affect the recovery process of Collembola communities on a bare saline-alkaline land.
20 July 2020
The importance of open science for biological assessment of aquatic environments
Marcus W. Beck, Casey O’Hara, Julia S. Stewart Lowndes, Raphael D. Mazor, Susanna Theroux, David J. Gillett, Belize Lane, Gregory Gearheart
–– Concerns over repeatability, ownership of publicly funded research results, and the benefits of transparent collaborative networks have led to the open science movement gaining momentum. This review provides successful examples as well as discussing challenges yet to be overcome in adopting open science for monitoring and assessment of aquatic environments.
13 July 2020
A novel fully convolutional network for visual saliency prediction
Bashir Muftah Ghariba, Mohamed S. Shehata, Peter McGuire
–– Very informative and constructive reviews.
9 July 2020
Access to scientific literature by the conservation community
Daisy Larios, Thomas M. Brooks, Nicholas B.W. Macfarlane, Sugoto Roy
–– This work provides a stunningly rich data set for a well-understood, but poorly quantified problem in conservation science and practice - access to the scientific literature.
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New records of the middle Eocene carettochelyid #turtle turtle Anosteira pulchra from the Uinta Formation of Utah out today by my wonderful @MidwesternUniv colleagues @BrentMwu and @DrBethTownsend, and @PatriciaHolroyd @thePeerJ: https://t.co/fKz1bHBbON https://t.co/HSVmMuqKNG
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Excited that the final version of our paper "Identifying mangrove-coral habitats in the Florida Keys" is now published in PeerJ! https://t.co/yOeBLQdVhQ #coral #mangrove #ecology cc @deepseadawn bc snazzy figures made using Esri base maps!
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Epibiont hydroids on beachcast Sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean https://t.co/zfPAkNyC9a @thePeerJ https://t.co/I0t1D4yOMs
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An article I handled as editor has been published today @thePeerJ https://t.co/AlFPOtOPGJ #Paleontology #Taxonomy #Zoology #brittlestar #scicomm
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An article I handled as editor has been published today @thePeerJ https://t.co/CaHILIkLWy #EvolutionaryStudies #Paleontology #Taxonomy #Zoology #Scicomm #Turtles
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An article I handled as editor has been published today: "Chemotype classification and biomarker screening of male Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. flower core collections using UPLC-QTOF/MS-based non-targeted metabolomics" @thePeerJ https://t.co/JuV7Gnnc0o #PlantScience #Metabolomics
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Went from being a Drosophilist to also exploring primary cilia in bone disorders when I started my lab few years back. In this paper we looked at cilia features during disparate skeletal differentiation programs in well-known cell-lines. @thePeerJ https://t.co/btZZxab89r
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