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Diversity, Volume 13, Issue 11

November 2021 - 101 articles

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Cover Story:

Issi saaneq, a medium-sized long-necked sauropodomorph, is a newly discovered species of plant-eating dinosaur from Greenland, which lived during the Late Triassic (214 million years ago).

The remains of these dinosaurs were recovered in expeditions during the 1990s and were originally assigned to Plateosaurus; however, as this article has explored, enough anatomical differences in the skull bones allowed it to be recognized as a new genus and species. Together with the European Plateosaurus, Issi saaneq form the group of plateosaurid sauropodomorphs.

This new dinosaur increases the diversity of dinosaurs during the Late Triassic and allows us to start retracing the evolutionary routes and timing for the iconic group of sauropods that roamed the Earth for almost 150 million years. View this paper

Articles (101)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,771 Views
16 Pages

Water Quality Analysis in a Subtropical River with an Adapted Biomonitoring Working Party (BMWP) Index

  • Guillermo Magallón Ortega,
  • Carlos Escalera Gallardo,
  • Eugenia López-López,
  • Jacinto Elías Sedeño-Díaz,
  • Martín López Hernández,
  • Miriam Arroyo-Damián and
  • Rodrigo Moncayo-Estrada

22 November 2021

Subtropical rivers in developing countries often lack adequate monitoring, which makes it difficult to comprehensively determine their water quality when faced with different anthropic impacts. There are no proper protocols in the regulations to inco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,038 Views
19 Pages

22 November 2021

This study provides new results from an inventory of cyanobacterial species from the Northern Polar Ural Mountains. The article also compiles all existing published data on the cyanobacterial diversity of the region. This ecoregion is located in a un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,542 Views
15 Pages

Salinity Affects Freshwater Invertebrate Traits and Litter Decomposition

  • Manuela Abelho,
  • Rui Ribeiro and
  • Matilde Moreira-Santos

21 November 2021

We evaluated the effect of seawater intrusion in coastal ecosystems on the freshwater invertebrate community and on leaf litter decomposition under realistic scenarios in six outdoor freshwater mesocosms containing fauna and flora, to which increasin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,134 Views
16 Pages

21 November 2021

Natural history collections include rare and significant taxa that might otherwise be unavailable for comparative studies. However, curators must balance the needs of current and long-term research. Methods of data extraction that minimize the impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,432 Views
46 Pages

Italian Vascular Flora: New Findings, Updates and Exploration of Floristic Similarities between Regions

  • Adriano Stinca,
  • Carmelo Maria Musarella,
  • Leonardo Rosati,
  • Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface,
  • Wolfgang Licht,
  • Emanuele Fanfarillo,
  • Robert Philipp Wagensommer,
  • Gabriele Galasso,
  • Simonetta Fascetti and
  • Assunta Esposito
  • + 11 authors

21 November 2021

The tradition of floristic studies in Italy has made it possible to obtain a good knowledge of plant diversity both on a national and regional scale. However, the lack of knowledge for some areas, advances in plant systematics and human activities re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,392 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2021

The present paper focuses on the flora of synuralean algae from four northern provinces in Vietnam: Bac Kan, Hanoi, Ninh Binh, and Thanh Hoa. Fifty-five water bodies were studied, including territories within national parks Ba Be, Ba Vi, Cuc Phuong,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,226 Views
29 Pages

Range Shifts in the Worldwide Expansion of Oenothera drummondii subsp. drummondii, a Plant Species of Coastal Dunes

  • Frida R. Castillo-Infante,
  • Gabriela Mendoza-González,
  • Rodolfo Rioja-Nieto and
  • Juan B. Gallego-Fernández

21 November 2021

Oenothera drummondii is a coastal dunes plant species from the North American continent that has affected the natural structure and dynamics of Spanish, Israeli, and Chinese shores as an invasive species. In South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,671 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2021

Background: Flowers are one of the important microhabitats promoting beetle diversity, but little is known about variation in the diversity of these insects at higher elevations. We do not know how divergent habitats influence the distribution of bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,331 Views
24 Pages

21 November 2021

To date, 34 tardigrade taxa have been recorded from Vietnam and this includes only two macrobiotid species belonging to the genus Mesobiotus. In this paper, two additional species of this genus, one of the M. harmsworthi group and one of the M. furci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,992 Views
8 Pages

Phylogenetic Placement of the Plesioclytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)

  • Laura N. Sutherland,
  • Kyle E. Schnepp,
  • Gareth S. Powell and
  • Seth M. Bybee

20 November 2021

The tribe Plesioclytini was recently erected for a single genus of cerambycine longhorn beetle. The group was diagnosed from a proposed sister lineage, the diverse Clytini; however, a formal phylogenetic analysis was not performed due to limitations...

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