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Diversity, Volume 13, Issue 2

February 2021 - 64 articles

Cover Story: A femur found in 1925 by the French naturalist Emile Licent shows that giant ostriches inhabited what is now Northern China some 1.8 million years ago. The specimen comes from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of the Nihewan Basin (Hebei, China). It refers to the extinct genus Pachystruthio, hitherto known from Lower Pleistocene localities in Hungary, Crimea, and Georgia, thus much extending the distribution of Pachystruthio eastward. A mass estimate of 300 kg indicates that this Chinese ostrich was twice the weight of the living ostrich Struthio camelus. Pachystruthio was contemporaneous with the early hominins of the Nihewan Basin. View this paper
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Articles (64)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,475 Views
25 Pages

19 February 2021

Ants are highly diverse in the Iberian Peninsula (IP), both in species richness (299 cited species) and in number of endemic species (72). The Iberian ant fauna is one of the richest in the broader Mediterranean region, it is similar to the Balkan Pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,058 Views
12 Pages

19 February 2021

Currently, there is a demand for more energy-efficient lighting sources, however, light emitted by different lighting systems differs in primary properties such as intensity, propagation direction, and wavelength spectrum, among others, and these pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,919 Views
10 Pages

Influence of Habitat on Presence of Striped Skunks in Midwestern North America

  • Katelyn Amspacher,
  • F. Agustín Jiménez and
  • Clayton Nielsen

18 February 2021

Striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) are urban-adapted, generalist mesocarnivores widely distributed throughout North America. Although striped skunks have been studied extensively at small scales, knowledge of habitat influences on striped skunks at l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,869 Views
18 Pages

Land Use Effects on Airborne Bacterial Communities Are Evident in Both Near-Surface and Higher-Altitude Air

  • Allison M. Spring,
  • Kenneth D. Domingue,
  • Thomas V. Kerber,
  • Margaret M. Mooney,
  • Rebecca L. Hale,
  • Kristina M. Lemmer and
  • Kathryn M. Docherty

18 February 2021

Land use influences the composition of near-surface airborne bacterial communities, and bacteria can be transported through the atmosphere at global scales. The atmosphere mixes vertically, but rigorously assessing whether the effects of land use on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,073 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2021

Spatial hierarchical approaches to classify freshwater systems can add to our understanding of biogeographical patterns and can be used for biodiversity conservation planning. The Strawberry River is located primarily in the Ozark Highlands Central P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,167 Views
13 Pages

Soil Bacterial and Fungal Composition and Diversity Responses to Seasonal Deer Grazing in a Subalpine Meadow

  • Andéole Niyongabo Turatsinze,
  • Baotian Kang,
  • Tianqi Zhu,
  • Fujiang Hou and
  • Saman Bowatte

18 February 2021

Soil microbial composition and diversity are widely recognized for their role in ecological functioning. This study examined the differences of soil microbial communities between two seasonally grazed grasslands. The study area was in the Gansu red d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,514 Views
34 Pages

On the Systematics and Biodiversity of the Opheliidae and Scalibregmatidae

  • Julio Parapar,
  • Alejandro Martínez and
  • Juan Moreira

18 February 2021

In this paper we review the systematics, diversity, and ecology of two related annelid families: Opheliidae Malmgren, 1867 and Scalibregmatidae Malmgren, 1867. Opheliids are deposit-feeders and that are mainly found as burrowers in sandy sediments. M...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,587 Views
26 Pages

16 February 2021

Microzooplankton communities are fundamental components of marine food webs and have the potential to impact the functioning of carbon pumps. The identification of common responses of microzooplankton to global change has been challenging due to thei...

  • Interesting Images
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,274 Views
3 Pages

15 February 2021

In recent decades, the transplantation of corals has been a primary focus of restoration strategies in areas where coral populations have declined [...]

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Diversity - ISSN 1424-2818