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Diversity, Volume 15, Issue 3

March 2023 - 160 articles

Cover Story: Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815 is a polychaete family that inhabits calcareous tubes. Traditionally, the family was subdivided into Serpulinae, Filograninae and Spirorbinae, but recent phylogenetic analyses suggested that both Filograninae and Serpulinae are paraphyletic. This is the first phylogenetic analysis of Serpulidae based on a comprehensive sampling of genera, using both morphological and molecular data. We analysed 18S, 28S, histone H3 ribosomal nuclear DNA and cytochrome b mitochondrial sequences. The new classification includes the re-formulated Serpulinae (with tribes Serpulini and Ficopomatini), Spirorbinae, and Filograninae, with apomorphies highlighted for major taxa. View this paper
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Articles (160)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,105 Views
17 Pages

Long-Term Population Trends and Diversity Shifts among Shorebirds: A Predictor of Biodiversity Loss along the Arabian Gulf Coasts

  • H. Shamna,
  • K. A. Rubeena,
  • Humood A. Naser,
  • T. R. Athira,
  • Ajay Kumar Singh,
  • Ali H. Almusabeh,
  • Stamatis Zogaris,
  • Omar F. Al-Sheikhly,
  • Yanjie Xu and
  • Aymen Nefla
  • + 3 authors

22 March 2023

Bahrain is a cluster of islands in the mid-section of the Arabian Gulf that serves as an important wintering and stop-over ground for many migratory shorebirds in the Central Asian Flyway (CAF). However, natural and anthropogenic factors have had a s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,972 Views
20 Pages

Some European Gentiana Species Are Used Traditionally to Cure Wounds: Bioactivity and Conservation Issues

  • Ardalan Pasdaran,
  • Zheko Naychov,
  • Daniela Batovska,
  • Philip Kerr,
  • Adrien Favre,
  • Vladimir Dimitrov,
  • Ina Aneva,
  • Azadeh Hamedi and
  • Ekaterina Kozuharova

22 March 2023

Wound care will always be among the main tasks in all surgical specialties. Several medicinal plants have proven efficacy to cure wounds. Ethnobotanical research and ethnopharmacological research have virtually endless potential to find new lead comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,793 Views
21 Pages

Seasonality and Long-Term Effect of Environmental Variables on the Orb Weaver Spider Community of a Tropical Dry Forest in the Balsas Basin, Mexico

  • Miguel Menéndez-Acuña,
  • Mónica Salas-Rodríguez,
  • Griselda Montiel-Parra,
  • Solange Sotuyo and
  • Ma Ventura Rosas-Echeverría

21 March 2023

Spiders are significant predators in terrestrial habitats, with the highest diversity found in tropical ecosystems, but it is also where they are studied least. In this study, we analyzed the effect of seasonality and three environmental variables (p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,582 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2023

This article reviews all available information on the species composition, current distribution, and origins of the neobiotic (non-indigenous and restoring the lost range) freshwater mollusks in Siberia. An extensive literary search has been carried...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,326 Views
14 Pages

Microbiome Profile of the Mediterranean Mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from Northern Aegean Sea (Greece) Culture Areas, Based on a 16S rRNA Next Generation Sequencing Approach

  • Konstantinos Schoinas,
  • Vasiliki Konstantou,
  • Emmanouela Bompou,
  • George Floros,
  • Dimitrios Chatziplis,
  • Anastasia Imsiridou and
  • Dimitrios Loukovitis

21 March 2023

Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis), due to their nutritional mechanisms which involve filtering huge amounts of water, are affected by seawater pollution and can host microbial diversity of environmental origin, as well as pathogenic b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,884 Views
12 Pages

How Common Are Lesions on the Tails of Sauropods? Two New Pathologies in Titanosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Argentine Patagonia

  • Penélope Cruzado-Caballero,
  • Leonardo Sebastián Filippi,
  • Javier González-Dionis and
  • José Ignacio Canudo

21 March 2023

Studies of the paleopathology of the vertebrae provide an interesting, oblique approach to their paleobiology and even paleoethology. They tell us about possible ethological causes such as accidental blows with objects, social interactions within a g...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,118 Views
12 Pages

A Review of Research on the Mustard Hill Coral, Porites astreoides

  • Ryan G. Eagleson,
  • Lorenzo Álvarez-Filip and
  • John S. Lumsden

21 March 2023

Coral reefs are the most diverse habitat per unit area in the world’s oceans, supporting an estimated 1–3 million species in only 0.2% of its area. These ecosystems have suffered severe declines since the 1970s, largely as a result of cli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,840 Views
13 Pages

Geographically Isolated Wetlands as a Reserve for the Conservation of Amphibian Biodiversity at the Edge of Their Range

  • Mihails Pupins,
  • Oksana Nekrasova,
  • Volodymyr Tytar,
  • Alberts Garkajs,
  • Iurii Petrov,
  • Aleksandra Morozova,
  • Kathrin Theissinger,
  • Andris Čeirāns,
  • Arturs Skute and
  • Jean-Yves Georges

21 March 2023

Wetlands are of great importance for biodiversity and nature conservation, especially geographically isolated wetlands (GIW). Yet literature about the ecological value of such GIW is missing, especially at the edge of the distribution of endangered s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,999 Views
22 Pages

Application of the Vegetation Condition Index in the Diagnosis of Spatiotemporal Distribution of Agricultural Droughts: A Case Study Concerning the State of Espírito Santo, Southeastern Brazil

  • Adriano Posse Senhorelo,
  • Elias Fernandes de Sousa,
  • Alexandre Rosa dos Santos,
  • Jéferson Luiz Ferrari,
  • João Batista Esteves Peluzio,
  • Sidney Sara Zanetti,
  • Rita de Cássia Freire Carvalho,
  • Cláudio Barberini Camargo Filho,
  • Kaíse Barbosa de Souza and
  • Taís Rizzo Moreira
  • + 3 authors

21 March 2023

We applied a robust framework for agricultural drought identification in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil, by employing the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) based on data obtained through the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). By doing so, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,721 Views
11 Pages

20 March 2023

Formalin preservation affects the stable isotope composition of zooplankton samples, thus limiting the analysis of valuable collections covering large time intervals. Here, we compare different procedures for correcting the bias caused by formalin in...

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