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Diversity, Volume 15, Issue 4

April 2023 - 116 articles

Cover Story: The discovery of new fossil rhynchosaur specimens from the Late Triassic in Wyoming, USA, necessitated a description of the new fossils and re-description of the rhynchosaur fossil USNM 494329. Combined, these form the basis for a new rhynchosaur species, Beesiiwo cooowuse gen. et sp. nov. The specimens were found on the traditional lands of the Northern Arapaho people. Tribal elders bestowed the first scientific name in the Arapaho language to this new taxon. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrate that the Wyoming rhynchosaurs are early diverging members of Hyperodapedontinae, a globally distributed clade that went extinct ca. 227 Ma. The presence of B. cooowuse supports an age no younger than ca. 227 Ma, filling an important temporal gap in the Late Triassic strata of the western USA. View this paper
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Articles (116)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,834 Views
20 Pages

Evaluating the Impact of Headstarting on the Critically Endangered Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea

  • Egor Y. Loktionov,
  • Roland A. Digby,
  • Nickolay N. Yakushev,
  • Ivan A. Shepelev,
  • Jodie P. Clements,
  • Pavel S. Tomkovich,
  • Nigel S. Jarrett,
  • Nigel A. Clark,
  • Rhys E. Green and
  • Elena G. Lappo
  • + 1 author

21 April 2023

Headstarting is a conservation approach that suggests offering an advantage to a population by improving egg production, survival of embryos and/or juveniles. In this article, we are providing the quantitative data obtained during 10 years for differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,564 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2023

Filamentous green chaetophoralean algae are distributed mainly in aquatic ecosystems, less known from terrestrial habitats. Many of them have a complicated thalli and complex life cycles that make it difficult to determine these organisms by morpholo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,307 Views
14 Pages

21 April 2023

The benthic macrofauna of Arctic and subarctic seas is mainly represented by widespread species and is generally devoid of endemics. The exceptions are reduced habitats, such as cold seeps, hydrothermal areas, and wood falls, which include endemics o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,505 Views
14 Pages

20 April 2023

Biofertilizers have been suggested as alternatives to synthetic fertilizers, which could reduce soil degradation brought on by excessive chemical fertilization and have an impact on the bacterial diversity and community in the soil. The diversity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,167 Views
23 Pages

Fungal Diversity and Dynamics during Long-Term Immersion of Conventional and Biodegradable Plastics in the Marine Environment

  • Aurélie Philippe,
  • Cyril Noël,
  • Boris Eyheraguibel,
  • Jean-François Briand,
  • Ika Paul-Pont,
  • Jean-François Ghiglione,
  • Emmanuel Coton and
  • Gaëtan Burgaud

20 April 2023

Plastics are associated with a worldwide pollution crisis, with strong negative impacts on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In marine environments, various organisms are colonizing plastic debris, but few studies have focused on fungal commun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,453 Views
20 Pages

20 April 2023

A new species belonging to the genus Parathalestris Brady & Robertson, 1873 was identified and described here based on samples recently collected from a survey on fouling organisms at the Zhonggang wharf in Qingdao, China. The new species differs...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,322 Views
11 Pages

A New Record of Pinctada fucata (Bivalvia: Pterioida: Pteriidae) in Mischief Reef: A Potential Invasive Species in the Nansha Islands, China

  • Binbin Shan,
  • Zhenghua Deng,
  • Shengwei Ma,
  • Dianrong Sun,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Changping Yang,
  • Qiaer Wu and
  • Gang Yu

20 April 2023

Mischief Reef is located in the eastern Nansha Islands of the South China Sea. With increasingly intense anthropogenic disturbance, Pinctada fucata, a previously unrecorded species in the reef, has occurred in the region. In this study, we identified...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,787 Views
13 Pages

Initial Population Analysis and Mycorrhizal Fungi of the Leafless Epiphytic Orchid, Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum, in Florida

  • Adam R. Herdman,
  • Ernesto B. Mújica,
  • Mark W. Danaher,
  • Lawrence W. Zettler,
  • Kurt Schulz and
  • Elizabeth Esselman

19 April 2023

Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum Rchb.f. Rolfe, also known as the ribbon orchid, is native to southern Florida, the West Indies, and northern South America. In Florida, it is restricted to the Fakahatchee Strand and is currently state-listed as endangered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,449 Views
13 Pages

19 April 2023

Reintroduction of European bison into the natural environment is one of the most important conservation measures applied for this species. After creating a free herd of European bison, spatial monitoring is crucial. It allows for observation of the p...

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