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Diversity, Volume 16, Issue 2

February 2024 - 56 articles

Cover Story: Following an historic reintroduction in 2022, the formerly extinct-in-the-wild Spix’s Macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) once again fly free in their native Caatinga habitat in eastern Brazil. The captive-reared macaws not only quickly adjusted to their native habitat following release, but also began to successfully breed and raise chicks in the wild, a highly encouraging series of events that bodes well for the future of this critically endangered avian species. View this paper
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Articles (56)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,322 Views
8 Pages

Nigrospora humicola (Apiosporaceae, Amphisphaeriales), a New Fungus from Soil in China

  • Ying-Ying Zhang,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Hai-Yan Li,
  • Ran Zheng,
  • Jie Ren,
  • Qin Yang and
  • Ning Jiang

12 February 2024

The fungal genus Nigrospora is known to be a plant pathogen, endophyte, and saprobe, and it is usually isolated from various substrates like soil and air. During the surveys of soil fungi in Hebei Province of China, two isolates of Nigrospora were ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,597 Views
16 Pages

Microbiological Collections in Brazil: Current Status and Perspectives

  • Chirlei Glienke,
  • Desirrê Alexia Lourenço Petters-Vandresen,
  • Aline da Silva Soares Souto,
  • Luciane Marinoni and
  • Manuela da Silva

9 February 2024

As part of a Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation initiative, the Brazilian Societies of Botany, Microbiology, Virology, and Zoology conducted a comprehensive evaluation of biological collections in Brazil. This assessment aimed to gather...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,099 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Non-Native Annual Plant Removal on Native Species in Mediterranean-Climate Shrub Communities

  • Priscilla M. Ta,
  • Emily Griffoul,
  • Quinn Sorenson,
  • Katharina T. Schmidt,
  • Isaac Ostmann,
  • Travis E. Huxman,
  • Jennifer J. Long,
  • Kathleen R. Balazs,
  • Jutta C. Burger and
  • Megan Lulow
  • + 1 author

9 February 2024

Removal of non-native plants is known to increase overall native cover within degraded communities that contain at least a small percentage of native plant cover. We investigated the mechanisms behind this pattern, asking whether removal of non-nativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,090 Views
11 Pages

9 February 2024

Uropodina mites are organisms regularly found in the breeding sites of vertebrates. However, studies devoted to the nest dwellers of hole-nesting birds have been performed nearly exclusively in artificial places, i.e., nest boxes. Here, we describe a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,231 Views
52 Pages

A Taxonomic Review of South African Indigenous Meliaceae Using Molecular Systematics and Anatomical Data

  • Mariam Oyefunke Oyedeji Amusa,
  • Ross Dylan Stewart,
  • Michelle van der Bank and
  • Ben-Erik van Wyk

8 February 2024

The Meliaceae are broadly distributed worldwide, with about 50 genera and over 1400 species. There are 11 genera in South Africa, with 13 indigenous and three naturalized species. Considering the diversity of the indigenous species of this family in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,051 Views
16 Pages

8 February 2024

This study assessed the taxonomic statuses of three lesser-known Magelona F. Müller, 1858 species collected from intertidal to sublittoral habitats in Korean coastal waters, basing identification on morphological features and comparing them with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,210 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2024

Species of genus Aelia are important pests of wheat crops in arid areas. In this study, the mitogenomes of A. sibirica and A. fieberi were sequenced using high-throughput sequencing technology. The mitochondrial genome characteristics of both Aelia s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,451 Views
18 Pages

8 February 2024

Vegetation tends to vary in a systematic fashion along elevational gradients, leading to the possibility of recognizing distinct vegetational belts, which are frequently used to describe and interpret elevational variations in biodiversity. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,628 Views
19 Pages

8 February 2024

The Rejtek I. Rock Shelter in the Bükk Mountains of the inner Western Carpathian region plays an important role in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental historical analyses. The investigations of the cave sediment accumulated from the...

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