2025 September - 74 articles
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a key legume crop of global economic and nutritional importance, yet its cultivation in Kazakhstan is constrained by a narrow genetic base and exposure to stress-prone environments. To characterize the diversity avail...
Wheat landraces are considered a valuable resource of potential phenotypic variation that could be used in germplasm improvement. Here, we examined 588 local wheat genotypes collected from farmers’ fields at 127 locations around Van Lake Basin...
Agroforestry involves maintaining trees alongside crops and is widely recognised to provide multiple benefits, including improving food security, production efficiency, and soil quality and mitigating climate change. However, in Sub-Saharan Africa, a...
Myriophyllum aquaticum is an invasive plant that poses a threat to native plants and industries in China. Therefore, this study aimed to specifically investigate the effects of varying UV-B radiation intensities on the growth and physiological traits...
As environmental indicators, invertebrate communities are closely related to changes in the water environment. Efficient and accurate monitoring of invertebrates is of great significance for providing references for water environment conservation. Ho...
Demographic constraints can have a profound effect on behavioral ecology. Yet examinations of intraspecific variation considering both sex and age are rare. We assess age and sex-specific habitat use, movement, and behavior in variegated toad-headed...
We describe the trophic relationships of tachinid parasitoid flies that attack exophagous, leaf-eating Lepidoptera caterpillars in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica over approximately forty years beginning i...
Investigating the factors determining the co-existence of closely related species is key to understanding how biodiversity is structured and maintained. To this end, we seek to comprehend the geographical distribution of species, their range overlap,...
The genus Pasiphaea Savigny, 1816, comprises a diverse assemblage of meso- to bathypelagic shrimps, currently including 69 valid species. Taxonomic investigations have long been hampered by numerous synonymies and by species known only from their ori...
Cysticercosis in wild and domestic ungulates, caused by the larval metacestode stages of Taenia hydatigena and Taenia multiceps (formerly known as Cysticercus tenuicollis and Coenurus cerebralis, respectively), is a widespread parasitic disease and p...
Bird–plant interactions are critical for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function, and represent a key research focus in modern ecology. Using the line transect method, we surveyed bird diversity and collected plant trait data in four ha...
Determining evolutionary significant units (ESUs) is essential for the purpose of biological conservation. Recent definitions of ESUs stress the importance of using ecological data with molecular analysis. The present work aimed to study the genetic...
Water stress represents one of the most critical limiting factors affecting plant distribution, growth rate, biomass accumulation, and crop yield across diverse growth stages. Variations in species’ drought tolerance fundamentally shape global...
Catsharks are benthic elasmobranchs that share spatial niches with littoral and demersal bony fishes. The genus Schroederichthys includes five species, two of which, S. chilensis and S. bivius, occur in the waters of Chile. These species are morpholo...
The Doce River basin is the largest river system in southeastern Brazil. Over the last century, the Doce River has been undergoing a serious process of degradation, culminating in a huge environmental disaster due to Fundão tailing dam burstin...
Estuaries are vital coastal ecosystems that support fish during key life stages such as spawning, feeding, and early development. This study investigates ichthyoplankton composition and abundance in the Sanquianga Tapaje estuarine system, located in...
The diversity and distribution of fish in the water bodies of the Black Irtysh basin was studied in connection with six abiotic environmental parameters (surface flow velocity, width and depth of rivers, connection with the main river, and bottom and...
The present study explored the seasonal dynamics of spat settlement and growth of the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) in the semi-enclosed and eutrophic Maliakos Gulf (Central Aegean, Greece), a coastal system within the Natura 2000...
This study investigated the distribution and epidemiology of Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (Pss), the causal agent of olive knot disease, in major olive-growing provinces of Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, between 2019 and 2021. Field surveys...
The Atlantic Forest coastal tablelands is home to a wide diversity of small-sized freshwater fish sharing a biogeographically congruent distributional pattern. The annual killifish Xenurolebias are among these remarkable inhabitants in the riparian w...
The taxonomic complexity of the genus Phaseolus requires a detailed characterization of traits that highlight species diversity. This study evaluated five wild bean species throughout their life cycle, analyzing 20 qualitative and 18 quantitative mor...
Environmental changes may affect animal hoarding behavior through changes to plant diversity. Food hoarding behavior in small mammals can affect the seed dispersal process and thus the regeneration of the plant population. However, little is known ab...
Cladocera communities in surface sediments from 31 lakes in Hungary were analysed to assess the impacts of land use on the aquatic systems. We evaluated the alpha and beta diversity metrics, with land use classification types based on the Corine Land...
Over the past twenty years, significant efforts have been made to digitize natural collections. This process represents a crucial step in preserving and enhancing biodiversity data. In this context, the phycology team from the Institute for Water Res...
The species diversity of the recently described genus Drouetiella (Oculatellaceae, Cyanobacteriota), including thin filamentous cyanobacteria, has been rapidly increasing due to the subsequent discovery of new-to-science species in the last several y...
During a survey of the intertidal zone on the eastern coast of Jeju Island, Korea, a new species of free-living marine nematode belonging to the Selachinematidae (Chromadorida) family was discovered and described. Gammanema papillatum sp. nov. is mor...
The importance of temperature for the biology and ecology of reptiles is well known. In temperate regions where temperatures fluctuate on a daily and seasonal basis, reptiles must respond appropriately to maintain body temperatures that enable activi...
We describe a new stick insect species, Pseudoparamenexenus beiliuensis sp. nov., by an integrated approach using morphological and molecular data. The mitochondrial genomes of this new species and Pseudoparamenexenus yangi collected from Jianfenglin...
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Elucidating the relationship between changes in insect assemblage structure and diversity and the number of years of ecological restoration will help us evaluate the effectiveness of ecological restoration. Our objective is to investigate the respons...
As apex predators, felids (Felidae) face unresolved phylogenetic controversies due to their recent rapid speciation and remarkable morphological conservatism. Previous studies, often relying on a limited number of genetic markers, were constrained by...
Isoperla powhatan Szczytko & Kondratieff, 2015 is newly proposed as a junior synonym of I. myersi Szczytko & Kondratieff, 2015 based on an integrative analysis of morphological and molecular phylogenetic data. Revised descriptions of the adul...
The fossiliferous Dursunlu Lignite Quarry (DLQ) is highlighted prominently in the archeological and paleontological literature because of the study of Pleistocene fauna and lithic artifacts, being considered the oldest Paleolithic site in Türkiy...
Understanding microhabitat preferences of endangered species and the drivers involved in this selection are crucial for understanding their ecology and implementing conservation actions. This issue gains more importance with amphibians, which are kno...
The Danube in Croatia serves as an important transport route but also favors the spread of invasive species, especially in the floodplain areas. Many of them originate from the Ponto-Caspian region and influence European ecosystems with their migrati...
The flora of Haida Gwaii includes many macroalgal species, initially assumed endemic, which are largely absent from southern British Columbia but which were subsequently collected in California. One explanation for these disjunct distributions is the...
With the expansion of utility-scale renewable energy development worldwide, accurate estimation of bird and bat fatalities is needed for informed policy-making and appropriate formulation of mitigation strategies. Background mortality, or the mortali...
Juglans neotropica Diels, classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List, plays a crucial role in the resilience of Andean montane forests in southern Ecuador—a megadiverse region encompassing coastal, Andean, and Amazonian ecosystems. This stud...
Phylogeographic studies in Antarctica allow us to understand the demographic events of populations during glacial periods. In this study, the polyplacophoran Tonicina zschaui was analyzed in several localities on the West Antarctic Coast using the mi...
The creation of a new protected area, especially on permafrost territory, along with the adoption of legislative measures, requires a thorough assessment of its ecological diversity and condition. In the planned Bolshoe Toko National Park (Yakutia, N...
This study investigated the influence of physicochemical water parameters on benthic macroinvertebrate communities across 11 sampling stations located in the Western, Antalya, and Eastern Mediterranean Basins of Türkiye. Field studies were condu...
Some Melanothamnus species have been documented growing epiphytically on other algae in seaweed aquaculture farms as fouling organisms. Such turf-forming Polysiphonia-looking algae were collected from a small (<1.0 km2 area) Agarophyton tenuistipi...
The Strait of Sicily represents a biogeographically rich and complex region. The diverse geological origin and past continental connection of its islands have shaped a highly heterogeneous fauna, mainly composed of both African and European taxa. The...
Cover cropping is increasingly recognized as a biodiversity-friendly practice in Mediterranean agriculture. However, its impact on ground-dwelling arthropods in olive groves remains insufficiently studied. This study assesses the effects of two peren...
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Many species of Calocybe are of great edible value. Nineteen species of Calocybe have been reported from China, which represents about 40% of the global population. However, in Shanxi Province, located in northern China, no Calocybe species had been...
Bats’ ecosystem services, especially as insect pest controllers, are often neglected. Studies on bats in the rice fields provide valuable insights into the bat species that forage during different phases of paddy growth. A bat detector was used...
The ecological restoration of degraded alpine steppe is a critical component of ecological conservation efforts on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. In this study, we investigated the effects of fertilization, reseeding, and combined fertilization w...
To evaluate the stability dynamics of typical forest plant communities in Northeast China, 57 forest plots were surveyed in 2009 and surveyed again in 2014. By adapting temporary stability (TS) as the community stability indicator, all plots were div...
Illegal wildlife trade is a major global driver of biodiversity loss, shaped by high consumer demand, transboundary networks, and uneven enforcement. In the Middle East, particularly the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, factors such as high pur...
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