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Freshwater mussels (Unionida) perform important functions that are integral to keeping streams, rivers, and lakes operating as holistic ecosystems. Some of these functions improve water quality for humans through their filtration activities such as n...

The genus Pavona includes massive to submassive hermatypic corals and represents one of the main reef builders of the coral reefs in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP). However, its development and specific ecological role, particularly on offshore r...

The re-identification of endangered felines is critical for species conservation and biodiversity assessment. This paper proposes the Pose-Guided Network with the Adaptive L2 Regularization (PGNet-AL2) framework to overcome key challenges in wild fel...

Pseudoscorpions collected from the remote southeast Pacific Island of Motu Motiro Hiva (also known as Isla Salas y Gómez) yielded two different species. A juvenile specimen of the genus Garypus (Garypidae) was found near the seashore, which re...

Climate change accelerates biodiversity loss, threatening ecosystems worldwide. Using predictive models, such as the maximum entropy model (Maxent), allows us to identify changes in species distribution and guide conservation strategies. This study a...

This study analyzed the relationships between land-cover types and the distribution of alien and invasive plant species using data from the 5th National Ecosystem Survey of Korea (2019–2023). A total of 711,557 plant occurrence records were col...

Diatoms are of major importance in marine and freshwater systems, but their occurrence in terrestrial situations is generally thought to be exceptional. Following up on the accidental discovery of epiphytic diatoms on bark samples in an unrelated stu...

This study examined the sediment microbial communities at 12 stations within the Meretrix meretrix farming area in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, utilising high-throughput sequencing. It elucidates the ecological relationships between the sediment microbi...

For the first time, the same fish species is recorded from Triassic rocks at both ends of the Tethys, namely, Thoracopterus wushaensis Tintori et al., 2012. First described from the southwestern China Xingyi Fauna (late Ladinian, Middle Triassic), it...

Edible underground storage organ (EUO) plants, including tubers, rhizomes, corms, and root tubers, play a crucial role in food security, nutrition, traditional medicine, and local livelihoods, yet many regions of northeastern Thailand, including Maha...