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Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea

Ecography, EarlyView.
Invasive freshwater bivalves harm native species, ecosystems and biodiversity, and incur economic costs. The enemy release hypothesis posits that invasive species are released from enemies during the invasion process, giving them a competitive advantage in the new environment.
Binglin Deng, Nicoletta Riccardi, Pin Nie, Maria Urbańska, Timo J. Marjomäki, Wojciech Andrzejewski, Małgorzata Ożgo, Keiko Nakamura, Jouni Taskinen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

DNA barcoding of passerine birds in Iran [PDF]

ZooKeys
Exploring genetic diversity is essential for precise species delimitation, especially within taxonomically complex groups like passerine birds.
Sahar Javaheri Tehrani, Elham Rezazadeh, Niloofar Alaei Kakhki, Leila Nourani, Vali Ebadi, Sahar Karimi, Mojtaba Karami, Fatemeh Ashouri, Asaad Sarshar, Toni I. Gossmann, Mansour Aliabadian   +10 more
doaj   +3 more sources

An Integrated Assessment of the Introduction of Lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles complex) to the Western Atlantic Ocean. [PDF]

, 2003
Lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles complex) are venomous coral reef fishes from the Indian and western Pacific oceans that are now found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
Hare, Jonathan A., Whitfield, Paula E.
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From shadows to data: first robust population assessment of snow leopards in Pakistan

Ecography, EarlyView.
The snow leopard Panthera uncia is a flagship species of the greater Himalayan region and symbolizes the integrity of this ecological system. Within the greater Himalayas, Pakistan holds special significance as the north of the country represents a confluence of three major mountain ranges (Hindu Kush, Pamir–Karakoram, and Himalaya).
Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Shoaib Hameed, Jaffar Ud Din, Hussain Ali, Shakeel Ahmad, Ian Durbach, Mehmood Ghaznavi, Mohsin Farooque, Naeem Iftikhar, Muhammad SamarHussain Khan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms of peripheral phylogeographic divergence in the indo-Pacific: lessons from the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
Background There is increasing recognition of the concordance between marine biogeographic and phylogeographic boundaries. However, it is still unclear how population-level divergence translates into species-level divergence, and what are the principal ...
Ahmad Farhadi, Andrew G. Jeffs, Hamid Farahmand, Thankappan Sarasam Rejiniemon, Greg Smith, Shane D. Lavery   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples

Ecography, EarlyView.
Species distribution models (SDMs) predict where species live or could potentially live and are a key resource for ecological research and conservation decision‐making. However, current SDM methods often perform poorly for rare or inadequately sampled species, which include most species on earth, as well as most of those of the greatest conservation ...
Brian S. Maitner, Robert L. Richards, Ben S. Carlson, John M. Drake, Cory Merow   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How much species' biodiversity could area targets protect globally?

Ecography, EarlyView.
Protection targets for addressing biodiversity loss include protecting at least 30% of the land and ocean in ecologically representative areas, but do not specify how many or what proportion of species should be protected from extinction. Here, a systematic analysis of 77 880 marine, freshwater and terrestrial species indicates that all species could ...
Qianshuo Zhao, Mark John Costello
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging a biogeographic 'gap' : microfossil evidence for the quillwort Isoetes on the Cumberland Plain west of Sydney during the early Colonial period [PDF]

, 2013
Fossil spores preserved on historical archaeological sites at Parramatta and Richmond indicate that two or more species of the quillwort genus Isoetes (family Isoetaceae) were growing along rivers on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney, during the late ...
Casey, Mary, Macphail, Mike
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‘EcoCleanR': enhancing data quality of biogeographic ranges with application for marine invertebrates

Ecography, EarlyView.
Published distribution data, while invaluable for understanding species' biogeography, often suffer from limitations such as dated and static representations of ranges, a bias toward latitudinal information, and lack of resolution in sampling frequency and variation in abundance throughout a species' distribution.
Priyanka Soni, Austin J. W. Hendy, David J. Bottjer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting oxygen thresholds of marine taxa to improve ecological forecasts

Ecography, EarlyView.
Species' ranges are shifting in response to increasing temperature and decreasing oxygen in coastal oceans. Predicting these shifts is limited by information on physiological oxygen thresholds and how they depend on temperature. Here we collate laboratory‐derived measurements of a common oxygen threshold, pcrit, for 148 animal species that span six ...
Timothy E. Essington, James T. Thorson, Curtis Deutsch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source