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Revised Body Mass Estimates for Extinct Lemurs. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Body mass estimates for extinct animals are critical for informing hypotheses and analyses related to behavioral ecology, extinction risk, and locomotor modes. These estimates underpin reconstructions of behavioral ecology, especially for Madagascar's extinct subfossil lemurs.
Thompson KET, Rothman RS, Polk JD, Lawrence FT, Jungers W, Russo GA.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Predictive factors for flea occurrence in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from semi-arid Mediterranean environments. [PDF]

Med Vet Entomol, 2023
Environmental factors influencing flea occurrence in foxes from semi‐arid Mediterranean areas Abstract The role of red fox as host for a wide range of parasites, particularly fleas and other arthropods causing vector‐borne diseases, in combination with its capability to adapt to anthropized environments, makes this wild canid an epidemiologically ...
Perez R, Pérez-Cutillas P, Gonzálvez M, Muñoz-Hernández C, Arcenillas-Hernández I, de Ruiz de Ybáñez R, Escribano F, Martínez-Carrasco C.   +7 more
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The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We assessed the effects of experimental patches of live and dead corals on reef fish assemblages in different live stages. While dead and live corals provided equal shelter for mobile recruits, only live corals supported higher post‐recruit abundance, species richness, and functional diversity.
Mattos FMG, Mulla AJ, Denis V, Lin CH, Lin TH, Nozawa Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vulnerability of tropical fish communities across depth in the central Indian Ocean. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Coral reefs and their fish communities below scuba diving depth (>30 m), in mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) (∼30–150 m), in rariphotic (150–300 m), and in upper bathyal waters (300–500 m) are often underexplored, especially in the Indian Ocean.
Stefanoudis PV, de Villiers NM, Afzal MS, Amir H, Amjad F, Hashim AS, Jauharee AR, Palmer R, Rogers AD, Shimal M, Naeem S, Ahusan M, Woodall LC.   +12 more
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Developmental tuning of mineralization drives morphological diversity of gill cover bones in sculpins and their relatives. [PDF]

Evol Lett, 2019
Abstract The role of osteoblast placement in skeletal morphological variation is relatively well understood, but alternative developmental mechanisms affecting bone shape remain largely unknown. Specifically, very little attention has been paid to variation in later mineralization stages of intramembranous ossification as a driver of morphological ...
Cytrynbaum EG, Small CM, Kwon RY, Hung B, Kent D, Yan YL, Knope ML, Bremiller RA, Desvignes T, Kimmel CB.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Characterization of the Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Globose Head Whiptail Cetonurus globiceps (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) and Its Phylogenetic Analysis [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Peng Tian, Rongcheng Lin, Dingyong Huang   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Commodity risk assessment of Crataegus monogyna plants from the UK

EFSA Journal, Volume 21, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to prepare and deliver risk assessments for commodities listed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as ‘High risk plants, plant products and other objects’. Taking into account the available scientific information, including the technical information provided by ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Alan MacLeod, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Ciro Gardi, Olaf Mosbach Schulz, Antigoni Akrivou, Spyridon Antonatos, Despoina Beris, Jane Debode, Christos Kritikos, Maria Kormpi, Christophe Lacomme, Charles Manceau, Dimitrios Papachristos, Chrysavgi Reppa, Roel Potting   +32 more
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A glimpse into the trophic ecology of deep‐water sharks in an important crustacean fishing ground

Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 102, Issue 3, Page 655-668, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Deep‐water sharks are among the most vulnerable deep‐water taxa because of their extremely conservative life‐history strategies (i.e., late maturation, slow growth, and reproductive rates), yet little is known about their biology and ecology.
Sofia Graça Aranha, Alexandra Teodósio, Vânia Baptista, Karim Erzini, Ester Dias   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 110-147, January 2023., 2023
Abstract With rubble predicted to increase on coral reefs worldwide, we review the physical, biological, and ecological dynamics of rubble beds, with a focus on how rubble generation, mobilization, binding, and coral recruitment is expected to change on future reefs. Major disturbances, including storms and coral bleaching, are predicted to increase in
Tania M. Kenyon, Christopher Doropoulos, Kennedy Wolfe, Gregory E. Webb, Sophie Dove, Daniel Harris, Peter J. Mumby   +6 more
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Quantitative SWOT analysis of key aquaculture species in South Africa

Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 27-41, December 2021., 2021
Major aquaculture food fish species – abalone, dusky kob, mussel, oyster, salmon, trout, tilapia, catfish and marron crayfish, were selected and subjected to qualitative and quantitative SWOT analyses by adapting the quantified SWOT analytical method coupled with the Multi‐Attribute Decision‐Making Method MADM (SWOT‐MADM).
Adeleke Babatunde, Robertson‐Andersson Deborah, Moodley Gan, Taylor Simon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source