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Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing pesticide contamination of the water and air, as runoff and pesticide drift ...
Tari Gunstone   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Context-Driven Detection of Invertebrate Species in Deep-Sea Video [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computer Vision 2023, 2022
Each year, underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) collect thousands of hours of video of unexplored ocean habitats revealing a plethora of information regarding biodiversity on Earth. However, fully utilizing this information remains a challenge as proper annotations and analysis require trained scientists time, which is both limited and costly ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps

open access: yesFrontiers in Zoology, 2023
Various chalcidoid wasps can actively steer their terebra (= ovipositor shaft) in diverse directions, despite the lack of terebral intrinsic musculature.
Benjamin Eggs   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Significance of the suture line in cephalopod taxonomy revealed by 3D morphometrics in the modern nautilids Nautilus and Allonautilus

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Assessing the taxonomic importance of the suture line in shelled cephalopods is a key to better understanding the diversity of this group in Earth history.
Amane Tajika   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally.
Abades, Sebastián   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Feeding spectrum of a dominant splash zone enchytraeid, Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901 (Annelida: Oligochaeta), in Lake Baikal (East Siberia) [PDF]

open access: yesOpuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 2017
The first data on feeding spectrum of Baikal enchytraeids are given. Previously we found that Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901 dominates in abundance in splash zone Oligochaeta community of Bolshie Koty Bay, Lake Baikal.
Zvereva, Yu. M., Timoshkin, O. A.
doaj   +1 more source

Complete mitochondrial genomes of two sand diver species (Perciformes, Trichonotidae): novel gene orders and phylogenetic position within Gobiiformes

open access: yesMitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022
The complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two species of the family Trichonotidae, Trichonotus elegans (Shimada and Yoshino ) and Trichonotus filamentosus (Steindachner ), were determined using a polymerase chain reaction-based method.
Takashi P. Satoh, Eri Katayama
doaj   +1 more source

Vibrio harveyi: a serious pathogen of fish and invertebrates in mariculture

open access: yesMarine Life Science & Technology, 2020
Vibrio harveyi, which belongs to family Vibrionaceae of class Gammaproteobacteria, includes the species V. carchariae and V. trachuri as its junior synonyms.
Xiaohua Zhang, Xinxin He, B. Austin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kangaraneus, a new genus of orb-weaving spider from Australia (Araneae, Araneidae) [PDF]

open access: yesZoosystematics and Evolution, 2023
A new Australian genus in the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae Clerck, 1757 is described, Kangaraneus gen. nov., with K. arenaceus (Keyserling, 1886) comb. nov. (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia) as the type
Pedro de S. Castanheira   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Combined stable isotope and gut contents analysis of food webs in plant-dominated, shallow lakes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
1. To determine feeding links between primary producers, invertebrates and fish, stable isotope analyses and gut content analyses of fish were conducted on the components of four shallow, eutrophic to hypertrophic, plant-dominated lakes. 2.
Adams   +45 more
core   +1 more source

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