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Marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States: History, current status and future trends. [PDF]

open access: yesHarmful Algae, 2021
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are diverse phenomena involving multiple. species and classes of algae that occupy a broad range of habitats from lakes to oceans and produce a multiplicity of toxins or bioactive compounds that impact many different resources.
Anderson DM   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2023
Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles
Rüdiger Bieler   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

open access: yeseLife, 2021
Teeth are present in most clades of vertebrates but have been lost completely several times in actinopterygian fishes and amniotes. Using phenotypic data collected from over 500 genera via micro-computed tomography, we provide the first rigorous ...
Daniel J Paluh   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-Term Shifts in Faunal Composition of Freshwater Mollusks in Spring-Fed Rivers of Florida

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Florida’s freshwater spring and river ecosystems have been deteriorating due to direct and indirect human impacts. However, while the conservation and restoration strategies employed to mitigate these effects often rely on faunal surveys that go back ...
Kristopher M. Kusnerik   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Oxford companion to United States history

open access: yes, 2001
The Oxford Companion to United States History is a one-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopedia offering comprehensive coverage of the field for pre-contact Native Americans to the end of the twentieth century. The volume's first aim will be to serve
P. Boyer, Melvyn Dubofsky
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Relentless War: America, Israel, and the Fight Against Terrorism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
For Israel, terrorism has plagued the nation since its beginning. Terrorism rears its ugly head in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons; however, in both the United States and Israel, Islamic extremism has presented itself as the largest threat.
Keener, Elyse
core   +1 more source

Race Ipsa Loquitur [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The goal of this Article is to make the existence of invidious racial discrimination in the United States so palpable that it can no longer be denied. Part I argues that racial inequality is so pervasive, unconscious, and structural that it has simply ...
Spann, Girardeau A
core   +3 more sources

Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
In the early days of the Iraq War, the United States used the power of images, such as those of the “mother of all bombs” and a wide array of weapons, as well as aesthetic techniques to influence and shape the consciousness of millions and to generate ...
Emory Elliott
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Herbarium Specimen Characteristics on Short-Read NGS Sequencing Success in Nearly 8000 Specimens: Old, Degraded Samples Have Lower DNA Yields but Consistent Sequencing Success

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Phylogenetic datasets are now commonly generated using short-read sequencing technologies unhampered by degraded DNA, such as that often extracted from herbarium specimens.
Heather R. Kates   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modern approaches for leveraging biodiversity collections to understand change in plant-insect interactions

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Research on plant-pollinator interactions requires a diversity of perspectives and approaches, and documenting changing pollinator-plant interactions due to declining insect diversity and climate change is especially challenging.
Behnaz Balmaki   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

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