Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum: Recent submissions
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Collision Chronology Along the İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan Suture Zone: Insights From the Sarıcakaya Basin, Western Anatolia
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-09-10)Debate persists concerning the timing and geodynamics of intercontinental collision, style of syncollisional deformation, and development of topography and fold‐and‐thrust belts along the >1,700‐km‐long İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan ... -
A revised definition for copal and its significance for palaeontological and Anthropocene biodiversity-loss studies
(Nature Research, 2020-11-16)The early fossilization steps of natural resins and associated terminology are a subject of constant debate. Copal and resin are archives of palaeontological and historical information, and their study is critical to the ... -
A symmoriiform from the Late Devonian of Morocco demonstrates a derived jaw function in ancient chondrichthyans
(Nature Research, 2020-11-17)The Palaeozoic record of chondrichthyans (sharks, rays, chimaeras, extinct relatives) and thus our knowledge of their anatomy and functional morphology is poor because of their predominantly cartilaginous skeletons. Here, ... -
The Status and Distribution of Birds of Missouri, 2nd edition
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Participation in the convention on migratory species: A biogeographic assessment
(Springer, 2018-02-24)The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) focused on species that regularly travel across international borders. Despite covering an ... -
Data Leakage and Loss in Biodiversity Informatics
(Pensoft Publishers, 2018-11-07)The field of biodiversity informatics is in a massive, “grow-out” phase of creating and enabling large-scale biodiversity data resources. Because perhaps 90% of existing biodiversity data nonetheless remains unavailable ... -
Reproduction and metamorphosis in the Myristica Swamp tree frog, Mercurana myristicapalustris (Anura: Rhacophoridae)
(PeerJ, 2018-11-21)The reproductive biology of the Myristica Swamp tree frog (Mercurana myristicapalustris), a monotypic rhacophorid frog endemic to the foothills of the Western Ghats mountains of India, has remained unknown since the ... -
Importance of biotic predictors in estimation of potential invasive areas: The example of the tortoise beetle Eurypedus nigrosignatus, in Hispaniola
(PeerJ, 2018-12-05)Climatic variables have been the main predictors employed in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling, although biotic interactions are known to affect species’ spatial distributions via mechanisms such ... -
Potential Spatial Distribution of the Newly Introduced Long-horned Tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis in North America
(Nature Research, 2019-01-24)The North American distributional potential of the recently invaded tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, was estimated using occurrence data from its geographic range in other parts of the world and relevant climatic data sets. ... -
Kuenm: An R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent
(PeerJ, 2019-02-06)Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The calibration phase of these models is critical, ... -
Factors driving adaptive radiation in plants of oceanic islands: A case study from the Juan Fernández Archipelago
(Springer, 2018-03-13)Adaptive radiation is a common evolutionary phenomenon in oceanic islands. From one successful immigrant population, dispersal into different island environments and directional selection can rapidly yield a series of ... -
Olfactory associative behavioral differences in three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under the arid zone ecosystem of central Saudi Arabia
(Elsevier, 2018-08-06)Apis mellifera jemenitica is the indigenous race of honey bees in the Arabian Peninsula and is tolerant to local drought conditions. Experiments were undertaken to determine the differences in associative learning and ... -
NDM-1 carbapenemase in Acinetobacter baumannii sequence type 32 in Ecuador
(Elsevier, 2019-03-08)Objectives To describe a clinical case of Acinetobacter baumannii sequence type (ST) 32 harbouring a New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) in Ecuador. Methods We used multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to confirm the ... -
Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera
(Public Library of Science, 2019-03-27)Miniaturised frogs form a fascinating but poorly understood amphibian ecomorph and have been exceptionally prone to taxonomic underestimation. The subfamily Cophylinae (family Microhylidae), endemic to Madagascar, has a ... -
Earth history and the passerine superradiation
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019-04-01)Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the diversification of the hyperdiverse perching birds ... -
A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019-04-01)The most immediate effects of the terminal-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact, essential to understanding the global-scale environmental and biotic collapses that mark the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, are poorly resolved ... -
Insecticide resistance profiles of Anopheles gambiae s.l. in Togo and genetic mechanisms involved, during 3-year survey: Is there any need for resistance management?
(BMC, 2019-05-22)Background Malaria, one of the world’s greatest public health challenges, is an endemic disease with stable transmission in Togo. Combating malaria requires an effective vector control. This study provides temporal data ... -
Using GIS to examine biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns in some late Paleozoic cephalopods from the North American Midcontinent Sea
(PeerJ, 2019-05-13)Geographic range is an important macroevolutionary parameter frequently considered in paleontological studies as species’ distributions and range sizes are determined by a variety of biotic and abiotic factors well known ... -
Three additional new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from the Guiana and Brazilian Shield regions of South America (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2019-06-13)Recent study of the water scavenger beetle subfamily Acidocerinae in the Neotropical region has uncovered numerous undescribed species that are not able to be placed in existing genera. Here, we describe three new genera ...