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Diversity, Volume 14, Issue 7

July 2022 - 81 articles

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Cover Story: The Italian wall lizard, Podarcis siculus is one of the more common terrestrial vertebrates in the Italian peninsula, and one of its more evident characteristics is its extreme variability in the dorsal pattern. We studied the geographic variability of this phenotypic character, extracting nearly 1300 georeferenced photos from the citizen science database iNaturalist. Distributions of different phenotypes were compared with the distributions of genetic lineages, and generalized linear models (GLMs) were used to estimate possible association with bioclimatic variables. Our results suggest a role of long-term allopatric isolation in molding the observed phenotypic variation; however, we also found evidence that adaptive divergence may be not excluded, especially for one of the phenotypes. View this paper

Articles (81)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,121 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2022

Taking the Giant Panda National Park as an example, this paper uses factor analysis to measure residents’ financial awareness and mediating effect models to investigate the influence paths of community governance, financial awareness, and resid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,786 Views
25 Pages

21 July 2022

The aquatic microfauna of Africa is poorly characterized, especially in the case of planktonic rotifers inhabiting waterbodies other than large lakes. In addition, little is known about factors that structure these communities. Here, we assessed the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,988 Views
11 Pages

21 July 2022

Flood events can significantly affect the physical and biological processes of aquatic ecosystems in a short time, leading to rapid changes in phytoplankton community structure. The Huayanghe Lakes experienced extreme flooding in the summer of 2020,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,952 Views
14 Pages

20 July 2022

Habitat suitability assessment is critical for wildlife population conservation and management planning. The MaxEnt model is widely used in species habitat suitability modeling. In order to investigate the habitat status of the black-necked crane in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,363 Views
10 Pages

Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on the Global Distribution of the Calliphorid Fly Chrysomya albiceps Using GIS

  • Eslam M. Hosni,
  • Areej A. Al-Khalaf,
  • Randa M. Naguib,
  • Abdalrahman E. Afify,
  • Ashraf A. Abdalgawad,
  • Ehab M. Faltas,
  • Mohamed A. Hassan,
  • Mohamed A. Mahmoud,
  • Omar M. Naeem and
  • Yossef M. Hassan
  • + 1 author

20 July 2022

Climate change is expected to influence the geographic distribution of many taxa, including insects. Chrysomya albiceps is one of the most pervasive calliphorid fly with apparent ecological, forensic, and medical importance. However, the global habit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,088 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2022

Pistachio is one of the most economically important nut crops worldwide. However, there are no reports describing the chloroplast genome of this important fruit tree. In this investigation, we assembled and characterized the complete pistachio chloro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,516 Views
27 Pages

The Biodiversity of Calcaxonian Octocorals from the Irish Continental Slope Inferred from Multilocus Mitochondrial Barcoding

  • Declan Morrissey,
  • Candice B. Untiedt,
  • Karen Croke,
  • Aisling Robinson,
  • Eva Turley and
  • A. Louise Allcock

18 July 2022

Deep-sea corals are important benthic inhabitants that support the biodiversity and function of the wider faunal community; however, their taxonomy is underdeveloped and their accurate identification is often difficult. In our study, we investigated...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,954 Views
18 Pages

Diversity of Nearctic Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata)

  • John C. Abbott,
  • Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra,
  • Robert Guralnick,
  • Vincent Kalkman,
  • Enrique González-Soriano,
  • Rodolfo Novelo-Gutiérrez,
  • Seth Bybee,
  • Jessica Ware and
  • Michael W. Belitz

18 July 2022

Rarely have studies assessed Odonata diversity for the entire Nearctic realm by including Canada, the United States, and Mexico. For the first time, we explored Odonata diversity in this region according to a definition of natural community assemblag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,539 Views
17 Pages

Molecular Variation and Phylogeny within Fusarium avenaceum and Related Species

  • Tapani Yli-Mattila,
  • Asmaa Abbas,
  • Olga Gavrilova and
  • Tatiana Gagkaeva

18 July 2022

Many recent articles feature research on the Fusarium tricinctum species complex (FTSC), and their authors present different ideas on how the isolates of this species complex can be identified at the species level. In previous studies, our aim was to...

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