Remotely sensed spectral indicators of bird taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity across Afrotropical urban and non-urban habitats by Adewale G. Awoyemi, Tunrayo R. Alabi, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo

“…Urban areas are quickly expanding around the world, promoting deep changes in biodiversity. However, certain biogeographic realms, like the Afrotropics, are clearly understudied despite urbanization overlapping with their biodiversity hotspots. …”
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Valorization of buffalo mozzarella cheese whey as human functional food and soil fertilizer by Raffaele Conte, Anna Valentino, Silvia Romano, Sorur Yazdanpanah, Anna Di Salle, Fahd Kandsi, Gianfranco Peluso

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Why morphology matters: the negative consequences of hasty descriptions of putative novelties in asexual ascomycetes by Ondřej Koukol, Gregorio Delgado

“…ABSTRACT Recent progress in the discovery of fungal diversity has been enabled by intensive mycological surveys in centres of global biodiversity. Descriptions of new fungal species have been almost routinely based on phenotypic studies coupled with single or multigene phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data. …”
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Phytoplankton Communities and Cyanotoxin Production in Some Bulgarian Lowland Lakes and Reservoirs by Detelina Belkinova, Ivanka Teneva, Stefan Kazakov, Silvia Stamenova

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Aquatic and palustrine plants of restinga in a Ramsar site in the easternmost Amazon, Brazil by N. P. F. Alves, M. C. A. Pestana, S. F. Pires, J. C. A. Penha, V. R. Cardoso-Neto, A. V. Scatigna, R. V. C. Saraiva

“…This study adds important information for local and national policies to ensure biodiversity conservation of the plant biodiversity in Maranhão’s coastal ecosystems.…”
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Manifesto for transparent mathematical modeling: from ecology to general science by Vyacheslav L. Kalmykov, Lev V. Kalmykov

“…Errors and paradoxes, such as the biodiversity paradox and the limiting similarity hypothesis, often arise from subjective interpretations of these hidden mechanisms. …”
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Notes on ants fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran (Part I) by Arsalan Khalili-Moghadam, Sebastian Salata, Lech Borowiec

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Sharing soil knowledge of the Congolese coastal plains within international research partnerships by Lydie-Stella Koutika

“…Other goals of this approach are mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss and restoring degraded lands in contributing to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030. …”
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How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0 by M. Catherine Aime, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai, Pedro W. Crous, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Paul M. Kirk, Robert Lücking, Tom W. May, Elaine Malosso, Scott A. Redhead, Amy Y. Rossman, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch

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Records of birds in Quang Nam Chau proposed Species and Habitat conservation area, Quang Ninh province, northeastern Vietnam by Trung Thanh Hoang, Khac Quyen Le, Ngoc Tu Ly, Manh Truong Ha

“…The avifauna and general biodiversity of the region are threatened by illegal hunting and trapping, agriculture expansion, grazing, and non-timber resource exploitation. …”
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ChirpArray: A low‐cost, easy‐to‐construct microphone array for long‐term ecoacoustic monitoring by Ryotaro Okamoto, Hiroyuki Oguma

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The Concept of Informal Green Space in Academic Research: A Comprehensive Literature Review on the Terminology Used by Duy Thong Ta, Huixin Wang, Katsunori Furuya

“…Informal green spaces (IGSs) are vital yet under-researched urban areas that enhance biodiversity, provide ecosystem services, and improve the well-being of urban residents. …”
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Structure, floristic and diversity from Laguna de San Diego (Samaná, Colombia) by Julio Andrés Sierra-Giraldo, Susana Velásquez-Franco, Mitchell James Power, Jairo Andrés Orozco-Agudelo, Luz Amparo Triana-Moreno

“…Abstract The Magdalena Valley along the eastern slopes of the Central Andes in Colombia is characterized by both high biodiversity and endemism and human infrastructure development. …”
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Les lémuriens subfossiles dans le Nord-Ouest de Madagascar, du terrain à la diffusion des connaissances ou 15 ans de recherches franco-malgaches by Dominique Gommery, Beby Ramanivosoa

“…Madagascar is one of the most important hotspot of the world biodiversity. Among the numerous endemic animals living in the island, the lemurs are the more emblematic. …”
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Foraging Behavior of the Blue Morpho and Other Tropical Butterflies: The Chemical and Electrophysiological Basis of Olfactory Preferences and the Role of Color by Alexandra Sourakov, Adrian Duehl, Andrei Sourakov

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A revision of Salispina, its placement in a new family, Salispinaceae (Rhipidiales), and description of a fourth species, S. hoi sp. nov by Reuel M. Bennett, Mark Kevin Devanadera, Gina R. Dedeles, Marco Thines

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Spatial pattern of woody plant species richness and composition in primary warm temperate evergreen forest in Kasugayama Hill, Japan by Shuntaro Watanabe, Yuri Maesako, Tomoya Inada

“…This suggests that biotic interactions among closely-related species may be an important factor driving habitat specialization, and biotic interactions may play an important role in shaping landscape-scale biodiversity patterns.…”
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A Chromosome-level genome assembly of the alpine medicinal plant Bergenia purpurascens (Saxifragaceae) by Xue-Die Liu, Alex D. Twyford, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Ya-Huang Luo, Sheng-Ping Ming, Bo-Yun Yang, Lian-Ming Gao, Shao-Lin Tan

“…Abstract Mountain ecosystems harbor high levels of biodiversity, but the genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation to harsh alpine conditions remain largely unknown. …”
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Consistency in marine heatwave experiments for ecological relevance and application: Key problems and solutions by Deevesh A. Hemraj, Bayden D. Russell

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On the occurrence of the Italian agile frog (Rana latastei Boulenger, 1879) in the Slovenian part of Istria by Peter Glasnović

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