Traditional knowledge, uses, and perceptions of mushrooms among the Wixaritari and mestizos of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico by Mara Ximena Haro-Luna, Felipe Ruan-Soto, Laura Guzmán-Dávalos

“…Each culture’s knowledge of the phenology and ecology of mushrooms was recorded in addition to data highlighting the cultural exchange between the Wixaritari and mestizos. …”
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A Rao-Blackwellized particle filter for joint parameter estimation and biomass tracking in a stochastic predator-prey system by Laura Martín-Fernández, Gianni Gilioli, Ettore Lanzarone, Joaquín Míguez, Sara Pasquali, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Diego P. Ruiz

“…Functional response estimation and population tracking in predator-prey systems are critical problems in ecology. In this paper we consider a stochastic predator-prey system with a Lotka-Volterra functional response and propose a particle filtering method for: (a) estimating the behavioral parameter representing the rate of effective search per predator in the functional responseand (b) forecasting the population biomass using field data. …”
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Personality. Development of Thought Throughout Time. Existence by A. E. Razumov

“…The development of thought throughout time brought a lot of useful things to a person, but also a lot of disastrous ones, such as conflicts and wars, global catastrophic risk, world-wide pre-crisis ecology problems, and a lot of other troubles – all these that can direct a person’s thought towards dreams and imagination. …”
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A systematic scoping review reveals that geographic and taxonomic patterns influence the scientific and societal interest in urban soil microbial diversity by Simon Masson, Matteo Chialva, Davide Bongiovanni, Martino Adamo, Irene Stefanini, Luisa Lanfranco

“…Abstract Urban green areas provide multiple ecosystem services in cities, mitigating environmental risks and providing a healthier environment for humans. Even if urban ecology has become popular in the last decade, the soil environment with its microbiota, which sustains many other biodiversity layers, remains overlooked. …”
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Amur Softshell Turtle (<i>Pelodiscus maackii</i>) Population Size, Structure, and Spatial Distribution by Xiaochen Hou, Haitao Shi

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Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Framework of Regional Ecosystem under the Global Climate Change Background by Qiao Wang, Peng Hou, Feng Zhang, Changzuo Wang

“…This is decided by the spatial distribution, classification, and patterns of regional ecosystems. That is to say, ecological service, together with ecosystems distribution and pattern, ecological problem indicators, and ecological stress, needs to be integrated analyzed and evaluated.…”
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Present Status of Ganges River Dolphins Platanista gangetica gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801) in the Turag River, Dhaka, Bangladesh by Mohammad Abdul Baki, Naser Ahmed Bhouiyan, Md. Saiful Islam, Shayer Mahmood Ibney Alam, Shibananda Shil, Md. Muzammel Hossain

“…The best-high-low estimates of 9-11-7 individuals were recorded in August 2013 in river ecology. Seasonal changes in spatial distribution were observed. …”
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Identifying key influencing factors of cross-regional railway infrastructure interconnection: a fuzzy integrated MCDM framework by Simai Yang, Pengcheng Xiang, Xiaping Zhao, Yiting Wang, Mingming Hu, Yan Qian

“…The results revealed that policy and institutional innovation, incentives and investment ecology, efficient implementation and coordination mechanisms, and supply chain and technology security capacity are four crucial challenges for CRII. …”
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New Evidence for the Contemporary Presence of Juvenile White Sharks (<i>Carcharodon carcharias</i>) in the Adriatic Sea by Patrick L. Jambura, Pero Ugarković, Mišo Pavičić, Ilija Ćetković, Simone Niedermüller, Jürgen Kriwet, Julia Türtscher

“…Our findings highlight significant gaps in the understanding of white shark spatial ecology and reproductive biology in the Mediterranean Sea. …”
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Beauty Bias? Exploring the Influence of Attractiveness on Conservation Intentions for Plants and Their Pollinators by Pavol Prokop, Simona Todáková, Jana Fančovičová

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Recurring cycles of ice and vegetation on Baffin Island, Nunavut by Martha K. Raynolds, Helga Bültmann, Shawnee A. Kasanke, Gifford Miller, Jonathan H. Raberg

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Singleton-based species names and fungal rarity: Does the number really matter? by Jonathan Cazabonne, Allison K. Walker, Jonathan Lesven, Danny Haelewaters

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Characterization of an allotriploid strawberry Fragaria × bifera Duchesne (Rosaceae) from Europe by Houshang Nosrati, Adam H. Price, Pedro Gerstberger, Chris C. Wilcock

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Microbial properties of soil fertilized by sewage sludge and cultivated with energy crops by Ewa Beata Górska, Wojciech Stępień, Izabella Olejniczak, Stefan Pietkiewicz, Hazem M. Halaji, Paweł Kowalczyk

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Seismic Safety Review of Gravity Dam Based on Finite Element Method by Guanchao Xu, Bowen Guo, Zhuolun Meng, Jiwei Zhao

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THE ATTRACTIONS OF GUAR KEPAH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, PENANG, MALAYSIA AS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE TOURISM SITE by Mohd Hasfarisham ABD HALIM, Shaiful SHAHIDAN, Shyeh Sahibul Karamah MASAN, Mokhtar SAIDIN

“…The findings from this site have the potential to shed light on human relations with aquatic habitats, the importance of the mari ne environment in human evolution and ecology, island colonisation, and the establishment of maritime trade networks. …”
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Evaluation of insertion and deletion polymorphisms of Brazilian Odontoceti by Dafne Adriana Abreu dos Anjos, Anna Luiza dos Santos Donato, Rodrigo Goldenberg-Barbosa, Elizeu Fagundes de Carvalho, Cesar Rogerio Leal do Amaral

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The impact of experimental forest fire on collembolan communities by Izabella Olejniczak, Anna Prędecka, Stefan Russel

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Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Air Pollution in Warsaw Using Two Moss Species Pleurozium schreberi and Sphagnum palustre by Krassimira Ilieva-Makulec, Paweł Dariusz Plichta, Maciej Sierakowski

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The Role of Parent-child Relationship in Parental Financial Teaching and Financial Behaviour of Students by Xolile Antoni

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