Perennial flower strips in agricultural landscapes strongly promote earthworm populations by Anna Vaupel, Zita Bednar-Konski, Matías Olivera, Nadine Herwig, Bernd Hommel, Lukas Beule

“…We expect that the promotion of earthworms through flower strips improves soil functions and benefits higher trophic taxa. We propose that optimized seed mixtures, improved spatial configuration, and establishment of temporal continuity of flower strips can further promote soil ecosystem services.…”
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Modelando e estimando as demonstrações financeiras de uma empresa com o modelo VAR - VECM by Otávio Ribeiro de Medeiros, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar Van Doornik, Gustavo Rezende de Oliveira

“…Além de variáveis endógenas ao balanço financeiro, um vetor de variáveis exógenas foi utilizado, incluindo o PIB brasileiro, taxas de juros interna e externa, o preço internacional do petróleo, a taxa de câmbio e o riscopaís. …”
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Bacterial Infections across the Ants: Frequency and Prevalence of Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia by Stefanie Kautz, Benjamin E. R. Rubin, Corrie S. Moreau

“…Due to sporadic prevalence across all ant taxa investigated, we hypothesize facultative associations for all three bacterial genera. …”
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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

“…A significant proportion of newly generated sequences fail to match with already named species, and thus represent what has been referred to as fungal “dark taxa”. Due to the challenges associated with observing, identifying, and preserving sporophores, many macro- and microfungal species are only known from a single collection, specimen, isolate, and/or sequence—a singleton. …”
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Integrative use of DNA barcode and morphology reveal high level of diversity in the ornamental fish on the lower Amazon basin. by Elciane Araújo de Freitas, Dayana Batista Dos Santos, Charles Samuel Moraes Ferreira, Cárlison Silva-Oliveira, Grazielle Fernanda Evangelista-Gomes, Ivana Barbosa Veneza

“…The mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase I (MT-CO1) molecular marker was used to identify the taxa, in combination with morphological keys. A total of 51 ornamental species were identified, representing 13 families and three orders. …”
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A checklist of isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) in Slovenia by Miloš Vittori, Borut Mavrič, Anja Pekolj, Marijan Govedič, Maja Zagmajster

“…Many synonyms and invalid taxa according to recent taxonomy point out the need for revision the national red list of Malacostraca as well as other nature protection acts. …”
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Evolutionary history and phylogeographic relationships of shrews from Sorex araneus group. by Paweł Mackiewicz, Magdalena Moska, Heliodor Wierzbicki, Przemysław Gagat, Dorota Mackiewicz

“…The genus is one of the rare cases where karyotypic changes reflect well the evolutionary relationships among its species. The taxa showing the greatest variation in karyotype are usually classified into the Sorex araneus group. …”
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Parque das Neblinas: an important reserve for Atlantic Forest bird conservation in Southeast Brazil by Fabio Schunck, Bruno Rennó, Fernando I. de Godoy, Gérard Baudet, Kleber E. Rodrigues, Tomas Sigrist, Marcelo Bokermann

“…ABSTRACT The Atlantic Forest has one of the richest avifaunas in the world, with endemic, migratory and endangered taxa. However, some of the ornithological knowledge produced there has yet to be organized and published, hindering effective conservation actions. …”
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Recovery of nearly 3,000 archaeal genomes from 152 terrestrial geothermal spring metagenomes by Yan-Ling Qi, Hao-Tian Zhang, Meng Li, Wen-Jun Li, Zheng-Shuang Hua

“…Notably, 575 (19%) MAGs represented new taxa at various taxonomic levels, and 2,075 (70%) lacked nomenclature and effective descriptions. …”
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Using DNA metabarcoding and direct behavioural observations to identify the diet of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in the Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah. by Valentine Thiry, Arthur F Boom, Danica J Stark, Olivier J Hardy, Roseline C Beudels-Jamar, Regine Vercauteren Drubbel, Sylvia Alsisto, Martine Vercauteren, Benoit Goossens

“…When combining feeding data from both methods, we reported a diverse dietary ecology in proboscis monkeys, with at least 89 consumed plant taxa, belonging to 76 genera and 45 families. Moreover, we were able to add 22 new genera as part of the diet of this endangered colobine primate in the LKWS. …”
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GorillaFACS: The Facial Action Coding System for the Gorilla spp. by Catia Correia-Caeiro, Raquel Costa, Misato Hayashi, Anne Burrows, Jordan Pater, Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki, Jack L Richardson, Martha M Robbins, Bridget Waller, Katja Liebal

“…FACS has been adapted to 11 other taxa, including most apes, macaques and domestic animals, but not yet gorillas. …”
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Palaeontological And Geological Highlights Of The Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark by Graham Worton, Colin Prosser, Jonathan Larwood

“…It also revealed and led to the collection of a rich and extremely well-preserved fossil fauna from the Upper Carboniferous and especially from the Silurian Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, with trilobites, crinoids, and numerous other taxa from the Geopark adorning museum collections across the world. …”
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CROP WILD RELATIVES IN MAGADAN PROVINCE OF RUSSIA: INVENTORYING AND CONSERVATION by G. V. Talovina, E. V. Aistova

“…Within the framework of the work on inventorying crop wild relatives (CWR) in the regions of Russia, an inventory of CWR was for the first time made for Magadan Province, Far East region of Russia, to identify plant taxa that are prioritized for conservation and monitoring of their status in natural phytocenoses. …”
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Collections of the wild <I>Daucus carota</I> L. preserved at VIR by L. Yu. Shipilina, T. V. Khmelinskaya

“…The herbarium now contains 323 carrot specimens, with 249 belonging to the wild D. carota species. Intraspecific taxa of D. carota are represented. The herbarium of cultivated carrots consists of 74 specimens.The studied 106 wild carrot accessions from the VIR collection were identified, herbarized, arranged, incorporated into the WIR database, and placed into the permanent herbarium collection. …”
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Impacto do Decreto n. 8.058/2013 sobre investigações antidumping no Brasil by Sergio Goldbaum, Euclides Pedrozo Jr

“…Em particular, argumenta-se que (a) o aumento observado no número de investigações abertas não deve ser atribuído ao Decreto n. 8.058/2013, mas à divulgação do Plano Brasil Maior; (b) a taxa de aprovação de medidas não aumentou em decorrência do decreto; e (c) o tempo de investigação se reduziu, mas continua maior do que a comparação internacional.…”
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Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites. by Brett M Lewis, David J Suggett, Peter J Prentis, Luke D Nothdurft

“…Not all corals are attached to the substrate; some taxa are solitary and free-living, allowing them to migrate into preferred habitats. …”
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Temperature dependence of liverwort diversification reveals a cool origin and hot hotspots by Karola Maul, S. Robbert Gradstein, Dietmar Quandt, Michael Kessler

“…Abstract The evolutionary history underlying gradients in species richness is still subject to discussions and understanding the past niche evolution might be crucial in estimating the potential of taxa to adapt to changing environmental conditions. …”
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Nutritional and Nonnutritional Content of Underexploited Edible Seaweeds by Rabia Alghazeer, Hesham El Fatah, Salah Azwai, Sana Elghmasi, Maammar Sidati, Ali El Fituri, Ezdehar Althaluti, Ftaim Gammoudi, Ervia Yudiati, Nadia Talouz, Ghalia Shamlan, Ammar AL-Farga, Wafa S. Alansari, Areej A. Eskandrani

“…Lipid content was found to be low in all the studied taxa at approximately 1–6%, except for Caulerpa prolifera (Chlorophyta), which had a noticeable higher lipid content at 12.41%. …”
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Pervasive horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in natural populations of closely related and widespread tropical skipper butterflies by Pedro Ribeiro, Anzhelika Butenko, Daniel Linke, Hamid Reza Ghanavi, Joana Isabel Meier, Niklas Wahlberg, Pável Matos-Maraví

“…Even though infection rates are high in Lepidoptera and specifically in butterflies, and reproductive manipulation is present in these taxa, less attention has been given to understanding how Wolbachia is acquired and maintained in their natural populations, across and within species having continental geographical distributions. …”
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The Diversity of Edible Flowers and Its Biocultural Role in Local Food System in Dali, Southwest China by Qing Zhang, Jihai Zhang, Congli Xu, Xianjin Wu, Chunlin Long

“…Through ethnobotanical surveys conducted in 15 markets across Dali, 163 taxa of EFs were documented, encompassing 56 families and 108 genera. …”
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