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Leaf beetle diversity on a Southeast Asian continental island: Taxonomy, DNA barcoding, and preliminary evolutionary insights from Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

Dinh Thi Nguyen, Loan Thi Ho

published 18 Jun 2026

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Differences in mainland–island genetic diversity in two moths suggest species-specific outcomes

Sei-Woong Choi, Da-Hee Jin, Hyerin An, Kiwoong Nam, Bora Shin

published 18 Jun 2026

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Structured knowledge representation of the South China Sea: An LLM-based knowledge graph approach

Ruinan Zhao, Zhifan Han, Huiling Liu

published 11 Jun 2026

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Invasive plants reduce functional feeding diversity and trophic interactions of insect herbivores on a remote tropical island

Maia R. Supple, Jaemin Lee

published 11 Jun 2026

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Specialized marine exploitation on African islands: A multiproxy archaeological analysis of the Playa Chica site, Gran Canaria (11th–13th CE)

Jonathan Santana, Jacob Morales, Simon-Pierre Gilson, Aitor Brito-Mayor, María del Carmen González-Ruiz, Paloma Vidal-Matutano, Miguel del Pino-Curbelo, Idaira Brito-Abrante, Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Javier Cruz Viera, Alberto Lacave-Hernández, Carmen Rodríguez Santana, Sandra Cancel, Marta Moreno-García, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez

published 10 Jun 2026

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Welcome to paradise: Measuring vegetation responses to tourism and agricultural activity using Leaf Area Index in the Galapagos Islands

Lauren A. Rhodes, Julio E. Tinoco, Gonzalo E. Sánchez, Bernard Moscoso

published 10 Jun 2026

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A black-winged kite improved fuzzy clustering handling imbalanced uncertain data

Hung Tran-Nam, Ha Che-Ngoc

published 08 Jun 2026

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Valuing conservation and natural wealth: The blue economy of manta ray watching in the Maldives

Hannah M. Moloney, Maria I. Garcia Rojas, Nina Rothe, Asia O. Armstrong, Kirsty Ballard, Florence Barraud, Farah Hamdan, Anthony J. Richardson, Enas Mohamed Riyad, Tamaryn J. Sawers, Kathy A. Townsend, Guy M. W. Stevens

published 01 Jun 2026

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Movement, residency, and behavioral plasticity of reef manta rays in the Samarai Islands of Papua New Guinea

Anna M. Knochel, Joanna L. Harris, Shannon E. Murphy, Annie Murray, Guy M.W. Stevens, Mark V. Erdmann

published 28 May 2026

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Testing the oceanic dispersal potential of Caribbean fleshy-fruited plants

Seokmin Kim, Sofany Montoya, Fabio L. Tarazona-Tubens, Christina Chavez, Joanna Tucker Lima, Donald Olson, Christopher Searcy

published 27 May 2026

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Coral restoration alters reef soundscapes but machine learning and manual analyses suggest different recovery rates

Emily Maria Croasdale, Luca Saponari, Charlotte Dale, Nirmal Shah, Ben Williams, Timothy A. C. Lamont

published 27 May 2026

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Rare upside of climate-induced phenological changes: Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) avoid heat events at Martillo Isl., Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Sabrina Harris, Ignacio Juárez Martínez, Tom Hart, Andrea Raya Rey

published 20 May 2026

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Cervical cancer: Riverside women’s knowledge in the Brazilian Amazon about preventive measures

Ricardo Luiz Saldanha da Silva, Shirley Regina Cardoso Mendes, Bianca Silva de Brito, Bianca Pimentel de Moura, Ivaneide Leal Ataíde Rodrigues, Erlon Gabriel Rego de Andrade, Eliene do Socorro da Silva Santos, Laura Maria Vidal Nogueira

published 20 May 2026

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