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The ongoing biodiversity disappearance on islands worldwide is alarming. Without an accurate biodiversity assessment, it is impossible to stop the loss of the world’s islands irreplaceable natural heritage. To assess b...

Daphnia retrocurva Forbes, 1882 (Crustacea, Cladocera, Daphniidae), a North American freshwater zooplankton species, was found in an artificial reservoir in central Japan. This represents the first record of D. retrocurv...

Holoplanktonic gastropods (pteropods and heteropods) are major components of modern Indo–West Pacific (IWP) plankton, yet their fossil record in this region remains sparse. Expanding the spatial and temporal coverage o...

Falcinebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 is a subgenus of Nebria Latreille, 1802 that shows marked differentiation in Japan, but its diversity has not yet been fully elucidated.This study describes two new species of this...

Abstract Accurate prediction of compressive strength is important for the efficient design of sustainable concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash (POFA). This study developed a hybrid artificial neural network model opt...

The family Xylariaceae represents a diverse assemblage of ascomycetous fungi, widely recognised for their prolific production of secondary metabolites with potent bioactive properties, including antimicrobial, anticancer...

Introduction: Land-use changes have transformed many Mediterranean ecosystems in ways that can adversely affect ectotherms such as reptiles. Range-edge reptile populations may be especially sensitive to such changes, as ...