Pawpaws prevent predictability: A locally dominant tree alters understory beta‐diversity and community assembly by Anna C. Wassel, Jonathan A. Myers

“…Together these results suggest that pawpaw increases the importance of stochastic relative to deterministic community assembly at local scales, likely by decreasing overall numbers of individuals and increasing random local extinctions inside patches. Our findings provide insights into the ecological processes by which locally dominant tree species shape the assembly and diversity of understory plant communities at different spatial scales.…”
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A checklist of indigenous flora in the Richtersveld National Park confirms high plant diversity in the arid north-western tip of South Africa by Pieter van Wyk, Hugo Bezuidenhout, Norbert Jürgens

“…Seven species were regarded as extinct; of these, four species disappeared in a context of diamond mining, and three species were no longer found after the recent drought 2014 to 2022. …”
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Click beetle larvae from Cretaceous Burmese amber represent an ancient Gondwanan lineage by Robin Kundrata, Simone Policena Rosa, Katerina Triskova, Gabriela Packova, Johana Hoffmannova, Jan Brus

“…The discovery of enigmatic click beetle larvae in the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber sheds further light on the palaeodiversity and distribution of the relatively species-poor Gondwanan clade of click beetles, which contain a recent bioluminescent lineage, as well as on the taxonomic composition of the extinct Mesozoic ecosystem.…”
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The current state of the problem of in vitrogene pool preservation in poultry by Y. L. Silyukova, O. I. Stanishevskaya, N. V. Dementieva

“…In vitrogene pool conservation is aimed primarily to the restoration of extinct breeds and populations and to the support of genetic diversity in populations prone to genetic drift. …”
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Resource availability and competition shape pollinator trophic specialization in longleaf pine savannas by Pablo Moreno-García, Johanna E. Freeman, Benjamin Baiser, Joshua W. Campbell, Daijiang Li

“…,taxonomically generalist), underscoring the vulnerability of pollination systems to pollinator extinctions (i.e., pollinators visit fewer plant species when there are fewer insect competitors present). …”
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Characterization of Wood Cellular Structure of Plantation Grown Anogeissus leiocarpa and Eucalyptus camaldulensis in the Savannah Ecological Zone, Ghana by Enoch Gbapenuo Tampori, Francis Kofi Bih, Emmanuel Appiah-Kubi, Issah Chakurah, Michael Awotwe-Mensah, Mark Bright Donkoh

“…The wood properties of these species when known could result in their optimal utilization and broad acceptance in the wood industries as an alternative for the extinct tropical timber species. This study determines the anatomical properties of plantation grown Anogeissus leiocarpa and Eucalyptus camaldulensis trees grown in the Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana. …”
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Nuttalliellidae in Burmese amber: implications for tick evolution by Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Stephan Handschuh, Jason A. Dunlop, Ronel Pienaar, Ben J. Mans, Ala Tabor

“…Ticks are composed of 3 extant families (Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae) and 2 extinct families (Deinocrotonidae and Khimairidae). …”
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Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…As habitat diversity is reduced, it is expected that there will be, in general, a local decline in fiddler crab species diversity with some taxa becoming rare or extinct.…”
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Accounting for Australia’s threatened species: Estimating historical and recent change in terrestrial habitat by Katherine M. Giljohann, Karel Mokany, Simon Ferrier, Thomas D. Harwood, Chris Ware, Kristen J. Williams

“…Habitat retention and restoration are fundamental to minimising species extinctions. Mitigating impacts on threatened species habitat requires knowing where and how much habitat remains, the quality of the habitat, and how it is changing over time. …”
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The Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation of Animals within the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain by Iván Cortijo, Teodoro Palacios, Sören Jensen, José María Barrera

“…Within a few tens of millions of years into the Cambrian Period an array of animal groups appeared, some extinct and others ancestral to modern groups, the Cambrian “explosion”. …”
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Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters by Julius A. Ellrich, Clemens Kozian-Fleck, Markus Brand, Bérenger Colsoul, Bérenger Colsoul, Bernadette Pogoda, Bernadette Pogoda

“…Historic populations of European oysters (Ostrea edulis) have been decimated by overfishing and are nowadays considered functionally extinct in European waters. To halt and reverse the associated biodiversity loss, oyster reef restoration was implemented into marine conservation measures and several reef restoration projects started across Europe. …”
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A Highly Divergent Mitochondrial Genome in Extant Cape Buffalo From Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa by Deon deJager, Marlo Möller, Eileen Hoal, Paul vanHelden, Brigitte Glanzmann, Cindy Harper, Paulette Bloomer

“…We discuss several potential sources of this mitogenome but propose that it most likely originated through introgressive hybridisation with an extinct buffalo species, either S. acoelotus or S. antiquus. …”
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Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications by Luca Pandolfi, Sara G. Arranz, Sergio Almécija, Jordi Galindo, Àngel H. Luján, Marta Pina, Alessandro Urciuoli, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, David M. Alba

“…Tapirus priscus occurred in Western Europe during the early and late Vallesian (MN9–MN10) and became extinct in Central Europe during the early Turolian (MN11), leaving a gap in the fossil record of Tapirus until the arrival of T. arvernensis at the MN13–MN14 transition. …”
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Are thickened cranial bones and equal participation of the three structural bone layers autapomorphic traits of Homo erectus? by Antoine Balzeau

“…Similarly, the diploe constitutes the greatest part of the total vault thickness along the mid-sagittal plane, particularly in the frontal and occipital tori, in the analysed fossils of this extinct species. Finally, our results show that Homo erectus individuals have cortical tables as well as diploe variation and distribution patterns similar to anatomically modern Homo sapiens. …”
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The application of Vavilov’s approaches to the phylogeny and evolution of cultivated species of the genus <i>Avena</i> L. by I. G. Loskutov, A. A. Gnutikov, E. V. Blinova, A. V. Rodionov

“…An analysis of the ways of A. sativa and A. byzantina domestication showed that the most widespread ribotype of the A. sativa hexaploid was inherited from A. ludoviciana, and the second most widespread one, from A. magna, while A. byzantina has two unique ribotype families, most likely inherited from an extinct oat species or a still undiscovered cryptospecies.…”
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New Horizons In The Treatment Of Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer by Zein El Amir

“…-trained anatomists are now an almost extinct species in the country adding to the multitude of challenges already faced in anatomy teaching.   …”
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Anatomy In The Undergraduate Medical Curriculum; Blending The Old And New by Ayesha Yousaf

“…[x] Pakistan has not been spared by this pedagogical plague and PHd trained anatomists are now an almost extinct species in the country adding to the multitude of challenges already faced in anatomy teaching. …”
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