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"10.24072/pcjournal.806 - Peer Community Journal, Volume 6 (2026), article no. e100"

"Forest ecologists often focus on trees and tend to overlook understory plants. However, understory species, despite representing less aboveground biomass than trees, are essential for forest dynamics and ecosystem functioning. The understory contributes to forest biodiversity, influences the forest microclimate and the availability of water and nutrients, and how disturbances, such as fires and large herbivores, impact the ecosystem. Estimating plant biomass can be difficult and time-consuming, but it is crucial to understanding and managing forest ecosystem services and risks. In this study, we improved biomass measurement methods for six common understory species in European temperate forests and with diverse ecologies and life forms: wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), common heather (Calluna vulgaris), common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), purple moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), common bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and brambles (Rubus fruticosus agg.). Based on vegetation samples and measurements from temperate forests in France, mostly on acidic soils, we developed aboveground biomass models. Our findings demonstrate that simple, rapid, non-destructive measurements – like cover and height – enabled us to accurately and precisely estimate the total aboveground (MT), leaf (ML), and stem (MS) biomass. ML and MS scaled isometrically for heather and honeysuckle, and nearly isometrically for bracken, while bramble ML and MS scaled to 0.8 (i.e., varying leaf-to-stem ratio). These allometric scaling relationships are applicable at the scale of temperate acidic French forests and may also be applicable to European forests for the six species studied, thus promising a more complete estimation of forest biomass dynamics."

"10.24072/pcjournal.804 - Peer Community Journal, Volume 6 (2026), article no. e99"

"Mosasauroids are primarily known as aquatic squamates that diversified in the marine realm during the Late Cretaceous. While most species had paddles, an elongated skull and body, and a laterally compressed tail, and lived in the open sea, some early species, with limbs similar to those of terrestrial animals and a varanoid-like body, lived in marine coastal shallow waters. Recently, mosasauroid remains have been discovered in freshwater environments in several continental deposits of the Santonian-Campanian of Europe. This study describes new cranial and postcranial mosasauroid remains from Santonian continental deposits in Provence, southeastern France, and attributes them to a new tethysaurine: Garamaudo bauciensis gen. et sp. nov. This mosasauroid, approximately 2.5 m long, with limbs looking adapted for a terrestrial locomotion and a sacrum, and with osteosclerosis in its vertebrae and humerus (at least), probably hovered at shallow depth in freshwater ecosystems. This new discovery reveals that it is only within the Tethysaurinae that multiple freshwater forms evolved, pointing to possible niche partitioning, associated with the retention of the plesiopedal / plesiopelvic condition, in parallel with the invasion of open waters by most other hydropedal and hydropelvic mosasauroids. These considerations suggest a richer evolutionary history of mosasauroids than is currently assumed."

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