Publications by authors named "John Marris"

Background: In 2021, 43% of drug toxicity deaths in Ontario were reported by public health units serving medium-sized urban and rural communities. Safer supply programs (SSPs) have been primarily established in large urban centres. Given this, the current study is based on an evaluation of a SSP based in a medium-sized urban centre with a large catchment area that includes rural and Indigenous communities.

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  • The flat bark beetles, with around 70 species, mainly inhabit the Holarctic, Oriental, and Australasian realms, while only six species are found in South America, including one in Peru.
  • Two previously unrecorded species of cucujid beetles have now been identified in South America for the first time, specifically in the Pasco and Cusco and Junín Regions of Peru, using data from the iNaturalist platform.
  • This study also includes photographs of their habitats and provides a checklist of Cucujidae species currently documented in South America.
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The Pediacus Shuckard fauna of Asia and Australasia is revised. Eighteen species are recorded, described and illustrated from the regions and a key to species is provided. Nine new species are described: Pediacus australis sp.

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