The biodiversity impacts of forestry and agricultural land grabs on Indigenous Peoples’ Lands - Jacqueline Choo; Luis R. Carrasco; David P. Edwards (Land Use Policy, 2027)

An algorithm for the retrieval of particle backscattering, size, and suspended particulate matter in turbid coastal and estuarine waters (MOSAIC) - Juliana Tavora; Amanda de Liz Arcari; Mhd. Suhyb Salama; Cédric G. Fichot; Joshua P. Harringmeyer; Gian Marco Scarpa; Federica Braga; Emmanuel Boss; David Doxaran; Romaric Verney (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2026)

Parasites of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) in North America: a systematic literature review and an analysis of contemporary data from anadromous populations from Nunavut - Les N. Harris; Phillip R. Morrison; Michael W. Johnson; Sara Bolduc; Ariane Côté; Amélie Papillon; Justine Lapointe; Xuehan Qu; David J. Yurkowski; Connor W. Faulkner; Colin P. Gallagher; Lauren N. Wiens; et al. (Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2026)
Parasites play a critical yet understudied role in Arctic ecosystems, particularly within key subsistence species such as Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus ). As the Arctic undergoes rapid climate-driven change, establishing baseline parasite biodiversity is essential for monitoring ecological shifts and anticipating emerging health and conservation concerns. This study provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of Arctic char parasites in the North American Arctic by integrating a systematic literature review with new empirical data from 378 Arctic char collected across five Nunavut areas (2020–2024). The literature review (30 studies, 1956–2024) documented 67 parasite taxa—48 identified to species—with helminths (nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, acanthocephalans) dominant. Overall, 82% of taxa occurred in anadromous Arctic char and 54% in freshwater forms, including 22 species unique to anadromous fish. Our empirical assessment identified 35 parasite taxa—23 to species level—including several previously unreported from Arctic char in this region. Common and widespread parasites documented in the empirical assessment included Brachyphallus crenatus , Derogenes varicus , Bothrimonus sturionis , and Alloopistholecithum gibbosum , although notable spatial variation occurred in community composition and infection intensity. The occurrence of rare and previously unreported parasites may suggest emerging shifts in host–parasite dynamics potentially linked to changing prey availability and northward species range expansions. Together, these findings establish an essential baseline for Arctic char parasite biodiversity and highlight the need for continued monitoring to track future changes driven by climate warming, shifting food webs, and their implications for fish health and food security in northern Indigenous communities.

What determines trophic niche breadth? A global analysis of freshwater fishes using isospaces - Friedrich Wolfgang Keppeler; Tommaso Giarrizzo; Carmen G. Montaña; Alphonse Adite; Şenol Akın; Ronaldo Angelini; Caroline C. Arantes; Evanilde Benedito; Thethela Bokhutlo; Rana El-Sabaawi; Alexandre Garcia; Ivan Gonzalez-Bergonzoni; et al. (Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2026)

Vasoactive intestinal peptide advances chondrogenesis and modulates pathogenic mediators in human osteoarthritis - Karolina Tecza; Cristina Rodríguez-Hernández; Raúl Villanueva-Romero; David Castro-Vázquez; Alicia Cabrera-Martín; Paula Arribas-Castaño; Mar Carrión; Irene Gutiérrez-Cañas; Raquel Largo; Valentina Calamia; Francisco J. Blanco; Rosa P. Gomariz; et al. (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2026)

Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and toxic metals in short-tailed shearwaters following a mass mortality event - Eliza Hamilton; Richard B. Banati; Thomas E. Lockwood; David P. Bishop (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2026)

Genome-scale molecular systematics of Madagascar’s occipital-lobed chameleons reveals polyphyly and mito-nuclear discordances - Miguel Vences; Laila-Denise Rothe; Frank Glaw; Mark D. Scherz; Philip-Sebastian Gehring; Oliver Hawlitschek; Arianna Kuhn; Malte Multzsch; Alice Petzold; Michaela Preick; Fandresena Rakotoarimalala; Achille P. Raselimanana; et al. (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2026)

Overcoming major challenges in lignocellulose catalytic pyrolysis by combination of low-temperature thermal decomposition and co-processing with vegetable oils over ZSM-5 zeolite: boosted production of aromatic hydrocarbons and prolonged catalyst lifetime - Maurizio Pagano; Santiago Abelleira; Diego Iribarren; Javier Dufour; Jennifer Cueto; Inés Moreno; David P. Serrano (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2026)

Fish Assemblage Shift Following Abrupt Seagrass Loss in a Southwest Florida Tidal Creek - Kelly S. Chase; Philip W. Stevens; David A. Blewett; Courtney R. Saari; Colin P. Shea; Jeffrey E. Hill; Quenton M. Tuckett (Estuaries and Coasts, 2026)
Phase shifts can occur in ecosystems because of external stressors. Such transitions from one state (e.g., clear water, seagrass) to another (e.g., phytoplankton blooms, bare substrate) continue to be documented worldwide. In estuaries, stressors related to urban and suburban development are often implicated in phase shifts, including altered hydrology and eutrophication. Tidal creeks may be especially prone to phase shifts as their position in the landscape exposes them to the brunt of coastal development. In 2017, a precipitous seagrass decline occurred in a tidal creek downstream of coastal development in the Charlotte Harbor estuary, Florida (USA). Fisheries independent monitoring data (July 2014 to June 2022) from 21.3 m seines were used to investigate changes in fish assemblages. Multivariate analyses identified a fish assemblage shift that coincided with seagrass loss and increasing algal blooms. Reductions in seagrass-associated species (e.g., Rainwater Killifish Lucania parva ) were offset by increases in generalist and planktivorous taxa (e.g., Bay Anchovy Anchoa mitchilli ). Such changes did not occur in neighboring creeks downstream of more natural habitat. The present study is indicative of a potential phase shift. Tidal creeks serve as ‘sentinels’ for ecosystem change. Furthermore, similar patterns of seagrass loss and algal blooms are taking place in the open estuary; thus, the fish assemblage shift identified in the tidal creek may signal similar, widespread changes. Identifying shifts in biotic assemblages and predominant drivers can help guide resource planning to strengthen ecosystem resilience and recovery within Charlotte Harbor and other Florida estuaries.

The Thriving but Threatened Seagrass Meadows: Reassessing the Status of the Enigmatic Philippine Thalassodendron ciliatum - William P. Dimalanta; Jackery C. Rengel; Shienna Mae C. Gonzaga; Ronel T. Aguilar; Laura T. David; Michael Y. Roleda (Estuaries and Coasts, 2026)

Albatross and petrel overlap with pelagic longline fisheries in the Eastern Pacific Ocean - Daniel P. Crear; Thomas A. Clay; Ana P.B. Carneiro; Johannes H. Fischer; Igor Debski; David J. Anderson; Jill A. Awkerman; Alastair M.M. Baylis; Elizabeth A. Bell; Letizia Campioni; Paulo Catry; Tyler Clavelle; et al. (Fisheries Research, 2026)

Pan-continental assessment of socioeconomic and environmental predictors of PFAS occurrence in European rivers from a harmonised monitoring study - Jun Li; Alistair B.A. Boxall; Caroline Swan; Selwyn Hoeks; Racliffe W.S. Lai; John L. Wilkinson; Recep C. Altinbag; Åsa Arrhenius; Roman Ashauer; Thomas Backhaus; Besnik Baraj; Vasiliki G. Beretsou; et al. (Water Research, 2026)

A coupled fictitious pile and finite-length thin layer (FTL) method for dynamic response analysis of railway pile-plank structure - Guankai Wang; Yao Shan; Chao He; Xuming Li; David P. Connolly; Bettina Detmann (Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2026)

Direct addition and legacy effects of sulphur fertilisation on microbial soil organic matter mineralisation and priming effect - Yahaya Jebril Amanor; Eric Paterson; Nabla Kennedy; Aoife M. Duff; Patrick Forrestal; David P. Wall; Fiona Brennan (Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2026)

Basal area loss from fire using field-calibrated remote sensing refines western US fire severity measurements - Sara Winsemius; Yufang Jin; Hugh D. Safford; Michelle C. Agne; Robert A. Andrus; C. Alina Cansler; Anthony C. Caprio; W. Wallace Covington; Joseph E. Crouse; Calvin Farris; Peter Z. Fulé; Brian J. Harvey; et al. (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2026)

Leukotoxin enhances nasopharyngeal colonization and shedding of Mannheimia haemolytica in bovine herpesvirus 1 infected calves - Robert E. Briggs; Fred M. Tatum; David J. Holthausen; Glynn H. Frank; Eduardo Casas; Rohana P. Dassanayake (Research in Veterinary Science, 2026)

HLS-GPT: A generative pretrained transformer (GPT) for continental-scale NASA harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) reflectance reconstruction across all bands on arbitrary dates - Junjie Li; Hankui K. Zhang; David P. Roy (ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2026)

Automated methods to accelerate fungal red listing: a case study for North American macrofungi - Vida J. Svahnström; Steven Bachman; Cátia Canteiro; Eimear Nic Lughadha; A. Martyn Ainsworth; Jessica L. Allen; Scott T. Bates; Matilda J.M. Brown; Susana P. Cunha; Anders Dahlberg; Susana C. Gonçalves; Tom W. May; et al. (Fungal Ecology, 2026)

The effect of sowing date in establishing Camelina sativa as a valuable summer crop in France - Susana Silvestre; Anais Da Costa; Thomas I. David; Frédérique Tellier; Javier Prieto; Paloma Leon; Yuri Herreras Yambanis; Richard P. Haslam; Jean-Denis Faure (Field Crops Research, 2026)

Climate and soil properties drive microplastic enrichment patterns in agricultural soils across a multi-country survey - Martine Graf; Michaela K. Reay; Yingming Sun; Fan Ding; Siyang Ren; Kai Wang; Changrong Yan; Shitong Li; Tida Ge; Xuejun Liu; Ruimin Qi; Jixiao Cui; et al. (Environmental Pollution, 2026)

Prenatal exposure to indoor PM2.5 and children's cognitive performance at 4 years of age: an observational analysis from the UGAAR randomized controlled trial - Battsetseg Ulziikhuu; Enkhjargal Gombojav; Chimeglkham Banzrai; Sarangerel Batsukh; Enkhtuul Enkhtuya; Buyantushig Boldbaatar; David C. Bellinger; Bruce P. Lanphear; Lawrence C. McCandless; Xing Yu; Ryan W. Allen (Environmental Pollution, 2026)

Mangrove organic matter accumulated recently at Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef - Brooke M. Conroy; Jeffrey J. Kelleway; Haidee Cadd; Sarah M. Hamylton; Colin D. Woodroffe; David P. Child; Michael A.C. Hotchkis; Quan Hua; Sabika Maizma; Patricia Gadd; Debashish Mazumder; Kerrylee Rogers (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2026)

Riparian restoration benefits across space and time in subtropical Australia: From drinking water quality to wider society - Joseph M. McMahon; James C.R. Smart; Ben Stewart-Koster; Syezlin Hasan; James S. Shortle; William N. Venables; Andrew Smolders; Morag Stewart; Don Butler; Jon M. Olley; David P. Hamilton; Stuart Bunn (Ecosystem Services, 2026)

Biomimetic hierarchical scaffold with Zn2+/Mg2+ dual-ion synergistic release for sequential immunomodulation to enhance bone regeneration - Dali Xu; Xin Liu; Jin Li; Jiaxin Quan; Boyang Zhang; Jiawei Zhang; Bowen Zhang; Sihan Lu; W. David Jamieson; Oliver K. Castell; Christopher P. Thomas; Ke Yang; et al. (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2026)

Farmers' attitudes towards biodiversity shape the effectiveness of biodiversity-friendly management practices for wild bees, but not plants and spiders - Jeroen Scheper; David Kleijn; Fabian Klebl; Anneli Adler; András Báldi; Ignasi Bartomeus; Vincent Bretagnolle; J.P. Reinier De Vries; Sabrina Gaba; Maura Ganz; José M. Herrera; Felix Herzog; et al. (Biological Conservation, 2026)

Biome-scale spatial patterns of avian abundance reveal proactive conservation opportunities in North American grasslands - Caleb P. Roberts; Victoria M. Donovan; Samantha M. Cady; Brandon P.M. Edwards; Scott Morford; David Naugle; Rheinhardt Scholtz; Dirac Twidwell; Daniel R. Uden; Dillon Fogarty (Biological Conservation, 2026)

Development of a quadruple isotope spiking methodology to study mercury methylation and methylmercury demethylation in environmental and biological media - Javier Garcia-Calleja; Pablo Rodríguez-González; Laura Suárez Criado; Emmanuel Tessier; João P. Santos; Sylvain Bouchet; Zoyne Pedrero; Vera I. Slaveykova; J. Ignacio García Alonso; David Amouroux (Analytica Chimica Acta, 2026)

Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management—The State of the Art and Prospects for Near‐Future Operations - Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen; Chris Perry; Royce Dalby; Yasir Mohamed; Xueliang Cai; Poolad Karimi; IJsbrand de Jong; Pasquale Steduto; Marat Beksultanov; Christopher C. M. Neale; David Molden; Waqas Awan; et al. (Irrigation and Drainage, 2026)
A recent UN report describes many regions as facing ‘water bankruptcy, ’ a condition in which available water resources can no longer meet existing demands. In practice, this means irrigation will likely bear the greatest burden of future water‐use reductions, a complicated and fraught decision to make given its critical role in food security. This review paper highlights the growing range of information now available through remote sensing technologies to support planners, irrigation managers and farmers. These data include cropping patterns, crop yields, water consumption, farmgate water and tubewell water deliveries, soil moisture and root‐zone water storage, among others. The paper also reviews current applications of remote sensing, which remain too often constrained to the scientific community, and recommends the development and dissemination of standardized irrigation analytics and diagnostic tools. Government irrigation and water agencies are encouraged to integrate these emerging spatial data sources into both strategic planning and real‐time management from field to scheme scale and provide a stronger foundation of key performance indicator (KPI). Bridging this information gap will require startups and technology providers to translate advanced data products into practical, user‐friendly tools tailored to the needs of the irrigation sector.

Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses Identify Candidate Genes for Convergent Reproductive Shifts in a Bimodal Viviparous Amphibian - Kevin P. Mulder; André Lourenço; Ivan Gomez‐Mestre; Miguel Carneiro; David Buckley; Iñigo Martínez‐Solano; Robert C. Fleischer; Rayna C. Bell; Guillermo Velo‐Antón (Molecular Ecology, 2026)
Shifts in reproductive mode represent key evolutionary innovations that shape species' life histories and evolutionary trajectories. Species showing bimodal reproductive strategies with multiple independent origins offer a rare opportunity to gain insights into the adaptive processes and mechanisms underlying convergent traits. The fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra , is the only amphibian exhibiting intraspecific variation in reproductive mode across multiple independent reproductive shifts, enabling investigation of the transition between larviparity (females give birth to aquatic larvae) and pueriparity (females give birth to fully developed terrestrial juveniles) within a single species and across different timescales. Pueriparity is an adaptive innovation that skips the aquatic larval stage, allowing individuals to exploit habitats with no available water bodies. The fire salamander is larviparous across most of its range, but pueriparity has evolved independently at least three times: once in the early Pleistocene within S. s. bernardezi in the mountains of northern Spain, and more recently on two land‐bridge islands (NW Spain) inhabited by S. s. gallaica . To identify candidate genes associated with these distinct reproductive modes, we compared gene expression profiles of the uterus and oviduct of pregnant females across two independent evolutionary transitions using RNA‐sequencing. We detected shared changes in maternal gene expression among pueriparous S. s. bernardezi and S. s. gallaica relative to their larviparous counterparts, in addition to differences unique to each independent evolutionary transition. Functional enrichment analyses indicated that differentially expressed genes were associated with reproductive timing, angiogenesis, and maternal signalling, consistent with the phenotypic differences observed in the uterine environment and embryonic development between the two reproductive modes. This study represents an important first step towards understanding the genomic basis of the evolution of pueriparity in a remarkable bimodal reproductive system, and provides transcriptomic resources and candidate genes for future research into the genomic architecture underlying this poorly understood adaptive trait.

Effects of diel behavior on the uncertainty and efficiency of acoustic-trawl surveys of small pelagic fishes off Northwest Mexico - Juan Roberto Felipe Vallarta-Zárate; Mario Vásquez-Ortiz; David A. Demer; Juan P. Zwolinski; Felipe Amezcua; R. Isaac Rojas-González (Fisheries Research, 2026)

Spatial models cannot compensate for sampling designs unstructured relative to isotopic variation: implications for baseline isoscape development in the Mediterranean Sea - Sarah Magozzi; Clive N. Trueman; Matthew R.D. Cobain; Kirsteen M. MacKenzie; Katie St. John Glew; José A. Canseco; Eric Díaz-Delgado; Emanuela Fanelli; Paola Rumolo; Joan E. Cartes; Boris Espinasse; Davide Agnetta; et al. (Progress in Oceanography, 2026)

A pilot autism case-control study of pesticides and plasticizers in shed baby teeth - Lynne P. Heilbrun; Inkyu Han; Anabel Rodriguez; L. Aubree Shay; David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras (Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 2026)

Geospatial-based neighborhood hazards and asthma in adults: Interaction with social vulnerability - Yujing Chen; Farida S. Akhtari; David C. Fargo; Charles P. Scmitt; Vy Kim Nguyen; Kai Zhang; Evelyn Xiu Ling Loo; Peng Gao; Chao Jiang; Tzu-Hsuen Yuan; Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui; Lap Ah Tse; et al. (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2026)

Integrated geological, economic, and risk assessment of underground hydrogen storage - Prakash Purswani; K C Bijay; Hyeonseok Lee; Yun Yang; Uwaila C. Iyare; Lawrence O. Baompong; Shaowen Mao; David Z. Li; Zhidi Wu; Manjeet Chhetri; Siqin Yu; Xiaoyu Zhang; et al. (Fuel, 2026)

Consumer preferences for simultaneous presentation of nutrition and environmental labelling: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment at UK scale - Rao Fu; Shan Jin; Francisco Areal; Paul Brereton; Jayne V. Woodside; Jelena Vlajic; Beatrice Smyth; Anne P. Nugent; David Livingstone; George Hutchinson; Eva-Leanne Thomas; Leona Lindberg; et al. (Food Quality and Preference, 2026)

Benzalkonium chloride adaptation induces filamentation in Listeria monocytogenes HL06 and enhances its growth in pasteurized milk and pork sausage at 4 °C - Tao Yu; Xiaojie Jiang; Xiaobo Xu; Hongxia Zhu; David P. Hamilton; Shuxing Qiu; Junlei Yin; Xiaobing Jiang (Food Microbiology, 2026)

Friendship and the architecture of alliance detection - Sam P. Dale; David M.G. Lewis (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026)

Corrigendum to “Revisiting the modifiable areal unit problem in the era of exposome-wide association studies: Assessing the performance of the CDC/ATSDR social vulnerability index at privacy-protecting spatial scales” [Environ. Res. (2026) 124912] - Jonathan V. Lewis; Nathaniel MacNell; Ian D. Buller; Gary Larson; David Fargo; Charles P. Schmitt; Lawrence S. Kirschner; David M. Reif; Farida S. Akhtari; Cristina M. Justice; John S. House; Kyle P. Messier; et al. (Environmental Research, 2026)

Corrigendum to “Revisiting the modifiable areal unit problem in the era of exposome-wide association studies: Assessing the performance of the CDC/ATSDR social vulnerability index at privacy-protecting spatial scales” [Environ. Res. (2026) 124912] - Jonathan V. Lewis; Nathaniel MacNell; Ian D. Buller; Gary Larson; David Fargo; Charles P. Schmitt; Lawrence S. Kirschner; David M. Reif; Farida S. Akhtari; Cristina M. Justice; John S. House; Kyle P. Messier; et al. (Environmental Research, 2026)

Longitudinal blood pressure changes in relation to urinary toxic/essential metals and metal mixtures - Margaret C. Weiss; Jiehuan Sun; Brian P. Jackson; Mary E. Turyk; Luyu Wang; Eric L. Brown; David Aguilar; Sharon A. Brown; Craig L. Hanis; Maria Argos; Robert M. Sargis (Environmental Research, 2026)

Revisiting the modifiable areal unit problem in the era of exposome-wide association studies: Assessing the performance of the CDC/ATSDR social vulnerability index at privacy-protecting spatial scales - Jonathan V. Lewis; Nathaniel MacNell; Ian D. Buller; Gary Larson; David C. Fargo; Charles P. Schmitt; Lawrence S. Kirschner; David M. Reif; Farida S. Akhtari; Cristina M. Justice; John S. House; Kyle P. Messier; et al. (Environmental Research, 2026)

Dracula under siege: Persistent demand for a threatened and range-restricted orchid taxa - Edicson Parra-Sánchez; Luis Baquero; Juan Camilo Ordóñez-Blanco; Karen Gil-Amaya; David P. Edwards; Oscar Morton (Biological Conservation, 2026)

Understanding co-invading species’ ecological strategies and interactions with causal inference and simple dynamic models: Bighead (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and Silver carp (H. molitrix) in the Illinois River, USA - Donald R. Schoolmaster; James E. Garvey; Richard A. Erickson; Benjamin J. Marcek; David P. Coulter (Hydrobiologia, 2026)
Species interactions among multiple invasive species can present hidden challenges for management and eradication efforts. Bighead and Silver carp ( Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and H. molitrix , respectively) are closely related species that have co-invaded the Mississippi River and many of its tributaries, including the Illinois River. We used a combination of causal inference and dynamic models to test for interspecific interactions in a 10-year data set of hydroacoustic density data from the Illinois River. The results suggest that Bighead and Silver carp are exploiting different ecological strategies; where Bighead carp shows fast initial growth but low equilibrium density and Silver carp had a lower low-density growth rate but larger equilibrium population density. Further, we found evidence for a positive interspecific effect of Silver carp on Bighead carp. The mechanism leading to the observed positive interactions is unknown, but could be an effect of ecological facilitation, differential responses to harvest of both species, or hybridization and introgression. Finally, while these results provide valuable information in the ecological strategies and relationships between these species, simulations of the resulting models suggest that the magnitude of the positive interaction is likely too small to be exploited for innovative multispecies management interventions.

Restoration of a Mid-Atlantic Coastal Bay Scallop Population (Argopecten irradians) - Richard A. Snyder; Rebecca T. Smith; Darian M. Kelley; Sean Fate; Robert J. Orth; Bowdoin Lusk; Christopher J. Patrick; Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield; Jan McDowell; Fredrick C. Holbert; John C. Lewis; John P. Richardson; et al. (Estuaries and Coasts, 2026)
We have attempted to re-establish bay scallops to the Virginia, U.S.A. coastal bays and document the dynamics of the restoration effort. Bay scallops ( Argopecten irradians ) once flourished in the eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) of the Virginia coastal bays. Eelgrass wasting disease led to declines, and both eelgrass and scallops were completely lost after a 1933 hurricane. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) led a successful eelgrass restoration effort beginning in 1997, with eelgrass beds expanding at 204 ha per year since 2012 and covering over 4,800 ha in 2025. From 2009 to 2025, bay scallops were brought in from North Carolina, New York, and Florida to the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory (VIMS ESL) in Wachapreague, VA and used to raise bay scallops for restoration. Progeny were released to the eelgrass beds and held in spawning cages. Annual census data documented low and fluctuating scallop densities from 2012 to 2018. From 2019 to 2025, we have observed continued exponential growth with a current (2024–2025) specific growth rate of µ = 0.468 year − 1 and a population doubling time of 1.48 years. The carrying capacity of the system for the new Virginia bay scallop population remains unknown with the population still in the exponential growth phase. In 2025 the annual census documented an average density of 0.114 scallops m − 2 and maximum recorded local density within 50 m − 2 sampling stations of 0.52 scallops m − 2 . Aggregation within the population was anticipated as necessary for reproductive success and was observed in population data with increasing density.

Impact of sample mass on the reliability of toenail fluoride for exposure assessment - Guillermo Tamayo-Cabeza; Michael Zenni; Gina A. Castiblanco-Rubio; Frank Lippert; David B. Flora; Janet L. Peacock; Christine Till; Carly V. Goodman; Bruce P. Lanphear; Susan A. Korrick; Margaret R. Karagas; E. Angeles Martinez-Mier (Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences, 2026)
Objective This study aimed to determine the minimum toenail mass needed for reliable fluoride analysis, and to compare fluoride extraction efficiency (%FE) using two protocols. Methods Toenail samples (n = 98 from 11 participants) were grouped into masses ranging from 1.0 to 5.0 mg (± 0.5 mg). Fluoride content was analyzed using a hexamethyldisiloxane(HMDS)-facilitated diffusion method and a fluoride-ion selective electrode. Pooled toenail samples (3.0 ± 0.5 mg) from four participants were analyzed using two protocols: protocol-A used 1 mL of HMDS-saturated 3N sulfuric acid/2 mL DI water; and protocol-B used 3 mL/3 mL. Samples were re-analyzed twice to calculate %FE. Minimum mass-threshold was determined by intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) with 95%-confidence intervals (CI) from linear mixed-effects models and change-point analysis, accounting for intra-participant variability. F-tests compared the variance in %FE between protocols. Results Fluoride content ranged from 0.82 to 9.22 µg/g. Excellent reliability (ICC = 0.90, 95%CI:[0.71, 0.95]) was observed in samples ≥ 2.5 mg. A change-point was identified at 2.20 mg(95%CI:[1.70, 2.70 mg]). A less variable %FE was observed with protocol-A (43–58%) compared to protocol-B (38–80%) (F-ratio = 0.23, p = 0.02). Conclusion Toenail sample mass affects the reliability of fluoride analysis. The use of a minimum toenail mass of about 2.2–2.5 mg increases the reliability of fluoride analysis at the participant level. Variability in %FE should be considered in future efforts to standardize analytical protocols.

Disentangling the controls on fossil bone geochemistry using partial redundancy analysis - Michał P. Surowski; Krzysztof Owocki; Bogusław Bagiński; David Chew; Foteini Drakou (Applied Geochemistry, 2026)

Effects of including fodder beet or swedes in a grass, silage and concentrate-based diet on performance, rumen metabolism and N excretion of lactating dairy cows - Juan P. Keim; Víctor Leighton; Mónica Gandarillas; Rodrigo Arias; I. Beltrán; David Pacheco (Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2026)

Biomanufacturing next-generation sunscreen components from cyanobacteria - Aditya P. Sarnaik; Rocco Mancinelli; John McGowen; David Smernoff; Taylor L. Weiss (Algal Research, 2026)

Declining rates of evolution and limited convergence in bat sternum shape can be explained by a ratchet of specialisation - Andrew Orkney; Jeanne E. Augustin; Beyonca Akers; David B. Boerma; Brandon P. Hedrick (Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2026)

Plant-soil interactions: enzymes, exudates, and heavy-metals under application of atrazine and glyphosate herbicides - O. A. Fabiyi; O. A. David; A. H. Labulo; H. Ibrahim; O. P. Iyere; A. O. Oseni; B. O. Benson; E. J. Isaac (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2026)

Muscle architectural and performance adaptations following an 8-week sprint-focused training intervention - Luke R. Stutter; Steven Duhig; David L. Carey; Matthew W. Driller; Charlie J. Davids; Lachlan P. James (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2026)
Muscle fascicle length is a key determinant of sprint performance, with lengthening adaptations observed following eccentric strength training or combined sprint and resistance interventions. However, whether sprint-focused training can induce meaningful architectural adaptations, independent of concurrent sport-related training, remains unclear. Fourteen participants (10 female, 4 male; age 21.6 ± 3.3 years; body mass 68.0 ± 11.8 kg) completed an 8-week speed training intervention using a single-group design. Training sessions consisted of maximal velocity and resisted sprinting, technical acceleration drills, and a low volume of back squats to maintain baseline strength, with no additional lower-body training permitted. Vastus lateralis (VL) and biceps femoris long head (BFlh) fascicle length was estimated using 2-D ultrasound, alongside 40-metre sprint, jump and maximal strength tests. Significant increases in fascicle length were observed in the BFlh (left: 2.23 cm, 95%CI 1.75 to 2.70, p < 0.0001; right: 2.44 cm, 95%CI 1.99 to 2.90, p < 0.0001) and VL (left: 0.32 cm, 95%CI 0.83 to 1.81, p < 0.0001; right: 1.48 cm, 95%CI 0.95 to 2.01, p < 0.0001). Large effect sizes were evident across all muscles ( g = 1.40–2.03, 95% CI 0.86 to 2.46). No significant main effects for time were observed for sprint, jump or strength outcomes, however, small effect size improvements were evident for flying 10-m ( g = -0.27, 95% CI -0.46 to -0.09) performance. These findings indicate that sprint-focused training may be sufficient to elicit meaningful increases in muscle fascicle length, despite small performance change.

Influence of field beans (Vicia faba L.) on yield and environmental footprint of following spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) crops - Umut Kartal; Colm Duffy; Sophie Saget; Frances Sandison; Andrew Christie; Cathy Hawes; Becky Howard; Roger Vickers; Dimitrios Savvas; David Styles; Pietro P. M. Iannetta (Plant and Soil, 2026)
Background and Aims The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has increased interest in legume-based cropping systems. Among the various crop-legume species available, the cool-season species Vicia faba L. (cv. minor; field beans) has attracted significant interest. Assessment of the environmental impact reduction of field beans in a crop-sequence (rotation) is understudied. Methods Data from a long term (2009–2023) field bean experimental platform (the Centre for Sustainable Cropping, CSC; James Hutton Institute, Scotland, UK) were analysed using attributional life cycle assessment (aLCA). This focused on elaborating the impacts of a spring field bean to spring barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) cropping sequence compared with a spring barley to spring barley cropping sequence. Results Field beans decreased the environmental impact of spring barley production in four of the five two-year crop-sequence periods, with mean impact reductions of approximately 25% across sequences. Spring barley grain yields tended to increase following field beans under drought conditions (2022). A combined index analysis indicated that humidity, maximum temperature, and previous field bean yields were the strongest determinants of spring barley production. Conclusions The integration of field beans to cereal-dominated rotations may be of interest to major industries who seek to improve value chain sustainability, whilst ensuring crop-sequence yields are climate-impact resilient.

Thermal history and behavioural plasticity shape reef fish tolerance to marine heatwaves - Angus Mitchell; Sean D. Connell; Ben P. Harvey; Sylvain Agostini; Jeffrey Jolly; Guinther Mitushasi; Timothy Ravasi; David J. Booth; Ivan Nagelkerken (Coral Reefs, 2026)
Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense, driving mass fish mortalities and reshaping marine ecosystems, yet the capacity of fishes to tolerate heatwaves remains unclear. We quantified physiological condition and behavioural responses of juvenile warm-water ( Abudefduf vaigiensis ) and cool-water ( Microcanthus strigatus ) fishes from three natural climate analogues—an ambient temperate reef, an ocean warming analogue, and a combined warming and extreme acidification analogue—before and during the 2023 global marine heatwave, and under a + 3 °C simulated heatwave in the laboratory. In the laboratory, warm-water fish from the warm reef began the experiment in leaner condition than cool reef fish but increased their bite rates under heatwave conditions, compensating for elevated metabolic demand and maintaining body condition. Cool-water fish showed no behavioural adjustment to the heatwave, and body condition diverged by reef origin: cool reef fish lost weight across all treatments while warm- and extreme-origin fish maintained condition, suggesting tolerance was conferred by prior thermal history rather than acute behavioural responses. In the field, warm-water fish were leaner and had lower protein content during the 2023 heatwave than before it, while cool-water fish from the extreme reef had lower body condition than those from the cool reef prior to the heatwave. Our findings suggest that behavioural plasticity can facilitate warm-water fish tolerance to heatwaves at their cold leading edges, while thermal history supports heatwave tolerance in cool-water fish within their core ranges. Populations inhabiting naturally extreme climate analogues may therefore harbour pre-adapted, climate-resilient fish in a future ocean.

Occurrence of acrylamide and 4-methylimidazole in roasted and ground coffee and the effect of L-asparaginase treatment of green coffee on their levels - David S. da Costa; Edna J. H. Ramirez; Sara R. de Carvalho; Patrícia A. C. Braga; José O. Fernandes; Sara C. Cunha; Adriana P. A. Bragotto (Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 2026)

Cyanobacterial dominance responds nonlinearly to phosphorus additions under nitrogen enrichment in microcosms from a large drinking water reservoir - Man Xiao; Haiming Kan; Michele A. Burford; David P. Hamilton; Bao Qian; Lian Peng; Yuying Li; Hai Xu; Dawei Wang; Guangwei Zhu (Hydrobiologia, 2026)

Mangrove genera influence bed shear stress and coastal protection ecosystem services - Alice J. Twomey; Dylan Cowley; Simon J. Murphy; David P. Callaghan; Marc Koh; Neil Saintilan; Catherine E. Lovelock (Water Research, 2026)

Scanning the horizon for harmful cyanobacterial blooms - Xuexiu Chang; Hugh J. MacIsaac; Ingrid Chorus; George S. Bullerjahn; Rainer Kurmayer; Chi-Yong Ahn; Xiangzhen Kong; Steven W. Wilhelm; Susanna A. Wood; Xiangming Tang; Hans W. Paerl; Sabine Hilt; et al. (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2026)

Mechanical jamming in pseudotachylyte-hosted breccias - David P. Dobson; Charlotte L. Bays; Thomas M. Mitchell (Tectonophysics, 2026)

Temporal variation in environmental DNA detections within an urban estuary - Joseph D. DiBattista; Ashley M. Fowler; David Harasti; Robert Hitchen; Nicole McMahon; Shaun P. Wilkinson (Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2026)

Mercury concentrations in cephalopods from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean in relation to their biology, habitat and trophic position - Marius Lespinas; José C. Xavier; Paco Bustamante; José P. Queirós; David R. Thompson; Pedro Coelho; Maria Eduarda Pereira; José Seco (Marine Environmental Research, 2026)

Stable isotope insights into the habitat use of two benthic invertebrates along Antarctic glacier-influenced fjords - Pau Bardi-Puigdefàbregas; Miguel Bascur; David K.A. Barnes; Stuart Jenkins; Carlos P. Muñoz-Ramírez; Estefanía Rodríguez; Antonio Brante; Luis Cardona; Conxita Avila (Marine Environmental Research, 2026)

Progressive change of the water column, pore water and sediment chromium isotope composition at the Rainbow hydrothermal vent field, North Atlantic Ocean - Delphine Gilliard; David J. Janssen; Zvi Steiner; Zhouling Zhang; Sylvie Bruggmann; Eric P. Achterberg; Samuel L. Jaccard (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2026)

Investigation into the metabolomic effects of the non-canonical amino acid azetidine-2-carboxylic acid in neuroblastoma cells - Connor R. Phillips; Jake P. Violi; David S. Gertner; Joel R. Steele; David P. Bishop; Kenneth J. Rodgers (Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2026)

growthTrendR R package: A comprehensive toolkit for data processing, quality assessment and statistical analysis of tree-ring data - Xiao Jing Guo; Martin P. Girardin; Juha Metsaranta; David Gervais; Elizabeth M. Campbell (Dendrochronologia, 2026)

Analysis of newly-detected small seismic events in and near the Northern Korean Peninsula from 2004 to 2010: Part I, correlation, detection, and relative locations - David P. Schaff; Kin-Yip Chun; Won-Young Kim; Paul G. Richards (Journal of Seismology, 2026)

Analysis of newly-detected small seismic events in and near the Northern Korean Peninsula from 2004 to 2010: Part II, absolute locations, origin times, and event identification - David P. Schaff; Kin-Yip Chun; Won-Young Kim; Paul G. Richards (Journal of Seismology, 2026)

Correction to: Enhancing farmers’ access to neglected crop seeds for healthy diets in a changing climate: six recommendations for policy action - Maarten van Zonneveld; Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez; Enoch G. Achigan-Dako; Conny Almekinders; Stef de Haan; Wilson Hugo; Gloria Otieno; Rodomiro Ortiz; Jessica E. Raneri; Carolina Roa; Louise Sperling; David Spielma; et al. (Food Security, 2026)

Enhancing farmers’ access to neglected crop seeds for healthy diets in a changing climate: six recommendations for policy action - Maarten van Zonneveld; Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez; Enoch G. Achigan-Dako; Conny Almekinders; Stef de Haan; Wilson Hugo; Gloria Otieno; Rodomiro Ortiz; Jessica E. Raneri; Carolina Roa; Louise Sperling; David Spielman; et al. (Food Security, 2026)
Food insecurity and poor diets undermine human health, livelihoods, and aspirations. Climate change further exacerbates the problem of achieving zero hunger. Promoting the production of a diverse portfolio of nutrient-dense, climate-resilient crops enables food supply for healthy diets in the coming years and decades. Many are underutilized even though they are considered opportunity crops, with an unrealized potential to improve food security and dietary quality amid climate change. Limited access to quality seed for these crops is a major bottleneck in their supply, as the current policy environment does not support farmers in broadening their portfolio with these crops. This paper identifies three key challenges that should be addressed to enable farmers to access quality seed of opportunity crops at scale. These are to make the diversity of opportunity crops (i) a priority for policy (ii) available for evaluation and breeding, and (iii) accessible to farmers, especially women and other disadvantaged groups. Six policy actions are recommended to address these challenges, which, if implemented, are likely to have both short- and long-term impacts in increasing farmers’ access to quality seeds of opportunity crops. Adopting these policy actions will help mainstream opportunity crops into seed systems as part of a broader strategy to diversify food systems from seed to plate.

Correction to: Genetic structure in a previously extirpated population of gray wolves following reintroduction and natural recolonization - Heather R. Clendenin; David E. Ausband; Jennifer R. Adams; Paul A. Hohenlohe; Lisette P. Waits (Conservation Genetics, 2026)

In-plane drift capacities of non-ductile and limited ductile rectangular reinforced concrete shear Walls: empirical predictions - Seyed Meghdad Ghaseminia; Hossein Derakhshan; Julian Thamboo; David P. Thambiratnam; Tatheer Zahra (Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2026)
Reinforced concrete (RC) walls with single-layer (non-ductile walls) and double-layer (limited-ductile walls) reinforcement are commonly used in buildings located in low to moderate seismic regions. Despite being designed for adequate in-plane strength, the drift capacities of these walls remain a concern due to the absence of end confinement detailing. It has been recognised that a better understanding and more accurate estimation of wall drift capacities, using available empirical evidence, is essential for assessing and reducing the risk of structural instabilities observed in past earthquakes. To this end, an experimental database comprising 47 single-layered and 49 double-layered RC walls was developed, capturing the results of past in-plane cyclic shear tests. The database provided insights into the failure patterns and geometrical and mechanical parameters influencing the drift capacities of these walls. The analyses revealed that the double-layered RC walls generally possess higher drift capacities than their single-layered counterparts. The drift capacities of these walls were found to be influenced by complex parameters, including the effective slenderness ratio $$\left( {{λ _t}} \right)$$ , shear stress demand $$\left( {{V_u}/{A_g}\sqrt {{f_c}} } \right)$$ , and axial load ratio $$\left( {P/{A_g}{f_c}} \right)$$ . The existing empirical models, which were primarily developed for RC walls with special detailing in high-seismic regions, systematically over-predict the drift capacities of the non-ductile and limited-ductile walls considered in this study. Consequently, a new set of empirical formulations was developed to predict the drift capacities of single-layered and double-layered rectangular RC walls with non-ductile or limited-ductile detailing, as commonly used in regions of low to moderate seismic hazard. The proposed models were calibrated using regression analyses, demonstrating strong alignment with experimental results.

Dune Russet: A French-Fry Potato Cultivar with High Specific Gravity under High-Temperature Growing Conditions and Excellent Processing Quality after Long-Term Cold Storage - M. Isabel Vales; Douglas C. Scheuring; Jeffrey W. Koym; Jeewan Pandey; Stephany E. Toinga-Villafuerte; Joshua R. Johnson; Caroline P. Gray; David G. Holm; Mohamad Chikh-Ali; Robert G. Wilson; Richard G. Novy; Jonathan L. Whitworth; et al. (American Journal of Potato Research, 2026)
Dune Russet (COTX08063-2Ru) is the first French fry russet potato cultivar released by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program. It derives from a cross made by the Colorado State University Potato Program between Premier Russet and A99073-1 and was subsequently selected and advanced by the Texas Program. Dune Russet has oblong potato tubers with light russet skin texture and white flesh. It is characterized by having excellent French fry quality and cold-induced sweetening resistance, producing light-colored fries directly from the field and even after several months (three to eight) in cold storage at 4.4 °C. Dune Russet is especially recommended for areas that experience high-temperature stress during the growing season, as it can retain high specific gravity near 1.090 and produce light French fries despite heat stress. Across multi-location trials, Dune Russet outperformed the reference cultivar, Russet Burbank, and other processing cultivars in French fry quality, while offering some field-based PVY tolerance and good agronomic performance, including competitive marketable yields and a high proportion of US No. 1 tubers.

Genetic Links to Gut Microbiome Variation in the Yellow‐Rumped Warbler Hybrid Zone - Marcella D. Baiz; Lan‐Nhi Phung; Daniel Pierce; Stephanie J. Szarmach; Johanna K. Beam; Shawn Healy; Alan Brelsford; David P. L. Toews (Molecular Ecology, 2026)
The gut microbiome is a dynamic ecosystem wherein microbes can exert beneficial, neutral or harmful effects on their host organism. Previous research has supported a large role for the environment in shaping avian gut microbiome diversity, but host‐specific factors that regulate gut microbiome variation remain elusive. In hybrid zones, genetic recombination shuffles divergent alleles among backcrossed individuals allowing associations between genomic regions and specific traits to be identified. In this study, we use an association mapping approach to investigate the contribution of host alleles in shaping gut microbiome composition. We collected samples from across the Yellow‐rumped Warbler hybrid zone ( Setophaga coronata coronata × S. c. auduboni ), including from distantly allopatric sites. The narrow width of this hybrid zone suggests that selection acts against hybrids, although the source of that selection is unclear. We quantified gut microbiome variation using 16S amplicon sequencing and produced genome‐wide sequence data for hosts to link warbler genotypes to microbiome traits. This study is one of the first to identify candidate genes underlying gut microbiome variation in wild passerines. Notably, candidate loci include genes with immune function, redox status and gene regulation functions; two genes overlap with candidate genes identified in another avian system. Genetic differentiation was weak among candidate loci, indicating that alleles associated with gut microbiome variation are shared between subspecies. Our analysis of microbiome variation across nearly the full breeding range of an avian species complex yields important insights on the genetic factors that shape symbiotic interactions in vertebrate systems.

Flux Science Without Borders: Strengthening Ecosystem Flux Capacity in Latin America - Tonantzin Tarin; M. Susana Alvarado‐Barrientos; Eugenia González del Castillo; Mónica Cervantes‐Jiménez; Zulia Sánchez‐Mejía; Alejandro Cueva; Alejandro Delgado‐Guerrero; Dulce Flores‐Renteria; Jaime Garatuza‐Payan; César Hinojo‐Hinojo; Karem Meza; David J. P. Moore; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2026)
The future of how we understand and manage ecosystems largely depends on direct and continuous observations that connect local territories to planetary processes. Latin America (LATAM: Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean) hosts ecosystems critical for regulating global carbon, water, and energy cycles. However, persistent underinvestment in science and technology hampers the long‐term monitoring capacity needed to advance regional priorities. Addressing the climate crisis requires investing in local researchers, technicians, and students, providing Earth System Science training that integrates biophysical and sociocultural knowledge. Although English is the lingua franca of science, training in native languages accelerates technical capacity, strengthens regional collaboration, and grounds solutions in local experience. Here, we present TAFE ( Taller de Aprendizaje de Flujos Ecosistémicos ) as an example of how regionally grounded, native‐languages training can strengthen ecosystem flux science in LATAM and beyond. Such initiatives help decentralize knowledge, reduce the underrepresentation of Global South ecosystems in flux databases, and empower the next generation to lead research for both regional and global benefit.

Spatial and temporal use of a tropical nursery habitat by juvenile blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) - Lauren A. Moe; Jason P. Turner; Jay R. Rooker; R. J. David Wells; Steven L. Colbert (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2026)
Blacktip sharks ( Carcharhinus limbatus ) are a circumglobal species that rely on nearshore nursery habitats during their early years. Movement patterns and habitat use of blacktip sharks in the Hawaiian Islands is poorly understood, and no nursery habitats have been discovered within Hawai’i. For this study, juvenile blacktip sharks (n = 29) were caught and tagged in Hilo Bay, Hawai’i, USA with acoustic transmitters. Tracking occurred every 2–5 weeks between July 2022 and January 2024 at 44 stations throughout Hilo Bay using a receiver and omnidirectional hydrophone. Results showed that juvenile blacktip sharks were present in the bay year-round, with the greatest monthly residence (41.3-50.0%) from March through August, and the lowest monthly residence (24.1-30.1%) from October through January. Blacktip sharks were detected within Hilo Bay more during the day than at night, but more frequently in deeper waters at night, which is likely due to excursions into deeper waters during heightened nocturnal foraging activity. Temperature and salinity did not significantly vary among stations, and as such, were not influential factors in habitat use. Dissolved oxygen (DO) appeared to limit habitat use during the day when concentrations were lowest in the bay. The lowest DO concentrations were observed during the months when the fewest number of sharks were detected, suggesting that oxygen requirements may influence habitat use within the bay. The residency patterns presented here support the delineation of Hilo Bay as the first known blacktip shark nursery habitat in Hawaiian waters. Our results suggest that this population of blacktip sharks reside predominantly within Hilo Bay for the first few years of their life, and highlight the effect that environmental changes can have on this species’ habitat availability and movement patterns.

Development of a Community-engaged Research Training Workshop for Clinician-Scientists and Early-stage Investigators - Emily P. Courtney; Cathy D. Meade; Clement K. Gwede; Veronica Barrios-Monroy; Isabel C. Scarinci; Usha Menon; Monica Baskin; David Schwartz; Monica E. Peek; Anissa I. Vines; Z’Kera Peoples; Jamboor K Vishwanatha; et al. (Journal of Cancer Education, 2026)
Community-engaged research (CEnR), a collaboration between academics and community partners, is an effective approach in addressing the social drivers of health (SDOH) and health disparities in local communities. Yet, CEnR training is often not a standard component of training programs in research or clinical programs. To meet the need for CEnR training, we developed and implemented a workshop to increase CEnR knowledge and skills among clinician-scientists and early-stage investigators (ESIs), and create opportunities for ongoing mentorship and professional development. In this manuscript, we discuss the organization of this workshop, learning objectives, supporting activities, and follow-up methods to facilitate a successful and engaging training experience. The workshop was developed through collaborative efforts with experts in CEnR, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), cancer disparities, and SDOH. The workshop focused on (1) an introduction to CEnR and the opportunity for attendees to develop their own CEnR research ideas; (2) varied presentations, interactive activities, experiential learning, and discussion topics to fulfill the workshop’s learning objectives; (3) year-long opportunities for professional development and continued mentorship; and (4) evaluations of the workshop. Twenty-four ESIs and 11 clinician-scientists participated in the workshop. Using survey methods and descriptive statistics, the workshop was evaluated positively by participants. This manuscript provides guidance for both in-person and virtual workshop formats, from inception to implementation, and recommendations for other workshop facilitators. The impact of these workshops has the potential to have positive downstream implications for community-engaged research.

The 2024 Eruptions of Ruang Volcano, North Sulawesi, Indonesia: lessons learned from a successful hazard mitigation - Heruningtyas Desi Purnamasari; Asep Saepuloh; Christina Widiwijayanti; Moch. Nugraha Kartadinata; Devy Kamil Syahbana; Mirzam Abdurrachman; Sofyan Primulyana; David Adriansyah; Raditya Putra; Sri Hidayati; Ardy Setya Prayoga; P. Hadi Wijaya (Bulletin of Volcanology, 2026)

Assessing the efficacy of coral restoration along Florida’s coral reef under the chronic persistence of stony coral tissue loss disease - William C. Sharp; Kristene T. Parsons; Erinn M. Muller; Amanda Bourque; David S. Gilliam; Diego Lirman; Colin P. Shea; Joshua D. Voss; John H. Hunt (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2026)
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has caused unprecedented coral mortality across Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) since 2014, raising concerns about whether coral restoration can succeed under chronic disease conditions and whether outplanting activities may increase disease transmission risk. As the disease transitioned from epizootic outbreak to enzootic persistence, we conducted a large-scale experimental outplanting to assess coral restoration efficacy under chronic SCTLD persistence and to evaluate the relative importance of SCTLD versus non-disease drivers of restoration outcomes. From May 2021 through April 2023, we outplanted 1,165 colonies of three SCTLD-susceptible species ( Montastraea cavernosa, Orbicella faveolata , and Pseudodiploria clivosa ) sourced from land-based facilities and in-water nurseries across six regions spanning FCR and monitored survival and disease incidence. Concurrent surveys of natural coral communities assessed whether outplanting activities affected local SCTLD prevalence. Probabilities of infection per monitoring interval remained <1-2% across all species, regions, and propagation sources throughout the monitoring period. Importantly, outplanting activities did not increase SCTLD prevalence in neighboring natural coral communities. In contrast to the low and relatively uniform disease incidence, variation in coral survival was strongly structured by ecological and operational factors. The overall coral colony survival rate at the end of the study was 77.3% but was influenced by reef stratum (inshore vs. offshore reefs), geographic region, and colony source. M. cavernosa and P. clivosa exhibited higher survival at inshore sites compared to offshore sites, whereas O. faveolata showed no consistent reef stratum effect on survival. Across FCR, survival varied spatially between regions independent of latitude, suggesting local environmental drivers. Colony source effects varied by species. M. cavernosa and P. clivosa from land-based facilities exhibited significantly lower survival than colonies from in-water nurseries, whereas O. faveolata showed no significant differences between propagation sources. Our results indicate that under SCTLD-enzootic conditions, restoration outcomes are shaped more strongly by habitat suitability, geographic context, and propagation-related factors than by SCTLD itself. These findings suggest that coral restoration can proceed within SCTLD-enzootic zones without increasing disease risk to neighboring coral communities or substantially elevating SCTLD-related mortality of outplanted colonies.

Work Safety Climate, Heat-Related Illness, and Potential Pesticide Exposure Among Latino Farmworker Adolescents and Young Adults in Arizona - Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez; Priscilla Carmiol-Rodríguez; Taylor J. Arnold; Keenan A. Pituch; Evan P. Anderson; Amber Wutich; Alexandra Brewis; David W. Coon; Thomas A. Arcury (Journal of Agromedicine, 2026)

Mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean influence foraging trip behaviour of multiple penguin species - Joshua C. Wilson; Philip N. Trathan; Hugh J. Venables; David G. Ainley; Matthis Auger; Alistair M.M. Baylis; Charles-André Bost; Louise Emmerson; Kimberley T. Goetz; Mark A. Hindell; Jefferson T. Hinke; Catharine Horswill; et al. (Progress in Oceanography, 2026)

From juveniles to adults: Ontogenetic and seasonal patterns of loggerhead turtles in oceanic Mediterranean habitats - E. Pasanisi; F. Maffucci; F. Atzori; M. Azzolin; I. Campana; L. Carosso; A. Castelli; M. Costantino; L. David; N. Di-Méglio; M. Farina; O. Garcia-Garin; et al. (Marine Environmental Research, 2026)

Environmental impact of the total chemical synthesis of barettin - Sophie Saget; Juan Ortega-Vidal; Olivier P. Thomas; David Styles (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2026)

The sensory and physicochemical properties of an α-lactalbumin enriched whey protein and the contribution of minerals to the sensory profile - Holly Giles; Stephanie P. Bull; Stella Lignou; Alun Hughes; David Warren-Walker; Joe Gallagher; Marianthi Faka; Lisa Methven (International Dairy Journal, 2026)

In-situ constraints on the occurrence and mineralization of critical elements in Late Triassic coals from the Sichuan Basin, China - Rongjie Wang; Shifeng Dai; Victor P. Nechaev; Sergey Y. Budnitskiy; David French; Ian T. Graham; Xiaoyun Yan; Zhuangzhuang Bao; Junling Lu (Fuel, 2026)

Immune divergence in rainbow trout lines selectively bred for F. psychrophilum resistance or susceptibility revealed by challenge with Weissella tructae - Gregory D. Wiens; Christopher C. Chadwick; Keira Osbourn; Qin Fu; Ross M. Reid; Travis Moreland; Timothy J. Welch; Timothy D. Leeds; David P. Marancik (Fish & Shellfish Immunology, 2026)

A systematic literature inventory on the interaction between dietary factors and environmental chemical exposures for nervous system health outcomes - Chelsea A. Weitekamp; Caleb Watson; Ellen Hata; Kirstin Hester; Urmila P. Kodavanti; Christopher Lau; David M. Lehmann; Colette N. Miller; Rachel M. Shaffer; Fatima Soliman; Martha Powers; Francesca M. Branch (Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2026)

Influence of urban land uses on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination in urban runoff and the receiving marine environment - Hong T.M. Nguyen; Apoorva Prabhu; Kia Billings; David P. Bishop; Justin Seymour; Martina A. Doblin (Environmental Research, 2026)

Co-evolution of marine ecosystems and nutrient cycles during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event - Shengchao Yang; Thomas J. Algeo; Thomas Servais; Ronald E. Martin; David A.T. Harper; Charles R. Marshall; Yiying Deng; Zongyuan Sun; Zhengbo Lu; Jian Cao; Chao Li; Shu-zhong Shen; et al. (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2026)

HPAI drives a fourfold increase in adult gannet mortality which requires two decades recovery time - Jude V. Lane; Jason Matthiopoulos; David Astins; Ian Cleasby; Keith C. Hamer; Kirsty A. Franklin; Ruth Jeavons; Liam P. Langley; Aly McCluskie; Greg Morgan; Lisa Morgan; Christopher J. Pollock; et al. (Biological Conservation, 2026)

Land sparing outperforms land sharing across an elevational gradient in tropical cattle-farming landscapes - Giovanny Pérez; Simon C. Mills; Jacob B. Socolar; Jose M. Ochoa Quintero; Torbjørn Haugaasen; Robert P. Freckleton; Jos Barlow; James. J. Gilroy; David P. Edwards (Biological Conservation, 2026)

Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicle Treatment of Respiratory Failure from COVID-19: Endpoint Analysis of Expanded Access Safety Trial - Vikram Sengupta; Sascha Qian; John T. Ransom; Sam Suzuki; David J. Park; Timothy I. Melson; Brian P. Williams; James J. Walsh; Mustafa Awili; Jack M. Mann; Timothy A. Moseley (Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2026)

Floating Materials in Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor, Florida, USA after Hurricanes Helene and Milton - Junnan Jiao; Chuanmin Hu; Brian B. Barnes; Madjid Hadjal; Yonggang Liu; Jennifer P. Cannizzaro; David C. English (Estuaries and Coasts, 2026)

Geochemical data treatment and interpretive uncertainty: a reanalysis of Stonehenge stone fragments (‘Debitage’) - Kostalena Michelaki; David Barham; Michael P. Gorton; William C. Mahaney; Susanne Aufreiter; Ronald G. V. Hancock (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2026)

A Digital Twin Ocean: can we improve coastal ocean forecasts using targeted marine autonomy? - Dale Partridge; Deep Banerjee; David Ford; Ke Wang; Jozef Skákala; Juliane Wihsgott; Prathyush P. Menon; Susan Kay; Daniel Clewley; Andrea Rochner; Emma Sullivan; Matthew Palmer (Ocean Science, 2026)
This study outlines the development and testing of a Digital Twin Ocean (DTO) framework, aimed at improving coastal ocean forecasts through the use of autonomous underwater gliders. A fleet of gliders were deployed in the western English Channel during August-September 2024 to collect measurements of temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and oxygen, aiming to track the movement of the harmful algal bloom Karenia mikimotoi. Measurements were assimilated into a very high resolution (1.5 km) numerical forecast model, with an implementation of biogeochemistry data assimilation for this purpose. The model forecast was then used by a probabilistic uncertainty model to plan a series of waypoints to navigate the glider fleet towards features of interest. By utilising a continuous feedback loop of measurement, prediction, guidance, and refinement a system with real time coupling between the real ocean environment and its digital counterpart has been established. Building upon a prior pilot study of Ford et al. (2022), this work improves every element of the system to address several limitations of the prior configuration. Whilst a bloom was present in the wider area, measurements and modeling suggest it didn't enter the glider operation zone. Despite this and other operational challenges the mission clearly demonstrates the benefits of such a system. The ability to simultaneously track multiple features of interest, namely chlorophyll maxima and oxygen minima, would not have been possible with a single glider resulting in significant benefits to the system. Furthermore, the improvement to biogeochemical forecasting has been demonstrated through a series of post mission experiments, highlighting the advantages of high temporal resolution observations and increased spatial resolution of the model.

Ancient Divergences of the Maritime Alpine Tree Larix lyallii (Pinaceae) Contrasts With Patterns in Other Pacific Northwest Coastal Disjuncts - Daniel F. Turck; Sean Harrington; Lukas P. Grossfurthner; Quinn Buzzard; Jack Sullivan; David C. Tank (Molecular Ecology, 2026)
The disjunct mesic forests of the Pacific Northwest, occurring on the west side of North America's Coastal Ranges as well as in the Northern Rocky Mountains, have emerged as a model system for comparative phylogeography. Less well‐known, however, are the alpine and subalpine plants that mirror this distribution—here referred to as the Maritime Alpine Disjuncts. The phylogeographic histories of lowland coastal disjunct species are the result of either the Cascade orogeny, which separated once‐contiguous mesic habitats, post‐Pleistocene dispersal of species between the northern Interior and coastal forests, or a complex mix of these two processes. In the current study, we investigate the phylogeographic history of Larix lyalii (subalpine larch)—a narrowly distributed Maritime Alpine Disjunct species—to determine whether these geographically related disjunct communities are the result of processes similar to other Pacific Northwest disjuncts. We sample the entire range of L. lyalii and use ddRAD data to explore hypotheses on the timing of these disjunctions. Using a dataset of 28 individuals and 30,425 loci we find three major clades within the species: a Cascade Mountain clade sister to northern and southern Interior clades. We estimate the major clade divergences to be on the order of one to three million years with evidence of population admixture between the two Rocky Mountain clades surrounding the Flathead Valley in Northwestern Montana, USA. L. lyallii 's present phylogenetic structure has origins predating the Pleistocene. While the timing of this structure is largely consistent with an ancient vicariance event present in some lowland coastal disjunct species, the mechanisms for this are likely different in this high elevation tree species.

Cohabitation Challenge Demonstrates Minimal Transmission of Tenacibaculosis From Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar L.) to Coho Salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch W.) - Joseph P. Nowlan; Brianna Heese; Rama Altaleb; Hai Nguyen; John S. Lumsden; David Huyben; Spencer Russell (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2026)
Tenacibaculosis, a disease caused by Tenacibaculum spp., is of concern in British Columbia (BC, Canada) due to the potential for interspecific transmission from Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.) to Pacific salmon. However, the susceptibility of most Pacific salmonids remains unknown. In this study, Atlantic salmon post‐smolts were bath‐exposed to an Atlantic salmon‐derived BC isolate of Tenacibaculum maritimum (isolate 2.1C) at 10 6 or 10 8 CFU mL −1 and cohabitated with naïve Atlantic or coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch W.) for 41 days. Tenacibaculum maritimum bath‐exposed and cohabitant Atlantic salmon exhibited widespread morbidity (~95%) with multifocal ulcerative epidermal lesions, accompanied by intralesional T. maritimum , and generally over 35% mortality. Coho salmon that cohabitated with T. maritimum bath‐exposed Atlantic salmon experienced ≤ 5% ( n = 4, 1 fish per tank) morbidity and mortality, with T. maritimum reisolated and confirmed through qPCR. The four afflicted coho salmon had similar external lesions as infected Atlantic salmon. Concurrently, these coho salmon lacked visceral fat, a feature not associated with tenacibaculosis. These findings suggest that under the tested conditions, BC coho salmon are unlikely to, but can develop tenacibaculosis from infected Atlantic salmon, and compromised body condition may be required for disease development.

Skipped spawning in a protandric hermaphrodite: Elucidating the physiological mechanisms in common snook Centropomus undecimalis using reproductive biology and energetics - Alexis A. Trotter; Jared L. Ritch; Jessica L. Carroll; Kristin L. Cook; Gregory V. Onorato; Kristen W. Rynerson; David O. Westmark; Colin P. Shea (Journal of Fish Biology, 2026)
Recent acoustic telemetry research has demonstrated that a portion of the common snook Centropomus undecimalis population in Florida skips annual spawning; however, the details of why some individuals skip spawning are unclear. We conducted a comprehensive study of C. undecimalis reproductive biology to determine if a certain population demographic (e.g. size, age, sex, biological condition) skips spawning in a representative estuary in Florida (Tampa Bay). Reproductive parameters, specifically histological examination of ovaries and testes, analysis of reproductive hormone levels and estimates of energetics including fish condition, hepatosomatic and mesenteric fat indices, were analysed for 254 females and 210 males over two consecutive spawning seasons (2016 and 2017). The results agreed with the known reproductive biology of the species and provided a more comprehensive description of developmental patterns throughout the spawning season. Fish that skipped spawning, defined here as an individual of reproductively mature size having both undeveloped gonads and undetectable levels of primary hormone (17β‐estradiol in females, 11‐ketotestosterone in males), represented 18% of fish sampled. Skip spawning individuals were collected from both estuarine and riverine sites, and were predominately smaller and younger females that had spawned at least once previously as females. Fish that skipped spawning had a lower body condition, a lower fat index and, in particular, a lower liver index. As skipped spawning was predominately observed in younger and smaller female C. undecimalis that were energetically depleted, we suggest that the combination of sex transition from male to female, followed by participation in spawning in the next season, leads to most instances of skipped spawning for the species.

The Effects of Land‐Use Dynamics on Avian Phylogenetic Diversity Across Island Ecosystems - Halvina G. Saiya; David P. Edwards; Matthew J. Struebig; David J. I. Seaman; Robby Butarbutar; Nurul L. Winarni; Simon L. Mitchell; Jatna Supriatna; Rob W. Martin; Adi Karya; Robert P. Freckleton (Journal of Biogeography, 2026)
Aim To test whether forest extent and recent forest‐cover change are associated with avian phylogenetic diversity and community‐level evolutionary value across islands. Location Seven islands spanning Borneo and Wallacea in the Malay Archipelago. Taxon Terrestrial birds. Methods We sampled 1410 sites (2010–2022). We calculated phylogenetic diversity (PD), mean phylogenetic distance (MPD), mean nearest taxon distance (MNTD) and their standardised effect sizes (SES), as well as community‐level EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered). Responses to (i) average forest proportion (250‐m radius) and (ii) recent forest‐cover change were analysed with spatial linear mixed‐effects. Results Observed PD showed a negative visual trend with increasing forest proportion, whereas SES PD declined. MPD showed only a weak positive visual trend with forest proportion, whereas SES MPD showed no clear response. Although observed MNTD appeared to increase in the binned visual summaries, both observed MNTD and SES MNTD showed significant negative associations with forest cover in the spatial models, indicating stronger nearest‐neighbour phylogenetic clustering in more forested sites. Effects of recent forest loss (2010–2022) on SES metrics were generally weak and inconsistent. Although PD also declined with decreasing rates of forest change, community‐level EDGE was higher where forest cover was greater, indicating higher average evolutionary distinctiveness and extinction risk. Main Conclusions In this archipelagic system, forest amount is a key correlate of phylogenetic structure and the retention of evolutionarily distinctive, high‐risk lineages. By contrast, recent forest‐cover change showed weaker and more context‐dependent associations. Conserving intact forests remains crucial for safeguarding the evolutionary legacy of island bird communities.

Vegetation Increases CH 4 Emissions and Methanotroph Diversity in Marine Sediments - Marion Dolivet‐Maréchal; Carlos Palacin‐Lizarbe; Henri M. P. Siljanen; Dhiraj Paul; Abigaïl Delort; Jonathan Gervaix; Charline Creuzé des Châtelliers; Sabine Schmidt; Mathis Cognat; David Sebag; Olivier Taugourdeau; Clara Schübert; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2026)
Seagrass meadows are key blue carbon (C) ecosystems, storing large amounts of organic C over centuries. Their climate benefits may be reduced by methane (CH 4 ) emissions, whose microbial and environmental descriptors in Zostera noltii meadows, dominant seagrass in North‐Western Europe, remain poorly understood. We studied CH 4 fluxes, CH 4 ‐producing and consuming microbial communities and sediment physicochemical parameters in Z. noltii meadows and adjacent bare sediments across seven sites in Arcachon Bay, France. In situ CH 4 fluxes were measured at low tide during daytime conditions, providing standardized estimates of peak emissions. Microbial communities were characterized using targeted metagenomics of three functional genes ( mcrA , mmoX , pmoA ) and quantitative PCR. CH 4 fluxes were higher in vegetated than bare sediments (24.4 ± 2.6 vs. 9.4 ± 0.7 μmol m −2 day −1 ). Mixed linear models and random forest analyses identified C accumulation rate and CO 2 flux as the strongest positive descriptors of CH 4 fluxes. Vegetated sediments hosted more diverse methanotrophs, while methanogens showed no habitat differences. Four genera ( mcrA–Methanolobus , mmoX–Methylocella , pmoA–Methylococcus , Methyloglobulus ) emerged as abundant, seagrass‐associated, correlated with CH 4 fluxes, and highlighted by models. Functional diversity, especially pmoA richness, was a stronger microbial descriptor of CH 4 fluxes than gene abundance or a specific genus. Findings indicate Z. noltii meadows enhance C burial and CH 4 emission, with methanotroph diversity potentially mitigating CH 4 emissions. Our results provide the first integrated assessment of CH 4 fluxes and their descriptors in Z. noltii meadows, based on limited temporal coverage capturing the daytime peak emission conditions, highlighting the intertwined nature of C burial and CH 4 emissions and the need to account for both in blue C climate assessments.

Adaptation and Response in Drylands: A Dryland Research Agenda and Campaign Strategy - Andrew F. Feldman; Sasha C. Reed; Konrad Wessels; Dennis Ojima; David J. P. Moore; William K. Smith; Niall P. Hanan; Cibele Amaral; Flurin Babst; Joel A. Biederman; Marcy Litvak; Natasha MacBean; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2026)
Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of Earth's land surfaces, account for 44% of cultivated lands and 60% of food sources, and make large contributions to the global water and carbon cycles. However, these ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented extremes including heatwaves, floods, and droughts as well as hotter temperatures and often declining water resource availability. These ecosystems are some of the most challenging to monitor given their high temporal variability with rapid response to their environment as well as vast spatial variability with intermixing of different plant species and life forms amongst bare soil coverage. The Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID) campaign was selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a scoping study to develop a research agenda for a dryland field campaign. Here, we detail our ARID science research agenda and implementation plan that were developed based on an extensive community engagement effort in over 160 events with over a thousand scientists, land managers, and Tribal communities between 2023 and 2024. The selected science themes cover drought and climate variability, ecosystem structure, function, and biodiversity, carbon cycle interannual variability and trends, and social ecological systems (land management and adaptation). We then detail our remote sensing, modeling, and field‐based strategies to capture high temporal and high spatial resolution processes. Finally, our implementation strategy is presented which includes focus area selections in a core intensive western U.S. domain and distributed international domains. This strategy includes our overarching guiding principles of using multi‐temporal airborne acquisitions and super sites as well as enhancing land management in co‐development with end‐user partners. While originally developed for NASA, our ARID report creates a blueprint for any future dryland field campaign, at any scale, that can be implemented widely for foundational and applied science objectives.

Deep Dark Futures: Foresighting Human Impacts on Mesopelagic Ecosystem Services - Ben Scoulding; Alistair J. Hobday; Rowan Trebilco; Heidi Pethybridge; Ingrid van Putten; Katherine Baker; Karen Evans; David Green; Eriko Hoshino; Haris Kunnath; Clothilde Langlais; Tim P. Lynch; et al. (Fish and Fisheries, 2026)
Most of the global mesopelagic zone lies beyond the jurisdiction of any single government or entity, making equitable access and sustainable management for ecosystem services (ES) difficult. Here, a foresighting approach was used to examine the plausible consequences of four speculative scenarios of human activity on the mesopelagic zone and its associated ES. Large‐scale Harvest represented the provisioning ES, with concerns over unsustainable removal of mesopelagic biota. Climate Mitigation, a regulating ES, involved harvesting and then dumping mesopelagic biota to maximise carbon drawdown. In Geopolitical Manoeuvring, the scenario focused on cultural ES; mesopelagic fisheries were used as a geopolitical instrument to assert claims over ocean spaces. Finally, Mineral Extraction, a supporting ES, considered the impact of deep‐sea mining on mesopelagic ecosystems. Drivers and indicators for each scenario were identified, and qualitative network models were created to assess impact on the different system components using press perturbations. Model outputs highlighted the central role that mesopelagic biota play in supporting and regulating other ecosystem components and the likely negative impacts of reduced biomass on higher order predators and ocean carbon storage. Interestingly, biological indicators performed poorly as early warning signals of change across all scenarios; instead, the most effective indicators were related to science and technology, economics and governance. International agreements for sustainable use of the mesopelagic zone are needed to avoid loss of ES underpinning all scenarios. While this foresighting focused on the mesopelagic zone, the approach of developing scenarios, models and indicators has broader applicability to studies of other systems.

Comparative species distribution model framework for marine conservation and its application to loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean - E. Pasanisi; F. Maffucci; F. Atzori; M. Azzolin; I. Campana; L. Carosso; A. Castelli; M. Costantino; R. Crosti; L. David; N. Di‐Meglio; M. Farina; et al. (Conservation Biology, 2026)
Modeling species distributions in dynamic pelagic environments remains challenging, particularly for wide‐ranging and highly mobile species when there is limited guidance on model performance. This limitation constrains the effective use of species distribution models (SDMs) in marine conservation, where robust and transferable predictions are essential for conservation planning. Using the loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta ) as a case study, we developed a benchmarking workflow to compare modeling strategies across spatial resolutions, environmental predictor variables, and algorithms. We evaluated five common modeling approaches—generalized linear models, generalized additive models, random forest, boosted regression trees, and MaxEnt—and used a 15‐year dataset of visual surveys collected along standardized ferry‐based transects across the Mediterranean Sea, with environmental predictor variables averaged across years to capture recurrent summer conditions. Model outputs were assessed for their ability to predict habitat suitability and space‐use patterns in dynamic pelagic environments. At the same time, robustness and spatial transferability were evaluated using an independent, basin‐scale aerial survey dataset. Our results revealed consistent patterns informing SDM selection for wide‐ranging pelagic species. In offshore Mediterranean pelagic systems, increased spatial resolution improved the ecological interpretability of predicted habitat patterns, whereas an extended set of dynamic oceanographic predictors enhanced the characterization of habitat associations. Independent validation was critical for selecting robust and transferable modeling algorithms, with MaxEnt and generalized additive models providing the most reliable performance for suitability and encounter rate (ER) modeling, respectively. Combining presence‐only and encounter rate models helped distinguish habitat suitability from observation intensity. Overall, this study developed an empirically tested workflow to support robust, consistent, and policy‐relevant SDM applications for mobile marine species in offshore, data‐limited systems. By clarifying trade‐offs among modeling approaches, this framework enhanced the application of SDMs to inform spatial planning, conservation prioritization, and species distribution and habitat‐use assessments within regional and international conservation frameworks.

Dual Effects of a Bothrops asper Phospholipase A₂: Anti-Vibrio Properties and Shrimp Hemocyte Cytotoxicity - Ricardo S. P. Patiño; David Salazar-Valenzuela; Bruno Mendes; Kathya Bustamante; Josselin A. Hernández-Altamirano; Cecilia Tomalá; Cristobal Domínguez-Borbor; Josselyn A. Ortega-Pila; Fernanda Toscano; Marbel Torres Arias; Jenny Rodríguez; José Rafael de Almeida (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2026)

A primary care pharmacogenetic precision medicine pilot based on specific Māori tribal ethical frameworks and principles - Stephen P. Robertson; Benjamin J. Halliday; Rhonda Tibble; Caroline Koia; Tuta Haereroa; Elizabeth Goodin; Ben Curran; Claire E. Rye; Helen Wihongi; Ben Te Aika; Joep de Ligt; Donia Macartney-Coxson; et al. (Journal of Community Genetics, 2026)
Indigenous tribal communities are frequently underserved by genomic medicine because they are under-represented in research, often live in remote locations and have ethical and cultural perspectives that vary from westernised standpoints. The Rakeiora platform, a permissioning and analytical environment that incorporates Māori perspectives and ethical frameworks on how precision medicine research is best conducted was used to host a pharmacogenetic exemplar project to demonstrate proof of principle in a tribal community. The project was prospectively co-designed alongside community representatives through an extensive series of kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) consultation hui, drawing on the strengths, insights, and aspirations of the community. Narratives socialising the study were metaphorically located in tribal-specific histories to improve participation. The cohort of 148 Māori individuals consented to have variants in CYP2C19 extracted from whole genome sequence datasets and correlated to the medicines they were prescribed and had dispensed over a 12-month period. Genotyping indicated that 7% of the cohort were genotypically predicted to be “poor metabolisers” and 11% “rapid metabolisers” of at least one drug known to be processed by CYP2C19. Based on international guidelines, 40% of prescriptions could have benefited from knowledge of the participant’s CYP2C19 genotype through either dose adjustment or prescription of an alternative drug. The study population was broadly supportive of research into precision medicine, but the majority wished to retain ongoing dynamic consent practices mediated by trusted local figures.

Analysis of second-generation epigenetic clocks reveals further associations between disproportionate biological ageing and hippocampal volume - Lidija Milicic; Michael Vacher; Vincent Doré; Pierrick Bourgeat; Rosita Shishegar; James D. Doecke; Paul Maruff; Christopher C. Rowe; Victor L. Villemagne; Michael Weiner; Paul Aisen; Ronald Petersen; et al. (GeroScience, 2026)

Drivers of fine-scale space use and grazing patterns of juvenile parrotfish on western Atlantic reefs - David P. Kochan; Melanie M. Esch; Robert Y. Fidler; Matthew D. Mitchell; Manuel González-Rivero; Alastair R. Harborne (Coral Reefs, 2026)

Relationships between Toenail, Urinary, and Drinking-water Fluoride Concentrations in a Pregnancy Cohort using Private Water Systems in the United States - Guillermo Tamayo-Cabeza; Esperanza Angeles Martínez-Mier; Gina A. Castiblanco-Rubio; Frank Lippert; Janet L. Peacock; Christine Till; Carly V. Goodman; David B. Flora; Bruce P. Lanphear; Susan A. Korrick; Margaret R. Karagas (Biological Trace Element Research, 2026)
To assess the strength of the relationships between fluoride concentrations in tap water, toenails, and urine in a U.S. cohort of pregnant participants using private, unregulated water systems. We analyzed fluoride concentrations in residential tap water directly with a fluoride-specific electrode, and in toenail and spot urine samples using a micro-diffusion technique. We collected samples from 436 pregnant women in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. We used Spearman’s rank correlation to assess relationships between fluoride concentrations in water, urine and toenails, stratified by self-reported percent of residential tap water use and residential water filtration practices. In sensitivity analyses, we re-assessed these relationships by excluding participants who reported tea consumption during pregnancy. Median (IQR) fluoride concentrations were 0.19 (0.38) mg/L for tap water, 2.60 (1.71) µg/g for toenails, and 0.39 (0.38) mg/L for specific gravity-adjusted urine. For 18% of participants, tap water fluoride concentrations exceeded the U.S. Public Health Service recommended 0.7 mg/L. Fluoride concentration in tap water was correlated with that of toenails (rho = 0.31, p < 0.01) and urine (rho = 0.18, p < 0.01). These correlations were stronger for participants reporting higher household tap water use and no residential filtration. After excluding tea drinkers, the water-urinary fluoride correlation increased more markedly than the correlation between water and toenail fluoride. Fluoride in tap water was positively correlated with urinary and toenail fluoride levels among pregnant participants, with the overall strongest correlation observed for toenails. Our findings support the potential of toenail fluoride as a reliable long-term biomarker for assessing fluoride exposure during pregnancy.

Utilizing tropical tree rings to trace the spatial and temporal distribution of mercury levels in Cebu, Philippines - Cristi Cesar F. Megraso; Krizella Rhea T. Batulan; Janelle C. Lauron; Jon David C. Suico; A. J. Kenneth P. Sumagang; Jill R. Quitayen; Patrick John Y. Lim (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2026)

Continent-wide stock structure and connectivity of silver trevally (Pseudocaranx georgianus) based on population genomics and otolith shape and chemistry - Zoriana H.T. Lam; John Stewart; Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo; Patrick Reis-Santos; Rhiannon A. Van Eck; Bronwyn M. Gillanders; Peter Ritchie; Maren Wellenreuther; Charlie Huveneers; David V. Fairclough; Ashley M. Fowler; Julian Hughes; et al. (Fisheries Research, 2026)

Thermal impacts of large-scale cool pavement: Field results and methodological insights for urban climate studies - Alimohammad Sedaghat; Eli P. Martin; David J. Sailor (Urban Climate, 2026)

Using biomarkers to detect intramammary infections in dairy cows at dry-off - Lorenzo Viora; P. Theo Pepler; Emily L. O'Reilly; Nicola Brady; Ruth N. Zadoks; P. David Eckersall (Research in Veterinary Science, 2026)

OC7 phase I: CFD investigation of viscous forces on rectangular members of semisubmersibles - Yingqian Liao; Lu Wang; Amy Robertson; Jason Jonkman; Arjen Koop; Guillén Campaña-Alonso; Daniele Aromatario; António Maximiano; Hannah Darling; David P. Schmidt; Shengbai Xie; Jasim Sadique; et al. (Ocean Engineering, 2026)

Sustainable phosphorus capture with PZsorb: Reducing pollution and enabling circular nutrient management - Mariam Darestani; Bijan P. Markhali; Adam Farahani; Matheus C. Duarte; Atefeh Ahmadbeigi; Deshveen Chandran; Ricky-John Spencer; David E.J. Garman; Pooja Kaur Chaggar; Kazem Javan (Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2026)

Exploring trip preference heterogeneity in away-from-home birdwatchers using a discrete choice experiment - Katherine A. Sainsbury; Howard W. Harshaw; Nicholas W. Cole; Mark P. Vrtiska; David C. Fulton; Andrew H. Raedeke; Ashley A. Dayer; Jennie N. Duberstein; Rudy M. Schuster (Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2026)

Source-specific carbon dioxide production and acetoclastic methanogenesis upon anaerobic degradation of dissolved organic matter - Yongqiang Zhou; Jiayi Wu; Lei Zhou; Yunlin Zhang; Kyoung-Soon Jang; Liwei Zhang; José R. Paranaíba; Christopher C. Keneally; Justin D. Brookes; David P. Hamilton; Erik Jeppesen (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2026)

TEMPORARY REMOVAL: Benthic eukaryotic biodiversity in submerged caves within subterranean estuaries of the Yucatan Peninsula and Cozumel Island, Mexico - Shari M. Rohret; Fernando Calderón-Gutiérrez; Elizabeth Borda; John W. Pohlman; David Brankovits; Alejandro Martínez; Paraskevi Mara; Virginia P. Edgcomb; Joan M. Bernhard (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2026)

Rapid polypropylene recovery using ionic liquid: Achieving 99% recycling efficiency with mechanistic insight from neutron scattering - Heider Salazar; Conor Davids; Ioan-Alexandru Baragau; Zhen Lu; James Bowen; Kiem Giap Nguyen; Ian P. Silverwood; Suela Kellici (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2026)

The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project Phase 2 data release: An open data resource for the study of Earth's environmental history - Úna C. Farrell; Hunter C. Olson; Maya O. Thompson; Michelle L. Abshire; Oyeleye O. Adeboye; Anne-Sofie C. Ahm; Lewis J. Alcott; Thomas J. Algeo; Ross P. Anderson; Arif H. Ansari; Lucas Pinto Heckert Bastos; Kohen W. Bauer; et al. (Chemical Geology, 2026)

Evaluation of bio extracts and potential antagonistic bacterial isolates to control fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) on Maize - David P. Tokpah; Ovgu Isbilen; Abraham Mahari (Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, 2026)

An image-computable spatio-chromatic receptive field model of the midget retinal ganglion cell mosaic across the retina - Nicolas P. Cottaris; Brian A. Wandell; David H. Brainard (Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2026)
Image-computable models of primate retinal ganglion cell (RGC) mosaics that are synthesized and constrained jointly by optical, anatomical and physiological properties, and which operate on images defined by their spatial-spectral radiance, do not currently exist. Here, we deploy a novel computational framework which synthesizes mosaics of linear spatio-chromatic receptive fields (RFs) of ON midget RGCs (mRGCs) by integrating published anatomical, physiological, and optical quality measurements, all varying with eccentricity. We use the synthesized mRGC mosaics to simulate both in vivo and in vitro physiological experiments and demonstrate the model’s consistency with published data. The model enables computation of how visual performance is shaped by the representation of visual information provided by the linear spatiochromatic processing stage of midget RGCs. The developed computational framework carefully accounts for the effect of physiological optics on mRGC responses, enables comparison of in vivo and in vitro data, and allows exploration of how different assumptions about RF organization, such as selectivity for the type of cones pooled by the RF center mechanism, affect physiological responses and psychophysical performance. The open-source and freely available implementation provides a platform for understanding how the linear spatiochromatic receptive field representation of the mRGCs shapes visual performance, as well as a foundation for future work that incorporates response nonlinearities, temporal filtering, and extends to additional RGC mosaics.

Assessing Potential Data Sources for Landscape-scale Terrestrial Biodiversity Indicators - Tom Bradfer-Lawrence; Meriel Harrison; Adham Ashton-Butt; Sophie Bennett; Robin J. Boyd; Ella Browning; Graeme Buchanan; Adam Fraser; Sian E. Green; Robert Hawkes; Becky E. Heath; Pen-Yuan Hsing; et al. (Environmental Management, 2026)

Population structure and genetic stock identification in southeastern United States loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) using genome-wide SNPs - Ian Silver-Gorges; Lisa M. Komoroske; Jamie Adkins; John D. Swenson; David S. Addison; Derek A. Burkholder; Dean A. Bagley; Glenn D. Goodwin; Kristen M. Hart; Joseph B. Pfaller; Brian M. Shamblin; Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes (Conservation Genetics, 2026)
Characterizing the genetic structure and connectivity between populations of endangered species can be used to inform management actions. In vagile species with high gene flow or recently established populations, such characterizations can be difficult to undertake using traditional genetic markers, and genetic stock identification (GSI) may be confounded by allele-sharing between populations. Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ) in the southeastern United States comprise seven management units (MUs) based on female philopatry inferred via mitochondrial DNA sequences, yet nuclear microsatellite data do not reflect divergence. Further, loci for accurate GSI are not currently known. To address this, we generated genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from 146 females nesting at individual sites representative of each southeastern United States MU. We found weak (F ST =0.001–0.003) but significant divergence among all MUs, with more notable divergence between the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Ocean MUs, and amongst the Atlantic Ocean MUs. We then used an iterative leave-one-out approach to identify candidate loci for GSI. This approach identified loci that could assign individuals to natal ocean basins (i.e., to the Gulf Coast or to the Atlantic Ocean), and to individual MUs within the Atlantic Ocean, with high (≥90%) success and accuracy. Analyses of genome-wide SNPs refined our understanding of the magnitude and scale of population connectivity in loggerhead turtles in the southeastern United States, and provided a foundation for the development of SNP panels for accurate, fine-scale GSI in sea turtles.

The Circular Economy has High Potential to Mitigate the Global Biodiversity Crisis - Jianan Xie; Yingtong Zhu; Chloe Yun Yi Tan; Cengiz Akandil; Joanna. L. Coleman; David P. Edwards; Wanggi Jaung; Kelvin S.-H. Peh; Linjun Xie; Shweta Yadav; L. Roman Carrasco (Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2026)

Influence of shallow habitats on the development of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate depositional system in a semi-arid coast - Antonio R. Ximenes Neto; Lidriana Pinheiro; Paulo R. S. Pessoa; Helena Matthews-Cascon; Francisco J. M. Moura; Karina P. G. Freire; Francisco A. A. Bezerra Filho; David H. M. Medeiros; Georg Irion; Marcelo O. Soares; Sergio Rossi; Jáder O. Morais (Carbonates and Evaporites, 2026)

Assessing nitrogen balance and use efficiency across multiple scales on pasture based dairy farms and implications for nitrogen management and policy - Philip M. Murphy; Paul N.C. Murphy; David P. Wall (Agricultural Systems, 2026)

Critical habitats for sharks and rays in Asia remain largely unprotected - Adriana Gonzalez-Pestana; Peter M. Kyne; Emiliano García-Rodríguez; Ryan Charles; Vanessa Bettcher Brito; Asia O. Armstrong; Amanda Batlle-Morera; Marta D. Palacios; Christoph A. Rohner; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Jo Marie V. Acebes; Serena Adam; et al. (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2026)
The Asia region harbors exceptional chondrichthyan (shark, ray, and chimaera) diversity but faces intense fishing pressure. The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) process provides a collaborative, evidence-based framework to identify critical habitats and inform spatial management. We assessed ISRAs across the Bay of Bengal, Southeast Asia, and the Northwest Pacific to characterize their extent, ecological significance, and conservation relevance. We delineated 122 ISRAs spanning ~ 1 million km 2 (~ 3% of the region) across 12 jurisdictions and international waters, encompassing habitats for 121 species (~ 30% of Asia’s chondrichthyans), 76% of which are threatened. Depleted taxa (e.g., giant guitarfishes, Glaucostegidae) were represented, but charismatic megafauna (e.g., Whale Shark Rhincodon typus ) were overrepresented. In contrast, deepwater and freshwater species were underrepresented. Reproductive Areas were the most common ISRA sub-criterion applied (52% of ISRAs), largely in nearshore zones, while areas for range-restricted species were less frequently (18%) identified. Twelve ISRAs overlapped with biodiversity hotspots, including seven in areas of high overall chondrichthyan species richness and five in areas of high range-restricted species richness. Citizen science was the predominant research method used to delineate ISRAs, while fisheries data were underused despite the region’s major fisheries footprint. Geographic coverage was uneven: Indonesia held the most ISRAs (n = 40; 71.7% of ISRA coverage) while eight jurisdictions (e.g., Viet Nam, China, Republic of Korea) lacked ISRAs due to data gaps. Protection shortfalls are stark: MPAs cover

A ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Effect Shaping Reef Fish Connectivity Across the Western Atlantic - Melissa Scheel‐Dalmau; Jose Julian Tavera; Kenyon C. Lindeman; David Snyder; Claudio Oliveira; Struan R. Smith; Carmen del Rocío Pedraza‐Marrón; Arturo Acero P; Ricardo Betancur‐R (Molecular Ecology, 2026)
Understanding the spatial scale and structure of marine connectivity is essential for uncovering how ocean currents shape gene flow, population structure and larval transport in reef organisms. We examined range‐wide patterns of gene flow and population structure in the tomtate ( Haemulon aurolineatum ), an abundant reef fish with a broad distribution from southern Brazil to Bermuda in the western Atlantic. We used genome‐wide SNPs, mitochondrial DNA sequences and a re‐evaluation of morphological variation to assess connectivity, demographic history and lineage boundaries across 22 locations spanning all major biogeographic provinces within the species' range. Population structure and phylogenetic analyses identified three main genetic groups: (1) the Caribbean and Southwestern Atlantic (CSA), (2) the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and (3) Bermuda (BDA), with further substructure within CSA. Demographic modelling and migration analyses supported early divergence followed by sustained but asymmetric gene flow, particularly into BDA, which acts as a long‐term demographic sink, likely maintained by episodic larval input from CSA and GOM. This pattern aligns with previous findings from biophysical models and larval transport studies. Recognized marine barriers such as the Eastern and Western Caribbean breaks contributed to population differentiation, while coastal corridors along Brazil and the Guianas facilitated northward gene flow. Coalescent‐based species delimitation supported three species‐level lineages, but we interpret these as subspecies: morphologically and genomically distinct, yet not fully reproductively isolated. Taken together, these results demonstrate how asymmetric dispersal and oceanographic isolation can structure genetic diversity in marine organisms by creating peripheral demographic sinks like Bermuda, where limited and unidirectional connectivity promotes long‐term differentiation—a pattern we describe as the ‘Bermuda Triangle effect.’

The Evolution of Hutchinsonian Climatic Niche Hypervolumes in Gymnosperms - Fernanda S. Caron; Jānis Lazovskis; David F. R. P. Burslem; Juliano Morimoto (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2026)
Aim The niche is a fundamental concept in theoretical and experimental ecology and is used to describe a wide range of ecological processes from species' interactions with the environment to community assemblies. A common way to represent the niche is through a multidimensional geometry known as the Hutchinsonian niche hypervolume. Ecological theory predicts that niche hypervolumes have properties such as holes with broader eco‐evolutionary significance, but we lack a comprehensive empirical study of niche hypervolume properties and their evolutionary meaning. Location Global. Time Period Holocene. Major Taxa Studied Gymnosperms. Methods We conducted for the first time a systematic and comprehensive test of the evolution of Hutchinsonian climatic niche hypervolume properties (volume and holes) across 418 species, 65 genera, and 12 families of gymnosperms, which includes many species that are endangered or threatened. Using cutting‐edge computational algorithms, we measured the evolution of geometric (i. e., volume) and topological (i. e., holes) properties of gymnosperm hypervolumes across a comprehensive calibrated phylogeny. Results Our comparative analysis revealed moderate evidence of the non‐independent evolution of niche hypervolume and no evidence of the non‐independent evolution of holey hypervolumes across gymnosperm species. We also found that species, genera and families with low hypervolume volume, such as monotypic groups like Gingko , likely experienced shifts in hypervolume evolutionary rates. However, our analysis of niche positioning showed that climatic distances between co‐occurring species did not significantly depart from null expectations, suggesting that their spatial distribution within the climatic space is independent of limiting similarity. Main Conclusions Our results indicate that topological properties of gymnosperm climatic niche hypervolumes show little phylogenetic constraint and thus arise as emergent outcomes of species–environment interactions. In contrast, the breadth of environmental occupancy (hypervolume volume) retains a moderate evolutionary signal. These patterns suggest that while the capacity to occupy wider or narrower climatic conditions is moderately shared by evolutionary history, the actual realisation of these niches is not driven by significant climatic divergence.

Local Angler Knowledge Reveals Declines in Fishing Quality for Black Bass in Lakes of Eastern Ontario - Joel Zhang; David P. Philipp; Julie E. Claussen; Cory D. Suski; Vivian M. Nguyen; Nathan Young; Luc LaRochelle; Justin W. Lombardo; Steven J. Cooke (Fisheries Management and Ecology, 2026)
Local ecological knowledge can be useful to assess data‐limited fisheries such as the Ontario Black Bass ( Micropterus spp.) recreational fishery. We surveyed local anglers using the Life History Calendar approach to determine if there were perceived changes in fishing quality for Black Bass in eastern Ontario across different time periods. For both species (Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass), respondents noted declines in numbers and body sizes of their catch across most of the time periods (1975–2025) with sharp declines beginning in 2005. The reported declines were notably consistent across the waterbodies studied and did not differ across different user types (e.g., tournament anglers vs. other anglers). The results of this study show that anglers overwhelmingly perceive that the quality of bass fishing in eastern Ontario has deteriorated over the past few decades, highlighting the (1) utility of using local angler knowledge to complement traditional stock assessment methods and (2) the need to consider alternative monitoring and management strategies to reverse those declines.

Scenarios and strategies for future‐proofing ecosystem management under climatic novelty - Lauren T. Toth; Elizabeth T. Borer; Deron E. Burkepile; Joan Dudney; Nathan P. Lemoine; Julianna J. Renzi; Kathryn E. L. Smith; Travis A. Courtney; Sara A. Goeking; William M. Hammond; David L. Hoover; Sandra MacFadyen; et al. (Conservation Biology, 2026)
Climate change is driving unprecedented declines in dominant, habitat‐forming foundation species across marine and terrestrial ecosystems globally. As climatic novelty becomes the norm, ecosystem reassembly will become increasingly common. Predicting and understanding these transitions, and their implications for future ecosystem functioning, is essential for designing effective forward‐looking management strategies. We explored 3 scenarios that describe a range of ecosystem reassembly trajectories following declines in previously dominant habitat‐forming taxa: compensation, in which functionally similar subdominant or immigrating taxa maintain ecosystem structure and function; decline, in which no compensation occurs leading to loss of ecosystem structure and function; and transformation, in which the ecosystem present historically can no longer persist and shifts into a fundamentally different ecosystem type with distinct structure and function. This range of potential outcomes highlights the urgent need to assess the ecological feasibility and functional implications of potential management actions. Scientists and managers can work together to quantify local‐scale climatic novelty and ecosystem resilience to better predict the most likely reassembly trajectories and identify management interventions that will optimize ecosystem function. This approach would allow for more proactive planning to support persistence of ecosystem structure and function, helping to future‐proof ecosystem management in a rapidly changing world.

Enhanced subcutaneous delivery of antibody-drug conjugates with recombinant human hyaluronidase PH20: pharmacokinetics and tolerability in minipigs - Ryan P. Nolan; Robert J. Connor; Marie A. Printz; Yan Wang; Tara Nekoroski; Limin Liu; Chris Wahl; Charles Theuer; David W. Kang (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2026)

Highly resolved projections of climate and vegetation indicate major changes in northern Scandinavia: Implications for reindeer herding, tourism and nature conservation - Håkan Pleijel; Fredrik Lagergren; Erik Kjellström; Petter Lind; Paul A. Miller; Robert G. Björk; Tinja Olenius; Danijel Belušić; Mats P. Björkman; David Lindstedt; Gunhild Rosqvist; Camilla Andersson (Ambio, 2026)
Through Arctic amplification, global climate change is projected to disproportionally affect high-latitude environments. Additionally, the geographical heterogeneity and complex terrain of mountains promote climate-driven ecological change on fine spatial scales. We used a high-resolution convection-permitting regional climate model (HCLIM) and a state-of-the-art dynamic vegetation model (LPJ-GUESS) to explore mid-twentieth century implications of continued global warming for reindeer herding, tourism and nature conservation in the mountainous, northern parts of Scandinavia. Several indicators relevant for stakeholders were investigated: length of snow season, crossings of zero temperature, rain-on-snow events, as well as tree and forest line shifts. Comparing results from the high-resolution (3 km) climate model with results from a coarser-scale (12 km) model commonly used for climate change assessments revealed that ecologically and societally significant patterns become apparent only at higher resolution. Large changes are projected among all investigated indicators for the present century, and we explore their societal implications.

Mescaline Alters Cerebellar Function, Global Connectivity, and Frequency-Selective Acoustic Gating: A BOLD fMRI Study in Awake Rats - Noah Cavallaro; Priya Rai; David Akins; Sima Soltanpour; Md Taufiq Nasseef; Richard J. Ortiz; Rachel Utama; Caitlyn R. Cody; Anoushka Mistry; Heather C. Brenhouse; Praveen P. Kulkarni; Craig F. Ferris (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2026)
Mescaline, a 5-HT2A agonist psychedelic used ceremonially for millennia, lacks neuroimaging characterization due to its Schedule 1 status. Using pharmacological and resting-state fMRI in awake rats, we report mescaline's first comprehensive neurobiological profile. Acutely, mescaline produced cerebellar-selective BOLD suppression, suggesting functional disconnection from forebrain structures. Paradoxically, resting-state analysis revealed global hyperconnectivity, with the cerebellum forming enhanced connections to the hippocampus, thalamus, somatosensory cortex, and midbrain. Mescaline abolished normal BOLD responses to rewarding olfactory stimuli, indicating disrupted sensory processing. Pre-pulse inhibition showed frequency-dependent acoustic gating effects: enhancement at 4 kHz (+ 27.6%) and 20 kHz (+ 27.3%), but impairment at 12 kHz (− 16.4%). These findings distinguish mescaline from LSD and psilocybin, implicating the cerebellum as a dysregulated sensory filter that floods forebrain circuits with unprocessed sensorimotor information—a potential mechanism underlying psychedelic-induced perceptual alterations.

Population and Ecotypic Differentiation in the Poaceae: Past and Present Approaches - Gregory P. Cheplick; David J. Gibson (The Botanical Review, 2026)

Conservation genomics of Pecos pupfish ( Cyprinodon pecosensis ) - Elizabeth P. Dolan; Andrew T. Fields; Megan G. Bean; Robyn R. Doege; Joanna L. Hatt; Kevin W. Conway; David S. Portnoy (Journal of Fish Biology, 2026)
The Pecos pupfish, Cyprinodon pecosensis , is an imperilled freshwater fish found in arid regions of Texas and New Mexico (USA). The species faces multiple challenges to persistence including reductions in suitable habitat, water shortages, as well as hybridization and competition with an introduced congener (sheepshead minnow, C. variegatus ). As part of the current management strategy, refuge populations, seeded with non‐introgressed individuals collected from Texas, are maintained at the Fort Worth Zoo and on private property in West Texas. Therefore, assessments of standing genetic variation within and among wild and refuge populations and levels of admixture in the wild are critical for future conservation and management planning. Fin clips were acquired in 10 locations in the wild, five in Texas, five in New Mexico and from two refuge populations in Texas (one maintained by Fort Worth Zoo and another on a private property in West Texas). In Texas, non‐introgressed C. pecosensis were found in the wild at only one location Upper Salt Creek (USC); all other locations were composed of admixed individuals or non‐introgressed C. variegatus . No admixed individuals were found in New Mexico. Significant genetic heterogeneity was detected between all locations of non‐introgressed C. pecosensis , including the refuge populations, and estimates of divergence between Texas locations (USC and refuge populations) and New Mexico locations were relatively large ( F ST : 0.23–0.32). Estimates of contemporary effective population size for USC and the two refuge populations were less than 50, but greater than 500 for all New Mexico populations. In summation, while New Mexico populations look secure, the data suggest that C. pecosensis in Texas is currently imperilled by the threat of hybridization, as well as potential loss of genetic diversity on contemporary time scales. Deep divergence between Texas (including refuge populations) and New Mexico suggests that further study would be needed prior to any management plans that would involve assisted gene flow between the regions.

Time-resolved network metabolomics reveals metabolic reprogramming and network stability in cowpea leaves during virus infection - Raissa S. C. Bret; Silvio A. Cândido-Sobrinho; Samuel G. Abreu; Nicole P. Porto; David B. Medeiros; Leonardo Perez Souza; Murilo S. Alves; Alisdair R. Fernie; Danilo M. Daloso (Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 2026)
Cowpea severe mosaic virus (CPSMV) represents a major constraint for cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) cultivation. However, the metabolic basis underlying CPSMV resistance remains poorly understood. Given the importance of metabolism for plant defence against pathogens, we hypothesized that cowpea resistance to CPSMV is associated to the activation of defence-related pathways from both primary and secondary metabolisms. We investigated the metabolic dynamics associated with CPSMV infection in the resistant cowpea genotype Macaibo using a time-resolved, network-based metabolomics approach. Conventional RT-PCR suggests that the intensity of the CPSMV coat protein band increased in the first eight H ours A fter CPSMV I noculation (HAI) but appeared reduced in the following 72 HAI. Metabolomic analyses revealed that CPSMV infection had little impact on secondary metabolism, whereas several primary metabolites were significantly altered over time. Transient increases in fumarate, pyruvate, and several amino acids, including alanine, asparagine, glutamine, glutamate, isoleucine, leucine, proline, serine, threonine, and valine, were observed at 48 HAI compared with mock-treated leaves. Network analysis indicated that overall metabolic network density and heterogeneity remained relatively stable during infection. However, a highly connected metabolic module composed of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) isoleucine, leucine, and valine emerged in infected leaves. Our results indicate that CPSMV infection reshapes primary metabolic dynamics without extensive alterations in secondary metabolism during early infection in cowpea leaves. Despite these metabolic adjustments, the overall metabolic network structure remained stable, suggesting that a robust metabolic reprograming, including the activation of BCAA-associated pathways, may help buffer viral perturbation in cowpea leaves.

Evaluating the use of uncrewed surface vessels to enhance Lake Erie acoustic prey-fish surveys. - Mark R. DuFour; Thomas M. Evans; Lars G. Rudstam; Suresh A. Sethi; Jeremy P. Holden; Heather Luken; Peter Jenkins; Daniel L. Yule; David M. Warner; Steven A. Farha; Timothy P. O’Brien; Andrew R. Barnard; et al. (Fisheries Research, 2026)

Ames concordance with the in vivo transgenic rodent (TGR) gene mutation assay for NDSRIs and relative in vivo TGR potency with nitrosamines with robust dose-response carcinogenicity data - Robert A. Jolly; Alejandra Trejo-Martin; Joel P. Bercu; Mark W. Powley; Rachael E. Tennant; David J. Ponting; Raphael Nudelman; Zhanna Sobol; Andreas Czich; George E. Johnson; Yi Yang; Tetyana Kobets; et al. (Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2026)

Phylogenomics of the woodland salamanders (Plethodon): Reticulate evolution and indistinct species boundaries - Brian P. Waldron; Maggie M. Hantak; Emily F. Watts; Josef C. Uyeda; Alan R. Lemmon; Emily Moriarty Lemmon; Robert P. Guralnick; David C. Blackburn; Shawn R. Kuchta (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2026)

Hysteresis during storm events impacts stream sediment and nutrient load calculations - Donghwan Kim; Melanie E. Roberts; Jing Lu; David N. Orr; David P. Hamilton (Journal of Hydrology, 2026)

PFAS released from the metals recovery process of the lithium-ion battery black mass - Phong H.N. Vo; Christian Vogel; Simon M. Clark; David P. Bishop; Morten Droas; Ewa Partyka-Jankowska; Michael W. Förster; Christian Adam; Vladimir Strezov; Hong T.M. Nguyen (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2026)

Evolving glacier landsystems during Patagonian Ice Sheet recession influenced by a changing topographic setting - Emma-Louise Cooper; Bethan J. Davies; Varyl.R. Thorndycraft; Adrian P. Palmer; Juan-Luis García; David J.A. Evans; Christopher Lüthgens; Andrew N. Mackintosh (Geomorphology, 2026)

Production of precursors for sustainable aviation fuels through furfural/cyclopentanone aldol condensation boosted by TiO2-loaded dendritic ZSM-5 catalysts - Daniel de la Calle; Jennifer Cueto; María del Mar Alonso-Doncel; Rafael A. García-Muñoz; David P. Serrano (Fuel, 2026)

Forest restoration thinning and burning treatments create habitat mosaics and facilitate succession of grasshopper and cricket communities (Orthoptera) - Robert R. Parmenter; Tyler J. Obermeit; Benjamin P. Stout; Sarah M. Hall; Orrin B. Myers; David C. Lightfoot (Forest Ecology and Management, 2026)

Cross-sex and intrasexual theory of mind: Perceptions of sex-typical sexual desires - Paola A. Baca; William Costello; Rebecka K. Hahnel-Peeters; Andrew G. Thomas; David P. Schmitt; David M. Buss (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026)

Advancing provitamin A biofortification in sorghum: from allele mining and marker development to prebreeding and breeding - Clara Cruet-Burgos; Linly Banda; Jacques M. Faye; Cyril Diatta; David Zapata; Geoffrey P. Morris; Davina H. Rhodes (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2026)
Key message Allele mining for provitamin A biofortification in sorghum is advanced with new pre-bred germplasm and markers that are trait-predictive in diverse germplasm and breeding programs. Abstract Provitamin A biofortification of the staple cereal crop sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) could reduce vitamin A deficiency in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa. To advance mining of alleles that confer high provitamin A from genebank accessions, we developed prebreeding germplasm and trait-predictive markers, and established the utility of these markers in a range of prebreeding and breeding materials. We first tested the hypothesis that carotenoid concentrations in sorghum grain can be increased through breeding using six biparental families developed from high-carotenoid genebank accessions. The families exhibited abundant transgressive segregation for carotenoid concentrations, with positive asymmetry in many cases (4 of 6 families) suggesting the release of epistatic variation. Next, we developed eleven markers from SNPs associated with carotenoid variation, and validated their predictiveness in the six biparental families and diverse global germplasm. Two markers (snpSB00267 and snpSB00276), previously identified as zeaxanthin QTLs, were predictive of provitamin A content (β-carotene) in the biparental family evaluated and the diverse germplasm, and require further validation. Five markers that were predictive of zeaxanthin content—most notably snpSB00265, located within the zeaxanthin epoxidase ( ZEP ) gene; snpSB00277 and snpSB00264, near ZEP ; and snpSB00279 and snpSB00280, in the β-carotene 3-hydroxylase gene—are recommended for indirect selection for provitamin A carotenoids. In a Senegalese breeding program, most markers (9 of 11) were segregating and contrasted for the elite germplasm (low carotenoid alleles) and yellow-endosperm donor lines (high carotenoid). Together, findings show that sorghum grain carotenoids can be increased through breeding, and demonstrate the potential of marker-assisted selection for provitamin A biofortification.

A climate region classification for California’s warm season: apparent temperature clustering to support heat-health epidemiology - Marinelle Villanueva; Sydney Monte-Sano; Scott Sheridan; Michael Allen; Laurence Kalkstein; Michael Jerrett; David P. Eisenman (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2026)
Climate classification enhances our understanding of regional climate patterns and enables a science-based framework for assessing environmental and public health relationships. Prior climate classification systems are limited in their ability to capture variation across dynamic subclimates, particularly in the context of complex topographical, elevation, and meteorological characteristics such as California, United States. In this study, we spatially classified climate regions in California during the warm season (May through September) in 2021 and 2022. We applied principal component analysis with k-means clustering algorithms to gridded data consisting of apparent temperature during the study period as a monthly time series. We then performed statistical and spatial analysis to delineate the geographical extent of climate regions with shared apparent temperature distributions. The results of this study include a statewide map of 30 warm season climate regions based on meteorological data characterized by homogenous temperature patterns that are distinct from one another. The climate regions demonstrate highly variable spatial patterns of heat exposures and often span across and within multiple county boundaries. The methods we present within a complex geography can be readily adapted to other regional settings and updated to other temporal periods. This study informs our understanding of regional climate patterns during the warm season and is applicable to the development of early warning systems and quantifying extreme heat impacts across statewide populations.

Correction: Metabolic energy expenditure during level, uphill, and downhill running - David P. Looney; Wouter Hoogkamer; Rodger Kram (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2026)

Population Genomics of a Cosmopolitan Weed Provides Insights Into Its Local Adaptation and Recent Demographic History - Marilia Souza Lucas; Christoph Rosche; Isabell Hensen; Stefan G. Michalski; Dávid U. Nagy; Diana Gamba; Renske E. Onstein; Karime Abidkulova; Mohammad Al‐Gharaibeh; Ali A. Al‐Namazi; Sirwan Babaei; Fernando Bastida; et al. (Molecular Ecology, 2026)
Invasive plant species present a growing ecological and economic challenge, and often adapt rapidly to their novel environments through complex demographic and evolutionary processes. Invasion genomics offers powerful tools to disentangle these processes, but most studies rely on geographically narrow sampling across native and non‐native ranges. Erigeron canadensis is a cosmopolitan weed native to North America that has successfully invaded diverse climates worldwide. We used double‐digest restriction site‐associated DNA sequencing (ddRADseq) to investigate the genetic diversity and structure of 280 E. canadensis populations across the Northern Hemisphere. We found that native and non‐native populations maintained comparable genetic diversity. Population structure analyses revealed four genetic clusters that were mainly differentiated along latitudinal and aridity gradients. However, one cluster was strongly overrepresented in the non‐native compared to the native range. In the native range, genetic differentiation was shaped by spatial and environmental gradients, while in non‐native regions human‐mediated dispersal and repeated introductions disrupted environmentally driven genetic structure. Migration network analyses revealed limited intercontinental connectivity and a possible role of long‐distance dispersal in within‐range expansions. Genomic offset analyses showed that genotype‐environment mismatches in non‐native populations associated with reduced growth and reproduction. Together, our results indicate that the invasion dynamics of E. canadensis were driven by multiple introductions, population admixture, and lineage sorting, while some genotypes contributed disproportionately to the spread of this invader. The presence of apparent maladaptation suggests that even long‐established invaders may still be evolving in response to their novel environment, raising concerns about potential future expansions.

Pathologic Description and Genetic Characterisation of Kudoa thunni From Yellowfin Tuna ( Thunnus albacares ) in the Caribbean Sea - Noor‐Ul Huda; Magali Duran; Jonnel Edwards; Cynthia Ware; Olando Harvey; Matt J. Griffin; David P. Marancik (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2026)
Yellowfin tuna ( Thunnus albacares ) is a valuable recreational and commercial species in Grenada and the Caribbean region. Myxozoans, specifically the monotypic Kudoidae family within the Order Multivalvulida, are marine parasitic organisms that can negatively impact fish health and marketability. On 8 September 2023, muscle fillets from a yellowfin tuna caught off the coast of Grenada and containing numerous white nodules were submitted for diagnostic evaluation. Gross examination of the muscle showed firm, spherical to ovoid, white polysporous cysts approx. 0.8–1.3 mm in diameter and approx. 10–20 cysts per 2 × 2 cm section of muscle. Cysts were sharply excised and assessed by wet mount cytology revealing a myriad of quadrate myxosporean parasites consistent with the genus Kudoa . Histopathologic examination demonstrated numerous, intracytoplasmic plasmodia with thick hyaline walls containing intact and necrotic myxospores. Parasites present outside of plasmodia were associated with myoliquifaction of the tissue. The case isolate was morphologically consistent with K. thunni and the partial 18S small subunit rDNA (SSU) and 28S large subunit rDNA (LSU) demonstrated high homology (SSU: 99.8%–100%; LSU: 99.5%–100%) to several K. thunni isolates, including those isolated from blackfin tuna ( T. atlanticus ) harvested near the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. This is the first report of K. thunni infecting yellowfin tuna in the Caribbean region and expands the epidemiologic, pathologic, and molecular record for this parasite.

Comparative Analysis of Proximate Composition, Lipid Classes, and Fatty Acid Profile of Different Body Parts of Cultivated Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) - Santiago P. Aubourg; Marcos Trigo; Lina Pena; Denis M. Andriamahefa; Noa E. Rasoanaivo; David Vieites; Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina (Fishes, 2026)
Proximate composition, lipid classes, and fatty acid profile were comparatively analyzed in different body parts of carp (Cyprinus carpio) cultivated in Madagascar. Higher (p hypaxial > tail > epaxial. The highest levels (p

Key factors of the deranged antiviral response in elderly patients with COVID-19: a machine-learning analysis - Tamara Postigo-Casado; Alicia Ortega; Alejandro Álvaro-Meca; Daniel Vélez-Serrano; Nadia García-Mateo; Ana P. Tedim; Raquel Almansa; Jose María Eiros; David de Gonzalo-Calvo; Anna Moncusí-Moix; Clara Gort-Paniello; Manel Perez-Pons; et al. (GeroScience, 2026)
Age is a well-known risk factor to develop severe viral respiratory infections, including severe COVID-19. This study aimed to identify the biological alterations linked to severe disease in elderly patients with COVID-19. For this purpose, we employed a derivation cohort with 450 SARS-CoV-2 infected and unvaccinated patients admitted to hospital wards and a validation cohort with 244 SARS-CoV-2 infected and unvaccinated patients admitted to hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Twenty-one biomarkers were measured in plasma samples from patients upon admission, including SARS-CoV-2 RNA, IgG antibodies, and protein biomarkers. Patient cohorts were divided into two groups based on age: adult (≤ 70 years old) and elderly (> 70 years old) patients. In the derivation cohort, 90-day mortality rate observed in the adult group was 6.0% whereas in the elderly group it rises to 31.6%, same trend was noticed regarding the validation cohort, with 11.2% versus 40.3% 90-day mortality rates for adult and elderly groups, respectively. The machine-learning framework XGBoost-SHAP, fed with the plasma biomarkers information, was used to profile an age-related host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Based on SHAP plot, elderly patients had a strong thrombo-inflammatory response profile (significantly elevated plasma levels of: lipocalin-2, endothelin-1, D-dimer) combined with deficient adaptive and cytotoxic antiviral responses. Model performance evaluated with the validation cohort confirmed the robustness and generalizability of the model developed (AUC = 0.710). In conclusion, the machine learning approach we built allowed us to identify the presence of a deranged host response in elderly patients with COVID-19 linked to poor viral control and increased mortality. Graphical Abstract

Temperature-based diagnosis of the Gulf Stream path overestimates its northward shift in a warming ocean - Lina Garcia-Suarez; Katja Fennel; Neha Mehendale; Tronje Kemena; David P. Keller (Ocean Science, 2026)
Temperature-based criteria for diagnosing the location of the Gulf Stream (GS) are widely used and suggest a northward shift of the GS is underway. The apparent northward shift in the GS path has been causally linked to the recent rapid warming in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. This study uses high-resolution climate models to show that temperature-based criteria for diagnosing the GS path overestimate its northward shift in warming scenarios and, for one of the models, indicate a northward shift that does not occur. In contrast, a sea surface height (SSH)-based criterion for diagnosing the GS path remains closely aligned with the true GS core in a warming ocean and thus provides a more reliable estimate of shifts in its path. The temperature-based assessments are biased by the rising background temperature in the ocean, thus creating a misleading indication of a GS migration. These results call into question the notion that warming in the northwest North Atlantic is causally related to a northward migration of the GS and emphasize the need for more robust indicators of its position.

Identifying the exposure of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of steppe birds to renewable energy development - Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno; François Mougeot; Beatriz Arroyo; Gerard Bota; David Giralt; Laura Maeso‐Pueyo; Carlos A. Martín; Manuel B. Morales; Pedro P. Olea; Juan Traba; Ana Benítez‐López (Conservation Biology, 2026)
Biodiversity is globally threatened by human impacts, including land‐use transformation and climate change, which has prompted a rapid transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources, such as photovoltaic (PV) energy. However, utility‐scale PV plants require vast areas and can lead to conflicts with biodiversity conservation, making strategic planning essential. We used steppe birds, a highly threatened group occurring in lands potentially suitable for PV plants, as a model to evaluate the spatial overlap between conservation priorities and PV infrastructure. We quantified and mapped taxonomic (TD), functional (FD), and phylogenetic (PD) diversity of 26 species across one of the main strongholds of European steppe birds (mainland Spain and Balearic Islands) to identify prioritization scenarios that best preserved all steppe bird diversity facets (TD, FD, and PD) and steppe birds of conservation concern. We generated a multifaceted diversity map based on the combination of TD, FD, and PD and overlaid existing PV infrastructure to determine bird exposure areas (i.e., high multifaceted diversity with current high PV occupancy) and PV avoidance areas (high multifaceted diversity with low or no current PV occupancy). The prioritization scenario that combined TD, FD, and PD retained 68.5% of TD, 75.5% of FD, and 59.7% of PD and 62.8% of areas with species of conservation concern, providing a more balanced representation across biodiversity facets than other prioritization scenarios. PV infrastructure occurred in 53.1% of high‐multifaceted‐diversity cells. Exposure areas (7.2% of the study area) were mainly concentrated in central, southern, and northwestern Spain, and PV avoidance areas (19.9% of the study area) were concentrated in northern, central, and central‐western Spain. Our method is adaptable to other species, communities, and regions and offers a robust framework for balancing development projects with biodiversity conservation.

Variation in systemic biological health risk is associated with white matter integrity differences in young adult veterans - Emily J. Van Etten; Madeleine K. Nowak; Caitlin M. Bolduc; Shira Hao; Arielle R. Knight; Aubrey A. Knoff; William P. Milberg; Catherine B. Fortier; David H. Salat (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2026)

Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegeneration - Nikhil N. Chaudhari; Owen M. Vega; Phoebe Imms; Jaron M. Kawamura; Nahian F. Chowdhury; Tamara Jafar; Andrei Irimia; Michael Weiner; Paul Aisen; Ronald Petersen; Clifford R. Jack; William Jagust; et al. (GeroScience, 2026)
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can find aging-related structural alterations above and beyond cortical thickness and atrophy. Using a novel approach to DNN interpretability, we mapped brain aging progression in 25,539 cognitively normal UK Biobank adults aged 45–83 years. Cortical aging is found to involve anatomic features becoming prominent during the 50s within frontolateral, mesolimbic, cuneal, and occipitotemporal regions. From these foci, aging-related features propagate to adjacent areas at rates peaking in the 60s. Cortical thinning and atrophy do not trend closely with neurodegeneration, but important DNN-identifiable anatomic features have spatiotemporal dynamics that match those of amyloid or tau. Our results challenge the assumption that MRI cannot map anatomic features trending with neurodegeneration. Interpretable DNNs can empower MRI to quantify anatomic aging as a process of spatial feature expansion from focal regions into nearby structures in the sequence of neurodegenerative pathology. Traditional morphometrics explain only ∼1% of variance in DNN-identifiable features, which clarifies why the former are insensitive to anatomic changes involving neurodegeneration. Our results conceptualize brain aging in the context of spatial and temporal parallels between anatomic senescence and neuropathology. These findings may help to map cognitively normal adults’ neurodegenerative anatomy even without PET measurements. Graphical Abstract

Distributed optical fibre sensing in physical oceanography: emergence and future prospects - Alberto C. Naveira Garabato; Carl P. Spingys; Andrew J. Lucas; Tiago S. Dotto; Christian T. Wild; Scott W. Tyler; Ted A. Scambos; Christopher B. Kratt; Giuseppe Cappelli; Ethan F. Williams; Mariona Claret; Hannah E. Glover; et al. (Ocean Science, 2026)
Distributed optical fibre sensing (DOFS) is a technology that enables continuous, real-time measurements of a range of environmental parameters along the length of a fibre optic cable. In this article, we review the recently emerged applications of DOFS techniques in physical oceanography and offer a perspective on the technology's potential for future growth within the field. The introduction of DOFS to physical oceanography is contextualised with a brief history of the technology, which spun off primarily from the use of seafloor-laid optical fibres for telecommunications purposes. The key components and underpinning physics of a DOFS system are outlined and, on their basis, the suite of variables that are observable with DOFS are discussed. The implementation factors of DOFS, which include trade-offs between measurement accuracy and spatio-temporal resolutions and ranges, are also examined. The physical oceanographic applications of DOFS to date are then illustrated with case examples of four distinct DOFS techniques: distributed temperature sensing (DTS), which can provide ocean temperature observations; distributed static strain sensing (DSS) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), which are sensitive to temperature, cable strain and strain-associated variables, such as pressure and ocean velocity; and ultra-long-range observations of ocean currents with optical interferometry. The forthcoming prospects of DOFS in physical oceanography are considered, and are proposed to include new fibre optic-based approaches to sense ocean salinity and measure through the water column. We conclude with reflections on the future role of DOFS within the Global Ocean Observing System, and highlight the opportunities provided by the existing world-wide network of seafloor-laid optical fibres.

Three-Phase Seizure Segmentation in Stereotactic EEG Using Envelope-Based Multivariate Changepoint Analysis - Himanshu Kumar; N. P. Guhan Seshadri; David Martinez; Imad Najm; Andreas Alexopoulos; Juan C. Bulacio; Demitre Serletis; Balu Krishnan (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2026)
Purpose Accurate segmentation of seizure phases in intracranial EEG is essential for characterizing seizure dynamics and supporting presurgical evaluation in drug-resistant focal epilepsy. This study examines whether a semi-supervised changepoint detection framework can reliably delineate ictal onset, intra-ictal transition, and seizure termination. Methods A three-phase segmentation pipeline integrates multivariate envelope-based features, including root mean square amplitude, relative bandpower in the theta (4–8 Hz), alpha (8–13 Hz), beta (13–30 Hz), and gamma (30–80 Hz) bands, line length, and spectral entropy, with the Pruned Exact Linear Time algorithm. Features were extracted from sliding windows whose lengths and phase-specific weights were optimized using nested leave-one-subject-out cross-validation with Optuna. To ensure length invariance, analysis windows were randomly extended by 5–30 s before seizure onset and after seizure termination using real pre- and post-ictal data. Performance was evaluated on 179 seizure-onset-zone bipolar channels across 32 seizures from 10 patients. Results Mean absolute errors were $$4.19 ± 2.69$$ 4.19 ± 2.69 s for seizure onset, $$6.93 ± 5.75$$ 6.93 ± 5.75 s for intra-ictal transition, and $$3.82 ± 4.24$$ 3.82 ± 4.24 s for seizure termination. Detection accuracies within $$± 5$$ ± 5 s were 71.6% for onset, 60.0% for transition, and 75.0% for termination. Phase-specific feature importance analysis revealed distinct and evolving contributions of amplitude-, spectral-, and complexity-based measures across seizure phases. Conclusion The proposed framework achieves temporal precision comparable to reported inter-rater reliability (Cohen’s $$κ = 0.35$$ κ = 0.35 –0.69) and provides an interpretable, data-driven approach for comprehensive seizure phase characterization, with potential utility in clinical decision-making.

Assessing artificial diet and susceptibility of Mexican corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera zeae Krysan & Smith) larvae to Gpp34Ab1/Tpp35Ab1 protein - Dalton C. Ludwick; David L. Kerns; Bruce E. Hibbard; Man P. Huynh (Crop Protection, 2026)

Rolling in the deep: drivers of social preferences and social interactions within a bull shark aggregation in Fiji - Natasha D. Marosi; Samuel Ellis; David M.P. Jacoby; Juerg M. Brunnschweiler; Darren P. Croft (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Railway ballast fouling detection using thermal imaging: integration of LSTM and XGBoost - Mehdi Koohmishi; David P. Connolly (Transportation Geotechnics, 2026)

A glacial geochronology of Cordillera Pariacaca, central Peru - Lucy Ashpitel; Matteo Spagnolo; Brice R. Rea; David Fink; Jose Úbeda; Ronald Fernando Concha; Krista Simon; Steve Kotevski; Pool Vásquez; Anshuman Bhardwaj; Donal Mullan; Rachel P. Oien (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2026)

Sharp rise in cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) populations on Lake Ontario islands inferred from analyses of pond sediment cores - Daniel Dagodzo; David C. Eickmeyer; Linda E. Kimpe; John P. Smol; Jules M. Blais (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2026)

Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) and Holocene sea surface temperature and environmental reconstructions from Yorke Peninsula, southern Australia - Tsun-You Pan; Allan R. Chivas; Colin V. Murray-Wallace; David J. Wheeler; Robert P. Bourman (Marine Geology, 2026)

Opportunities for remote sensing to monitor freshwater water quality after extreme weather events: A systematic review - Jiatan Liang; Andres Felipe Suárez-Castro; Tim Malthus; David P. Hamilton (Journal of Hydrology, 2026)

Formulation and characterization of dextran sulfate-polyethyleneimine complexes for lithium recovery from oilfield and enhanced geothermal system brines - David Kwaku Danso; Jozef Bicerano; Douglas P. Heller; Reza Barati Ghahfarokhi (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2026)

Can protected areas safeguard forests on small islands? Evidence from Trinidad - Eleanor S. Devenish-Nelson; Neila Bobb-Prescott; Claus-Martin Eckelmann; David Persaud; Howard P. Nelson (Journal of Environmental Management, 2026)

Biodiversity of Aspergillus section Flavi species isolated along the peanut paste production chain in Côte d'Ivoire - Ama Lethicia Manizan; Amaranta Carvajal-Campos; Isabelle Piro-Metayer; David Koffi Akaki; Rose Koffi-Nevry; Didier Montet; Isabelle P. Oswald; Sophie Lorber; Olivier Puel; Catherine Brabet (International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2026)

Paleolimnology uncovers environmental drivers of cyanobacterial blooms, species shifts and toxin emergence - Kevin J. Erratt; Irena F. Creed; Jules M. Blais; Elizabeth J. Favot; Cale A.C. Gushulak; Jennifer B. Korosi; David R. McMullin; Lauren W. Rego; Brigitte Simmatis; Branaavan Sivarajah; Rolf D. Vinebrooke; Susanna A. Wood; et al. (Harmful Algae, 2026)

Comparative transcriptomics of adherent and suspension chicken fibroblast cell lines for the optimization of cultivated meat processes - Elizabeth J. Contreras; Archana Nagarajan; Benjamin H. Bromberg; Mason P. Villegas; David L. Kaplan (Food Research International, 2026)

Essentials of research integrity for ecologists - Thomas A. Schlacher; Yasser Assaf; Carlos Barboza; Guilherme Corte; Leonardo Costa; Jenifer E. Dugan; Michael Elliott; Kyle A. Emery; Lucia Fanini; David M. Hubbard; Brendan P. Kelaher; Mariano Lastra; et al. (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2026)

A novel physics–data hybrid approach for slope stability assessment considering future rainfall patterns - Zongyu Zhang; Kaiwen Liu; Qian Su; David P. Connolly; Xinzhuang Cui; Tengfei Wang; Guotao Hu (Computers and Geotechnics, 2026)

Phylogenetic diversity recovery along Atlantic Forest succession: The potential for conserving evolutionary history - Alex Josélio Pires Coelho; Carlos Mário Galván-Cisneros; Pedro Manuel Villa; Heitor Mancini Teixeira; Fabio Antônio Ribeiro Matos; Alice Cristina Rodrigues; Nayara Mesquita Mota; Fernando da Costa Britod Lacerda; Fábia Maria dos Santos Souza; Nathália Vieira Hissa Safar; Nathália Silva; Fabiana Bonani; et al. (Biological Conservation, 2026)

Decoding Temporomandibular Disorders: Identifying Stage-Specific and Functional Patterns in the Articular Disc - Pascal Eber; Ana M. P. Baggio; Yannick M. Sillmann; Philippe Korn; David A. Keith; Shruti Handa; Fernando P. S. Guastaldi (Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2026)

Advances in the development of N-acylbenzo[d][1,2,3]diazaborinin-1(2H)-ols as antibacterial agents by synthesis, characterization, and antimicrobial assay - Chloe A. Woods; Betty Gutierrez; Naidine Aguinaldo; Prince Kanukwa; Yutong Li; Bethany Hubbard; Juan Daniel Avila; Anthony Jones; Fatime Sebok; Michael P. Groziak; Phattananawee Nalaoh; David M. Jenkins; et al. (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2026)

Supershear rupture speed during the 2025 Mw 7.7 28 March 2025 Myanmar earthquake: confirmation of an earlier prediction and implications for hazard reduction - Shamita Das; David P. Robinson (Journal of Seismology, 2026)

Correction: Causal Networks to Inform Decisions for Ecological Restoration - Christopher J. Kotalik; Freya E. Rowland; Bruce G. Marcot; Kristin E. Skrabis; David M. Walters; Jo Ellen Hinck; William H. Clements; Eric E. Richer; John P. Isanhart (Environmental Management, 2026)

Indigenous Perspectives on the Co-management of a Regional Conservation Area in the Peruvian Amazon - Natalia Arcos Cano; Michael P. Gilmore; Elizabeth Benson; Diego Valderrama; David Dimitrie; Brian M. Griffiths (Environmental Management, 2026)
Growing awareness of the critical role Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) play in biodiversity conservation has underscored the need to shift conservation practices towards empowering IPLCs, supporting their land rights, traditional practices, and facilitating their political involvement. Despite IPLCs governing over 32% of global land, historically these communities have faced systemic marginalization and violence in the name of conservation. In response, international calls to action and policies have aimed to enhance IPLC participation in environmental governance through mechanisms like co-management. Adaptive Co-management (ACM) emerges as a promising approach, combining adaptive management’s flexibility with co-management’s collaborative principles. This study evaluates the ACM framework within the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (MKRCA) in the Peruvian Amazon, established to protect the ancestral lands and biocultural resources of the Maijuna and Kichwa communities. Using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)-informed approach, we conducted interviews with 36 community members to assess their perspectives on the MKRCA’s co-management. Findings reveal significant improvements in resource abundance and community safety but also highlight issues with governmental support, communication, and equitable participation. Highly engaged participants voiced the strongest criticisms, underscoring how participation level shaped perceptions of governance. Recommendations were derived from participant perspectives but synthesized by the authors rather than fully co-developed. The study emphasizes the need for continuous evaluation and enhanced stakeholder engagement to optimize ACM’s effectiveness, offering culturally responsive recommendations to strengthen the MKRCA’s management and achieve its conservation objectives.

Genetic structure in a previously extirpated population of gray wolves following reintroduction and natural recolonization - Heather R. Clendenin; David E. Ausband; Jennifer R. Adams; Paul A. Hohenlohe; Lisette P. Waits (Conservation Genetics, 2026)
Genetic structuring in wildlife populations is driven by barriers that restrict gene flow as well as the history of population demography. Mechanisms driving genetic structuring can be nuanced in group-living species, such as gray wolves ( Canis lupus ). Behavioral factors, such as social affiliation and resistance, natal habitat imprinting, and trade-offs between dispersal from natal packs and territorial biding, affect habitat selection of wolves despite landscape barriers providing little resistance to their extensive dispersal capabilities. Wolves were previously extirpated from Idaho, USA, and current populations are the result of both reintroductions in 1995 and 1996 and natural dispersal from Canada. In this context we examined genetic structure of wolves in Idaho using 101 individuals genotyped at 18 nuclear DNA microsatellite loci and a subset of 38 individuals genotyped at 1019 single nucleotide polymorphism markers. We hypothesized panmictic (i.e., random mating) genetic structure in Idaho due to the long-distance dispersal abilities of gray wolves. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found three genetic clusters of gray wolves in Idaho, primarily supported by SNP markers. Microsatellite data suggested similar patterns, but permutation tests indicated these differences were not statistically significant. The extent of differentiation and evidence of gene flow, however, suggests that the three genetic clusters are not wholly isolated from one another. The distinctions between clusters spatially align with areas of reintroduction into central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park, as well ongoing natural recolonization from adjacent populations in Canada and Montana. Wolves at the periphery of analysis areas showed more admixture than those in the core, consistent with territoriality and mating behaviors contributing to genetic structuring. We demonstrate how management history, including reintroduction efforts, and animal behavior may interact and contribute to patterns of genetic structure in wild populations.

Towards whole life-stage naked clam aquaculture: integrating settlement, growth, and nutrition of Lyrodus pedicellatus - J. Reuben Shipway; Max Lancaster; Tatiana Zúñiga-Burgos; Konstantinos P. Papadopoulos; Payam Mehrshahi; Alison G. Smith; David F. Willer (Aquaculture International, 2026)
Rapidly growing global demand for nutrient-dense foods is currently testing planetary boundaries, while global food systems are failing to alleviate a persistent burden of malnutrition in human populations. Naked clams (Teredinidae) have recently emerged as a promising candidate to address these deficiencies, offering high-nutrient, low-environmental impact “blue food” production. While previous research demonstrated the viability of maintaining adult naked clams in modular systems, full life-cycle culture and quantified growth performance remained unexplored. This study evaluates the capacity of a modular, non-flow-through static-tank system to support the full development of the naked clam species Lyrodus pedicellatus from larval settlement to maturity. We quantified growth responses to a factorial combination of different wooden habitat structures (sheet vs. square dowel panels) and microencapsulated feed regimes (Biobullets). The results demonstrate that continuous dietary supplementation significantly enhances growth, with “full feed” individuals exhibiting significantly greater length and wet weight compared to no-feed controls, regardless of wood structure. Nutritional profiling revealed that L. pedicellatus possesses high concentrations of vitamin B12 (~ 70 µg g⁻ 1 dry weight) and beneficial fatty acids, including the neuroprotective nervonic acid (C24:1n9). Although absolute growth rates were lower than those observed in wild contexts, the tractability of L. pedicellatus —characterised by continuous breeding and rapid generation times—establishes it as an ideal model organism for aquaculture optimisation. These findings suggest that naked clam aquaculture may be feasible at commercial scale, opening a pathway for transforming lignocellulosic waste into functional, nutrient-dense protein within a circular bioeconomy.

SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United States - Brigit Rooney; Roland Kays; Michael V. Cove; Alex Jensen; Daniel J. Herrera; Camilla Price; Phuong‐Thao Nguyen‐Nu; Katrina Adamczyk; Peter D. Alexander; David Allen; Jesse M. Alston; Diego F. Alvarado‐Serrano; et al. (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2026)
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of species interactions on daily activity patterns. Main Types of Variables Contained SNAPSHOT USA 2024 contains 377,427 records of camera trap image sequence data and 3127 records of camera trap deployment metadata. Spatial Location and Grain Data were collected across the United States of America in 49 states, 12 ecoregions and many ecosystems. Time Period and Grain Data were collected between 1 August and 19 December in 2024. Major Taxa and Level of Measurement The dataset includes a wide range of taxa but is primarily focused on medium to large mammals. Software Format SNAPSHOT USA 2024 comprises two .csv files. The original data can be found within the SNAPSHOT USA 2024 project on the Wildlife Insights platform.

Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe's freshwater bivalves - Daniel A. Cossey; Maria Urbańska; Ronaldo Sousa; Juergen Geist; Anna Maria Labecka; Şebnem Atasaral; Maciej Bonk; Liliya Bylyna; Frank P. L. Collas; Daniel Daill; Andreas H. Dobler; Noé Ferreira‐Rodríguez; et al. (Conservation Biology, 2026)
Mass mortality events (MMEs) are decimating populations and compromising key ecosystem functions around the globe. One taxon particularly vulnerable to MMEs is freshwater bivalve mollusks. This group has important ecosystem engineering capacities and includes highly threatened and highly invasive taxa. Thus, MMEs of freshwater bivalves have important implications for conservation and ecosystems. Despite this, little is known about the magnitude, frequency, duration, distribution, and causes of freshwater bivalve MMEs. Using a questionnaire, we compiled data from 239 reports describing freshwater bivalve MMEs across 22 European countries since 1960. With these data, we analyzed trends in MME timing, location, and magnitude; identified the species affected; and evaluated the suggested causes (including reporter certainty). We found that the frequency of reports of MMEs increased each year, MMEs affected a broad range of species, clear geographical patterns linking certain causes to specific locations were lacking, factors related to drying and habitat destruction predominated suggested causes, and considerable uncertainty surrounded the causes of many MMEs, particularly those associated with potential pollutants and disease agents. Based on our findings, we recommend the standardization of many aspects of MME research (e.g., reporting and recovery assessment protocols), increased surveying for MMEs, further investigation into the causes of MMEs, especially those with significant uncertainty, and immediate actions to improve waterbody management, mitigate the effects of high temperatures, and further protect freshwater bivalves through the development and implementation of appropriate management actions and legislation.

Prevalence of traded bird species in key biodiversity areas - Oscar Morton; Tom Lansley; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Graeme M. Buchanan; David P. Edwards (Conservation Biology, 2026)
The use and trade of biodiversity involve tens of thousands of species that are exploited at a range of scales, intensities, and degrees of sustainability. As a result, some are highly threatened. Key biodiversity areas (KBAs) are sites of significance for the persistence of biodiversity identified nationally based on standardized criteria. The degree to which biodiversity in KBAs is likely to be used and traded is not well understood. We undertook a fine‐scale assessment of the area of habitat (AOH) of traded species in KBAs. We used data on >16,000 KBAs and combined these with AOH maps for >10,000 bird species, a heavily traded and well‐documented indicator taxon. We subsequently mapped and quantified the distribution of traded species richness, extinction risk, and range‐size rarity in and adjacent to KBAs. Although less than half of all bird species are traded, we found that most bird species in KBAs were traded, and the richness of traded species was more than twice (119%) that of nontraded species. Traded species had comparable proportions of their AOH (22.5% on average) in KBAs as nontraded species (21.5%). Global hotspots of richness, extinction risk, and range rarity for traded species disproportionately occurred in KBAs, which had higher levels of extinction risk and range rarity for traded species than locations immediately outside KBAs. Of the 46 species that are likely threatened by unsustainable use and have the majority of their habitat falling within KBAs, we found that eight species had no habitat in designated protected areas. Reconciling sustainable use and the critical importance of KBAs for threatened species is essential. Our results suggest that for some species, there is an urgent need to protect key sites and ensure that any use and trade of species within them are sustainable.

Astaxanthin, meclizine, mitoglitazone, pioglitazone, alpha-ketoglutarate, mifepristone, methotrexate, and atorvastatin-telmisartan do not increase lifespan in UM-HET3 mice - Ron Korstanje; Randy Strong; Adam B. Salmon; Molly A. Bogue; Sean P. Curran; Vivian Diaz; Elizabeth Fernandez; Brett Ginsburg; Melissa Han; David E. Harrison; Catherine Kaczorowski; Matt Kaeberlein; et al. (GeroScience, 2026)

From empirical screening to lipid trolling: the evolution of extrahelical allosteric modulators of A1 and A3 adenosine receptors - Matteo Pavan; Siva Hariprasad Kurma; Paola Oliva; David P. Broughton; Zhan-Guo Gao; John A. Auchampach; Kenneth A. Jacobson (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2026)
An early GPCR positive allosteric modulator (PAM) was the 2-amino-3-benzoylthiophene derivative PD81,723, which enhances G i -coupled A 1 adenosine receptor (AR) agonist effects. Cryo-EM studies located its extrahelical binding site on TMs 5 and 6, and extensive empirical SAR is consistent with the experimental A 1 AR structure. At the anti-inflammatory A 3 AR, a series of 1 H -imidazo[4,5- c ]quinolin-4-amine PAMs, originally derived from an A 1 AR antagonist scaffold, was recently found, using mutagenesis and molecular modeling, to bind at an extrahelical, lipid-exposed site on the receptor. The N 4 and C2 positions on the scaffold were modified with substituted phenyl and cycloalkyl/branched alkyl groups, respectively, as in the prototypical PAM LUF6000. Before the structural binding hypothesis, extensive synthetic optimization failed to introduce hydrophilic groups needed for aqueous compatibility. Eventually, secondary anchoring of these A 3 AR PAMs within the phospholipid bilayer (lipid trolling) succeeded in improving the pharmacological profile, based on the attraction of appended terminal cationic chains on the PAM with anionic phospholipid head groups. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has predicted a rearrangement of anionic lipids around H8 when long-amino chain PAMs bind, and an upward movement of H8 that is reported to be associated with Class A GPCR activation. N 1 alkylation with benzyl groups removed residual A 3 AR antagonism and produced substantial enhancement of agonist potency as well as E max . Both A 1 AR and A 3 AR PAMs can activate partially in the absence of orthosteric agonist. Thus, at both receptors, potent PAMs have been discovered and optimized for selective enhancement of endogenous adenosine and potentially for treatment of conditions such as chronic pain. Collectively, extrahelical, lipid-exposed pockets are druggable allosteric sites in Class A GPCRs and amenable to deliberate engagement of the membrane environment to optimize receptor modulation. The evolution from empirical screening to structure-guided and membrane-aware design provides a generalizable framework for targeting signaling across the GPCR superfamily beyond ARs.

Dose–response relationship between dietary choline and lipid deposition in visceral adipose tissue of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) - Beichen Yang; Matthew K. Jago; Thomas S. Mock; Barney M. Hines; Michael J. Salini; Giovanni M. Turchini; Richard P. Smullen; Nynke Raven; David S. Francis (Aquaculture, 2026)

Two new endemic species of Hermannia L. (Malvaceae: Byttnerioideae)—H. lilacina and H. boschbergensis—from the Cape Midlands Escarpment (Eastern Cape, South Africa) - V. Ralph Clark; João de Deus Vidal; David Gwynne-Evans; Nigel P. Barker (South African Journal of Botany, 2026)

Potential SCMs for low-carbon concrete in Australia: Cradle-to-gate LCA and cost perspectives - Yulin Patrisia; Nghia P. Tran; Chamila Gunasekara; David W. Law; Tuan D. Ngo; Sujeeva Setunge (Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2026)

Delta-X: An airborne remote sensing framework to calibrate hydrodynamic and ecogeomorphic processes responsible for land building in coastal deltas - Marc Simard; Cathleen E. Jones; Robert R. Twilley; Edward Castañeda-Moya; Sergio Fagherazzi; Cédric G. Fichot; Michael P. Lamb; Paola Passalacqua; Tamlin M. Pavelsky; David R. Thompson; Saoussen Belhadj-aissa; Pradipta Biswas; et al. (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2026)

Bacterially expressed non-glycosylated recombinant bovine interferon lambda demonstrates antiviral activity against bovine viral diarrhea virus in cell culture - David J. Holthausen; Kathryn A. Bickel; Gisselle N. Medina; Daniel W. Nielsen; Bryan S. Kaplan; Eduardo Casas; Rohana P. Dassanayake (Research in Veterinary Science, 2026)

Seabird-mediated changes in sedimentary sterols and stanols - Matthew P. Duda; David C. Eickmeyer; John P. Smol; Jules M. Blais (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2026)

Using herd frailty estimates from survival models in a mortality-based syndromic surveillance system - Jaden M. Carlson; T. Brendan Murphy; Luke O’Grady; Jonas Brock; Maria P. Guelbenzu-Gonzalo; David A. Graham; Guy McGrath; Jamie A. Tratalos; Rafael de Andrade Moral; Niamh Mimnagh; Niamh L. Field; John F. Mee; et al. (Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2026)

Phylogeny, population structure, and conservation genomics of Galapagos vermilion flycatchers (genus Pyrocephalus) - David J. Anchundia; Athena W. Lam; James B. Henderson; Matthew H. Van Dam; Courtney L. Pike; Sabine Tebbich; Birgit Fessl; Heinz Richner; John P. Dumbacher (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2026)

Impact of climate change on freshwater macronutrients and agricultural yields across Britain - Nathan Missault; Victoria A. Bell; David M. Cooper; Ryan T. Sharp; Andrew P. Whitmore; Alice E. Milne; Helen N. Davies (Journal of Environmental Management, 2026)

Modeling of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus behavior in salted and cured meat products - Matheus P.S. Láscaris; Jaqueline S. Correia; Dionisio P. Amorim-Neto; Beatriz D.P. Machado; Emilie Lang; Leonardo P. Silva; Augusto C.C. Santos; Juliana A.L. Pallone; David S. Costa; Camila A. Akiyama; Adriana P.A. Bragotto; Mayana A.R.V. Tomaz; et al. (International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2026)

Integrating baseline and 4D seismic to assess structural and stratigraphic influences on CO2 containment at Sleipner - Basil Onyekayahweh Nwafor; John P. Castagna; Robert Van Eykenhof; Marianne Rauch; David E. Bass (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2026)

Experimental insights into early cement development in carbonate aquifers: from diffusion to surface-controlled calcite growth - J. Douçot; J-B. Regnet; F. Bourdelle; J. Corvisier; P. Robion; D. Deldicque; C. David; S. Richoz; J. Fortin (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2026)

Microhabitat and anthropogenic impacts on bushbuck and Cape porcupine in Southern Mistbelt Forests, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Craig P. Cordier; Nasiphi Bitani; David A. Ehlers Smith; Yvette C. Ehlers Smith; Colleen T. Downs (Forest Ecology and Management, 2026)

Cross-sex theory of mind in the domain of sexual violence: upset, fear, and perceived likelihood - Rebecka K. Hahnel-Peeters; William Costello; Paola Baca; David P. Schmitt; David M. Buss (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026)

A cue-based approach to sociometer theory: Waist-to-hip ratio and lumbar curvature predict females' self-esteem - Sam P. Dale; Jessica Ranson; Kortnee C. Evans; David M.G. Lewis (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026)

Isomerization of α- and β-pinene epoxides over dendritic ZSM-5 zeolites - Carina Mosquera; Luis A. Gallego-Villada; Marta Mediavilla; Jennifer Cueto; Maria del Mar Alonso-Doncel; Edwin Alarcón; David P. Serrano (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2026)