Advancing projections of crown-of-thorns starfish to support management interventions - Christina Skinner; Yves-Marie Bozec; Samuel A. Matthews; David H. Williamson; Roger Beeden; Peter J. Mumby (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Assessing methane emissions and soil carbon stocks in the Camargue coastal wetlands: Management implications for climate change regulation - Maite Martínez-Eixarch; Pere Masqué; Anna Lafratta; Paul Lavery; Samuel Hilaire; Lluís Jornet; Cyrille Thomas; Arnaud Boisnard; Néstor Pérez-Méndez; Carles Alcaraz; Columba Martínez-Espinosa; Carles Ibáñez; et al. (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Letter to the Editor regarding Chappell et al., 2023, “Satellites reveal Earth's seasonally shifting dust emission sources” - Natalie Mahowald; Paul Ginoux; Gregory S. Okin; Jasper Kok; Samuel Albani; Yves Balkanski; Mian Chin; Gilles Bergametti; Thomas F. Eck; Carlos Pérez García-Pando; Antonis Gkikas; María Gonçalves Ageitos; et al. (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Trade-offs in a reef-building coral after six years of thermal acclimation - Anna Roik; Marlene Wall; Melina Dobelmann; Samuel Nietzer; David Brefeld; Anna Fiesinger; Miriam Reverter; Peter J. Schupp; Matthew Jackson; Marie Rutsch; Julia Strahl (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

10Be chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Termination in the Andes of central Chile: The record of the Universidad Glacier (34° S) - Hans Fernández-Navarro; Juan-Luis García; Samuel U. Nussbaumer; Dmitry Tikhomirov; Francia Pérez; Isabelle Gärtner-Roer; Marcus Christl; Markus Egli (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024)

Coeval TTG and sanukitoid magmatism during the Rhyacian tectonic evolution of the Juiz de Fora Complex (São Francisco Paleocontinent, SE-Brazil) - Sandro Mauri; Monica Heilbron; Henrique Bruno; Samuel Bersan; Rasec Almeida; Rodson de Abreu Marques; Syro Lacerda; Ariadne Marra de Souza; Gabriel Paravidini; Carla Neto; Cláudio de Morisson Valeriano; Glenn Chapman; et al. (Precambrian Research, 2024)

Insecticide exposure can increase burrow network production and alter burrow network structure in soil dwelling insects (Agriotes spp.) - Samuel W. Booth; Benedikt Kurtz; Martine I.de Heer; Sacha J. Mooney; Craig J. Sturrock (Pedobiologia, 2024)

Assessment of the growth capacity of newly sprouted shoots of Gelidium corneum (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta) through field-based experiments - Begoña Sánchez-Astráin; Samuel Sainz-Villegas; Xabier Guinda; Camino Fernández de la Hoz; José A. Juanes (Marine Environmental Research, 2024)

Omphacitite formation and fluid-rock interaction processes in an intra-slab eclogite-facies shear zone - Clothilde Minnaert; Samuel Angiboust; Aitor Cambeses; Johannes Glodny; Jesús Muñoz-Montecinos; Antonio Garcia-Casco (Lithos, 2024)

Anthill clay activated Ocimum gratissimum extract for effective adsorption of methylene blue and chromium (VI) ion from wastewater: Insights into the adsorption isotherms, kinetics, thermodynamics, and mechanisms - Lukman Shehu Mustapha; Samuel Oluwaseun Kolade; Sodiq Olayemi Durosinmi; Inn Shi Tan; Sie Yon Lau; Kehinde Shola Obayomi (Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2024)

Heuristic approach to urban sewershed delineation for pluvial flood modeling - Samuel Park; Jaekyoung Kim; Junsuk Kang (Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2024)

Life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental performance of multi-products food processing systems such as milk fractionation: Importance of subdivision and allocation - Fanny Guyomarc'h; Félicie Héquet; Samuel Le Féon; Nadine Leconte; Fabienne Garnier-Lambrouin; Julie Auberger; Caroline Malnoë; Caroline Pénicaud; Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou (Journal of Food Engineering, 2024)

The potential role of biochar in mitigating gaseous emissions from livestock waste – A mini-review - Baitong Chen; Jacek A. Koziel; Andrzej Bialowiec; Samuel C. O'Brien (Journal of Environmental Management, 2024)

Active remote sensing data and dispersal processes improve predictions for an invasive aquatic plant during a climatic extreme in Great Lakes coastal wetlands - Louis Jochems; Jodi Brandt; Clayton Kingdon; Samuel J. Schurkamp; Andrew Monks; Shane C. Lishawa (Journal of Environmental Management, 2024)

Exploring the network structure of coupled green-grey infrastructure to enhance urban pluvial flood resilience: A scenario-based approach focusing on ‘centralized’ and ‘decentralized’ structures - Samuel Park; Jaekyoung Kim; Hyeryeong Yun; Junsuk Kang (Journal of Environmental Management, 2024)

Properties of outer solar system pebbles during planetesimal formation from meteor observations - Peter Jenniskens; Paul R. Estrada; Stuart Pilorz; Peter S. Gural; Dave Samuels; Steve Rau; Timothy M.C. Abbott; Jim Albers; Scott Austin; Dan Avner; Jack W. Baggaley; Tim Beck; et al. (Icarus, 2024)

Glacial to periglacial transition at the end of the last ice age in the subtropical semiarid Andes - Juan-Luis García; Javiera Carraha; Hans Fernández-Navarro; Samuel U. Nussbaumer; Francia Pérez; Alan J. Hidy; Isabelle Gärtner-Roer; Wilfried Haeberli (Geomorphology, 2024)

Outcrop analogue constraints on subsurface reservoir properties of the Puga geothermal field, NW Himalaya - Samuel T. Thiele; Horthing V. Zimik; Anindita Samsu; Salim Akhtar; Akshay Kamath; Pankaj Khanna (Geothermics, 2024)

Traditionally produced tempeh harbors more diverse bacteria with more putative health-promoting properties than industrially produced tempeh - Wisnu Adi Wicaksono; Oluwakemi Elizabeth Akinyemi; Birgit Wassermann; Samuel Bickel; Antonius Suwanto; Gabriele Berg (Food Research International, 2024)

Mixed stands of black spruce (Picea mariana) and tamarack (Larix laricina) offer high secondary growth in eastern boreal forests of Canada - Samuel Roy Proulx; Alain Leduc; Nelson Thiffault; Raphaël D. Chavardès (Forest Ecology and Management, 2024)

Transformation of cell wall pectin profile during postharvest ripening process alters drying behavior and regulates the sugar content of dried plums - Xiao-Xiao Niu; Li-Zhen Deng; Haiou Wang; Qing-Hui Wang; Ming-Qiang Xu; Suo-Bin Li; Samuel Ariyo Okaiyeto; Hong-Wei Xiao (Food Chemistry, 2024)

Boosting resistant starch in rice: Bacterial inulin as a metabolic and glucose uptake modulator - Ravishankar Palanisamy; Satheesh Kumar Subramanian; Samuel Kuwaku Asiedu; Venkatachalam Perumal (Food Chemistry, 2024)

Effectiveness of official food safety control in Barcelona city: Digital and traditional inspections - Eduard Grau-Noguer; Maica Rodríguez-Sanz; Remo Suppi; Jordi Serratosa; Janne Lundén; Assun Bolao; Desireé Cedano; Samuel Portaña (Food Control, 2024)

Stochastic health risk assessment of aflatoxin M1 in cow's milk among Lebanese population - Silvia Dominguez; Jérémie Théolier; Rouaa Daou; Samuel B. Godefroy; Maha Hoteit; André El Khoury (Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2024)

Genetic gain in yield of Australian faba bean since 1980 and associated shifts in the phenotype: Growth, partitioning, phenology, and resistance to lodging and disease - James B. Manson; Kedar N. Adhikari; Sara N. Blake; Samuel C. Catt; Matthew D. Denton; Lachlan Lake; Jason Brand; Cassandra Walker; Julian Taylor; Victor O. Sadras (Field Crops Research, 2024)

Corrigendum to “Climate change impact and adaptation of rainfed cereal crops in sub-Saharan Africa” [Eur. J. Agron. 155 (2024) 127137] - Seyyedmajid Alimagham; Marloes P. van Loon; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Samuel Adjei-Nsiah; Freddy Baijukya; Abdullahi Bala; Regis Chikowo; João Vasco Silva; Abdelkader Mahamane Soulé; Godfrey Taulya; Fatima Amor Tenorio; Kindie Tesfaye; et al. (European Journal of Agronomy, 2024)

Early generation of a refractory inclusions-enriched H-chondritic parent body: A safe harbor for Ca, Al-rich inclusions - Samuel Ebert; Kazuhide Nagashima; Alexander N. Krot; Shigeru Wakita; Jean-Alix Barrat; Addi Bischoff (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024)

Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps - Mylène Jacquemart; Samuel Weber; Marta Chiarle; Małgorzata Chmiel; Alessandro Cicoira; Christophe Corona; Nicolas Eckert; Johan Gaume; Florie Giacona; Jacob Hirschberg; Roland Kaitna; Florence Magnin; et al. (Earth-Science Reviews, 2024)

The ROS-responsive FA@Ni@HA hydrogel promotes infected wound healing in DIO mice through endogenous antimicrobial peptides and macrophage recruitment - Weixian Hu; Yanzhi Zhao; Shengming Zhang; Yue An; Samuel Knoedler; Adriana Christine Panayi; Doha Obed; Bong-Sung Kim; Kangkang Zha; Wenqian Zhang; Yixin Hu; Bobin Mi; et al. (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Mitigating bulk halide defects in blue-emissive perovskite nanocrystals using benzoyl halides for efficient light-emitting diodes - Ah-young Lee; Jongbeom Kim; Woo Hyeon Jeong; Jong Hyun Park; Dongeun Kim; Chieh-Szu Huang; Samuel D. Stranks; Bo Ram Lee; Myoung Hoon Song (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Enhancing adsorbent performance for direct air capture of CO2 by in-situ amine-grafting of layered double hydroxides - Bingyao Ge; Chunping Chen; Yifei Xu; Samuel Roberts; Man Zhang; Qingyang Shao; Dermot O’Hare; Xuancan Zhu (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

A piezoresistive dielectric elastomer switch consisting of inkjet-printed carbon black - Jianan Yi; Luca Ciarella; Samuel Rosset; Katherine Wilson; Iain Anderson; Andreas Richter; E.F. Markus Vorrath (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Integrating thermodynamic and kinetic approaches for the design of effective and sustainable PET chemical upcycling systems - Bernard Jomari Razote; Samuel Muobom Saabome; Joung Sook Hong; Kyung Hyun Ahn (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Electrospun carbon/iron–vanadium oxide nanofibers for high energy density supercapacitors - Edmund Samuel; Ashwin Khadka; Bhavana Joshi; Hao Gao; Suraj More; Ali Aldalbahi; Govindasami Periyasami; Hae-Seok Lee; Bin Ding; Sam S. Yoon (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Stable carbon isotopes in scallop shells: A proxy of Antarctic sea-ice persistence - Kelly E. Cronin; David P. Gillikin; Sally E. Walker; Emma Puhalski; Steve Camarra; C. Fred T. Andrus; Alberto Perez-Huerta; Anouk Verheyden; Samuel S. Bowser (Chemical Geology, 2024)

A global review of landscape-scale analyses in bats reveals geographic and taxonomic biases and opportunities for novel research - José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca; Erin P. Westeen; Ho Yi Wan; Samuel A. Cushman; Carol L. Chambers (Biological Conservation, 2024)

Seroprevalence of human herpes viruses in France, 2018–2022: a multilevel regression and poststratification approach - Olivier Supplisson; Benoit Visseaux; Stéphanie Haim-Boukobza; David Boutolleau; Samuel Alizon; Sonia Burrel; Mircea T. Sofonea (Infectious Diseases, 2024)

An island of receptor-like genes at the Rrs13 locus on barley chromosome 6HS co-locate with three novel sources of scald resistance - Peter E. Eckstein; Lindsay J. Griffith; Xiang M. Zhang; T. Kelly Turkington; Mark G. Colin; Samuel Holden; Sean Walkowiak; Gurcharn S. Brar; Aaron D. Beattie (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2024)

Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis of Food Hygiene and Safety Knowledge and Practices Among Street Food Vendors - Johnson Mwove; Samuel Imathiu; Irene Orina; Paul Karanja (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2024)

Evaluation of Anxiolytic Potential of Extract and Fractions of Vigna unguiculata spp dekindtiana in Mice - Adekunle T. Adegbuyi; G. Olayiwola; Samuel S. Agboola; Abayomi O. Sijuade; Joseph O. Fadare (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2024)

Correlation Between Sleep Complaints and History of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Adolescent Track and Field Athletes - Samuel Silva; Marina C. Pinto; Fernanda Viegas; Luísa S. N. Freitas; Rafael H. C. Pereira; Juliana M. Ocarino; Marco T. de Mello; Andressa Silva (Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise, 2024)

Editorial to the special issue on “Contributions to update the FAO56 guidelines for computing crop water requirements” - Luis S. Pereira; Ramón López-Urrea; Samuel Ortega-Farias (Irrigation Science, 2024)

Variability of flow-mediated dilation across lower and upper limb conduit arteries - Alessio Daniele; Samuel J. E. Lucas; Catarina Rendeiro (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2024)
Endothelial dysfunction is an early predictor of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) is the gold standard to assess endothelial function in humans. FMD reproducibility has been mainly assessed in the brachial artery (BA) with limited research in lower limb arteries. The purpose of this study was to compare FMD reproducibility in the upper limb BA and lower limb superficial femoral artery (SFA) in young healthy adults. Fifteen young healthy adults (nine males; six females) underwent FMD, resting diameter, velocity, and shear rate measurements on three occasions to determine intra-and inter-day reproducibility in both BA and SFA, assessed by coefficient of variation (CV), intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and Bland–Altman plots. BA FMD CVs (intra-day: 4.2%; inter-day: 8.7%) and ICCs (intra-day: 0.967; inter-day: 0.903) indicated excellent reproducibility and reliability, while for SFA FMD, both CVs (intra-day: 11.6%; inter-day: 26.7%) and ICCs (intra-day: 0.898; inter-day: 0.651) showed good/moderate reproducibility and reliability. BA FMD was significantly more reproducible than SFA FMD ( p < 0.05). Diameter reproducibility was excellent and similar between arteries, while resting velocity and shear rate have lower reproducibility in the BA compared to SFA. Bland–Altman plots displayed no proportional and fixed bias between measurements. In summary, SFA FMD is less reproducible than BA FMD, with identical volume of ultrasound training. Given the increasing interest in using SFA FMD to test the efficacy of interventions targeting lower limb’s vascular health and as a potential biomarker for peripheral arterial disease risk, future studies should ensure higher levels of training for adequate reproducibility.

Monitoring of areas in conflict with the Legislation for the Protection of Native Vegetation in Brazil: opportunity for large-scale forest restoration and for the Brazilian global agenda - Vicente Toledo Machado de Morais Junior; Luciano Cavalcante de Jesus França; Daniel Brianezi; Flora Magdaline Benitez Romero; Jocimar Caiafa Milagre; Lucas José Mendes; Renato de Oliveira Marques; Luiz Fernando Dada de Oliveira; Diego Soares Lara; Allan Christian Brandt; Charlene Moro Stefanel; Antônio José Vinha Zanuncio; et al. (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2024)

Addressing companies’ low-carbon transition challenges requires diversified investments in environmental initiatives - Simone Cenci; Samuel Tang (Climatic Change, 2024)
The energy, utilities, industrial, and material sectors are crucial suppliers of essential goods and services, but their business operations are among the largest sources of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, companies in these sectors play a pivotal role in the low-carbon transition and face substantial stakeholder pressure to manage their transition risks and reduce their environmental impact. Here, we argue that effective responses to transition challenges require diversifying investments in adaptation and mitigation initiatives across a broad range of activities and goals. Analysing financial and nonfinancial data from a global sample of publicly traded companies, we find that those who extensively diversify their investments are better able to reduce their emissions over time. Diversification also reduces carbon pricing risk, thereby lowering exposure to transition risks, under several climate policy scenarios. Our findings provide empirical evidence that business leaders in critical sectors for the low-carbon transition should incorporate well-diversified investments in adaptation and mitigation initiatives into their sustainability strategies to manage interconnected transition challenges.

Quantification of relevant metabolites in apoptotic bodies from HK-2 cells by targeted metabolomics based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry - Samuel Bernardo-Bermejo; Ana B. Fernández-Martínez; Francisco Javier Lucio-Cazaña; María Castro-Puyana; María Luisa Marina (Analytica Chimica Acta, 2024)

Invasive Bubalus bubalis may reduce by half the flooded area in a western Amazonian Ramsar site - Lidiane França da Silva; Michel Watanabe; Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro; Wilhan Rocha Candido Assunção; Celso Costa Santos Junior; Samuel dos Santos Nienow; Paulo Vilela Cruz (Biological Invasions, 2024)

Demographic History and Adaptive Evolution of Indo‐Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins ( Tursiops aduncus ) in Western Australia - Svenja M. Marfurt; Delphine B. H. Chabanne; Samuel Wittwer; Manuela R. Bizzozzero; Simon J. Allen; Livia Gerber; Krista Nicholson; Michael Krützen (Molecular Ecology, 2024)
Demographic processes can substantially affect a species' response to changing ecological conditions, necessitating the combined consideration of genetic responses to environmental variables and neutral genetic variation. Using a seascape genomics approach combined with population demographic modelling, we explored the interplay of demographic and environmental factors that shaped the current population structure in Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops aduncus ) along the Western Australian coastline. We combined large‐scale environmental data gathered via remote sensing with RADseq genomic data from 133 individuals at 19 sampling sites. Using population genetic and outlier detection analyses, we identified three distinct genetic clusters, coinciding with tropical, subtropical and temperate provincial bioregions. In contrast to previous studies, our demographic models indicated that populations occupying the paleo‐shoreline split into two demographically independent lineages before the last glacial maximum (LGM). A subsequent split after the LGM 12—15 kya gave rise to the Shark Bay population, thereby creating the three currently observed clusters. Although multi‐locus heterozygosity declined from north to south, dolphins from the southernmost cluster inhabiting temperate waters had higher heterozygosity in potentially adaptive loci compared to dolphins from subtropical and tropical waters. These findings suggest ongoing adaptation to cold‐temperate waters in the southernmost cluster, possibly linked to distinct selective pressures between the different bioregions. Our study demonstrated that in the marine realm, without apparent physical boundaries, only a combined approach can fully elucidate the intricate environmental and genetic interactions shaping the evolutionary trajectory of marine mammals.

Body condition of returning Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. correlates with scale δ 13 C and δ 15 N content deposited at the last marine foraging location - Rory Feeney; Clive N. Trueman; Patrick G. Gargan; William K. Roche; Samuel Shephard (Journal of Fish Biology, 2024)
Patterns of feeding and growth of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. in the marine environment are critical to understanding how observed declines in recruitment may reflect warming or other oceanic drivers. The isotopic composition of scales can provide insight into differences in marine feeding location and possibly temperature regime. The authors used archived scale samples to measure δ 13 C and δ 15 N deposited in the scales of one sea‐winter (1SW) salmon during their last season of growth at sea before they returned to five Irish rivers. δ 13 C values were related statistically to observed salmon body condition (Fulton’s K), and fish with higher δ 13 C values tended to show significantly better condition. In contrast, δ 15 N values were negatively related to body condition. There was no important effect on condition of length at smolt migration, and the effect of duration of marine residence varied among rivers. It is likely that δ 13 C values partly reflected ambient ocean temperature and recent marine feeding environment before return migration, such that the observed relationship between higher δ 13 C values and increased body condition may express an advantage for adult fish feeding in warmer, potentially closer, waters. If greater body condition influences fitness, then a changing temperature regime in the Northeast Atlantic may drive shifts in salmon survival and reproduction. This study provides evidence that there is spatial and trophic variation at sea between salmon from rivers of origin that are located relatively close to each other, with potential consequences for body condition and, consequently, fitness and life history; this suggests that salmon populations from geographically proximate rivers within regions may exhibit differential responses to ocean‐scale climatic changes across the Northeast Atlantic.

Measuring the Response Diversity of Ecological Communities Experiencing Multifarious Environmental Change - Francesco Polazzo; Romana Limberger; Frank Pennekamp; Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross; Gavin L. Simpson; Owen L. Petchey (Global Change Biology, 2024)
The diversity in organismal responses to environmental changes (i.e., response diversity) plays a crucial role in shaping community and ecosystem stability. However, existing measures of response diversity only consider a single environmental variable, whereas natural communities are commonly exposed to changes in multiple environmental variables simultaneously. Thus far, no approach exists to integrate multifarious environmental change and the measurement of response diversity. Here, we show how to consider and quantify response diversity in the context of multifarious environmental change, and in doing so introduce a distinction between response diversity to a defined or anticipated environmental change, and the response capacity to any possible set of (defined or undefined) future environmental changes. First, we describe and illustrate the concepts with empirical data. We reveal the role of the trajectory of environmental change in shaping response diversity when multiple environmental variables fluctuate over time. We show that, when the trajectory of the environmental change is undefined (i.e., there is no information or a priori expectation about how an environmental condition will change in future), we can quantify the response capacity of a community to any possible environmental change scenario. That is, we can estimate the capacity of a system to respond under a range of realistic or extreme environmental changes, with utility for predicting future responses to even multifarious environmental change. Finally, we investigate determinants of response diversity within a multifarious environmental change context. We identify factors such as the diversity of species responses to each environmental variable, the relative influence of different environmental variables and temporal means of environmental variable values as important determinants of response diversity. In doing so, we take an important step towards measuring and understanding the insurance capacity of ecological communities exposed to multifarious environmental change.

Differences in Tri‐Trophic Community Responses to Temperature‐Dependent Vital Rates, Thermal Niche Mismatches and Temperature‐Size Rule - Samuel Dijoux; Aslak Smalås; Raul Primicerio; David S. Boukal (Ecology Letters, 2024)
Warming climate impacts aquatic ectotherms by changes in individual vital rates and declines in body size, a phenomenon known as the temperature‐size rule (TSR), and indirectly through altered species interactions and environmental feedbacks. The relative importance of these effects in shaping community responses to environmental change is incompletely understood. We employ a tri‐trophic food chain model with size‐ and temperature‐dependent vital rates and species interaction strengths to explore the role of direct kinetic effects of temperature and TSR on community structure along resource productivity and temperature gradients. We find that community structure, including the propensity for sudden collapse along resource productivity and temperature gradients, is primarily driven by the direct kinetic effects of temperature on vital rates and thermal mismatches between the consumer and predator species, overshadowing the TSR‐mediated effects. Overall, our study enhances the understanding of the complex interplay between temperature, species traits and community dynamics in aquatic ecosystems.

Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting - Emilie Fleurot; Léa Keurinck; Vincent Boulanger; François Debias; Nicolas Delpierre; Sylvain Delzon; Jean R. Lobry; Camille Mermet‐Bouvier; Marie‐Claude Bel‐Venner; Samuel Venner (Ecology Letters, 2024)
Pollen limitation has a considerable influence on forest masting, the highly variable and synchronised seed production, on which forest regeneration and ecosystem dynamics largely rely. Depending on the various mechanisms possibly involved in pollen limitation, the consequences of climate change on masting could be very different. These mechanisms were investigated in 10 oak populations along a climatic gradient using surveys of airborne pollen and fruiting rate as a proxy of pollen limitation. We found no support for the widely accepted hypothesis of the intra‐annual synchrony of flower phenology when considered in isolation. Instead, the fruiting rate was largely explained by a combination of intra‐annual flower phenology synchrony, annual investment in flowering and the effects of weather on pollen maturation and diffusion. These findings highlight the need for a cohesive theoretical framework for pollen limitation to accurately predict the impact of climate change on oak‐dominated ecosystems.

Pseudomonas koreensis AB36 from a gold mine: genomic insights into adaptation to extreme conditions and potential plant growth promotion - Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro; Oluwaseyi Samuel Olanrewaju; Adenike Eunice Amoo; Olubukola Oluranti Babalola (Biologia, 2024)
The genus Pseudomonas is one of the most varied and widespread bacterial genera, with species found in most environment. They are known to degrade organic and inorganic compounds, produce secondary metabolites, and enhance plant growth. The genome of Pseudomonas koreensis AB36, a heavy metal resistant organism isolated from a gold mine was sequenced to unveil the versatile metabolic potential of the organism. The genome is a single circular chromosome of 5,902,614 bp, with G + C content of 60.1%. There are 4154 similar orthologous gene clusters shared among strain AB36 and other sequenced P. koreensis strains with 7 clusters found alone in the genome of strain AB36. Genome mining of the organism predicted 8 biosynthetic gene clusters using antiSMASH including three non-ribosomal peptide synthethase (NRPS) clusters, arylpolyene and bacteriocin. The genome contains putative genes for heavy metal transport/resistance. These results show the heavy metal resistance ability and degradation of xenobiotic compounds of strain AB36 as well as its potential to adapt to various environments.

Kolaviron: a Bioflavonoid from Seed Extract of Garcinia kola Attenuates Chromium (VI)-Induced Gut Dysfunction and Oxidative Damage in Drosophila melanogaster - Onaara Peter Ashaolu; Olugbenga Adeola Odukanmi; Adeola Temitope Salami; Amos Olalekan Abolaji; Samuel Babafemi Olaleye (Biological Trace Element Research, 2024)

Estimating plant β-diversity using airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy - Nivedita Priyadarshini Kamaraj; Hamed Gholizadeh; Robert G. Hamilton; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf; John A. Gamon (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2024)

Structure-Based Discovery of Phytocompounds from Azadirachta indica as Potential Inhibitors of Thioredoxin Glutathione Reductase in Schistosoma mansoni - Olugbenga Samson Onile; Omotara Raji; Victor Omoboyede; Adeyinka Ignatius Fadahunsi; Tolulope Adelonpe Onile; Abdul Onoruoiza Momoh; Samuel Olukunle; Hassan Nour; Samir Chtita (Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2024)

Estimation of the time of concentration of small watersheds located in Northeastern North America - Samuel Bolduc; Alain Mailhot; Guillaume Talbot (Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2024)

Bionic stirring device for horizontal composter to improve aeration efficiency: Design and optimisation using discrete and finite element methods - Jufei Wang; Chao Li; Zhenming Zhu; Xueru Zhu; Hua Li; Samuel Mbugua Nyambura; Xuebin Feng; Hao Zhou (Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2024)

Nitrogen isotope variability of macroalgae from a small fishing village, Staithes Harbour, Yorkshire, UK - Freya C. Alldred; Darren R. Gröcke; Samuel E. Jackson (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024)

Identification of key anthropogenic and land use factors and ecological risk assessment of dissolved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in an urbanized estuary in China - Huijun Liu; Jiajie Hu; Yan Tan; Zhong Zheng; Mengyang Liu; Rainer Lohmann; Simon Vojta; Samuel Katz; Yong Liu; Zhiheng Li; Zhiguo Fang; Minggang Cai; et al. (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024)

Neospora caninum is not transmissible via embryo transfer, but affects the quality of embryos in dairy cows - Gustavo Fernandes Grillo; Samuel Rodrigues Bonamichi Couto; Yuri Barbosa Guerson; Joaquim Esquerdo Ferreira; Edwards Frazão Teixeira; Andressa Ferreira Silva; Helcimar Barbosa Palhano; Marco Roberto Bourg Mello (Veterinary Parasitology, 2024)

Teleseismic measurements of Upper Mantle Shear-Wave Anisotropy in Southern Mexico - Samuel Celis; Luis Vázquez; Raúl W. Valenzuela; Laura Petrescu; Xyoli Pérez-Campos; Gerardo León Soto (Tectonophysics, 2024)

Unravelling the impact of environmental variability on mangrove sediment carbon dynamics - Frederick Asante; Christiana Naana Sam; Alexandra Marçal Correia; Matteo Campioli; Justice Yeboah; Samuel Appiah Ofori; Farid Dahdouh-Guebas; Noble Kwame Asare (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

A 13-year space-based climatological evolution of desert dust aerosols in the Middle East and North Africa regions observed by the CALIPSO - Samuel Abraham Berhane; Kanike Raghavendra Kumar; Lingbing Bu (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

A gold standard dataset and evaluation of methods for lineage abundance estimation from wastewater - Jannatul Ferdous; Samuel Kunkleman; William Taylor; April Harris; Cynthia J. Gibas; Jessica A. Schlueter (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Landscape structure affects temporal dynamics in the bumble bee virome: Landscape heterogeneity supports colony resilience - Laura Bosco; Orlando Yañez; Alexandria Schauer; Corina Maurer; Samuel A. Cushman; Raphaël Arlettaz; Alain Jacot; Torsten Seuberlich; Peter Neumann; Daniel Schläppi (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Harnessing biotechnology for penicillin production: Opportunities and environmental considerations - Md Ariful Haque; Nirmalendu Deb Nath; Tony Vaughn Johnston; Samuel Haruna; Jaehyun Ahn; Reza Ovissipour; Seockmo Ku (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

The pH paradox - Kagiso Samuel More; Christian Wolkersdorfer (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Association of pesticide exposure with respiratory health outcomes and rhinitis in avocado farmworkers from Michoacán, Mexico - Cecilia S. Alcalá; Cynthia Armendáriz-Arnez; Ana M. Mora; Maria G. Rodriguez-Zamora; Asa Bradman; Samuel Fuhrimann; Christian Lindh; María José Rosa (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Late Tonian (c. 735 Ma) A-type granite magmatism on the passive margin of the São Francisco paleocontinent was coeval with outboard subduction - Gabriel Paravidini; Claudio de Morisson Valeriano; Catherine Mottram; Rob Strachan; Henrique Bruno; Mônica Heilbron; Glenn Chapman; Diego Guilherme da Costa Gomes; Samuel Bersan; Craig Storey (Precambrian Research, 2024)

The Nicotiana tabacum UGT89A2 enzyme catalyzes the glycosylation of di- and trihydroxylated benzoic acid derivatives - Arianna Duque-Ortiz; José Rivera-Chávez; Guillermo Pastor-Palacios; Samuel Lara-González (Phytochemistry, 2024)

Exploring the efficiency of a source-level model to predict hydrophone-based received noise levels of the St. Lawrence Estuary’s merchant fleet - Dominic Lagrois; Cristiane C. Albuquerque Martins; Jean-François Sénécal; Samuel Turgeon; Clément Chion (Ocean Engineering, 2024)

Geochemistry of the Winneba-Mankoadze pegmatites in Southern Ghana: A clue to the petrogenesis of the pegmatites - Salaam Jansbaka Adams; Emmanuel Daanoba Sunkari; John Emmanuel Kobina Hanson; Kingsley Kwaah Tandoh; Samuel Edem Kodzo Tetteh; Prosper Mackenzie Nude; Daniel Kwadwo Asiedu; Samuel Boakye Dampare (Ore and Energy Resource Geology, 2024)

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the terrestrial Parasitengona (Acariformes, Prostigmata) provides insights into the evolution of their metamorphosis, invasion into aquatic habitats and classification - Samuel G.S. Costa; Andrei Tolstikov; Alireza Saboori; Dante Batista-Ribeiro; Javad Noei; Mark S. Harvey; Matthew D. Shaw; Pavel B. Klimov; Zhi-Qiang Zhang; Almir R. Pepato (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2024)

The 2019 pumice raft forming eruption of Volcano-F (Volcano 0403–091) and implications for hazards posed by submerged calderas - Isobel A. Yeo; Iona M. McIntosh; Scott E. Bryan; Kenichiro Tani; Matthew Dunbabin; Katherine J. Dobson; Samuel J. Mitchell; Patrick C. Collins; Michael A. Clare; Henrietta Cathey; Isikeli Duwai; Philipp A. Brandl; et al. (Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2024)

4D fault evolution revealed by footwall exhumation modelling: A natural experiment in the Malawi rift - Malcolm McMillan; Samuel C. Boone; Patrick Chindandali; Barry Kohn; Andrew Gleadow (Journal of Structural Geology, 2024)

Drought Awareness over Continental United States - Mashrekur Rahman; Samuel Sandoval Solis; Thomas Harter; Mahmoud Saeedimoghaddam; Niv Efron; Grey S. Nearing (Journal of Hydrology, 2024)

Solutions and insights for agricultural monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) from three consecutive issuances of soil carbon credits - Charles D. Brummitt; Cara A. Mathers; Rebecca Arundale Keating; Katherine O'Leary; Mark Easter; Mark A. Friedl; Max DuBuisson; Eleanor E. Campbell; Ryan Pape; Samuel J.W. Peters; Ashok A. Kumar (Journal of Environmental Management, 2024)

Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesters - perspectives on materials design and innovation - Essa Ansari; Samar Elwadood; Harikrishnan Balakrishnan; Ieva Sapkaite; Catherine Munro; Georgios N. Karanikolos; Khalid Askar; Hassan Arafat; Samuel S. Mao; Ludovic F. Dumée (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024)

Efficacy and mechanistic insights into dielectric barrier discharge plasma degradation of antiretroviral drug efavirenz - Andere Clement Miruka; Xiaoting Gao; Yinyin Zhang; Samuel A. Iwarere; Pengcheng Luo; Austin O. Aluoch; Geoffrey Otieno; Han Zhang; Yanan Liu (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024)

A new workflow for mapping dune features (outline, crestline and defects) combining deep learning and skeletonization from DEM-derived data - Jimmy Daynac; Paul Bessin; Stéphane Pochat; Régis Mourgues; Samuel Shumack (Geomorphology, 2024)

The role of fire in the germination of invasive plants in Mediterranean environments: A meta-analysis - Samuel H. Suárez-Ronay; Silvia Medina-Villar; M. Esther Pérez Corona (Forest Ecology and Management, 2024)

Comparison of α and β-acid isomerization in hops and beer using HPLC, confocal microscopy, spectrofluorimetry and chemical analysis of metabolites and essential oils in flowers of different hop cultivars produced in Brazil - Francisco Mateus Gomes do Nascimento; Maria Teresa Salles Trevisan; Manoel Lourenço Alves Neto; Robert Wyn Owen; Edy Sousa de Brito; Lorena Mara Alexandre e Silva; Késya Amanda Dantas Rocha; Carlos Lenz Cesar; Hernandes Faustino de Carvalho; Vitor Bianchin Pelegati; Sthefanny Alves da Silva; Samuel Pedro Dantas Marques (Food Chemistry, 2024)

Sustainable proteins from wine industrial by-product: Ultrasound-assisted extraction, fractionation, and characterization - Samuel Rodriguez Garcia; Jose C. Orellana-Palacios; David Julian McClements; Andres Moreno; Milad Hadidi (Food Chemistry, 2024)

Toward the authentication of wines of Itata valley denomination of origin through total reflection x-ray fluorescence (TXRF) method for testing adulteration. A novel valuable tool by using Compton/Rayleigh scattering signals in wines - Samuel Pérez; Rodrigo Vasquez; Guillermo Pascual; Juan Araya; José Neira; Carlos L. Cespedes-Acuña (Food Bioscience, 2024)

Women improving nutrition through self-help groups in India: Does nutrition information help? - Neha Kumar; Kalyani Raghunathan; Agnes Quisumbing; Samuel Scott; Purnima Menon; Giang Thai; Shivani Gupta; Carly Nichols (Food Policy, 2024)

Prediction of future microplastic accumulation in agricultural soils - Tamara Meizoso-Regueira; Jose Fuentes; Samuel J. Cusworth; Matthias C. Rillig (Environmental Pollution, 2024)

Using forty years of research to view Bahía Almirante on the Caribbean Coast of Panama as an integrated social-ecological system - Rachel Collin; Anne E. Adelson; Andrew H. Altieri; Kasey E. Clark; Kristen Davis; Sarah N. Giddings; Samuel Kastner; Leon Mach; Geno Pawlak; Sofie Sjögersten; Mark Torres; Cinda P. Scott (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2024)

Multiscale habitat suitability modeling for a threatened raptor offers insight into ecological model transferability - Danial Nayeri; Samuel Cushman; Joseph Ganey; Logan Hysen; Micaela Szykman Gunther; David Willey; Ho Yi Wan (Ecological Modelling, 2024)

Dry-wet phase inversion GO-PSF membranes with pH-modified GO for DCMD desalination - Samuel O. Olatunji; Lucy Mar Camacho (Desalination, 2024)

Hyperparameter determination for GAN-based seismic interpolator with variable neighborhood search - Daniel N. Pinheiro; Jaime C. Gonzalez; Gilberto Corso; Mesay Geletu Gebre; Carlos A.N. da Costa; Samuel Xavier-de-Souza; Tiago Barros (Computers & Geosciences, 2024)

Sustainable management and valorization of antibiotic waste - Md Ariful Haque; Lindsay Rogerson; Nirmalendu Deb Nath; Samuel Haruna; Jaehyun Ahn; Tony V. Johnston; Carol Sze Ki Lin; Li Chong; Li Na; Min Ji Jang; Seockmo Ku (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Microstructural evolution of Fe-25 W powder beds during CO2-H2 redox cycling at 800 °C - Samuel Pennell; David C. Dunand (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Hybrid biomaterial hydrogel loading iRGD&PS double modified lipid nanoparticles ameliorates diabetic wound healing through promoting efferocytosis and glycolysis-related macrophage reprogramming - Wenqian Zhang; Shengming Zhang; Samuel Knoedler; Wenhao Han; Kangkang Zha; Hui Li; Adriana Christine Panayi; Michael Alfertshofer; Bong-Sung Kim; Weixian Hu; Yanzhi Zhao; Qian Feng; et al. (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Geochemical distribution of major and trace elements in hydromorphic soil profiles developed on recent alluvium - Olufemi Adewale Osinuga; Victory Tega Kagbare; Ezekiel Abiodun Samuel; Janet Oluwafunmilayo Sulaimon; Anuoluwapo Ayomide Ojo; Lateefat Abisola Taoreed (CATENA, 2024)

Advancements in electrochemical energy storage: A review of biomass-derived anode and cathode for electric vehicles battery - Damilare Samuel Oyebamiji; Davannendran Chandran; Revathi Raviadaran (Biomass and Bioenergy, 2024)

Validation of aerosol chemical composition and optical properties provided by Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) using ground-based global data - Ana Carolina Amarillo; Gabriele Curci; Davide De Santis; Cristiana Bassani; Francesca Barnaba; Samuel Rémy; Luca Di Liberto; Christopher R. Oxford; Eli Windwer; Fabio Del Frate (Atmospheric Environment, 2024)

Harnessing microbial potential: Exploiting heavy oil-laden soil microbiota for sustainable production of high-yield rhamnolipids from waste cooking oil - Siyabonga Nkosi; John O. Unuofin; Olubusola A. Odeniyi; Samuel A. Iwarere; Michael O. Daramola (Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2024)

Simulation of the air quality and evaluation of a future district heating system in Valdivia, Chile - Ernesto Pino-Cortés; Ismael Rabí; Martín Muñoz; Jonathan Acosta; Fidel Vallejo; Andrea Espinoza-Pérez; Lorena Espinoza-Pérez; Samuel Carrasco (Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2024)

Genomic diversity, antibiotic resistance, and virulence in South African Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus lactis isolates - Oluwaseyi Samuel Olanrewaju; Lesego G. Molale-Tom; Cornelius C. Bezuidenhout (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2024)
This study presents the empirical findings of an in-depth genomic analysis of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus lactis isolates from South Africa. It offers valuable insights into their genetic characteristics and their significant implications for public health. The study uncovers nuanced variations in the gene content of these isolates, despite their similar GC contents, providing a comprehensive view of the evolutionary diversity within the species. Genomic islands are identified, particularly in E. faecalis , emphasizing its propensity for horizontal gene transfer and genetic diversity, especially in terms of antibiotic resistance genes. Pangenome analysis reveals the existence of a core genome, accounting for a modest proportion of the total genes, with 2157 core genes, 1164 shell genes, and 4638 cloud genes out of 7959 genes in 52 South African E. faecalis genomes (2 from this study, 49 south Africa genomes downloaded from NCBI, and E. faecalis reference genome). Detecting large-scale genomic rearrangements, including chromosomal inversions, underscores the dynamic nature of bacterial genomes and their role in generating genetic diversity. The study uncovers an array of antibiotic resistance genes, with trimethoprim, tetracycline, glycopeptide, and multidrug resistance genes prevalent, raising concerns about the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment. Virulence gene profiling unveils a diverse repertoire of factors contributing to pathogenicity, encompassing adhesion, biofilm formation, stress resistance, and tissue damage. These empirical findings provide indispensable insights into these bacteria’s genomic dynamics, antibiotic resistance mechanisms, and virulence potential, underlining the pressing need to address antibiotic resistance and implement robust control measures.

Tracing Nitrate Contamination Sources and Apportionment in North-Western Volta River Basin of Ghana Using a Multi-Isotopic Approach - Priscilla E. S. Lartsey; Samuel Y. Ganyaglo; Dickson Adomako; Patrick Asamoah Sakyi; Abass Gibrilla; Florent Barbecot; Karine Lefebvre; Etuk Mary Nsikanabasi (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2024)

Effect of plastic film and hemp canvas mulching on soil properties, microbial diversity and lettuce yield - Samuel Jacquiod; Elodie Bouchard; Jérémie Beguet; Frédéric Roure; Nathalie Cheviron; Christian Mougin; Arnaud Coffin; Manuel Blouin; Fabrice Martin-Laurent (Plant and Soil, 2024)

Rodent competition and fire alter patterns of mound and disk formation of western harvester ants - Ryan Pienaar; Tara B. B. Bishop; Samuel B. St Clair (Oecologia, 2024)

Design anticancer potential of Zn(II)isoleucinedithiocarbamate complex on MCF-7 cell lines: synthesis, characterization, molecular docking, molecular dynamic, ADMET, and in-vitro studies - Rizal Irfandi; Indah Raya; Ahyar Ahmad; Ahmad Fudholi; Riswandi; Santi Santi; Wynda Puspa Azalea; Suriati Eka Putri; Muhammad Nur Alam; Unang Supratman; Samuel Olawale Olubode; Eid A. Abdalrazaq; et al. (Molecular Diversity, 2024)

De Novo Assembly and Annotation of the Siganus fuscescens (Houttuyn, 1782) Genome: Marking a Pioneering Advance for the Siganidae Family - Samuel Mwakisha Mwamburi; Satoshi Kawato; Miho Furukawa; Kayo Konishi; Reiko Nozaki; Ikuo Hirono; Hidehiro Kondo (Marine Biotechnology, 2024)

Are impacts of the invasive alien plant Crassula helmsii mediated by detritus? A litter experiment in a temperate pond - Samuel J. L. Tasker; Andrew Foggo; David T. Bilton (Hydrobiologia, 2024)

Phenotypic characterization and genetic diversity of macauba (Acrocomia aculeata) accessions based on oil attributes and fruit biometrics - Débora Durso Caetano Madeira; Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike; Guilherme Ferreira Simiqueli; Kacilda Naomi Kuki; Samuel de Melo Goulart; Thaís Caroline Buttow Rigolon; Pedro Thiago Santos Nogueira; Amanda da Silva Castro; Evellyn Giselly de Oliveira Couto (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2024)

Sex-specific ventral dichromatism and melanization in harlequin toads (Atelopus): a common but overlooked character of unknown function - Amadeus Plewnia; Stefan Lötters; Samuel Gomides; Massimo De Agrò; Daniela C. Rößler (Evolutionary Ecology, 2024)
Hidden colors are a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom, particularly in anurans. In some cases, hidden colors are suddenly exposed during defensive displays to startle predators, others seemingly remain hidden—particularly from researchers. Amazonian species of Neotropical harlequin toads (genus Atelopus ) show striking and consistent ventral sexual dichromatism where females show and males generally lack melanization. Inspired by these observations we undertook a deeper inquiry across this species-rich genus. We collected data on ventral sexual dichromatism in Atelopus species and scored expression of sex-specific ventral melanization (i.e. black, brown and/or grey coloration). Ventral sexual dichromatism was present throughout the entire range of the genus and in almost all phylogenetic groups. However, there was a clear geographic signal with this trait being most common and widespread in Amazonian Atelopus species. Ventral melanization was correlated with temperature and elevation. Focusing on the Amazonian species, we present hypotheses on potential functions of sexually dimorphic ventral patterns and sex-specific ventral melanization as a baseline to further investigate the dynamics of sexual and natural selection as potential drivers of these traits. Selective pressures on less exposed body parts, such as ventral sides, likely differ considerably from those on dorsal appearance. Given the amount of research on amphibian coloration, it is remarkable how little we know about the evolution, function and underlying mechanisms of ventral appearance. We hope our work will spark more interest in the flip side of amphibians, thereby broadening our understanding of animal coloration.

Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) origin, behavior, and habitat residency in Sherbrooke Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada - Matthew G. Warner; Samuel N. Andrews; Benjamin Marcy‐Quay; Cameron C. Solda; Andrew G. Lowles; Michael J. W. Stokesbury (Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2024)

Developing Oak Buds Produce Volatile Emissions in Response to Herbivory by Freshly Hatched Caterpillars - Jessica L. Graham; Michael Staudt; Bruno Buatois; Samuel P. Caro (Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2024)

Busting the dust: Evaluating local vs distal sources in Quaternary sediments at Thirlmere Lakes - Matthew S. Forbes; Samuel K. Marx; Tim J. Cohen; Bryce Sherborne-Higgins; Alexander Francke; Germanas Peleckis; Brian G. Jones; Anthony Dosseto; Haidee Cadd; Elizabeth Swallow; Mark Raven; Dioni I. Cendón; et al. (Applied Geochemistry, 2024)

From earth material to energy production: Ni-based modified halloysite catalysts for CO2 methanation - Ayesha A. Alkhoori; Aasif A. Dabbawala; Mark A. Baker; Samuel Mao; Nikolaos Charisiou; Steven S. Hinder; Messaoud Harfouche; Dalaver H. Anjum; Maria A. Goula; Kyriaki Polychronopoulou (Applied Clay Science, 2024)

The effect of ramped nursery housing on pig behavior during loading and unloading at marketing - Mary L. Kasakamu; Jennifer M. Young; Ryan S. Samuel; Sarah A. Wagner; Christopher J. Byrd (Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2024)

Proximity to non-crop vegetation increases estimates of predation frequency but not beetle numbers - Tobyn Neame; Samuel V.J. Robinson; Paul Galpern (Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2024)

Pollination of Blumenbachia catharinensis (Loasaceae)—efficient pollen collection and pollen theft from the stigma by an oligolectic bee - Samuel Siriani-Oliveira; Isabelle Cerceau; Clemens Schlindwein (Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2024)

Effects of dietary astaxanthin on chromatic, biochemical, and histological characteristics in juvenile blood parrotfish (Vieja melanurus ♀ × Amphilophus citrinellus ♂) - Adekunle David Micah; Bin Wen; Abdullateef Yusuf; Meriyamoh Mero Onimisi; Samuel Olusegun Adeyemi; Jian-Zhong Gao; Zai-Zhong Chen (Aquaculture International, 2024)

Host diet drives gut microbiome convergence between coral reef fishes and mammals - Samuel Degregori; Nina M. D. Schiettekatte; Jordan M. Casey; Simon J. Brandl; Alexandre Mercière; Katherine R. Amato; Florent Mazel; Valeriano Parravicini; Paul H. Barber (Molecular Ecology, 2024)
Animal gut microbiomes are critical to host physiology and fitness. The gut microbiomes of fishes—the most abundant and diverse vertebrate clade—have received little attention relative to other clades. Coral reef fishes, in particular, make up a wide range of evolutionary histories and feeding ecologies that are likely associated with gut microbiome diversity. The repeated evolution of herbivory in fishes and mammals also allows us to examine microbiome similarity in relationship to diet across the entire vertebrate tree of life. Here, we generate a large coral reef fish gut microbiome dataset ( n = 499 samples, 19 species) and combine it with a diverse aggregation of public microbiome data ( n = 447) to show that host diet drives significant convergence between coral reef fish and mammalian gut microbiomes. We demonstrate that this similarity is largely driven by carnivory and herbivory and that herbivorous and carnivorous hosts exhibit distinct microbial compositions across fish and mammals. We also show that fish and mammal gut microbiomes share prominent microbial taxa, including Ruminoccocus spp. and Akkermansia spp., and predicted metabolic pathways. Despite the major evolutionary and ecological differences between fishes and mammals, our results reveal that their gut microbiomes undergo similar dietary selective pressures. Thus, diet, in addition to phylosymbiosis must be considered even when comparing the gut microbiomes of distantly related hosts.

What do women want to see in a personalized breast cancer risk report? A qualitative study of Asian women of two countries - Fatma Aldila; Fiona Ng FJ; Jessica Audrienna; Lynn Lim SJ; Shannon Tang; Sabrina Gabriel Tanu; Eric Aria Fernandez; Faustina Audrey Agatha; Marco Wijaya; Stevany Tiurma Br Sormin; Levana Sani; Astrid Irwanto; et al. (Journal of Community Genetics, 2024)

Trends and challenges in implementing community-supported agriculture - Gustavo Alves de Melo; Samuel Borges Barbosa; Maria Gabriela Mendonça Peixoto; Maria Cristina Angélico Mendonça; Simone Sehnem; José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024)

Notes on Towed Self-Propulsion Experiments with Simulated Managed Ice in Traditional Towing Tanks - José Enrique Gutiérrez-Romero; Blas Zamora-Parra; Samuel Ruiz-Capel; Jerónimo Esteve-Pérez; Alejandro López-Belchí; Pablo Romero-Tello; Antonio José Lorente-López (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024)
Efficiency estimation of a propeller behind a vessel’s hull while sailing through ice floes, together with the ship’s resistance to motion, is a key factor in designing the power plant and determining the safety measures of a ship. This paper encloses the results from the experiments conducted at the CEHINAV towing tank, which consisted of analyzing the influence of the concentration at the free surface of artificial blocks, simulating ice, in propeller–block interactions. Thrust and torque were measured for a towed self-propelled ship model through simulated broken ice blocks made of paraffin wax. Three block concentrations of different block sizes and three model speeds were studied during the experimentation. Open-water self-propulsion tests and artificial broken ice towed self-propulsion tests are shown and compared in this work. The most relevant observations are outlined at the end of this paper, as well as some guidelines for conducting artificial ice-towed self-propulsion tests in traditional towing tanks.

Proposal for a social certification model for agriculture in Latin America aligned with the sustainable development goals - Javier Eugenio García de Alba Verduzco; Samuel Borges Barbosa; Blanca Catalina Ramírez Hernández; Leila Dal Moro; Luis Enrique Lomelí Rodríguez; Luciana Londero Brandli; André Borchardt Deggau; Maria Gabriela Mendonça Peixoto; Angélica Isabel García Navarro; Simone Sehnem; Viviane dos Guimarães Alvim Nunes; José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024)

Acarbose ameliorates Western diet-induced metabolic and cognitive impairments in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease - Michelle M. Sonsalla; Reji Babygirija; Madeline Johnson; Samuel Cai; Mari Cole; Chung-Yang Yeh; Isaac Grunow; Yang Liu; Diana Vertein; Mariah F. Calubag; Michaela E. Trautman; Cara L. Green; et al. (GeroScience, 2024)

Temporal Scales of Mass Wasting Sedimentation across the Mississippi River Delta Front Delineated by 210Pb/137Cs Geochronology - Jeffrey Duxbury; Samuel J. Bentley; Kehui Xu; Navid H. Jafari (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024)
The Mississippi River Delta Front (MRDF) is a subaqueous apron of rapidly deposited and weakly consolidated sediment extending from the subaerial portions of the Birdsfoot Delta of the Mississippi River, long characterized by mass-wasting sediment transport. Four (4) depositional environments dominate regionally (an undisturbed topset apron, mudflow gully, mudflow lobe, and prodelta), centering around mudflow distribution initiated by a variety of factors (hurricanes, storms, and fluid pressure). To better understand the spatiotemporal scales of the events as well as the controlling processes, eight cores (5.8–8.0 m long) taken offshore from the South Pass (SP) and the Southwest Pass (SWP) were analyzed for gamma density, grain size, sediment fabric (X-radiography), and geochronology (210Pb/137Cs radionuclides). Previous work has focused on the deposition of individual passes and has been restricted to

Distributed energy infrastructure development: geospatial and economic feasibility in rural West Virginia - Xinming Andy Zhang; Paul Kinder; Michael Strager; Samuel Taylor; Gabe Schwartzman (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024)

Generating insights to improve the performance of communities supported agriculture: an analysis focused on female participation, governance structure and volume of food distributed - Gustavo Alves de Melo; Maria Gabriela Mendonça Peixoto; Samuel Borges Barbosa; Ana Júlia Silva Alves; Anna Clara Lasso Souza; Maria Cristina Angélico Mendonça; Luiz Gonzaga de Castro Júnior; Patrícia Guarnieri dos Santos; André Luiz Marques Serrano; Clóvis Neumann (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024)

Adaptation of a microbial consortium to pelagic Sargassum modifies its taxonomic and functional profile that improves biomethane potential - Enrique Salgado-Hernández; Ángel Isauro Ortiz-Ceballos; Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman; Sergio Martínez-Hernández; Ana Elena Dorantes-Acosta; Erik Samuel Rosas-Mendoza (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2024)

Recent advancements in carbon/metal-based nano-catalysts for the reduction of CO2 to value-added products - Arun Kumar Senthilkumar; Mohanraj Kumar; Melvin S. Samuel; Selvarajan Ethiraj; Mohd Shkir; Jih-Hsing Chang (Chemosphere, 2024)

Acute effects of atrazine on the immunoexpressions of sertoli and germ cells molecular markers, cytokines, chemokines, and sex hormones levels in mice testes and epididymides - Sunny O. Abarikwu; John L.P. Coimbra; Gabriel Campolina-Silva; Samuel Tadeu Rocha; Vivian Vasconcelos Costa; Samyra M.S.N. Lacerda; Guilherme M.J. Costa (Chemosphere, 2024)

Nanoparticle-plant interactions: Physico-chemical characteristics, application strategies, and transmission electron microscopy-based ultrastructural insights, with a focus on stereological research - Hana Ďúranová; Samuel Kšiňan; Lenka Kuželová; Veronika Šimora; Ľuba Ďurišová; Lucia Olexíková; Dávid Ernst; Marek Kolenčík (Chemosphere, 2024)

Building collaborative monitoring programs to manage for ecological sustainability in multi-use marine protected areas: Parks Canada’s national marine conservation areas - Chantal Vis; Karla Abbott; Niisii Guujaaw; Cavan Harpur; Lynn Lee; Pippa Shepherd; Douglas P. Tate; Samuel Turgeon; Blythe Beynon (Marine Policy, 2024)

Using local ecological knowledge to inform regional conservation prioritization for threatened marine megafauna - Mingli Lin; Mingming Liu; Heidi Ma; Samuel T. Turvey; Songhai Li (Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024)

Implications of fisher perceptions on coral restoration in Tondol, northwestern Philippines - Rickdane Gomez; Samuel Mamauag; Michael Fabinyi; Dexter dela Cruz; Ian M. McLeod; Patrick Cabaitan; Peter L. Harrison (Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024)

Genome of a single worker of the greenhead ant, Rhytidoponera metallica, reveals mechanisms of toxin evolution in a genetically hyperdiverse eusocial species - Anders Isaksen; Pedro G. Nachtigall; Robin A. Araya; Marius F. Maurstad; Samuel D. Robinson; Thomas F. Hansen; Eivind A.B. Undheim (Toxicon, 2024)

Elucidation of medusozoan (jellyfish) venom constituent activities using constellation pharmacology - Angel A. Yanagihara; Matías L. Giglio; Kikiana Hurwitz; Raechel Kadler; Samuel S. Espino; Shrinivasan Raghuraman; Baldomero M. Olivera (Toxicon, 2024)

In-vitro exposure of feline red blood cells to rattlesnake venom causes echinocytosis - Madison Perry; Sophia Torres; Raegan Wells; Christine Olver; Samuel Stewart; Marcella Granfone (Toxicon, 2024)

Effects of Ecklonia maxima seaweed extract on the fruit, wine—quality and microbiota in Vitis vinifera L. cv. Cabernet Sauvignon - Liam Jay Samuels; Alexia Elizabeth Papageorgiou; Mathabatha Evodia Setati; Erna Hailey Blancquaert (South African Journal of Botany, 2024)

Unravelling CH4 and N2O dynamics in tidal wetlands using natural abundance isotopes and functional genes - Long Ho; Kim Pham; Matti Barthel; Stephen Harris; Samuel Bodé; Jo De Vrieze; Pieter Vermeir; Johan Six; Pascal Boeckx; Peter Goethals (Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024)

Enhanced perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) degradation by electrochemical activation of peroxydisulfate (PDS) during electrooxidation for water treatment - Melvin S. Samuel; Govindan Kadarkarai; Donald R. Ryan; Sean T. McBeath; Brooke K. Mayer; Patrick J. McNamara (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Time series analysis of a 22-year record of 7Be, 210Pb and gross alpha activities in the Canary Islands (Spain) using Principal Component and Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analyses - Pedro A. Salazar-Carballo; Samuel Ogunjo; Francisco Hernández; José Luis Rodríguez-Marrero; Antonio Catalán-Acosta; María López-Pérez (Science of The Total Environment, 2024)

Valorization of Bambusa striata shavings into functional superparamagnetic material and its application in biodiesel production: Response surface optimization, kinetics, thermodynamics and economic assessment - Arpita Das; Bidhan Kumbhakar; Pradip Pachfule; Gurunathan Baskar; Hu Li; Pravin Kodgire; Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum (Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2024)

Decapod crustacean diversity through time and space in a middle-upper Eocene carbonate-siliciclastic platform (southern Jaca Basin, Pyrenees, Spain) - Fernando A. Ferratges; Samuel Zamora; Adiël A. Klompmaker; Marcos Aurell (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024)

Geochemical analysis of bituminous samples from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Nahal Efe (Northern Negev, Israel): Earliest evidence in the region and an example of alteration of the Dead Sea bitumen - Jacques Connan; Ferran Borrell; Jacob Vardi; Samuel Wolff; Steven M. Ortiz; Michael Engel; Renaud Gley; Alex Zumberge (Organic Geochemistry, 2024)

Isolation and partial characterization of an α-amylase inhibitor present in Phaseolus lunatus seeds and its relationship with the induction of α-amylases in larval Zabrotes subfasciatus - Theo C. Brascher; Richard I. Samuels; Carlos P. Silva (Journal of Stored Products Research, 2024)

Breaking bread: Assessment of household bread waste incidence and behavioural drivers - Jayanath Ananda; David Pearson; Samuel Oakden (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024)

Optimization of process parameters and kinetics of fluoride extraction from spent potlining using response surface methodology - Perseverance Dzikunu; Emmanuel Kwesi Arthur; Emmanuel Gikunoo; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa; Samuel Olukayode Akinwamide; Pedro Vilaça (Journal of Environmental Management, 2024)

Enhanced direct gaseous CO2 fixation into higher bio-succinic acid production and selectivity - Ziyi Yang; Wanling Wu; Qing Zhao; Irini Angelidaki; Samuel Gyebi Arhin; Dongliang Hua; Yuxiao Zhao; Hangyu Sun; Guangqing Liu; Wen Wang (Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2024)

Evaluating essential oils as biocidal anti-drift adjuvants for safe and sustainable agricultural spray enhancement - Joseph Heng; Samuel Bechard; David Lach; Jonathan Rothstein; Minghe Wang; Sebastian Ubal; David Julian McClements; Carlos M. Corvalan; Jiakai Lu (Journal of Aerosol Science, 2024)

A thermodynamic approach to energy requirements for CO2 capture and a comparison between the minimum energy for liquid and solid sorbent processes - Samuel J. Layding; Hugo S. Caram (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2024)

Advancements in seismic imaging for geological carbon storage: Study of the Havnsø structure, Denmark - Myrto Papadopoulou; Samuel Zappalà; Alireza Malehmir; Kristina Kucinskaite; Michael Westgate; Ulrik Gregersen; Thomas Funck; Florian Smit; Henrik Vosgerau (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2024)

From conflict to collaboration through inclusive landscape governance: Evidence from a contested landscape in Ghana - James Reed; Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen; Samuel Adeyanju; Abdul Wahid Arimiyaw; Kwabena Asubonteng; Bernard N. Baatuwie; Eric R.C. Bayala; Damian Tom-Dery; Amy Ickowitz; Yakubu B. Issaka; Kaala B. Moombe; Joseph Mumuni; et al. (Global Environmental Change, 2024)

Carbon dynamics in an alluvial fan in the eastern Canadian Arctic - Anne Ola; Samuel Gagnon; Daniel Fortier; Jérôme Comte; Florent Domine (Geoderma Regional, 2024)

Supercritical CO2 extraction increases the recovery levels of omega-3 fatty acids in Tetraselmis chuii extracts - Samuel Paterson; David Villanueva-Bermejo; Blanca Hernández-Ledesma; Pilar Gómez-Cortés; Miguel Angel de la Fuente (Food Chemistry, 2024)

Impact of the biomass pretreatment and simulated gastrointestinal digestion on the digestibility and antioxidant activity of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris and Tetraselmis chuii - Samuel Paterson; Marta Majchrzak; Denisa Alexandru; Serena Di Bella; Samuel Fernández-Tomé; Elena Arranz; Miguel Angel de la Fuente; Pilar Gómez-Cortés; Blanca Hernández-Ledesma (Food Chemistry, 2024)

Biocontrol agent amendments shape the soybean rhizosphere in a cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) conducive soil over a two-year field trial - Muhammad Siddique Afridi; Pablo Schulman; William Dias Teixeira; Rafaela Araujo Guimaraes; Victor Nardelli Castanehira Lacerda; Samuel Junio Cirilo Teixeira; Flavio Henrique Vasconcelos de Medeiros (European Journal of Soil Biology, 2024)

Contribution of emissions from the oil sands activities in Alberta, Canada to atmospheric concentration and deposition of nitrogen and sulfur species at a downwind site - Yuan You; Jason M. O'Brien; Amanda S. Cole; Leiming Zhang; Zhuanshi He; Jian Feng; Samuel Pearson (Environmental Pollution, 2024)

A calibration protocol for soil-crop models - Daniel Wallach; Samuel Buis; Diana-Maria Seserman; Taru Palosuo; Peter J. Thorburn; Henrike Mielenz; Eric Justes; Kurt-Christian Kersebaum; Benjamin Dumont; Marie Launay; Sabine Julia Seidel (Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024)

Dynamic collapse and regrowth of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Weddell Sea sector during the middle Miocene: A novel multi-proxy sedimentary provenance approach using in-situ 87Rb/87Sr dating of detrital K-feldspar - Roland Neofitu; Chris Mark; Suzanne O'Connell; Thomas Zack; Delia Rösel; Darren Mark; Dan Barfod; Michael J. Flowerdew; Samuel Kelley; J. Stephen Daly (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024)

Direct evidence that cryoprotectant mixtures facilitate individual component permeation into living plant cells - Kylie C. Pearce; Fionna M.D. Samuels; Gayle M. Volk; Nancy E. Levinger (Cryobiology, 2024)

DeLIA: A Dependability Library for Iterative Applications applied to parallel geophysical problems - Carla Santana; Ramon C.F. Araújo; Idalmis Milian Sardina; Ítalo A.S. Assis; Tiago Barros; Calebe P. Bianchini; Antonio D. de S. Oliveira; João M. de Araújo; Hervé Chauris; Claude Tadonki; Samuel Xavier-de-Souza (Computers & Geosciences, 2024)

Tapping into bioplastic potential with glucose isomerase from Priestia megaterium for enhanced degradation and mechanical strength - Dr. Ravishankar Palanisamy; Dr. Mario Kangeswaren; Dr. Venkatachalam Perumal; Dr. Samuel K Asiedu (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Engineering Pseudomonas putida for lignin bioconversion into cis-cis muconic acid - He Liu; Xu Tao; Samuel Ntakirutimana; Zhi-Hua Liu; Bing-Zhi Li; Ying-Jin Yuan (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Elucidating the scale-up potential of biogenic magnetized nanocatalyst towards intensified biodiesel production - Nabanita Ghosh; Shiva Prasad Gouda; Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum; Gopinath Halder (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024)

Exploring eco-friendly pseudo stem fiber from the agricultural byproducts of the Alpinia purpurata plant - Wiah Wardiningsih; Ivan Pondra Syahputra; Ryan Rudy; Rr Wiwiek Eka Mulyani; Samuel Martin Pradana; Pudjiati Pudjiati; Atin Sumihartati (Bioresource Technology Reports, 2024)

Conversion of palm kernel shell to sustainable energy and the effect of wet synthesized nanoparticles of iron on its thermal degradation kinetics - Rukayat Oluwatobiloba Quadri; Abiodun Oluwatosin Adeoye; Olushola Sunday Ayanda; Olayide Samuel Lawal (Bioresource Technology Reports, 2024)

Reversible Disassembly of V-ATPases in Aging and Disease - Patricia M. Kane; Samuel Winkley; Fiza Hashmi (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 2024)

Corrigendum to “Designing additional CO2 in-situ surface observation networks over South Korea using bayesian inversion coupled with Lagrangian modelling” [Atmos. Environ. 326 (2024) 120471 1–9] - Samuel Takele Kenea; Daegeun Shin; Shanlan Li; Sangwon Joo; Sumin Kim; Lev D. Labzovskii (Atmospheric Environment, 2024)

A comprehensive review of the challenges and opportunities in microalgae-based wastewater treatment for eliminating organic, inorganic, and emerging pollutants - Selvarajan Ethiraj; Melvin S. Samuel; Indumathi S.M. (Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2024)

Advancements in microbial production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from wastes for sustainable active food packaging: An eclectic review - Sunita Adak; Ramalingam Kayalvizhi; Moumita Bishai; Samuel Jacob; Debajyoti Kundu (Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2024)

Integrating local ecological knowledge and remote sensing reveals patterns and drivers of forest cover change: North Korea as a case study - Joshua Elves-Powell; Jai Dolan; Sarah M. Durant; Hang Lee; John D. C. Linnell; Samuel T. Turvey; Jan C. Axmacher (Regional Environmental Change, 2024)
Satellite-based remote sensing approaches provide a cost-efficient means to collect information on the world’s forests and to repeatedly survey large, or inaccessible, forest areas. However, it may not always be possible to ground truth–associated findings using direct ecological field surveys conducted by trained forest scientists. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) is an alternative form of data which could be used to complement, interpret and verify information from satellite data. Using a case study on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), we evaluate the potential for integrating remote sensing and LEK data, gathered with non-specialist former residents, to understand patterns and drivers of forest cover change. LEK reports often concurred with, or provided key information to enable interpretation of, satellite data. This revealed that between 1986 and 2021, North Korea experienced high, but uneven, rates of deforestation. There was a pronounced northwards deforestation shift in the mid-1990s, coinciding with a period of extreme hardship and famine (the “Arduous March”), and associated with clearance of trees in more forested northern provinces as an economic and fuel resource, and conversion of forest to agricultural cropland. Loss of forest cover in North Korea has continued and recently accelerated, to a rate of > 200 km 2 per annum between 2019 and 2021. This increases the vulnerability of North Korean socio-ecological systems to future environmental change and is an obstacle to the recovery of threatened species across the Korean Peninsula. We recommend that LEK- and remote sensing–based approaches are considered within a suite of complementary techniques to analyse forest changes where ecological field surveys cannot be conducted.

Heterogeneity in choice models of addiction: the role of context - Samuel F. Acuff; Justin C. Strickland; Kirsten Smith; Matt Field (Psychopharmacology, 2024)

Characterization of the ZCTs, a subgroup of Cys2-His2 zinc finger transcription factors regulating alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus - Krystyna K. F. Traverse; Samuel Breselge; Juliet G. Trautman; Amanda Dee; Jie Wang; Kevin L. Childs; Carolyn W. T. Lee-Parsons (Plant Cell Reports, 2024)
Key Message The C. roseus ZCTs are jasmonate-responsive, can be induced by CrMYC2a, and can act as significant regulators of the terpenoid indole alkaloid pathway when highly expressed. Abstract Catharanthus roseus is the sole known producer of the anti-cancer terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs), vinblastine and vincristine. While the enzymatic steps of the pathway have been elucidated, an understanding of its regulation is still emerging. The present study characterizes an important subgroup of Cys2-His2 zinc finger transcription factors known as Z inc finger Catharanthus T ranscription factors (ZCTs) . We identified three new ZCT members (named ZCT4, ZCT5, and ZCT6) that clustered with the putative repressors of the TIA pathway, ZCT1, ZCT2, and ZCT3. We characterized the role of these six ZCTs as potential redundant regulators of the TIA pathway, and their tissue-specific and jasmonate-responsive expression. These ZCTs share high sequence conservation in their two Cys2-His2 zinc finger domains but differ in the spacer length and sequence between these zinc fingers. The transient overexpression of ZCTs in seedlings significantly repressed the promoters of the terpenoid ( pLAMT ) and condensation branch ( pSTR1 ) of the TIA pathway, consistent with that previously reported for ZCT1, ZCT2, and ZCT3. In addition, ZCTs significantly repressed and indirectly activated several promoters of the vindoline pathway (not previously studied). The ZCTs differed in their tissue-specific expression but similarly increased with jasmonate in a dosage-dependent manner (except for ZCT5 ). We showed significant activation of the pZCT1 and pZCT3 promoters by the de-repressed CrMYC2a, suggesting that the jasmonate-responsive expression of the ZCTs can be mediated by CrMYC2a. In summary, the C. roseus ZCTs are jasmonate-responsive, can be induced by CrMYC2a, and can act as significant regulators of the TIA pathway when highly expressed.

The invasive Bedellia somnulentella (Lepidoptera: Bedelliidae): new record of host plant, predator and biome in Brazil - Rodrigo Almeida Pinheiro; Maria Jéssica dos Santos Cabral; Samuel Cunha Oliveira Giordani; Marcos Magalhães de Souza; Philipe Guilherme Corcino Souza; José Cola Zanuncio; José Barbosa dos Santos; Marcus Alvarenga Soares (Phytoparasitica, 2024)

Dosimetric comparison of proton therapy and CyberKnife in stereotactic body radiation therapy for liver cancers - Samuel Shyllon; Scott Penfold; Ray Dalfsen; Elsebe Kirkness; Ben Hug; Pejman Rowshanfarzad; Peter Devlin; Colin Tang; Hien Le; Peter Gorayski; Garry Grogan; Rachel Kearvell; et al. (Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 2024)
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has been increasingly used for the ablation of liver tumours. CyberKnife and proton beam therapy (PBT) are two advanced treatment technologies suitable to deliver SBRT with high dose conformity and steep dose gradients. However, there is very limited data comparing the dosimetric characteristics of CyberKnife to PBT for liver SBRT. PBT and CyberKnife plans were retrospectively generated using 4DCT datasets of ten patients who were previously treated for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, N = 5) and liver metastasis ( N = 5). Dose volume histogram data was assessed and compared against selected criteria; given a dose prescription of 54 Gy in 3 fractions for liver metastases and 45 Gy in 3 fractions for HCC, with previously published consensus-based normal tissue dose constraints. Comparison of evaluation parameters showed a statistically significant difference for target volume coverage and liver, lungs and spinal cord ( p < 0.05) dose, while chest wall and skin did not indicate a significant difference between the two modalities. A number of optimal normal tissue constraints was violated by both the CyberKnife and proton plans for the same patients due to proximity of tumour to chest wall. PBT resulted in greater organ sparing, the extent of which was mainly dependent on tumour location. Tumours located on the liver periphery experienced the largest increase in organ sparing. Organ sparing for CyberKnife was comparable with PBT for small target volumes.

An unusually large ‘suspension-feeding’ fish from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Dorset: the first true record of Asthenocormus (Pachycormiformes: Asthenocorminae) in the UK - Samuel L. A. Cooper; Erin E. Maxwell; David M. Martill (PalZ, 2024)
A partial caudal fin of a large-bodied asthenocormine pachycormiform (Pachycormiformes: Pachycormidae: Asthenocorminae) is described from the Upper Jurassic (lower Tithonian) Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Dorset, England. The specimen comprises associated fin rays, basal fulcra, ‘epurals’ and paired pre-caudal scutes, the combination and morphology of which is consistent with the large (2–3 m TL) edentulous, supposedly ‘suspension-feeding’ asthenocormine, Asthenocormus titanius (Wagner), presently known only from the Upper Jurassic plattenkalks of Bavaria, Germany. Asthenocormus has previously been documented in the literature as being present in the Middle and Upper Jurassic of England, however all of these specimens have been misattributed or since referred to different genera. However, the specimen from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation is here referred with confidence to Asthenocormus . Morphological variation in the pre-caudal dorsal scute of the new specimen compared to the Bavarian material suggest that the Kimmeridge Clay specimen likely represents a new species of Asthenocormus , although it is currently too poorly represented to diagnose, and hence we refer the specimen to Asthenocormus cf. titanius . The new specimen represents the first true record of Asthenocormus from the UK, thereby extending its known palaeobiogeographic distribution and further demonstrating faunal similarities between fish assemblage from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Dorset and the Solnhofen-type plattenkalks of southern Germany. Additional comments are also made on the hidden diversity of pachycormid fishes in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation.

Pheretimoid earthworms of India: new insight from molecular systematics and phylogenetic relationship with new records - Nalini Tiwari; Samuel W. James; Shweta Yadav (Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 2024)

Cattleya attenboroughiana (Orchidaceae: Laeliinae): a new species from the Diamantina Plateau, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Euler L. F. Menezes; Samuel C. O. Giordani; Rodrigo A. Pinheiro; Paulo M. Gonella (Kew Bulletin, 2024)

Shoot and Root Decomposition from Different Cropping Systems Under Semiarid Mediterranean Conditions - Irene Martín-Brull; Carlos Cantero-Martínez; Samuel Franco-Luesma; Victoria Lafuente; Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2024)
Improving the management of crop residues is essential for water and soil conservation and for increasing soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) levels in dryland agroecosystems. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the decomposition dynamics and C and N released from crop residues from different cropping systems under semiarid Mediterranean conditions. A litterbag experiment was conducted from July of 2020 to June of 2021 to examine the shoot and root decomposition dynamics of different cropping systems; the following systems were selected: V(B), vetch ( Vicia sativa ) residue decomposition in a barley crop; B(V), barley ( Hordeum vulgare L .) residue decomposition in a vetch crop; P(B), pea ( Pisum sativum ) residue decomposition in a barley crop; B(P), barley residue decomposition in a pea crop; and B(B), barley residue decomposition in a barley crop. After 48 weeks of decomposition, a 45% and 60% of residues mass remaining (MR) was found corresponding to vetch and pea shoot residues respectively, whilst barley MR ranged 77–87% depending on the cropping system. In root residues, the mass decay from legume residues (40–45%) was higher compared to barley residues (17–29%). Exponential decay and linear models explained the residue decomposition observed in our study conditions. Residues C to N ratio and edaphoclimatic conditions played a major role controlling the decomposition. Residue decomposition and C and N release dynamics from different crop residues need to be considered for a transition to more sustainable agroecosystems under Mediterranean semiarid conditions.

Forecasting the future of Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in India using ecological niche model - Ashok Karuppannasamy; Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag; Geethalakshmi Vellingiri; John Samuel Kennedy; Patil Santosh Ganapati; Sevgan Subramanian; Balasubramani Venkatasamy (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2024)

Importance, etiology and management of the bacterial black spot disease of mango - Joseph Okani Honger; Raphael Ofoe; Samuel Osabutey; Abraham Anartey Abbey (Indian Phytopathology, 2024)

Effects of organic selenium-containing diets on Penaeus vannamei molecular response under induced heat stress challenge - Medhat R. Elfadadny; Samuel M. Mwamburi; Hidehiro Kondo; Ikuo Hirono (Fisheries Science, 2024)

Recent Development in Nanoparticle-Assisted Microbial Fuel Cell for Enhanced Reduction of Chromium - G. Vijay Samuel; Nibedita Dey; R. Govindarajan; Kuppusamy Sathishkumar; Muthusamy Govarthanan; J. Sakthidasan; J. Sandhya; Lakshmi Sundeep (Current Microbiology, 2024)

On the suitability of a convolutional neural network based RCM-emulator for fine spatio-temporal precipitation - Antoine Doury; Samuel Somot; Sebastien Gadat (Climate Dynamics, 2024)
High resolution regional climate models (RCM) are necessary to capture local precipitation but are too expensive to fully explore the uncertainties associated with future projections. To resolve the large cost of RCMs, Doury et al. (2023) proposed a neural network based RCM-emulator for the near-surface temperature, at a daily and 12 km-resolution. It uses existing RCM simulations to learn the relationship between low-resolution predictors and high resolution surface variables. When trained the emulator can be applied to any low resolution simulation to produce ensembles of high resolution emulated simulations. This study assesses the suitability of applying the RCM-emulator for precipitation thanks to a novel asymmetric loss function to reproduce the entire precipitation distribution over any grid point. Under a perfect conditions framework, the resulting emulator shows striking ability to reproduce the RCM original series with an excellent spatio-temporal correlation. In particular, a very good behaviour is obtained for the two tails of the distribution, measured by the number of dry days and the 99th quantile. Moreover, it creates consistent precipitation objects even if the highest frequency details are missed. The emulator quality holds for all simulations of the same RCM, with any driving GCM, ensuring transferability of the tool to GCMs never downscaled by the RCM. A first showcase of downscaling GCM simulations showed that the RCM-emulator brings significant added-value with respect to the GCM as it produces the correct high resolution spatial structure and heavy precipitation intensity. Nevertheless, further work is needed to establish a relevant evaluation framework for GCM applications.

Human norovirus in Brazil: an update of reports in different settings - João Gabriel dos Santos Oliveira; Antônio Samuel da Silva Costa; Igor Vincenzi Ferreira; Mateus de Oliveira Carvalho; Jones Anderson Monteiro Siqueira; Caio Augusto Martins Aires (Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 2024)

Nitrogen-based fertilizers differentially affect protist community composition in paddy field soils - Seda Ozer Bodur; Solomon Oloruntoba Samuel; Kazuki Suzuki; Naoki Harada; Rasit Asiloglu (Soil Ecology Letters, 2024)

Comparing Supervised and Semi-supervised Machine Learning Methods for Mapping Aquatic Weeds, as Biomass Resource from High-Resolution UAV Images - Clement Nyamekye; Linda Boamah Appiah; Richard Arthur; Gabriel Osei; Samuel Anim Ofosu; Samuel Kwofie; Benjamin Ghansah; Dieter Bryniok (Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, 2024)

Sea Grant’s Community Engaged Internship: expanding participation and cultivating belonging in coastal and ocean sciences - Mona Behl; Jane Harrison; Maya Walton; Catherine Riseng; Deidre M. Peroff; Hallee Meltzer; Emily Maung-Douglass; Susan Lovelace; Samuel J. Lake; Maddie Kennedy; Sarah Kolesar; Davin Holen; et al. (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2024)

Identifying remnant biodiversity hotspots in Southern Asia reveals disequilibrium in mammalian communities - Caroline Charão Sartor; Zaneta Kaszta; Jan Kamler; Andrew J. Hearn; Eric Ash; Gilmoore Bolongon; Özgün Emre Can; Phan Channa; Susan Cheyne; Amy Fitzmaurice; Iding Achmad Haidir; Pyae Phyoe Kyaw; et al. (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2024)
Identification of highly biodiverse areas has become a crucial step in protecting species richness, especially considering the rapid collapse of biodiversity and the limited funds available to avert, far less to reverse, these trends. Therefore, we aimed to identify the most important areas for the conservation of specified mammalian groups in Southern Asia, a region rich in biodiversity hotspots threatened by increasing rates of habitat loss and other anthropogenic activities. To achieve this, we modelled the occupancy of ungulates and of small, medium and large carnivorans at 20 study sites across the region and identified hotspots of species richness. We analysed the variation of estimated space use between different species groups and ranked areas according to their predicted importance for mammalian species conservation. Our results reveal a significant positive correlation in the spatial utilization patterns of competitive carnivores, yet no correlation among carnivores and their prey species, suggesting that anthropogenic impacts in the region are constraining species to coexist in only the few remaining suitable areas, superseding interactions between species guilds. Although the rank of site importance varied amongst species groups, we were able to identify a consensus on sites that are crucial for the conservation of all groups considered. Most of these top-ranking sites were located in the peninsular region of Thailand. We argue that, of the areas assessed, these sites represent the most important refuges for species conservation in the region, and their protection is critical for the maintenance of the biodiversity in Southern Asia.

Inorganic geochemistry of Paleogene strata in the N’kapa Formation of the western Douala Basin, Cameroon: implications for provenance and tectonic settings - Ligbwah Victor Wotanie; Ngong Roger Ngia; Ndip Edwin Ayuk; Djieto Lordon Anatole; Mokake Fidelis Esue; Ayuk Egbe Samuel; Christopher M. Agyingi (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2024)

Geoinformatics and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in modelling groundwater potential in Obudu Plateau, Southeastern Nigeria Bamenda Massif - Gregory Udie Sikakwe; Andrew Uzondu Onwusulu; Samuel Adebayo Ojo; Henry Ibe Agunanna (Applied Geomatics, 2024)

Geospatial Mapping and Seasonal Profiling of Urinary Schistosomiasis in Ase-Niger River Settlements: A Data-Driven Population-Base Study in Delta State, Nigeria - Edore Edwin Ito; Ayodele Samuel Babalola; Joshua Babalola Balogun; Chinwe Nwadiuto Eze; Florence Onyemachi Nduka; Andy Ogochukwu Egwunyenga (Acta Parasitologica, 2024)

Metazoan Endoparasites of the Gecko Phyllopezus periosus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) Inhabiting the Rock Cliffs of a Waterfall Canyon in the Semi-Arid Region from Northeastern Brazil - José Guilherme Gonçalves-Sousa; Charles de Sousa Silva; Samuel Cardozo Ribeiro; Herivelto Faustino Oliveira; Robson Waldemar Ávila (Acta Parasitologica, 2024)

First Report on the Molecular Detection and Genetic Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii From Donkeys in Kenya - Fredrick O. Obonyo; Ndichu Maingi; Samuel M. Githigia; Kevin O. Ochwedo; Anne A. Owiti; Evans N. Nyaboga (Acta Parasitologica, 2024)

First Molecular Diagnosis of Oestrus ovis (Linnaeus, 1758) Larvae Causing Conjunctival Ophthalmomyiasis in Mexico City, Mexico - Carolina Isabel Olivera-Pérez; Omar Lagunas-Calvo; Vianney Cortés-González; Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa; Luis García-Prieto; Samuel Peña-Ortiz; Luis Alfonso Hernández-Piñamora; Miriam Erandi Reyna-Fabián (Acta Parasitologica, 2024)

A New Isosporan (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Pacific Blue-Tailed Skink, Emoia caeruleocauda (Sauria: Scincidae: Eugongylinae), from Guam, U.S. Territory - Chris T. McAllister; John A. Hnida; Diane Vice; Samuel Fisher; Robert N. Fisher (Acta Parasitologica, 2024)

Recent speciation and adaptation to aridity in the ecologically diverse Pilbara region of Australia enabled the native tobaccos ( Nicotiana ; Solanaceae) to colonize all Australian deserts - Luiz A. Cauz‐Santos; Rosabelle Samuel; Dominik Metschina; Maarten J. M. Christenhusz; Steven Dodsworth; Kingsley W. Dixon; John G. Conran; Ovidiu Paun; Mark W. Chase (Molecular Ecology, 2024)
Over the last 6 million years, the arid Australian Eremaean Zone (EZ) has remained as dry as it is today. A widely accepted hypothesis suggests that the flora and fauna of arid regions were more broadly distributed before aridification began. In Australia, this process started around 20 million years ago (Ma), leading to gradual speciation as the climate became increasingly arid. Here, we use genomic data to investigate the biogeography and timing of divergence of native allotetraploid tobaccos, Nicotiana section Suaveolentes (Solanaceae). The original allotetraploid migrants from South America were adapted to mesic areas of Australia and recently radiated in the EZ, including in sandy dune fields (only 1.2 Ma old), after developing drought adaptations. Coalescent and maximum likelihood analyses suggest that Nicotiana section Suaveolentes arrived on the continent around 6 Ma, with the ancestors of the Pilbara (Western Australian) lineages radiating there at the onset of extreme aridity 5 Ma by locally adapting to these various ancient, highly stable habitats. The Pilbara thus served as both a mesic refugium and cradle for adaptations to harsher conditions, due to its high topographical diversity, providing microhabitats with varying moisture levels and its proximity to the ocean, which buffers against extreme aridity. This enabled species like Nicotiana to survive in mesic refugia and subsequently adapt to more arid conditions. These results demonstrate that initially poorly adapted plant groups can develop novel adaptations in situ, permitting extensive and rapid dispersal despite the highly variable and unpredictable extreme conditions of the EZ.

Trait filtering in island floras: A conceptual framework - Julian Schrader; Ian J. Wright; Holger Kreft; Kingsley Dixon; Rachael V. Gallagher; Samuel C. Andrew; Patrick Weigelt; Mark Westoby (Journal of Biogeography, 2024)
Aim Dispersal and environmental filtering processes affect plant species colonisation success on islands and can be identified by functional traits. However, the lack of synthesis about the different methodological approaches in functional ecology hampers generalisation of filtering processes across island systems. Location Seventy islands of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago, Western Australia. Major Taxa Studied Angiosperms. Methods We (i) apply a simple, conceptual framework based on the mean and variability of individual functional traits in plant assemblages to identify species filters on islands, (ii) illustrate how trait distributions of island assemblages change in relation to island area and their source pool, (iii) compare distributions of individual traits to multivariate functional diversity indices and trait spaces and (iv) provide guidelines to detect a signal of trait filtering in island floras. Results The island assemblages showed evidence for selective filters operating on seed mass and marginally on leaf area but not on plant height. Mean and variability of seed mass differed to those of the source pool indicating selective forces operating between source pool and island assemblages, especially on smaller islands. Multivariate functional diversity indices and trait spaces failed to reveal filtering processes acting on the island assemblages and insights into the putative processes. Main Conclusions Using the mean and variability of individual traits in plant assemblages provides direct information on the trait composition of island floras and the processes involved beyond what can be inferred from multivariate functional diversity indices or trait spaces. We used islands as their distinct boundaries and relatively simple sets of species provide good research models, but joint analyses of trait means and variability should also be applicable to understand filtering processes in isolates and habitat fragments on mainlands.

Land use drives the distribution of free, physically protected, and chemically protected soil organic carbon storage at a global scale - Samuel J. Willard; Guopeng Liang; Savannah Adkins; Karen Foley; Jessica Murray; Bonnie Waring (Global Change Biology, 2024)
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is increasingly emphasized as a climate mitigation solution, as scientists, policy makers, and land managers prioritize enhancing belowground C storage. To identify key underlying drivers of total SOC distributions, we compiled a global dataset of soil C stocks held in three chemical forms, reflecting different mechanisms of organic C protection: free particulate organic C (fPOC), physically protected particulate organic C (oPOC), and mineral‐protected soil organic C (mSOC). In our dataset, these three SOC pools were differentially sensitive to the effects of climate, soil mineralogy, and ecosystem type, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing between physical and chemical C protection mechanisms. C stocks in all three pools varied among ecosystems: cropland soils stored the least amount in each pool, with forest and grassland soils both containing significantly more fPOC (40%–60% greater in each ecosystem) than croplands. oPOC stocks did not significantly differ from zero in croplands but were substantial in forest and grassland soils. Meanwhile, mSOC stocks were the greatest in grasslands and shrublands (90%–100% greater than croplands). In cropland soils, there were no major effects of tillage on C storage in any of the three pools, while manure addition enhanced mSOC stocks, especially when added with inorganic N. Thus, the human land use intensity in croplands appears to reduce SOC storage in all major pools, depending upon management; retaining native vegetation should be emphasized to maintain current global SOC stocks.

A grazing crab drives saltmarsh carbon storage and recovery - Serina S. Wittyngham; David Samuel Johnson; Yaping Chen; Matthew L. Kirwan (Ecology, 2024)
Consumers can directly (e.g., consumption) and indirectly (e.g., trophic cascades) influence carbon cycling in blue carbon ecosystems. Previous work found that large grazers have nuanced effects on carbon stocks, yet, small, bioturbating‐grazers, which remove plant biomass and alter sediment properties, remain an understudied driver of carbon cycling. We used field‐derived and remote sensing data to quantify how the purple marsh crab, Sesarma reticulatum , influenced carbon stocks, flux, and recovery in salt marshes. Sesarma caused a 40%–70% loss in carbon stocks as fronts propagated inland (i.e., ungrazed to recovered transition), with front migration rates accelerating over time. Despite latitudinal differences, front migration rate had no effect on carbon stocks, flux, or time to replacement. When we included Sesarma disturbance in carbon flux calculations, we found it may take 5–100 years for marshes to replace lost carbon, if at all. Combined, we show that small grazers cause a net loss in carbon stocks as they move through the landscape, and irrespective of migration rate, these grazer‐driven impacts persist for decades. This work showcases the significant role of consumers in carbon storage and flux, challenging the classic paradigm of plant–sediment feedbacks as the primary ecogeomorphic driver of carbon cycling in blue carbon ecosystems.

Exploring the therapeutic potential of prolinamides as multi-targeted agents for Alzheimer’s disease treatment: molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulation studies - Samuel O. Olalekan; Vincent A. Obakachi; Abosede A. Badeji; Oyesolape B. Akinsipo; Oluwole Familoni; Olayinka T. Asekun; Segun D. Oladipo; Adejoke D. Osinubi (In Silico Pharmacology, 2024)

Population dynamics, reproductive fecundity and predatory performance of Diplonychus indicus - Grace Marin; Subramanian Arivoli; Samuel Tennyson (Biologia, 2024)