Piscirickettsia salmonis is the primary bacterial pathogen affecting Chilean salmon farming, resulting in annual economic losses of approximately US$700 million. The limited effectiveness of antibiotics and current vaccines underscores the need to enhance upstream cultivation strategies for producing biomass suitable for vaccine production. In this study, two shake flask designs—baffled (BF) and standard non-baffled (NF)—were...

Aim Understanding how diverse communities respond to environmental fluctuations is a central challenge in ecology. Here, we assessed how communities responded to environmental variation over the past 23 years and evaluated the extent to which these responses can be associated with taxonomic relationships, as well as biological and ecological species traits. Location Central portion of the Humboldt Upwelling Ecosystem, with 22...

Dispersal is one of the main processes shaping ecological communities. Yet, for species‐rich communities in natural systems, the role of dispersal in community assembly remains relatively less studied compared to other processes. This is the case for fungal communities, for which predictable knowledge about where and how the dispersal propagules move across space is largely lacking. We sampled fungal communities at their dispe...

The abundance of juvenile fish changes due to endogenous processes, and determining the functional relationships among conspecifics is essential for fisheries’ management. The hake (Merluccius gayi) is an overexploited demersal fish widely distributed in Chile, from 23°39′ S to 47°00′ S in shallow and deep water over the continental shelf and shelf break. We studied the spatiotemporal distribution of hake juveniles (from ages...