Ankle and knee injuries are common in court sports such as basketball and tennis, where there is an emphasis on cutting maneuvers and cleats are not a viable footwear solution. Such maneuvers generate substantial lateral ground reaction forces with the potential to overcome native anatomic ankle stability. The goal of this study was to develop a simple criterion that could be applied to assess the design of basketball shoes in...

Movement studies on marine animals can inform conservation and fishery management planning through data that explain likely dispersals and home‐ranging behaviours. Relatively few studies are documented for exploited marine invertebrates, despite many having a high ecological and commercial value. We assessed the diurnal movement patterns of Thelenota ananas and Thelenota anax , the world's largest sea cucumbers, which are high...

As the most widespread seagrass in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere, Zostera marina provides a unique opportunity to investigate the extent to which the historical legacy of the last glacial maximum (LGM18 000–10 000 years bp ) is detectable in modern population genetic structure. We used sequences from the nuclear rDNA–internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and chloroplast mat K‐intron, and nine microsatellite loci to s...

Expert consultation has been used to fill the information gaps that hamper conservation planning and nature reserve design. The use of expert knowledge in conservation planning is difficult, however, because it is subjective, biased, and value‐laden. Decision theory provides a systematic and comprehensive means for addressing experts' subjective—and sometimes contradictory—judgments in the design of nature reserves. Thus, the...