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Disrupted proprioceptive timing estimates contribute to upper limb motor impairment in chronic strokeNARA Subscribed
In this task, the participants' ( p < 0.01) and variability ( p < 0.01) than controls, indicating impaired proprioceptive timing in a task that did not require active motor output from the tested limb. Larger proprioceptive timing errors were strongly correlated with poor performance on VGR (ρ > 0.57, p < 0.01) and APM in individuals with stroke (ρ > 0.49, p < 0.01). These results suggest that the estimation of timing for dyna...
Effect of Parametric Variation of Chordae Tendineae Structure on Simulated Atrioventricular Valve ClosureNARA Subscribed
Purpose Many approaches have been used to model chordae tendineae geometries in finite element simulations of atrioventricular heart valves. Unfortunately, current “functional" chordae tendineae geometries lack anatomical fidelity (e.g., branching) that would be helpful when informing clinical decisions. The objectives of this work are (i) to improve synthetic chordae tendineae geometric fidelity to consider branching and (ii)...
Including Fitness and Health Proxies Can Alter Our Understanding of Habitat SelectionNARA Subscribed
Habitat selection analyses, which discern the environmental conditions individuals select, often inform conservation planning. Through a literature review, we demonstrate that recent habitat selection studies rarely include fitness and health information. With a simulation study, we show that ignoring such information could support the protection of sink habitats. Our case studies demonstrate how health and fitness proxies can...
Motivation United States federal biomonitoring programs assess the status of freshwater ecosystems using standardised sampling protocols. While most data from these efforts are publicly available, new users face barriers in applying these data appropriately. Here, we introduce unified assemblage databases for fish and macroinvertebrates in rivers and streams from US federal biomonitoring. These are one of the largest single‐so...
A variety of geological processes shape and modify the morphology of volcanic islands over a range of temporal timeframes. Amongst the most conspicuous are aerial and submarine landslides that are frequently observed in both island arc and intra-plate volcanic settings. Identifying and understanding the triggering mechanisms of these landslides is crucial to geohazard mitigation as they pose major threats to coastal communitie...
Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this...
SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multicontributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of specie...
Impacts of Weather Anomalies and Climate on Plant DiseaseNARA Subscribed
Predicting the effects of climate change on plant disease is critical for protecting ecosystems and food production. Here, we show how disease pressure responds to short‐term weather, historical climate and weather anomalies by compiling a global database (4339 plant–disease populations) of disease prevalence in both agricultural and wild plant systems. We hypothesised that weather and climate would play a larger role in disea...
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threatsNARA Subscribed
Aim Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the following research questions: (1) What are the patterns of dominance and rarity in tree...