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Stomatal Decoupling From Photosynthesis Under High Temperatures Is Consistent With Stomatal OptimisationNARA Subscribed
Stomatal pores on plant leaves regulate the gain of carbon through photosynthesis and the loss of water through transpiration. Through their responses to environmental conditions, stomata can constrain plant productivity and transpiration fluxes, exerting a strong control on climate feedbacks over land. Although mechanistic modelling of stomata remains a challenge, semi‐empirical and optimisation models have been successfully...
Cross‐Continental Analysis Shows That Disturbance Effects on Reptile Body Condition Do Not Predict Abundance ResponsesNARA Subscribed
Ecological disturbances are discrete events that alter or transform the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of ecosystems. Disturbance can cause animal populations to decline and, according to the risk‐disturbance hypothesis and population collapse framework, these declines can be predicted by declines in animal body condition. However, no research has empirically examined the general relationship between body co...
Remnant kenngoor (Phascogale calura) retain genetic connectivity and genetic diversity in a highly fragmented landscapeNARA Subscribed
Kenngoor ( Phascogale calura ) persist in < 1% of their original distribution, occupying highly fragmented remnant habitat in south-west Western Australia, with very little known of the genetic diversity of the remaining wild populations. Recently, the species has been translocated to managed reserves to improve its conservation. Understanding genetic structure and patterns of genetic diversity is crucial to inform conservatio...
Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authoritiesNARA Subscribed
Aim Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often represent a species' only available distributional information and play an increasing role in conservation assessments and macroecology. We provide global range maps for the native ranges of all extant mammal spec...
Cephalopod remains from stomachs of sperm whales ( Physeter macrocephalus ) that mass‐stranded along the Oregon coastNARA Subscribed
On 16 June 1979, a herd of 41 sperm whales stranded near the mouth of the Siuslaw River in Florence, Oregon. The stomach contents from 32 whales were collected, identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible, enumerated, and measured. A total of 20,247 cephalopod lower beaks that represented 24 species from 14 different families were recovered. The most numerous species were Histioteuthis hoylei (25.9%), Taonius borealis (1...
Cp G inclusion in feed reduces sea lice, L epeophtheirus salmonis , numbers following re‐infectionNARA Subscribed
Lepeophtheirus salmonis infections in Atlantic salmon, S almo salar , have been characterized by little to no hyperplastic response and a biphasic immune response that results in chronic inflammation with tissue repair as the infection progresses. We hypothesized that C p G administration with prior lice exposure would enhance epithelial inflammatory mechanisms and boost the A tlantic salmon immune response to L . salmonis , l...
Simulating forest productivity along a neotropical elevational transect: temperature variation and carbon use efficiencyNARA Subscribed
A better understanding of the mechanisms controlling the magnitude and sign of carbon components in tropical forest ecosystems is important for reliable estimation of this important regional component of the global carbon cycle. We used the JULES vegetation model to simulate all components of the carbon balance at six sites along an Andes‐Amazon transect across Peru and Brazil and compared the results to published field measur...