Common bean is a vital legume in both human nutrition and livestock feed. Key agronomic traits, such as plant height (PH) and flowering time (FT), significantly influence yield and physiological adaptation. Our study aimed to investigate the genetic architecture of these traits through a genome-wide association study (GWAS) utilizing a mixed linear model (MLM) in a panel of snap bush beans predominantly of European origin. We...

Aim Ongoing climate changes represent a major determinant of demographic processes in many organisms worldwide. Birds, and especially long‐distance migrants, are particularly sensitive to such changes. To better understand these impacts on long‐distance migrants' breeding productivity, we tested three hypotheses focused on (i) the shape of the relationships with different climate variables, including previously rarely tested q...

Wastewater-based epidemiology has been widely used as a cost-effective method for tracking the COVID-19 pandemic at the community level. Here we describe COVIDBENS, a wastewater surveillance program running from June 2020 to March 2022 in the wastewater treatment plant of Bens in A Coruña (Spain). The main goal of this work was to provide an effective early warning tool based in wastewater epidemiology to help in decision-maki...

The European Union's Natura 2000 (N2000) is among the largest international networks of protected areas. One of its aims is to secure the status of a predetermined set of (targeted) bird and butterfly species. However, nontarget species may also benefit from N2000. We evaluated how the terrestrial component of this network affects the abundance of nontargeted, more common bird and butterfly species based on data from long‐term...

Climate change is a major global threat to biodiversity with widespread impacts on ecological communities. Evidence for beneficial impacts on populations is perceived to be stronger and more plentiful than that for negative impacts, but few studies have investigated this apparent disparity, or how ecological factors affect population responses to climatic change. We examined the strength of the relationship between species-spe...

Social network analysis has been shown to be effective in studying the social structure of cetacean populations. Common bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) inhabiting the Indian River Lagoon ( IRL ), Florida, have among the highest concentrations of total mercury ( TH g) in blood reported worldwide. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between TH g concentrations in IRL dolphins and their social aff...