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Matching the scales of planning and environmental risk: an evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the western USNARA Subscribed
Theory predicts that effective environmental governance requires that the scales of management account for the scales of environmental processes. A good example is community wildfire protection planning. Plan boundaries that are too narrowly defined may miss sources of wildfire risk originating at larger geographic scales whereas boundaries that are too broadly defined dilute resources. Although the concept of scale (mis)match...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
The global Microcystis interactomeNARA Subscribed
Bacteria play key roles in the function and diversity of aquatic systems, but aside from study of specific bloom systems, little is known about the diversity or biogeography of bacteria associated with harmful cyanobacterial blooms (cyanoHABs). CyanoHAB species are known to shape bacterial community composition and to rely on functions provided by the associated bacteria, leading to the hypothesized cyanoHAB interactome, a coe...
The importance of health co-benefits in macroeconomic assessments of UK Greenhouse Gas emission reduction strategiesNARA Subscribed
We employ a single-country dynamically-recursive Computable General Equilibrium model to make health-focussed macroeconomic assessments of three contingent UK Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation strategies, designed to achieve 2030 emission targets as suggested by the UK Committee on Climate Change. In contrast to previous assessment studies, our main focus is on health co-benefits additional to those from reduced local air pollut...
Complex interactions between the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha , and the harmful phytoplankter, Microcystis aeruginosaNARA Subscribed
We report a reversal in the sign of the herbivore‐phytoplankton interaction between the zebra mussel ( Dreissena polymorpha ) and Microcystis aeruginosa , a harmful planktonic cyanobacterium. A pair of large‐scale manipulations of mussel density in the same lake in consecutive years showed that when phosphorus concentrations were very low (mean total phosphorus [TP] ~ 3 µg L −1 ), the effect of Dreissena on the biomass of M. a...
Dominance of the noxious cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa in low‐nutrient lakes is associated with exotic zebra musselsNARA Subscribed
To examine the hypothesis that invasion by zebra mussels ( Dreissena polymorpha ) promotes phytoplankton dominance by the noxious cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa , 61 Michigan lakes of varying nutrient levels that contain or lack zebra mussels were surveyed during late summer. After accounting for variation in total phosphorus (TP) concentrations, lakes with Dreissena had lower total phytoplankton biomass, as measured by...
A standardized analysis of palaeoecological data, in the form of six pollen sequences and forty‐ four radiocarbon ages, has permitted a region‐wide reconstruction of Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics for the interlacustrine highlands of central Africa. A landscape widely dominated by ericaceous scrub and grasslands, but also supporting sparse patches of open‐canopied montane forest, possibly in those areas with a topography...
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