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Purpose To determine if the developed Know Your Risk (KYR) intervention is similar to conventional genetic counseling; we evaluated participants’ knowledge of cancer genetics, breast cancer risk perception, attitudes about genetic counseling and testing, and satisfaction with genetic counseling. Methods Women ( n = 866) who screened at elevated risk for breast cancer were randomized to the KYR intervention or conventional gene...
This study evaluated the effects of dietary astaxanthin on sperm quality and physiological indicators of pubertal male Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758). Fish (32.42 ± 0.51 g) were allocated to 16 tanks in recirculating aquaculture system (220 L; 5 fish tank −1 ), with four replicate tanks per dietary treatment, and fed for 45 days with diets containing 0, 50, 100, and 150 mg kg −1 astaxanthin derived from m...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor 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 speci...
Phosphorus and base cations drive contrasting root dynamics in a central Amazon forestNARA Subscribed
Background and aims In highly weathered soils of central Amazonia, where nutrients such as phosphorus (P) and base cations are scarce, fertilization experiments have demonstrated above- and belowground effects on total net primary productivity (NPP). This study examined how fine root stocks and turnover responded to added nutrients over a two-year period. We predicted that adding a limiting nutrient would decrease fine root st...
Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and noninvasive monitoring techniques that can gather large amounts of data cost‐effectively at various ecological scales, from local to large spatial scales. These data can then be analyzed to inform stakeholders and decision‐makers. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic identification of animal sp...
Assigning Phenologically Asynchronous Moths to Source Populations Using Individual GenotypesNARA Subscribed
The spruce budworm ( Choristoneura fumiferana ; SBW) is a periodically outbreaking forest insect pest that affects the boreal forests of North America through extensive defoliation and tree mortality. Causes of widespread spatial synchrony of SBW outbreaks remain a key question in the ecology and management of this species. While the Moran effect (correlated favourable environmental conditions) and density‐dependent dispersal...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
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...
Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that dominated one of the central crossroads of the Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and the Levant with northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria, as well as the interior with the Mediterranean coast. However, by the early Iron Age, the site had shrunk to a small rural settlement. Later, in the Iron Age III / Persian-Hellenistic, only enigmatic pits and a...
CamTrapAsia : A dataset of tropical forest vertebrate communities from 239 camera trapping studiesNARA Subscribed
Information on tropical Asian vertebrates has traditionally been sparse, particularly when it comes to cryptic species inhabiting the dense forests of the region. Vertebrate populations are declining globally due to land‐use change and hunting, the latter frequently referred as “defaunation.” This is especially true in tropical Asia where there is extensive land‐use change and high human densities. Robust monitoring requires t...