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Lake sturgeon ( Acipenser fulvescens ) growth and longevity estimated from adult capture–mark–recapture dataNARA Subscribed
Effective fishery management policy depends on accurate life‐history data, particularly for harvested species. Longevity is a core life‐history trait that is directly related to annual survival and lifetime reproductive potential, but fish longevity is generally not well documented, particularly for long‐lived species. We used capture–mark–recapture data spanning 44 years as an alternative method to estimate sex‐specific adult...
The bluntnose sixgill shark ( Hexanchus griseus ) is a deep-water, globally distributed, but data-limited species due to its habitat use and cryptic nature. Its slow growth, long lifespan, and uncertain population status have prompted concern about its vulnerability and resulted in an IUCN Red List status of “Near Threatened.” A lack of information about critical habitat use throughout the species’ life cycle, such as breeding...
Caribbean Creep meets Chesapeake Creep: marine bioinvasions and community shifts along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, USANARA Subscribed
The Mid-Atlantic waters of North America are warming faster than > 90% of other global oceans, leading to significant increases in bottom water temperatures and influencing shifts in marine community structure. Given this modern-day scenario of significant community shifts over space and time, baseline surveys of species diversity are increasingly valuable. Therefore, we performed the first-ever marine bioinvasions Rapid Asses...
The Pragmatic Sceptic: A Practical Approach for Integrating Environmental DNA Into Marine Stock Assessment and Fisheries ManagementNARA Subscribed
The ‘omics revolution’ has advanced scientific understanding of marine ecosystems and led to a rapid increase in data that can inform species' population structure, distribution, and abundance. Of the 'omics data types, environmental DNA (eDNA) may present the most cost‐effective opportunity for developing quantitative estimates of abundance trends, a key input for stock assessment models. However, eDNA has yet to be widely ad...
Herbicides Have Minimal and Variable Effects on the Structure and Function of Bacterial Communities in Agricultural SoilsNARA Subscribed
Synthetic herbicides are relied on for weed management in the United States, and non‐chemical alternatives, such as tillage, can be inefficient and expensive at an agricultural scale. Previous research examining the influence of weed management strategies on soil microbial communities has shown variability and inconsistency in experimental design and results. This study investigates the impact of repeated applications of glyph...
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...
Climate change is a major driver of global biodiversity loss, yet the precise mechanisms linking climate change to population declines remain poorly understood. We developed a novel, broadly applicable framework that integrates biophysical, nutritional, and population modeling to capture fundamental physiological constraints on mammalian herbivores and applied it to investigate the causes of declines in ringtail possums of the...
All the light we cannot see: Climate manipulations leave short and long‐term imprints in spectral reflectance of treesNARA Subscribed
Anthropogenic climate change, particularly changes in temperature and precipitation, affects plants in multiple ways. Because plants respond dynamically to stress and acclimate to changes in growing conditions, diagnosing quantitative plant‐environment relationships is a major challenge. One approach to this problem is to quantify leaf responses using spectral reflectance, which provides rapid, inexpensive, and nondestructive...