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First photographic evidence of trunk brooding in the southern Australian pipefish Notiocampus ruber (Teleostei, Syngnathidae)NARA Subscribed
Photographic observations from Gamay (Botany Bay), New South Wales, provide the first empirical evidence of ventral trunk brooding in the endemic southern Australian Red Pipefish Notiocampus ruber Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886, a historically understudied species. Syngnathidae is divided into two major clades, trunk‐brooding Nerophinae and tail‐brooding Syngnathinae, a framework supported by molecular phylogenetic studies. The observa...
Relationships between body length and bony structure measures in North American temperate freshwater fishesNARA Subscribed
Stomach content investigations of piscivorous fishes provide resource managers with valuable information concerning diet patterns, community structure and species interactions. Unique bony structures are often used to identify partially digested prey fish, and recent advancements in molecular techniques have provided increased taxonomic resolution of prey fish remains. However, gravimetric and volumetric methods only account f...
Evidence of anthropogenic subsidisation of red foxes in a national park important for breeding wading birdsNARA Subscribed
The red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ) is a generalist mesopredator found throughout the UK. It has been linked to national declines in native wildlife, especially ground-nesting birds such as waders. In the New Forest National Park, nest predation and poor chick survival is primarily responsible for low breeding success of Eurasian curlew ( Numenius arguata ), a species of high conservation concern. To reduce predation losses, foxes a...
Defining an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome: International Consensus StatementNARA Subscribed
Around the world, individuals are living longer, but an increased average lifespan does not always equate to an increased health span. With advancing age, the increased prevalence of ageing-related diseases can have a significant impact on health status, functional capacity and quality of life. It is therefore vital to develop comprehensive classification and staging systems for ageing-related pathologies, diseases and syndrom...
To bridge the knowledge gap between (a) our (instantaneous‐to‐seasonal‐scale) process understanding of plants and water and (b) our projections of long‐term coupled feedbacks between the terrestrial water and carbon cycles, we must uncover what the dominant dynamics are linking fluxes of water and carbon. This study uses the simplest empirical dynamical systems models—two‐dimensional linear models—and observation‐based data fr...
The role of atmospheric humidity in the evolution of endotherms' thermoregulatory performance remains largely unexplored, despite the fact that elevated humidity is known to impede evaporative cooling capacity. Using a phylogenetically informed comparative framework, we tested the hypothesis that pronounced hyperthermia tolerance among birds occupying humid lowlands evolved to reduce the impact of humidity‐impeded scope for ev...
Movement ecology and minimum density estimates of red foxes in wet grassland habitats used by breeding wading birdsNARA Subscribed
The red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ) is a widely distributed generalist meso-predator implicated in declines of wading bird populations. In the wet grassland habitats where waders breed, wildlife managers work to mitigate fox predation risk to waders during the nesting period through lethal and non-lethal control methods. However, limited knowledge on fox movement ecology in these habitats makes it difficult to design effective manag...
Tropical surface temperature response to vegetation cover changes and the role of drylandsNARA Subscribed
Vegetation cover creates competing effects on land surface temperature: it typically cools through enhancing energy dissipation and warms via decreasing surface albedo. Global vegetation has been previously found to overall net cool land surfaces with cooling contributions from temperate and tropical vegetation and warming contributions from boreal vegetation. Recent studies suggest that dryland vegetation across the tropics s...
Foredunes are important features within coastal landscapes, yet there are relatively few medium to long-term studies on how they evolve and change over time. This study of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) foredunes has used 70 years of aerial photographs (or photogrammetry) and recent Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) datasets to assess multi-decadal fluctuations in foredune morphology. It was shown that over the past 70 ye...
Aim We tested the hypothesis that ancient vicariance in giant water scavenger beetles shaped their current distribution. Location Worldwide except Antarctica. Methods We inferred a molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the tribe Hydrophilini using probabilistic methods based on broad geographical and taxonomic sampling. We used fossil‐based molecular dating and likelihood model‐based ancestral range estimation to reconstruct t...
Prioritization of knowledge‐needs to achieve best practices for bottom trawling in relation to seabed habitatsNARA Subscribed
Management and technical approaches that achieve a sustainable level of fish production while at the same time minimizing or limiting the wider ecological effects caused through fishing gear contact with the seabed might be considered to be ‘best practice’. To identify future knowledge‐needs that would help to support a transition towards the adoption of best practices for trawling, a prioritization exercise was undertaken wit...
A multi‐decadal beach survey dataset at a coastal embayment in Sydney, Australia, identifies erosion/accretion cycles coinciding with phase shifts in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). In an attempt to explain the processes governing these cycles, this study explores the interannual variability and controls of the Sydney wave climate using ECMWF ERA‐40 and corrected ERA‐40 (C‐ERA‐40) reanalysis data. Comparisons with wav...
Estuarine shoreline processes in a dynamic low-energy systemNARA Subscribed
Experiments linking nitrogenase gene expression to nitrogen fixation in the North Pacific subtropical gyreNARA Subscribed
We examined diazotroph activity in controlled experiments containing natural populations of nitrogen (N 2 )‐fixing microbes collected offshore from Kane'ohe Bay, Hawai'i, and from Station ALOHA (A Long‐term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment) in the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction and reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction approaches showed that the abundances of the major phylotype...
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