Our study investigated the toxicological effects of aluminum oxide nanoparticles (Al 2 O 3 -NPs) and the potential protective role of dietary nano-curcumin (N-CUR) in juvenile Oreochromis niloticus (30.39 ± 0.05 g) under controlled experimental conditions. It was hypothesized that N-CUR could mitigate the adverse impacts of Al 2 O 3 -NPs on growth, biochemical, oxidative, and histopathological parameters. A total of 180 O. nil...

Aim To reconstruct the colonisation dynamics of silver fir in the Pyrenees during the Holocene using genetic and paleoecological data. Location Abies alba forests in the Pyrenees and Northeastern Iberia. Taxon Silver fir ( Abies alba Mill.). Methods Palaeoecological data from 43 pollen diagrams were used to elucidate the appearance and persistence of silver fir during the Holocene. Additionally, 43 forests were sampled in the...

Bicycle helmets are shown to offer protection against head injuries. Rating methods and test standards are used to evaluate different helmet designs and safety performance. Both strain-based injury criteria obtained from finite element brain injury models and metrics derived from global kinematic responses can be used to evaluate helmet safety performance. Little is known about how different injury models or injury metrics wou...

Genetic association studies in forest trees would greatly benefit from information on the response of trees to environmental stressors over time, which can be provided by dendroecological analysis. Here, we jointly analysed dendroecological and genetic data of surviving silver fir trees to explore the genetic basis of their response to the iconic stress episode of the 1970s and 1980s that led to large‐scale forest dieback in C...

Aim To investigate the impact of past environmental changes on Cedrus atlantica and its current genetic diversity, and to predict its future distribution. Location Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Methods Eleven fossil pollen records from these three countries were used to locate putative glacial refugia and to reconstruct past climate changes. A mechanistic vegetation distribution model was used to simulate the distribution of C...