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Understanding how demographic dynamics interact with environmental heterogeneity is central to explaining patterns of genomic variation in the marine realm. Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops aduncus ) occur along most of the Australian coastline, from tropical to temperate waters, encompassing pronounced differences in temperature, salinity, chlorophyll‐a concentration and ocean currents. Using whole‐genome sequencin...
Mapping Bone Mineral Density Across Sport Modalities in Young Adults: A Scoping ReviewNARA Subscribed
Bone mineral density (BMD) is a key indicator of bone health, influenced by factors like exercise or energy availability. While exercise generally benefits BMD, sports with varied, dynamic movements (team/power-based sports) seem more effective than endurance modalities, characterized by repetitive, cyclic movements with low intensity. Thus, this scoping review aimed to examine and reflect on whole-body, spine, and femoral nec...
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
Principal results of the Portoviejo (Ecuador) seismic microzonation project and importance for seismic hazard mitigationNARA Subscribed
The 2016 Mw7.8 Pedernales earthquake caused extensive damage along the central Ecuadorian coastline, resulting in 661 casualties, 4859 injured and the collapse of numerous buildings. The city of Portoviejo (Ecuador), located 140 km from the epicenter, was one of the most severely impacted municipalities with approximately 10% of its buildings damaged and 40 reinforced concrete buildings in the city center collapsed. A seismic...
Tropical Land‐Use Change Disrupts Zeta‐Diversity Across TaxaNARA Subscribed
Land‐use change causes community turnover via local extinction and colonisation of species, driving biotic homogenization or heterogenization at larger spatial scales. Quantification of these processes has focused on beta‐diversity metrics, which upweight rarity and overlook the role of widespread species. A key knowledge gap is understanding the impact of land‐use change on both rare and widespread species—zeta‐diversity—allo...
Avian biodiversity losses from grazing of high Andean páramoNARA Subscribed
The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National ParkNARA Subscribed
Documenting patterns of spatiotemporal change in hyper‐diverse communities remains a challenge for tropical ecology yet is increasingly urgent as some long‐term studies have shown major declines in bird communities in undisturbed sites. In 1982, Terborgh et al. quantified the structure and organisation of the bird community in a 97‐ha. plot in southeastern Peru. We revisited the same plot in 2018 using the same methodologies a...
Rock n' Seeds: A database of seed functional traits and germination experiments from Brazilian rock outcrop vegetationNARA Subscribed
Advancing functional ecology depends fundamentally on the availability of data on reproductive traits, including those from tropical plants, which have been historically underrepresented in global trait databases. Although some valuable databases have been created recently, they are mainly restricted to temperate areas and vegetative traits such as leaf and wood traits. Here, we present Rock n' Seeds, a database of seed functi...
Habitat conversion is a major driver of tropical biodiversity loss, but its effects are poorly understood in montane environments. While community‐level responses to habitat loss display strong elevational dependencies, it is unclear whether these arise via elevational turnover in community composition and interspecific differences in sensitivity or elevational variation in environmental conditions and proximity to thermal thr...