Extreme climatic events are increasing in frequency and intensity in the sub-arctic, a rapidly warming region crucial to global carbon–climate feedbacks. Ecosystem carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) fluxes can be greatly impacted by extreme events through both immediate and long-term legacy effects. As event intervals shorten, new extremes may coincide with incomplete recovery from previous ones; yet the consequences of multiple events re...

Interannual fluctuations in the abundance of young‐of‐the‐year (YOY) European perch ( Perca fluviatilis ) were studied in two large French peri‐alpine lakes using a 12‐year dataset of late summer hydroacoustic surveys. Previous research has highlighted the importance of temperature. However, these studies often considered only monthly or seasonal averages. We analysed 12 years of data at the ecosystem level to identify the dri...

Neuronal and glial biomarkers like glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1), tau protein, and neurofilament light chain (NfL) in serum are reported to be beneficial in detecting sports-related concussions (SRC) or intracranial trauma sequelae. However, routine blood measurements are invasive, and a non-invasive approach using urine could be advantageous. This prospective study analyzed...

An increasing number of GPS telemetry studies have helped to gain important insights into predator-prey relationships in recent years. However, considerable time and effort is needed to evaluate whether GPS location clusters (GLCs) reflect predation events. To reduce field effort, predictive models are being developed to calculate predator kill intervals, but few studies have attempted to do this for a specific species of prey...

Even after decades of intensive research, assessing rock slope stability remains a challenge. One reason for this is the spatial variability of rock bridges (RBs) related to non-persistent, pre-existing geological structures, especially as the detection of RBs is generally limited to the post-failure period. Thus, the identification and classification of RBs and their inclusion in numerical studies are demanding, yet essential...

Urbanization processes are accompanied by growing global challenges for food systems. Urban actors are increasingly striving to address these challenges through a focus on sustainable diets. However, transforming food systems towards more sustainable diets is challenging and it is unclear what the local scope of action might be. Co-production of knowledge between science and non-science is particularly useful for analysing con...

Citizen science (CS) can foster transformative impact for science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes. To unleash this impact, a clearer understanding of its current status and challenges for its development is needed. Using quantitative indicators developed in a collaborative stakeholder process, our study provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of CS in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Our onl...

Lidar measurements and UAV photogrammetry provide high-resolution point clouds well suited for the investigation of slope deformations. Today, however, the information contained in these point clouds is rarely fully exploited. This study shows three examples of large-scale slope instabilities located in Switzerland, which are actively monitored for reasons of hazard prevention. We used point clouds acquired by terrestrial lase...

Adverse effects of low vitamin D level on mortality and morbidity are controversially discussed. Especially older people are at risk for vitamin D deficiency and therefore exposed to its potentially harmful consequences. A way of measuring differences in the biological age is through DNA methylation age (DNAm age) and its deviation from chronological age, DNAm age acceleration (DNAmAA). We previously reported on an association...

Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species co‐occurring within delimited local areas. This allows species absences to be inferred, information seldom provided by existing global plant datasets. Although many vegetation plots...

The circumarctic ranges of arctic‐alpine plants are thought to have been established in the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene, when the modern arctic tundra was formed in response to climate cooling. Previous findings of range‐wide genetic structure in arctic‐alpine plants have been thought to support this hypothesis, but few studies have explicitly addressed the temporal framework of the genetic structure. Here, we estimated th...