Ecosystem engineers influence abiotic and biotic properties of communities. However, environmental factors like stress or energy gradients could modify their influence. Furthermore, engineering effects include legacies that persist after the engineer’s death that may interact with gradients differently than the live engineer. Here, we show that live and legacy effects of the oyster Crassostrea virginica , a reef-building ecosy...

The cerebellar and cerebral cortices are powerfully connected via reciprocal, crossed projections which mediate their coordination in motor, cognitive and affective processes. In the present paper we demonstrate non-invasive imaging of crossed cerebro-cerebellar connectivity by means of wavelet coherence. In a sample of six healthy adult subjects, we recorded EEG and the electro-cerebellogram (ECeG) with a 10% cerebellar exten...

Purpose Continuous distillation is widely used in the commodity and petrochemical industry to purify fine chemicals on massive industrial scales; however, this key separation strategy is largely unused within the pharmaceutical industry. This article investigates the development of a pilot-scale continuous distillation system for in-line removal of an excess amine reactant ( i.e. , tert-butylamine) when incorporated within an...

Evaluating the representation of observed precipitation trends in historical climate model simulations is challenging due to the combined effects of dynamical and thermodynamic changes and the strong influence of natural variability. Here, we assess the representation of long‐term (1901–2023) trends and variability in UK winter mean precipitation, focusing on the separation of dynamical and non‐dynamical components. We apply a...

Respiratory diseases remain a major public health challenge in tropical coastal cities, where persistent heat-humidity interactions and climate variability shape population vulnerability. This study quantified associations between atmospheric conditions and respiratory hospitalizations in Maceió, Brazil, using a 20-years time series (2000–2019). Weekly hospitalization rates stratified by age (children 0–4 years, adults 5–59 ye...

Data obtained from remote sensing of floating kelp canopies are routinely used to assess changes in the distribution, structure and functioning of kelp forests. Such assessments rely on the assumption that changes in surface canopies reflect changes in the structure and functioning of the underlying kelp forests. So far there has been little attempt to validate this assumption, which raises the risk that management decisions p...