Background and aims Insect frass, a by-product of insect farming, consists of larval faeces, insect remains, and residual feed. It contains agronomically important nutrients and diverse microbiota, making it a promising organic fertiliser. However, its utilisation as fertiliser has only been tested for few frass types from different feed materials, with little attention to their influence on soil microbiota or application mode...

Subterranean estuaries (STEs) are key bioreactors regulating the quantity and chemical composition of groundwater‐derived nitrogen (N) reaching coastal ecosystems. Yet, the microbial controls on N‐cycling within these groundwater–seawater mixing zones remain poorly understood. We investigated the spatio‐temporal variations in microbial communities and their N‐cycling potential within an alluvial Mediterranean STE with high N c...

Hybridization among cetaceans has been documented across multiple species. Within the Balaenopteridae family, most documented cases involve blue and fin whales, raising concerns about impacts on species recovery, particularly that of the highly endangered blue whale. Here, we examined baleen morphology, migratory phenology, distribution, and stable isotope profiles along baleen plates of five fin whales, two blue whales, and t...

Scleractinian corals exhibit wide intra‐specific phenotypic variations. However, the extent to which these variations are explained by genotypic variation or phenotypic plasticity remains unclear. To elucidate this question, we devised a replicated experiment in which nine Montipora capitata coral colonies were cut into six pieces each, three of which were placed in shaded conditions (with a 73% reduction in light intensity) w...

The concepts of “climate change worry” and “climate change anxiety” are often used interchangeably in climate research, but they may reflect distinct emotional responses to climate change, which could potentially have different implications for public mental health. This research brief aims to empirically examine the differences between these two constructs by comparing their associations with key indicators of subjective well...

The lack of energy balance closure in Eddy‐Covariance (EC) measurements is a well‐known, still unresolved challenge in micrometeorology, with energy balance closure (EBC) rates typically ranging between 60% and 80%. While numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain this imbalance, the relative contributions of neglected energy storage terms, data quality and flux processing options remain insufficiently disentangled. Usi...

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident released radionuclides directly into the ocean as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. This material has been transported across the Pacific Ocean and detected in the northeastern Pacific. We began a surface ocean 129 I monitoring program a few months after this disaster in June 2011, with samples from Scripps Pier, La Jolla, California, USA, with the...

Terrestrial and marine species are exhibiting distributional shifts due to climate change and resource availability. As food webs are impacted, some species have moved into areas of increased human activity, encountering anthropogenic hazards. A coastal marine species that undertakes a long migration between breeding and foraging ranges, the Eastern North Pacific (ENP) population of gray whales ( Eschrichtius robustus ) is esp...

Extreme sea levels along the Mexican coasts pose an increasing risk to coastal infrastructure and communities, particularly under the combined influence of tropical cyclones and ongoing sea-level rise. This study analyzes tide-gauge records from the Mexican Pacific and Gulf of Mexico–Caribbean coasts to characterize the statistical behavior and seasonal modulation of extreme sea-level residuals. Astronomical tides were removed...

Species distributed across heterogeneous environments often evolve locally adapted populations, but understanding how these persist in the presence of homogenizing gene flow remains puzzling. In Gabon, Anopheles coluzzii, a major African malaria mosquito, is found in various ecological settings, including urban areas, remote rural villages, and forested environments away from any human presence. This study investigates the gen...

Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a widely recognized pathway for nutrient transport to coastal systems. Prior studies overlook the unique biogeochemical signatures of different SGD pathways, neglecting their differences in biogeochemical transformations and spatiotemporal factors. Here, we present an integrated assessment of nutrient delivery through three SGD pathways (fresh SGD, long‐scale recirculated SGD, and short...

Forest plantations cover large areas globally, but their climate benefits remain unclear, hampering projections of the future land carbon (C) sink. Here, we combined an unprecedented 14‐years series of eddy‐covariance CO 2 fluxes (net ecosystem productivity, NEP) with biometric measurements to explore C balance in a commercial Eucalyptus plantation in Brazil across three rotations. The plantation exhibited a 14‐year average an...