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Cu-based pesticides are widely used in vineyards to control fungal diseases, but their repeated application leads to Cu accumulation in soils, posing environmental and ecological risks. Since Cu mobility, bioavailability, and potential toxicity depend not only on total concentrations but also on chemical fractionation and ageing processes, this study investigated Cu speciation—including water-soluble Cu (Cu W ), exchangeable C...
Are functional traits of host fish good predictors of parasite species composition in a tropical middle American stream?NARA Subscribed
Host functional traits are widely used to explain patterns of parasite diversity and community structure; however, their predictive power in species‐rich Neotropical freshwater systems remains poorly understood. We examined whether host traits predict helminth parasite community composition in the Lacantún River (southern Mexico), using presence/absence data for 74 helminth genera recorded from 58 fish species. We evaluated a...
Radon is an established lung carcinogen, but more research is needed to inform whether area-based measures of radon exposure reflect underlying cancer risk. This study, the first of its kind in the UK, aimed to investigate the association between a nationwide indicative radon atlas and lung cancer risk in Northern Ireland, a region in which lung cancer screening programmes are under design. A population-based case–control stud...
Key factors of the deranged antiviral response in elderly patients with COVID-19: a machine-learning analysisNARA Subscribed
Age is a well-known risk factor to develop severe viral respiratory infections, including severe COVID-19. This study aimed to identify the biological alterations linked to severe disease in elderly patients with COVID-19. For this purpose, we employed a derivation cohort with 450 SARS-CoV-2 infected and unvaccinated patients admitted to hospital wards and a validation cohort with 244 SARS-CoV-2 infected and unvaccinated patie...
Quiet Signals of Burmeister's Porpoises ( Phocoena spinipinnis ) Recorded in Chile and PeruNARA Subscribed
Burmeister's porpoises are cryptic and challenging to detect visually. More information on their acoustic signals could facilitate the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and help to better understand their ecology. Here, clicks were recorded from two different Burmeister's porpoise populations, one in Chile and the other in Peru, using a 4‐channel hydrophone array and a single‐channel hydrophone recorder. Burmeister's po...
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...
Subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructural integrity in community-dwelling middle-aged menNARA Subscribed
Concerns about memory often increase with age and have been suggested as a precursor to impending memory impairment or dementia. However, subjective memory concern (SMC) has also been shown to reflect an individual’s trait-like tendency to worry about memory, which is more strongly linked to negative affect than to objective memory performance. Despite behavioral evidence supporting a trait-like dimension of SMC, its neuroanat...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...