Cortical and deep brain topography are core components of undergraduate neuroanatomy teaching and neurosurgical training. Due to the technical challenges associated with dissecting and maintaining preserved brains, deep white matter preparations are often omitted from anatomy curricula. This reduced opportunity for tactile neuroanatomical exploration contributes to surface-level approaches to learning and is associated with po...

Hunting impacts tropical vertebrate populations, causing declines of species that function as seed dispersers and predators, or that browse seedlings and saplings. Whether and how the resulting reductions in seed dispersal, seed predation, and browsing translate to changes in the tree composition is poorly understood. Here, we assess the effect of defaunation on the functional composition of communities of tree recruits in tro...

Damage due to wind‐storms and droughts is increasing in many temperate forests, yet little is known about the long‐term roles of these key climatic factors in forest dynamics and in the carbon budget. The objective of this study was to estimate individual and coupled effects of droughts and wind‐storms on adult tree mortality across a 31‐year period in 115 managed, mixed coniferous forest stands from the Western Alps and the J...