Agroforestry systems help address global challenges by supporting biodiversity, rural livelihoods, and climate change adaptation. While Arabica coffee ( Coffea arabica L.) is traditionally grown in agroforestry systems, full-sun plantations have been promoted too, fueling the debate over optimal shade tree integration for coffee production. The present study assessed coffee yields in relation to canopy cover and carbon stocks...

Magnetosomes do not only serve magnetotactic bacteria as geomagnetic field sensors but also represent a novel class of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with unprecedented material properties. The recent development of genetic engineering techniques for their multifunctionalization now has turned magnetosomes into a versatile ‘click-able’ platform for the straightforward generation of magnetic nanoparticles tailored for specif...

Across the world’s oceans, our knowledge of the habitats on the seabed is limited. Increasingly, video/imagery data from remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) and towed and drop cameras, deployed from vessels, are providing critical new information to map unexplored benthic (seabed) habitats. However, these vessel-based surveys involve considerable time and personnel, are costly, require favorable weather conditions, an...

N -Methyl- D -aspartate receptors (NMDARs) composed of different splice variants display distinct pH sensitivities and are crucial for learning and memory, as well as for inflammatory or injury processes. Dysregulation of the NMDAR has been linked to diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. The development of selective receptor modulators, therefore, constitutes a promising approach for numero...

Combining photogrammetric reconstruction (close-range photogrammetry, CRP) and airborne photogrammetry through the structure from motion method (SFM) with terrestrial three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning (TLS), Maelstrom Cave on Big Island, Hawaii (USA), was mapped in three dimensions. The complementary properties of the two methods generated an overall model that depicted significant features of the cave both spatially and v...

Globally, the bycatch of marine mammals in fisheries represents the greatest source of human-caused mortality that threatens the sustainability of many populations and species. The Australian sea lion ( Neophoca cinerea ) is an endangered species, whose populations off South Australia (SA) have been subject to bycatch in a demersal gillnet fishery targeting sharks since the 1960s. A comprehensive assessment was undertaken of s...

The Mozambique Channel region in East Africa has diverse marine ecosystems and serves as a migratory corridor for economically important species. Local and foreign industrial fisheries operate in the Mozambique Channel, but regional small-scale fisheries are the crucially important fisheries that provide food security, livelihoods, and economic opportunities for rural coastal communities. This study reconstructed and investiga...