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Bridging science and action: the Western Water Assessment’s evolution in the provision of climate informationNARA Subscribed
Universities are increasingly becoming centers for activities that bridge the gap between weather and climate information. These activities integrate emerging research with science-informed decision-making to contribute to the development of official climate services. Yet there is relatively little literature describing how they balance the competing demands of stakeholder engagement, academic incentives, and the need for acti...
Background and aims Acute oak decline (AOD), a decline syndrome affecting mature oaks, involves bacterial pathogens which likely act as opportunists under host stress. Trees displaying symptoms (bleeding cankers) appear in localized clusters, not whole stands. This study investigates the potential involvement of local-scale factors, in interaction with large-scale environmental drivers, in influencing onset and progression of...
Risk of extreme climate impacts on European Norway spruce forest: drought and frost in the climate emergencyNARA Subscribed
Shifts in weather patterns causing more severe and frequent climatic extreme events, particularly periods of hot drought and late-spring frost, cause stress and damage to many tree species. Here we use 12 members of the UKCP Regional (12km) ensemble to assess the changing risk of tree stress posed by hot droughts and late-spring frosts. As an exemplar tree species, we use Norway spruce ( Picea abies ) to demonstrate a method t...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
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