Phase shifts can occur in ecosystems because of external stressors. Such transitions from one state (e.g., clear water, seagrass) to another (e.g., phytoplankton blooms, bare substrate) continue to be documented worldwide. In estuaries, stressors related to urban and suburban development are often implicated in phase shifts, including altered hydrology and eutrophication. Tidal creeks may be especially prone to phase shifts as...

Globally, many plant communities are reorganizing in response to climate change, often at different rates than associated fauna. Asynchrony in range expansion between plants and fauna could alter biotic constraints on plant populations. Tropical mangroves are limited by folivory, but little is known about the importance of herbivory on mangroves near distributional range limits in subtropical regions. We hypothesized that herb...

The nature of targets extracted through data-driven mineral prospectivity mapping (DD-MPM) is dependent on geodata annotation. However, geodata annotation is noisy because mineral systems are complex systems and the definition of positivity changes with annotator, jurisdiction and time. Consequently, historically annotated data (HAD), which are the exhaustive collection of labeled samples (sites) that have accumulated over the...

Background and aims Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) supplies much of soybean ( Glycine max (L.) Merr.) nitrogen (N) demand, but reported fixation rates vary widely, leading to uncertainty in the soybean N cycle. We quantified whole-plant soybean BNF and N allocation using long-term 15 N labeling to assess whether BNF can offset grain N removal in a high-yielding system, and to quantify root contributions to fixed N. Methods...

Foliar moisture content (FMC) plays a crucial role in arid, frequent-fire forests by influencing fire behavior, tree survival, and serving as a proxy for tree health. Management actions such as mechanical thinning, flammable fuels reduction, and prescribed fires can act to mitigate wildfire risk and improve forest health by reducing fuel connectivity, diversifying forest structure, and creating canopy gaps. These management ac...

The computational cost of dynamical downscaling limits ensemble sizes in regional downscaling efforts. We present a generative-AI approach to greatly expand the scope of such downscaling, enabling fine-scale future changes to be characterised including rare extremes that cannot be addressed by traditional approaches. We test this approach for New Zealand, where heterogenous regional climate effects are anticipated. End-of-cent...

Aim We aim to reconstruct the phylogeographical history of Musa acuminata subsp. banksii across New Guinea and Australia and to test whether its occurrence in Australia results from ancient natural dispersal or recent human‐mediated translocation. Location New Guinea and northern Australia (Sahul Shelf). Taxon M. acuminata subsp. banksii (F.Muell.) N.W.Simmonds (Musaceae). Methods We generated genome‐wide single nucleotide pol...

Isotope values in fish eye lenses may be useful in differentiating rearing origins. We compared eye lens isotopic values of fall fingerling age‐0 walleye ( Sander vitreus ) reared in a hatchery pond, a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), and a natural lake. Using 10 fish per rearing source, we delaminated layers from one eye lens per fish to assess temporal changes in carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) and pulverized th...

White‐nose syndrome (WNS), caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), ranks among the most devastating wildlife diseases in recent history and is driving severe declines in North American bats. Identifying environmental factors that influence both the severity of population crashes and the potential for population persistence is essential for effective mitigation. We used a long‐term dataset from hibernacula acros...