As sea levels continue to rise, coastal non-storm flooding, i.e. flooding which occurs without rainfall or storm induced wave and surge, is becoming a frequent hazard in coastal communities. Despite its growing impact, this type of flooding is often overlooked in flood risk management. Non-storm flooding is characterized in multiple ways in the risk management literature, including as “nuisance flooding”, “high-tide flooding”,...

Hybridization and introgression can have important consequences for the evolution, ecology and epidemiology of pathogenic organisms. We examined the dynamics of hybridization between a trematode parasite of humans, Schistosoma mansoni , and its sister species, S. rodhaini , a rodent parasite, in a natural hybrid zone in western Kenya. Using microsatellite markers, rDNA and mtDNA, we showed that hybrids between the two species...