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Context matters: emotional responses to urban greening interventions depend on city settingNARA Subscribed
Urban green spaces deliver a remarkable range of human health and well-being benefits, and there is substantial, global effort into incorporating urban greening into the design of cities. However, intense competition for space in cities means small interstitial gaps in the urban fabric are being used for many contemporary green spaces, such as planter boxes or raised garden beds. These small urban greening interventions have b...
Discovery of a Potent Small Molecule Antagonist of GRPR for the Treatment of PruritusNARA Subscribed
Persistent pruritus (itch) affects the quality of life, and many itch syndromes remain untreatable. Previously, we identified the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) playing a critical role in mediating histamine-independent itch signaling. In this study, we aimed to identify small-molecule GRPR antagonists to treat histamine-independent itch. Starting with the known small-molecule GRPR antagonist PD 176,252, we conducte...
Biological characterization of a mid‐water salinity maximum intrusion over the Northeast US ShelfNARA Subscribed
Salinity maximum intrusions, subsurface layers of anomalously salty and warm continental slope water moving onto the continental shelf along the thermocline, are recurring features over the Northeast US Shelf and represent an important cross‐shelf exchange mechanism. While their physical characteristics have been described, the biological composition and ecological role of these intrusions remain poorly understood. Here, we co...
Species diversity and competition influence nitrogen resorption efficiency in mixed hardwood plantationsNARA Subscribed
Nutrient dynamics substantially influences forest productivity, yet the influence of competition on these processes in forests is not well understood. Nitrogen is an important limiting nutrient for tree growth, but how canopy nitrogen dynamics are influenced by tree diversity and competition is unclear. Nitrogen-use efficiency is one mechanism suggested to support niche complementarity, promoting increased productivity as dive...
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
Dietary niches of endemic and range-expanding salmonids in the western Canadian ArcticNARA Subscribed
The cumulative effects of climate change are impacting Arctic species and facilitating increased interactions between Arctic and sub-Arctic species. Anadromous Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus and the northern Dolly Varden Salvelinus malma malma are endemic Arctic fishes vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, yet our understanding of the dietary niches they occupy is limited. The recent increased occurrence of sub-Arctic P...
A balanced approach to the potential of octopus aquacultureNARA Subscribed
The Role of Summer Temperature on Aquatic Insect Diversity at Multi‐Decadal Scales Within the HoloceneNARA Subscribed
Future anthropogenic warming is suggested to have major impacts on global biodiversity, with freshwater ecosystems particularly under threat. Understanding the role of temperature in impacting freshwater biodiversity is therefore of paramount importance. Previous research suggested that temperature has a limited influence on freshwater diversity across the Holocene. However, this is mostly based on data resolved at centennial...
Cross‐Continental Analysis Shows That Disturbance Effects on Reptile Body Condition Do Not Predict Abundance ResponsesNARA Subscribed
Ecological disturbances are discrete events that alter or transform the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of ecosystems. Disturbance can cause animal populations to decline and, according to the risk‐disturbance hypothesis and population collapse framework, these declines can be predicted by declines in animal body condition. However, no research has empirically examined the general relationship between body co...
The Random RFPA Method for Modelling Rock FailureNARA Subscribed
The random rock failure process analysis (RRFPA) method was developed in this research to characterize the material spatial variability and uncertainty in rock failure modelling. The random field theory (RFT) was integrated with the traditional rock failure process analysis (RFPA) to model rock heterogeneity. In this approach, the variation of rock properties is represented as a function of relative distance, such that the inf...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
Identification and epidemiological analysis of a putative novel hantavirus in Australian flying foxesNARA Subscribed
In July 2017, an investigation into the cause of neurological signs in a black flying fox ( Pteropus alecto , family Pteropodidae ) identified a putative novel hantavirus (Robina virus, ROBV, order Bunyavirales , family Hantaviridae , genus Mobatvirus ) in its brain. Analysis of the evolutionary relationship between other hantaviruses using maximum-likelihood, a systematic Bayesian clustering approach, and a minimum spanning t...