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Dune Russet (COTX08063-2Ru) is the first French fry russet potato cultivar released by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program. It derives from a cross made by the Colorado State University Potato Program between Premier Russet and A99073-1 and was subsequently selected and advanced by the Texas Program. Dune Russet has oblong potato tubers with light russet skin texture and white flesh. It is characterized by having excellent F...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of speci...
Increased CH 4 Oxidation in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems Caused by Vegetation‐Mediated Soil DryingNARA Subscribed
Arctic tundra soils can act as an important sink for atmospheric methane (CH 4 ). However, the role and magnitude of this process, and how it will change during future climate scenarios, are poorly understood. The vegetation is changing with a warmer Arctic climate, with taller plants, more shrubs, and altered vegetation patterns. These changes are predicted to be strongest in moist to wet regions, areas usually associated wit...
Is Antarctica Greening?NARA Subscribed
Earth's polar regions are experiencing significant climate change, impacting global oceanographic and weather patterns. Arctic “greening” is well studied, but a debate has emerged about whether similar trends are occurring in Antarctica and whether and how remote sensing can assess them. Recent studies have introduced a concept of “greening” in Antarctica, framed primarily around moss cover expansion over bare ground. This int...
Contribution of disease to Australian sea lion ( Neophoca cinerea ) pup mortality at Seal Bay, Kangaroo Island, 2016–2022NARA Subscribed
The endangered Australian sea lion ( Neophoca cinerea ) population is declining, and its conservation is threatened by the species' low fecundity and high pup mortality. This study details reasons for pup deaths and quantifies the impacts of disease and comorbidity. Of 284 dead pups reported from five breeding seasons (2016–2022) at the Seal Bay colony, Kangaroo Island, gross necropsy was conducted on 122, with fecal analysis...
Changes in temperature and precipitation are already influencing US forests and that will continue in the future even as we mitigate climate change. Using spatiotemporally matched data for mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP), we used simulated annealing to estimate critical thresholds for changes in the growth and survival of roughly 150 tree species (153 spp. for growth, 159 spp. for survival) ac...
Habitat conditions and not moss composition mediate microbial community structure in Swiss peatlandsNARA Subscribed
Peatlands, one of the oldest ecosystems, globally store significant amounts of carbon and freshwater. However, they are under severe threat from human activities, leading to changes in water, nutrient and temperature regimes in these delicate systems. Such shifts can trigger a substantial carbon flux into the atmosphere and diminish the water‐holding capacity of peatlands. Microbes associated with moss in peatlands play a cruc...
A global analysis of field body temperatures of active squamates in relation to climate and behaviourNARA Subscribed
Aim Squamate fitness is affected by body temperature, which in turn is influenced by environmental temperatures and, in many species, by exposure to solar radiation. The biophysical drivers of body temperature have been widely studied, but we lack an integrative synthesis of actual body temperatures experienced in the field, and their relationships to environmental temperatures, across phylogeny, behaviour and climate. Locatio...
Characterizing Australia's east coast cyclones (1950–2019)NARA Subscribed
East coast cyclones (ECCs) provide an essential reprieve from dry periods across eastern Australia. They also deliver flood‐producing rains with significant economic, social and environmental impacts. Assessing and comparing the influence of different types of cyclones is hindered by an incomplete understanding of ECC typology, given their widely variable spatial and temporal characteristics. This study employs a track‐cluster...
Six kinematic parameters are needed to fully describe three-dimensional (3D) bone motion at a joint. At the knee, the relative movements of the femur and tibia are often represented by a 1-degree-of-freedom (1-DOF) model with a single flexion–extension axis or a 2-DOF model comprising a flexion–extension axis and an internal–external rotation axis. The primary aim of this study was to determine the accuracy with which 1-DOF an...
SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID ‐19 pandemicNARA Subscribed
Managing wildlife populations in the face of global change requires regular data on the abundance and distribution of wild animals, but acquiring these over appropriate spatial scales in a sustainable way has proven challenging. Here we present the data from Snapshot USA 2020, a second annual national mammal survey of the USA. This project involved 152 scientists setting camera traps in a standardized protocol at 1485 location...