Aim The widely observed positive response of productivity to biodiversity, known as the biodiversity‐productivity relationship (BPR), underpins nature‐based solutions for mitigating and adapting to global changes. Little is known of the role of such emergent processes in the restoration of damaged ecosystems. Here, we test for evidence of a BPR in degraded freshwater lakes, and its role in underpinning or undermining lake reco...

There is growing evidence that extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a functional role in tissue repair and anti-aging by transferring the contents of donor cells to recipient cells. We hypothesized that Dauer ( C. elegans ), known as “ageless” nematodes, can also secrete extracellular vesicles and influence the lifespan of C. elegans . Here, we isolated EVs of dauer larvae (dauer EVs). Dauer EVs were characterized using transmiss...

Automatic identification systems (AIS) provides massive ship trajectory data for maritime traffic management, route planning, and other research. In order to explore the valuable ship traffic characteristics contained implicitly in massive AIS data, a ship trajectory clustering method based on ship trajectory resampling and enhanced BIRCH (Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies) algorithm is proposed. The...