Lakes in urban areas face increasing salinization from the widespread application of road de‐icing salts. Chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) larvae are common bioindicators and important lower‐trophic‐level organisms, but their response to road salt in urban lakes is not well‐characterized. Here, we examine chironomid remains from the surface sediments of 34 urban lakes in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, to characterize communit...

Understanding postglacial ontogeny in Arctic lakes helps contextualize modern‐day climatic change. We used sediment cores to characterize ecological succession in three south‐central Baffin Island lakes from deglaciation (c. 7–8k cal a BP) to present. Trends in diatom (Bacillariophyceae) and chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) assemblages were compared between two small lakes (depth ≤ 12 m, area ≤ 0.04 km 2 ) and the north‐west...

Metastatic disease results from the dissemination of tumor cells beyond their organ of origin to grow in distant organs and is the primary cause of death in patients with advanced breast cancer. Preclinical murine models in which primary tumors spontaneously metastasize are valuable tools for studying metastatic progression and novel cancer treatment combinations. Here, we characterize a novel syngeneic murine breast tumor cel...

The high seas provide a variety of ecosystem services that benefit society. There have, however, been few attempts to quantify the human welfare impacts of changes to the delivery of these benefits. We assessed the values of several key ecosystem service benefits derived from protecting ecosystems in the high seas of the Flemish Cap through choice experiments conducted in Canada, Norway, and Scotland. Rather than solely elicit...