Dispersal is key to the life history, ecology and evolution of many organisms and important in pest invasiveness. However, the genetic architecture underlying variation in dispersal behaviour remains poorly understood outside of a few model species. We investigated the genomic basis of dispersal using artificial selection on replicated lines of Tribolium castaneum , a flour beetle, an emergent model system and an economically...

The EFSA 2022 guidance on non-dietary human exposure, including operators, workers, residents and bystanders, relies on output from the original BREAM model, including simplified extrapolation for different application volumes. This study aims to present the current limitations and challenges in the European Plant Protection Product (PPP) authorizations for non-dietary exposure and risk assessments of residents and bystanders....

Despite their potential to inform sustainable regional harvest and climate‐resilient fisheries management, spatial stock assessment models remain underused for management advice. To identify barriers that inhibit broader use of these methods, we conducted a blinded international simulation experiment mimicking real‐world stock assessment development when confronting spatial complexity. Seven analyst teams built spatially aggre...

Migratory fish species are highly vulnerable to stream fragmentation. Potamodromous golden perch ( Macquaria ambigua ) inhabit the barrier-laden Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), Australia’s largest river system, and its lifecycle includes a requirement for uninterrupted stretches of flowing water habitat. Owing to these barriers, large-scale connectivity in many regions is limited to periods of high flow events that facilitate barr...

Key message Genetic analysis of stem elongation in common bean identified loci acting at different developmental stages and reveals interactions with flowering time. Abstract Stem internode elongation is a major determinant of growth habit and plant height, and is often responsive to environmental signals, making it an integral component of plant architecture and a core characteristic targeted for crop improvement. More effect...

Reliable phenotyping is critical for pre-breeding and breeding. Some traits such as herbicide tolerance are more likely to scale from plant to crop than others such as yield. Here we compared phenology, yield and its components in two arrangements—single rows and whole plots—for 10 chickpea and 10 lentil cultivars in 11 (chickpea) and 10 (lentil) Australian environments resulting from the combination of location, season, and s...

Modification of river flows is a major cause of freshwater fish population declines in many parts of the world. Identifying the precise mechanisms of these declines represents a significant challenge, as a range of stressors can simultaneously impact various components of fish health, fitness and population dynamics. Here we investigate the role of river flows and other biophysical factors on spatio‐temporal variation in fresh...

A recurrent theme in marine ecology is that the community dynamics of sessile, suspension‐feeding animals is primarily limited by the availability of space, but in some habitats, filtration by these organisms may locally deplete water column resources, setting the stage for exploitative competition for food. We examined filtration by sponge assemblages in the shallow waters (~2 m depth) of Florida Bay (Florida, USA), where wat...

Synchronous fluctuations in species' abundance are influenced by synchrony in underlying rates of productivity and survival. However, it remains unclear how rate synchrony varies in space and time, contributes to abundance synchrony, and differs among species. Using long‐term annual count (number of adults captured), adult survival and productivity (number of juveniles captured per adult) data for breeding land‐birds at ringin...