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The first detected induced earthquake in the Netherlands was in 1986. Since then, the seismic network has largely been expanded and geared towards recording induced seismicity. Nearly 2000 events have been located and assigned a local magnitude. The impact of these events on the Earth’s surface can be assessed with help of ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs). In this study, we derive these GMPEs. Previously, GMPEs were...
Species Loss Scenarios Identify Canada's Northern Ecosystems as Disproportionately VulnerableNARA Subscribed
Aim Amid ongoing and accelerating global change, predicting the ecological consequences of future species loss is important for prioritising conservation actions to protect biodiversity. Species richness has long been thought to protect communities from species loss by providing ecological redundancy, whereby the loss of any one species hardly impacts the integrity of the wider community due to overlap in species' ecological r...
The acoustics of bulge rise and rupture at Strokkur geyserNARA Subscribed
Geysers are natural geothermal features that episodically erupt hot water and steam due to the buildup and release of subsurface vapor bubbles. At Strokkur geyser, Iceland, eruptions begin with the growth of a surface bulge caused by rising bubble clusters, followed by gradual rupture and disintegration into a water fountain. In this study, we investigate the high-resolution acoustic and visual signatures of this initial phase...
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...
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird CommunitiesNARA Subscribed
The presence in ecological communities of unfeasible species interactions, termed forbidden links, due to physiological or morphological exploitation barriers has been long debated, but little direct evidence has been found. Forbidden links are likely to make ecological communities less robust to species extinctions, stressing the need to assess their prevalence. Here, we used a dataset of plant–hummingbird interactions, coupl...
Trait‐matching models predict pairwise interactions across regions, not food web propertiesNARA Subscribed
Aim Food webs are essential for understanding how ecosystems function, but empirical data on the interactions that make up these ecological networks are lacking for most taxa in most ecosystems. Trait‐based models can fill these data gaps, but their ability to do so has not been widely tested. We test how well these models can extrapolate to new ecological communities both in terms of pairwise predator–prey interactions and hi...
Protistan community composition and metabolism in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Influences of mesoscale eddies and depthNARA Subscribed
Marine protists and their metabolic activities are intricately tied to the cycling of nutrients and the flow of energy through microbial food webs. Physiochemical changes in the environment, such as those that result from mesoscale eddies, may impact protistan communities, but the effects that such changes have on protists are poorly known. A metatranscriptomic study was conducted to investigate how eddies affected protists at...
The Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA)—computational traits for the life sciencesNARA Subscribed
Existing phenotype ontologies were originally developed to represent phenotypes that manifest as a character state in relation to a wild-type or other reference. However, these do not include the phenotypic trait or attribute categories required for the annotation of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) mappings or any population-focussed measurable trait data. The integration of trait and biol...
Summer temperature response to extreme soil water conditions in the Mediterranean transitional climate regimeNARA Subscribed
Land surface and atmosphere are interlocked by the hydrological and energy cycles and the effects of soil water-air coupling can modulate near-surface temperatures. In this work, three paired experiments were designed to evaluate impacts of different soil moisture initial and boundary conditions on summer temperatures in the Mediterranean transitional climate regime region. In this area, evapotranspiration is not limited by so...
We have very limited knowledge of how species interact in most communities and ecosystems despite trophic relationships being fundamental for linking biodiversity to ecosystem functioning. A promising approach to fill this gap is to predict interactions based on functional traits, but many questions remain about how well we can predict interactions for different taxa, ecosystems and amounts of input data. Here, we built a new...
The evolution of latitudinal ranges in reef‐associated fishes: Heritability, limits and inverse Rapoport's ruleNARA Subscribed
Aim Variation in the size and position of geographical ranges is a key variable that underlies most biogeographical patterns. However, relatively little is known in terms of general principles driving their evolution, particularly in the marine realm. In this study we explore several fundamental properties regarding the evolution of reef fish latitudinal ranges, namely the degree of similarity in range size between ancestor an...