Introduction Crop mixtures can be an important part of the toolkit for maintaining crop production while addressing the climate and nature crises. However, uncertainties around some issues may prevent their uptake. Research question This study addressed several uncertainties, specifically the response of mixture yields to climate and management, and the impacts of mixed cropping on seed chemical composition, soil carbon and nu...

Animals within social groups respond to costs and benefits of sociality by adjusting the proportion of time they spend in close proximity to other individuals in the group (cohesion). Variation in cohesion between individuals, in turn, shapes important group‐level processes such as subgroup formation and fission–fusion dynamics. Although critical to animal sociality, a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing coh...

Declines of Steller sea lion ( Eumetopias jubatus ) populations in the Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska could be a consequence of physical oceanographic changes associated with the 1976–77 climate regime shift. Changes in ocean climate are hypothesized to have affected the quantity, quality, and accessibility of prey, which in turn may have affected the rates of birth and death of sea lions. Recent studies of the spatial an...

The diet and feeding ecology of pollock Pollachius virens from the Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy in the north‐west Atlantic changed over the last few decades, which was associated with decreases in euphausiid abundance. Stomach contents data for 2078 pollock collected during the 1958–1967 period and for 1230 pollock collected during the 1996–2002 period indicated that pollock diet contained fewer euphausiids and feeding activ...

Data from an otter trawler fleet fishing on the Scotian Shelf combined with year‐round hydroacoustic data indicated that the locations of aggregations of pollock Pollachius virens did not change appreciably from month to month. The proportion of pollock mass compared with total catch mass in individual trawl catches, however, tended to be higher from September to February. The period of highest catch rates was shown to be the...