Introduction Insufficiency of the future liver remnant (FLR) precludes surgery for liver tumors as it is associated with post-hepatectomy liver failure (PHLF). A common strategy to induce pre-operative FLR hypertrophy is portal vein embolization of the tumor bearing liver lobe. More recently, transarterial radio-embolization (radiation lobectomy, RL) has been employed. Direct functional assessment using 99mTc-mebrofenin-hepato...

The vegetation history of Cumbria, in north-west England, has been intensively studied for many years by pollen analysis, particularly in the upland area of the Lake District but also the lowlands of the river Eden valley to the east and the coastal lowlands to the south and north. However, the Shap Fells, an eastern outlier of the upland massif, has so far not been the subject of palynological research despite it being an arc...

Generalist predator populations often surge during resource pulses but decline sharply afterwards and shift to alternative prey sources, which experience elevated predation rates. Understanding these numerical and functional responses of predators to resource pulses is especially important for effectively managing island ecosystems, where invasive mammals are generalist predators and vulnerable indigenous birds are alternative...

Urbanisation dramatically alters ecosystems, disrupting key processes and threatening species persistence. Despite growing knowledge of the impacts of cities on wildlife, particularly for birds and mammals, there remains a paucity of research on how urbanisation impacts other taxa, including reptiles. We examined how urbanisation affects skink communities across multiple New Zealand cities by undertaking pitfall trapping surve...

Animal migrations are a fascinating and global phenomenon, yet they are often difficult to study and sometimes poorly understood. Here, we build on classic ecological theory by hypothesizing that some enigmatic spawning migrations across coastal marine habitats can be inferred from the population genetic signature of larval dispersal by ocean currents. We test this assumption by integrating spatially realistic simulations of a...

We reconstruct one of the longest relative sea‐level (RSL) records in north‐west Europe from the north coast of mainland Scotland, using data collected from three sites in Loch Eriboll (Sutherland) that we combine with other studies from the region. Following deglaciation, RSL fell from a Lateglacial highstand of +6−8 m OD (Ordnance Datum = ca. mean sea level) at ca. 15 k cal a BP to below present, then rose to an early Holoce...

The molecular mechanisms leading to asexuality remain little understood despite their substantial bearing on why sexual reproduction is dominant in nature. Here, we examine the role of hybridization in the origin and spread of obligate asexuality in D aphnia pulex , arguably the best‐documented case of contagious asexuality. Obligately parthenogenetic ( OP ) clones of D. pulex have traditionally been separated into ‘hybrid’ (...