Ongoing concerns about the impact of climate change on Australia’s oceans has driven a request from fisheries managers for improved science communication to the seafood sector. Despite these concerns, translating climate science into management and industry action at regional and sectoral scales remains a challenge. We developed a reporting structure for communicating climate and ecosystem status to fisheries management, indus...

Background The Cape sea urchin, Parechinus angulosus , is a widely distributed keystone species that inhabits intertidal and subtidal ecosystems along the South African coastline. Despite its importance as an ecosystem engineer, its phylogenetic placement and mitochondrial genomic (hereafter mitogenome) variation remain poorly understood. In the current study, we present the first complete mitogenome for this species, assemble...

The theory of best integer equivariant (BIE) estimation provides the minimum mean squared error estimator within the class of integer equivariant (IE) estimators and has found increasing application in mixed-integer models such as those arising in carrier-phase GNSS positioning. Recent developments extended BIE estimation to the broader class of elliptically contoured distributions (ECDs), thereby allowing the use of heavier-t...

Pollen monitoring is crucial for understanding seasonal patterns, supporting allergy diagnosis and informing early warning tools to mitigate allergic diseases. The Southern Hemisphere lacks long-term pollen seasonal data, with extremely few records from Africa. We present pollen calendars based on five years of data from South Africa. Airborne pollen from 2019 to 2024 across South African biomes was collected in seven cities u...