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Mammography screening in Tennessee: a tract-level spatial analysis of geographic and socioeconomic disparitiesNARA Subscribed
Purpose Despite improvements in early detection, Tennessee ranks among the top ten states for breast cancer mortality among women. Mammography screening and early diagnosis are critical to reducing mortality, yet access and uptake vary widely across the State. We tested whether access to diagnostic services affected screening in the State. Methods We merged CDC PLACES estimates of screening among women aged 50–74 with geocoded...
Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of Earth's land surfaces, account for 44% of cultivated lands and 60% of food sources, and make large contributions to the global water and carbon cycles. However, these ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented extremes including heatwaves, floods, and droughts as well as hotter temperatures and often declining water resource availability. These ecosystems are some of the most challenging to monit...
Literature reviews have become increasingly prominent in scientific discourse; however, few have critically examined the geographic distribution of research, particularly in the field of biometeorology, where studies remain disproportionately concentrated in the Global North. Building on previous regional reviews and special issues, this paper critically examines geographic disparities in publication trends, authorship, and me...
Shear Stress Initiates Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Endocardial Endothelial CellsNARA Subscribed
Discrete subaortic stenosis (DSS) is a congenital heart disease in which a fibrotic membrane forms below the aortic valve; the underlying cellular mechanisms are currently unknown. Since an elevated pressure gradient in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) is a distinguishing feature of DSS, it is hypothesized that the membrane formation is caused by elevated wall shear stress applied to the endocardial endothelial cells...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of speci...
The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic ExtinctionsNARA Subscribed
Biological communities are changing rapidly in response to human activities, with the high rate of vertebrate species extinction leading many to propose that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event. Five past mass extinction events have commonly been identified across the Phanerozoic, with the last occurring at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago (Ma). However, life on Earth has always changed and evol...
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forestsNARA Subscribed
Clarifying the determinants of environmental partitioning between ectomycorrhizal (ECM) and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) associations may inform predictions of the effects of climate change on global vegetation patterns, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Nothofagus species (southern beeches) are the only widespread ECM trees in the humid temperate forests of the southern hemisphere. Despite long‐standin...
Transient Lymphatic Remodeling Follows Sub-Ablative High-Frequency Irreversible Electroporation Therapy in a 4T1 Murine ModelNARA Subscribed
High-frequency irreversible electroporation (H-FIRE) is a minimally invasive local ablation therapy known to activate the adaptive immune system and reprogram the tumor microenvironment. Its predecessor, irreversible electroporation (IRE), transiently increases microvascular density and immune cell infiltration within the surviving non-ablated and non-necrotic tumor region, also known as the viable tumor region. However, the i...
DNA barcoding is a method of identifying individual organisms using short DNA fragments matched to a database of reference sequences. For metazoan plankton, a high proportion of species that reside in the deep ocean still lack reliable reference sequences for genetic markers for barcoding and systematics. We report on substantial taxonomic and barcoding efforts across major zooplankton taxonomic groups collected from surface w...
New bass on the block: Trophic interactions among invasive largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides and local sportfishNARA Subscribed
Novel introductions of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides , often cause negative impacts on endemic populations of prey fishes and interspecific competitors. Although many studies have investigated trophic interactions between M . salmoides and smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu , few have included chain pickerel, Esox niger , as a competitor despite similarities in their habitat use. We used stable isotope analysis to...
SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multicontributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of specie...
Site‐Specific Nutrient Data Reveal the Importance of Soils in Driving the Mycorrhizal Make‐Up of Woody Vegetation WorldwideNARA Subscribed
Aim Arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) and ectomycorrhizas (ECM) have different impacts on nutrient cycling, carbon storage, community dynamics and enhancement of photosynthesis by rising CO 2 . Recent global analyses have concluded that patterns of AM/ECM dominance in forests worldwide are shaped by climate, with soil nutrients contributing negligible additional explanatory power. However, their reliance on nutrient data from GIS su...
In 2014, a novel call was discovered in autonomous acoustic recordings from the Mariana Archipelago and designated a “Biotwang”. It was assumed to be produced by a baleen whale, but without visual verification it was impossible to assign a species. Using a combination of visual and acoustic survey data collected in the Mariana Archipelago, we determined that Biotwangs are produced by Bryde’s whales. Bryde’s whales occur worldw...