Despite their potential to inform sustainable regional harvest and climate‐resilient fisheries management, spatial stock assessment models remain underused for management advice. To identify barriers that inhibit broader use of these methods, we conducted a blinded international simulation experiment mimicking real‐world stock assessment development when confronting spatial complexity. Seven analyst teams built spatially aggre...

Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body‐size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrates, equivalent datasets for marine animals are lacking, even though they include a much larger number of species. This data gap hinders comparative and macroecological analyses that rely on body‐size data to uncover evolutionary and...

Aim To compare field‐based evidence of plant and animal responses to fire with remotely sensed signals of fire heterogeneity and post‐fire biomass recovery. Location South‐eastern Australia; New South Wales. Time Period 2019–2022. Major Taxa Studied A total of 982 species of plants and animals, in eight taxonomic groups: amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals, molluscs, plants and reptiles. Methods We collated 545,223 plant...

The area under irrigation in Malawi has increased, but productivity is still low due to farmers' lack of irrigation knowledge. This paper describes a ‘people‐centred learning’ approach aimed at improving water management in smallholder irrigation schemes. The work was conducted in Malawi, where farmers at the Bwanje, Tadala, Nanzolo and Matabwa irrigation schemes were provided with soil water sensors that showed whether the so...

Aim To identify the broad‐scale oceanic migration routes (‘marine flyways’) used by multiple pelagic, long‐distance migratory seabirds based on a global compilation of tracking data. Location Global. Time Period 1989–2023. Major Taxa Studied Seabirds (Families: Phaethontidae, Hydrobatidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Laridae and Stercorariidae). Methods We collated a comprehensive global tracking dataset that included the mig...

Purpose To test the hypothesis that training with reduced carbohydrate (CHO) availability increases bone resorption in adolescent soccer players. Methods In a randomised crossover design, ten male players (age: 17.4 ± 0.8 years) from an English Premier League academy completed an acute 90-min field-based training session (occurring between 10:30–12:00) in conditions of high (TRAIN HIGH; 1.5 g.kg −1 , 60 g, 1.5 g.kg −1 and 1.5...