Freshwater turtles are one of the most threatened animal groups in the world, especially in Asia. The Beale’s Eyed Turtle ( Sacalia bealei ) is a highly endangered Chinese species at risk of extinction due to overexploitation for the food and pet trades. Nonetheless, Hong Kong still houses a handful of relatively healthy populations of this species, providing an increasingly rare opportunity to study the population genetics of...

Seawater carbonate chemistry observations are increasingly necessary to study a broad array of oceanographic challenges such as ocean acidification, carbon inventory tracking, and assessment of marine carbon dioxide removal strategies. The uncertainty in a seawater carbonate chemistry observation comes from unknown random variations and systematic offsets. Here, we estimate the magnitudes of these random and systematic compone...

The ocean carbonate system is critical to monitor because it plays a major role in regulating Earth's climate and marine ecosystems. It is monitored using a variety of measurements, and it is commonly understood that all components of seawater carbonate chemistry can be calculated when at least two carbonate system variables are measured. However, several recent studies have highlighted systematic discrepancies between calcula...

Pathogenic fungi are a growing health concern worldwide, particularly in large, densely populated cities. The dramatic upsurge of pigeon populations in cities has been implicated in the increased incidence of invasive fungal infections. In this study, we used a culture‐independent, high‐throughput sequencing approach to describe the diversity of clinically relevant fungi ( CRF ) associated with pigeon faeces and map the relati...

Population declines and extinctions of amphibians have been attributed to the chytrid fungus B atrachochytrium dendrobatidis ( B d), especially one globally emerging recombinant lineage (‘ B d‐ GPL ’). We used PCR assays that target the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region ( ITS ) of B d to determine the prevalence and genetic diversity of B d in S outh K orea, where B d is widely distributed but is not known to cause...