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The Interrelationship between Cadmium, Smoking, and Migraine in the ELSA-Brasil StudyNARA Subscribed
This study explored the relationship between serum cadmium (Cd), smoking exposure, and migraine in the ELSA-Brasil cohort (2008–2010). The analysis included 2,750 participants whose serum Cd levels were measured using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Smoking exposure was assessed using self-report data of active smoking and second-hand smoke. Migraine, including definite and probable migraine, was diagnosed accord...
Freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing Arctic: An expert horizon scan of key research questionsNARA Subscribed
Arctic freshwater biodiversity is rapidly changing due to climate warming, resource extraction, infrastructure development, and landscape transformation. To improve understanding, predict future responses, and inform policy formulation, research needs must be clearly identified. Using a horizon scan survey, Arctic freshwater experts from government, international agencies, and Indigenous Peoples identified 77 biodiversity rese...
Non‐Invasive Measures of DNA Methylation Capture Molecular Aging in Wild Capuchin MonkeysNARA Subscribed
Elucidating the socio‐ecological factors that shape patterns of aging in long‐lived vertebrates is of broad interest to evolutionary biologists, geroscientists, and ecologists. However, research on aging in wild populations still faces challenges due to the difficulty of measuring cellular hallmarks of aging non‐invasively and the difficulty of accurately estimating age in long‐lived species. Here, we demonstrate that cellular...
Genetic mapping in collaborative cross mouse strains identifies loci that affect initial sensitivity to cocaineNARA Subscribed
Rationale Cocaine use disorder (CUD) is a significant health concern that has devastating impacts on affected individuals and society. There are currently no approved therapies to treat CUD due, in part, to significant gaps in our knowledge about the underlying factors that increase risk. Individual genetic differences contribute to CUD risk. Identifying specific genetic mechanisms that increase risk could reveal novel targets...
Haloalkalitolerant plants drive alkaline mineral weathering and dealkalization of seawater-treated bauxite residueNARA Subscribed
Background Ecological engineering of tailings into soil-like growth media (i.e., technosol) has emerged as a nature-based solution for soilless rehabilitation of alkaline bauxite residue. However, field applications often result in spatial heterogeneity, where uneven amendment leaves behind highly alkaline and saline BR pockets that limit sustainable rehabilitation. It is hypothesized that haloalkalitolerant plants with roots...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
FreshLanDiv : A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land UsesNARA Subscribed
Motivation Freshwater ecosystems have been heavily impacted by land‐use changes, but data syntheses on these impacts are still limited. Here, we compiled a global database encompassing 241 studies with species abundance data (from multiple biological groups and geographic locations) across sites with different land‐use categories. This compilation will be useful for addressing questions regarding land‐use change and its impact...
Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communitiesNARA Subscribed
Aim Amazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments and dispersed widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, that lineages should not be strongly associated with either geographic regions or edaphic forest types. Location Amazonia. Taxon A...
The power of phenomics: Improving genebank value and utilityNARA Subscribed
Phenology has long been hypothesized as an avenue for niche partitioning or interspecific facilitation, both promoting species coexistence. Tropical plant communities exhibit striking diversity in reproductive phenology, but many are also noted for large synchronous reproductive events. Here we study whether the phenology of seed fall in such communities is nonrandom, the temporal scales of phenological patterns, and ecologica...
NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES : A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
The Neotropical region hosts 4225 freshwater fish species, ranking first among the world's most diverse regions for freshwater fishes. Our NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set is the first to produce a large‐scale Neotropical freshwater fish inventory, covering the entire Neotropical region from Mexico and the Caribbean in the north to the southern limits in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay. We compiled 185,787 distri...