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Bioprospecting Chromobacterium violaceum for bioremediation: an alternative to environmental lead pollutionNARA Subscribed
Lead pollution is a major environmental concern, but current decontamination technologies remain limited due to high costs. Therefore, alternative biotechnological processes have been successfully developed and applied due to their reduced cost and lower aggressiveness in the environment. The remarkable adaptive versatility of Chromobacterium violaceum in metal-contaminated environments makes this bacterium a promising candida...
Global patterns and regional insights into kelp forest protection, restoration, and stewardshipNARA Subscribed
Kelp forests are among the most extensive and productive coastal ecosystems, yet they remain underrepresented in global conservation policy despite widespread declines driven by interacting global- (i.e., ocean warming, marine heatwaves) to local-scale stressors. At the same time, kelp conservation and restoration efforts are expanding rapidly across regions, but measures of success and syntheses tend to primarily focus on eco...
Extreme marine heatwaves drive divergent kelp forest trajectories and alternative stable statesOA Marine
Kelp forests are experiencing extreme declines globally, yet local social-ecological factors may mediate their responses to climate perturbations. Using a combination of long-term field surveys (2016–2023) and satellite data (2004–2023), we examined the regional effects of the 2014–2016 marine heatwaves regime on kelp forest ecosystems along a 600 km latitudinal gradient in Baja California, Mexico. We documented three distinct...
The Missing Global South in Climate Change Biology: Towards Equitable Knowledge Inclusion for Effective Global SolutionsNARA Subscribed
Over the last decades, climate change biology has become a central field in global science, yet knowledge production and its inclusion in global strategies remain profoundly unequal. Our bibliometric analysis of over 580,000 records shows that ~80% of author affiliations come from Global North institutions, meaning that research agendas, theoretical frameworks, and priorities are still largely shaped outside the regions with t...
Environmental Impact of Mining Activities on Water Availability, Quality and Sediments in the Sonora River, MexicoNARA Subscribed
The aim of this study is to characterise environmental impacts associated with mining operations in the Sonora River basin, a water-scarce region of Mexico. The focus is on evaluating water availability, water quality, and sediment composition along the river. Furthermore, the quality of groundwater for human consumption is assessed. Data collected from an extensive field campaign is employed for this purpose. For the first ti...
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...
Co‐culture of abalone and sea cucumber can result in benefits. This study investigated for 131 days the growth of juvenile red abalone ( Haliotis rufescens ) co‐cultured with two densities of warty sea cucumbers ( Apostichopus parvimensis ). The initial mean (± SE) shell length of 1080 red abalone was 26.74 ± 1.04 mm, with a wet weight of 5.64 ± 0.12 g. The average weight of nine sea cucumbers was 175.26 ± 2.22 g. One experime...
Growth and survival of juvenile red abalone ( Haliotis rufescens ) fed invasive macroalgaeNARA Subscribed
Abalone is one of the most important small‐scale fisheries in Mexico and is challenged by multiple stressors. For example, the loss of the native main food, Macrocystis pyrifera, and the subsequent takeover of non‐indigenous algae species represent a major threat to abalone growth and survival. In Baja California, Mexico two introduced macroalgae, Undaria pinnatifida and Sargassum horneri have become common in the past decade...