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Local Angler Knowledge Reveals Declines in Fishing Quality for Black Bass in Lakes of Eastern OntarioNARA Subscribed
Local ecological knowledge can be useful to assess data‐limited fisheries such as the Ontario Black Bass ( Micropterus spp.) recreational fishery. We surveyed local anglers using the Life History Calendar approach to determine if there were perceived changes in fishing quality for Black Bass in eastern Ontario across different time periods. For both species (Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass), respondents noted declines in n...
Objective Currently, there is no standardized method to quantify musculoskeletal health of hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS). This study evaluated passive stiffness (PS) of the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) muscle among groundskeepers and examined the potential relationship of the PS with lifetime hand-arm vibration (HAV) exposure of the workers. Methods PS of APB muscle was measured using a myotonometer among 17 groundskeep...
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...
Quantifying animal movements is necessary for answering a wide array of research questions in ecology and conservation biology. Consequently, ecologists have made considerable efforts to identify the best way to estimate an animal's home range, and many methods of estimating home ranges have arisen over the past half a century. Most of these methods fall into two distinct categories of estimators that have only recently been d...
The effect of dietary nitrate supplementation on resistance exercise performance: A dose–response investigationNARA Subscribed
Dietary nitrate (NO 3 − ) can enhance skeletal muscle contractile function and explosive-type exercise by modulating type II muscle fibers; however, limited attention has been directed at exploring the optimal dosing guidelines and potential performance-enhancing effects of NO 3 − supplementation during resistance-type exercise. The purpose of our investigation was to examine potential dose–response effects of concentrated NO...
Climbing Higher: Exploring Northern Andean Origin and Non‐Floral Trait Evolution in a Rapid, Recent Angiosperm RadiationNARA Subscribed
Aim The centropogonid clade comprising Burmeistera H.Karst. & Triana, Centropogon C.Presl and Siphocampylus Pohl stands out as one of the most rapid plant radiations in the Neotropics. We investigated the origin and diversification of Burmeistera to enhance our understanding of fruit evolution and other non‐floral traits in the genus. By exploring the interplay of morphological, ecological and geographical factors, we sought t...
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...
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganismsNARA Subscribed
Aim Spatial compositional turnover varies considerably among co‐occurring assemblages of organisms, presumably shaped by common processes related to species traits. We investigated patterns of spatial turnover in a diverse set of marine assemblages using zeta diversity, which extends traditional pairwise measures of turnover to capture the roles of both rare and common species in shaping assemblage turnover. We tested the gene...
Climate Change Implications for Tidal Marshes and Food Web Linkages to Estuarine and Coastal NektonNARA Subscribed
Climate change is altering naturally fluctuating environmental conditions in coastal and estuarine ecosystems across the globe. Departures from long-term averages and ranges of environmental variables are increasingly being observed as directional changes [e.g., rising sea levels, sea surface temperatures (SST)] and less predictable periodic cycles (e.g., Atlantic or Pacific decadal oscillations) and extremes (e.g., coastal fl...