Objectives The occurrence of metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MBL-PA) isolates is increasing globally, including in Switzerland. The aim of this study was to characterise, phenotypically and genotypically, the MBL-PA isolates submitted to the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance (NARA) reference laboratory over a 12-month period from July 2022 to July 2023. Methods Thirty-n...

Global warming is affecting the population dynamics and trophic interactions across a wide range of ecosystems and habitats. Translating these real‐time effects into their long‐term consequences remains a challenge. The rapid and extreme warming period that occurred after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition (7–12 thousand years ago) provides an opportunity to gain insights into the long‐te...

Effects of species diversity on population and community stability (or more precisely, the effects of species richness on temporal variability) have been studied for several decades, but there have been no large‐scale tests in natural communities of predictions from theory. We used 91 data sets including plants, fish, small mammals, zooplankton, birds, and insects, to examine the relationship between species richness and tempo...

We measured denitrification rates using a field 15 NO 3 − tracer‐addition approach in a large, cross‐site study of nitrate uptake in reference, agricultural, and suburban‐urban streams. We measured denitrification rates in 49 of 72 streams studied. Uptake length due to denitrification ( S Wden n) ranged from 89 m to 184 km (median of 9050 m) and there were no significant differences among regions or land‐use categories, likely...

We examined long‐term phytoplankton data records for four oligotrophic boreal lakes situated in the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), western Ontario, for responses to climatic change. ELA experienced a cyclical wet‐dry‐wet pattern from 1968 to 1998, with the early 1970s and 1990s having above‐average precipitation and the 1980s being a period of drought with a 2°C increase in air temperature. During this drought, the length of i...