Although obesity is a major healthcare problem that is increasing in many populations worldwide, there are limited studies that have examined its contribution to infectious diseases morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to examine the clinical determinants and outcomes of bloodstream infections among patients with obesity. All adults within the publicly funded healthcare system in Queensland, Australia, identified...

Dietary factors are assumed to play an important role in cancer risk, apparent in consensus recommendations for cancer prevention that promote nutritional changes. However, the evidence in this field has been generated predominantly through observational studies, which may result in biased effect estimates because of confounding, exposure misclassification, and reverse causality. With major geographical differences and rapid c...

Plant litter chemistry is altered during decomposition but it remains unknown if these alterations, and thus the composition of residual litter, will change in response to climate. Selective microbial mineralization of litter components and the accumulation of microbial necromass can drive litter compositional change, but the extent to which these mechanisms respond to climate remains poorly understood. We addressed this knowl...

Accurate representation of temperature sensitivity ( Q 10 ) of soil microbial activity across time is critical for projecting soil CO 2 efflux. As microorganisms mediate soil carbon (C) loss via exo‐enzyme activity and respiration, we explore temperature sensitivities of microbial exo‐enzyme activity and respiratory CO 2 loss across time and assess mechanisms associated with these potential changes in microbial temperature res...

Key message Novel QTL for salinity tolerance traits have been detected using non-destructive and destructive phenotyping in bread wheat and were shown to be linked to improvements in yield in saline fields. Abstract Soil salinity is a major limitation to cereal production. Breeding new salt-tolerant cultivars has the potential to improve cereal crop yields. In this study, a doubled haploid bread wheat mapping population, deriv...

Warmer climates have been associated with reduced bioreactivity of soil organic matter ( SOM ) typically attributed to increased diagenesis; the combined biological and physiochemical transformation of SOM . In addition, cross‐site studies have indicated that ecosystem regime shifts, associated with long‐term climate warming, can affect SOM properties through changes in vegetation and plant litter production thereby altering t...