Identifying coral populations with heritable thermal tolerance is critical for developing climate‐resilient reef conservation practices. We quantified thermal tolerance in larvae from 51 selectively bred Acropora families using acute heat stress assays (35.5°C) then modelled larval survival against 20 satellite‐derived SST predictors (1985–2022) using boosted regression trees (BRT) to predict the spatial distribution of therma...

Global policy commitments to ensure that protected and conserved areas (PCAs) are equitably governed have increased interest in empirically assessing and analyzing social equity. Although numerous assessments have been conducted in individual PCAs, there is limited empirical insight into equity as a multidimensional concept beyond the site level. We investigated the distributional, procedural, and recognitional equity challeng...

Purpose Given the lack of robust prognostic models for early identification of individuals at risk of work disability, this study aimed to develop and externally validate three models for prolonged work absence among individuals on sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders. Methods We developed three multivariable logistic regression models using data from 934 individuals on sick leave for 4–12 weeks due to musculoskeletal d...

Rock hind ( Epinephelus adscensionis ) and spotted moray ( Gymnothorax moringa ) are ubiquitous mesopredators that co‐occur in the nearshore waters of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, where they have significant cultural and subsistence value, but management of their non‐commercial take is limited. This isolated volcanic system is home to high biomass and low species diversity, which poses two key questions: How c...

Capsid Integrity qPCR (CI-qPCR) assays offer a promising alternative to cell culture-based infectivity assays for assessing pathogenic human virus viability in wastewater. This study compared three CI-qPCR methods: two novel (Crosslinker, TruTiter) and one established (PMAxx dye). These methods were evaluated on heat-inactivated and non-heat-inactivated ‘live’ viruses spiked into phosphate-buffered saline ( PBS) and wastewater...

Background Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity across taxa and geographies. Pyrodiversity, or heterogeneity in fire history, is often an important driver of biodiversity, though it has been largely overlooked until relatively recently. In this paper, we synthesise previous research to develop a theoretical framew...

Excessive fine sediment (particles

The ongoing climate crisis merits an urgent need to devise management approaches and new technologies to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (GHG) in the near term. However, each year that GHG concentrations continue to rise, pressure mounts to develop and deploy atmospheric CO 2 removal pathways as a complement to, and not replacement for, emissions reductions. Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) practices in working...