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The complex population structure of Tamanend's bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops erebennus ) along the U.S. Mid‐Atlantic coast complicates assessment of their bycatch. To improve our understanding of the stock identity of individual dolphins taken as bycatch in this region, we compared images of the dorsal fins of bottlenose dolphins that stranded with evidence of fishery interactions (FI+) to the Mid‐Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2023 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2022 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
With increasing human uses of the ocean, existing seascapes containing natural habitats, such as biogenic reefs or plant-dominated systems, are supplemented by novel, human-made habitats ranging from artificial reefs to energy extraction infrastructure and shoreline installments. Despite the mixture of natural and artificial habitats across seascapes, the distribution and extent of these two types of structured habitats are no...
Modeling population effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a long‐lived speciesNARA Subscribed
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill exposed common bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) in Barataria Bay, Louisiana to heavy oiling that caused increased mortality and chronic disease and impaired reproduction in surviving dolphins. We conducted photographic surveys and veterinary assessments in the decade following the spill. We assigned a prognostic score (good, fair, guarded, poor, or grave) for each dolphin to...
Global maps of soil temperatureNARA Subscribed
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation canopies and near the ground surface, where critical ecosystem functions occur and most terrestrial species reside. Here, we provide global maps of soil temperature and bioclimatic variables at a 1‐km 2 r...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
Shared functional traits explain synchronous changes in long‐term count trends of migratory raptorsNARA Subscribed
Aim Assessing long‐term shifts in faunal assemblages is important to understand the consequences of ongoing global environmental change. One approach to assess drivers of assemblage changes is to identify the traits associated with synchronous shifts in count trends among species. Our research identified traits influencing trends in 73 years of count data on migrating raptors recorded in the north‐eastern USA. Location Pennsyl...
The use of Baby boom ( Bbm ) and Wuschel2 ( Wus2 ) has made maize transformation more efficient across an increasingly wide range of inbreds. However, the benefits have come with the requirement of excising these transformation helper components to enable plant regeneration, which adds size to the T-DNA, and complexity to the transformation system. A new system with the advantages of smaller size and simplicity for the selecta...
Field Evaluation of Potato N Needs Following Forage LegumesNARA Subscribed
Evolutionary history and the strength of species interactions: testing the phylogenetic limiting similarity hypothesisNARA Subscribed
A longstanding concept in community ecology is that closely related species compete more strongly than distant relatives. Ecologists have invoked this “limiting similarity hypothesis” to explain patterns in the structure and function of biological communities and to inform conservation, restoration, and invasive‐species management. However, few studies have empirically tested the validity of the limiting similarity hypothesis....