Biofouling of ships and boats is a dominant global transport pathway for marine invasive species. Many biofouling non-indigenous species (NIS) can only be entrained by vessels and subsequently ‘discharged’ during the short-lived but highly mobile larval stage. This means their introduction to new locations is reliant on vessels arriving in suitable habitat while biofouling adults on the hull are spawning. Vessel arrivals and s...

This study was carried out under the Climate and Clean Air in Latin American Cities program (CALAC+) and aimed to evaluate the particle-number-based periodic technical inspection (PN-PTI) test in a public bus rapid transport (BRT) system and establish a baseline of PN emission. The PN-PTI test was performed in 1474 buses with emission standards from Euro II to Euro V without diesel particle filter (DPF), Euro V with retrofitte...

The concept of “blue growth,” which aims to promote the growth of ocean economies while holistically managing marine socioecological systems, is emerging within national and international marine policy. The concept is often promoted as being novel; however, we show that historical analogies exist that can provide insights for contemporary planning and implementation of blue growth. Using a case‐study approach based on expert k...

Ecological constraints on independent breeding are recognised as major drivers of cooperative breeding across diverse lineages. How the prevalence and degree of cooperative breeding relates to ecological variation remains unresolved. Using a large data set of cooperative nesting in Polistes wasps we demonstrate that different aspects of cooperative breeding are likely to be driven by different aspects of climate. Whether or no...