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Spatial genetic structure and connectivity in established colonies of red-tailed tropicbirds across a tropical longitudinal axisNARA Subscribed
Like most seabirds, red-tailed tropicbirds ( Phaethon rubricauda ) spend most of their lives at sea, returning to islands only to breed. Despite their well-known capacity for long-distance movement, little is known about how new colonies are established or how genetic diversity is maintained across isolated, highly philopatric breeding populations. Here, we investigate patterns of genetic diversity using SNP genotyping across...
Habitat structure and landscape context influence vocalising vertebrates in oil palm plantationsNARA Subscribed
As global food demand rises with population growth, much of the expected land conversion to agriculture is projected to occur in tropical biodiversity hotspots. Balancing food production and biodiversity conservation requires managing agricultural landscapes to serve both goals. To support this, we examined how animal distribution in an oil palm plantation is influenced by landscape context and habitat structure. The study was...
Passive Acoustic Monitoring Reveals Temporal and Environmental Drivers of the Cetacean Community in the Southern Great Barrier ReefNARA Subscribed
Monitoring cetaceans in Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is essential for understanding their ecological roles and informing conservation, yet traditional visual surveys are limited by logistical constraints. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) offers a complementary solution, particularly in acoustically complex coral‐reef habitats of the southern GBR. Over 2 years, we deployed an autonomous recorder at Lady Elliot Island t...
Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species MixturesNARA Subscribed
Mixed‐species forestry is a promising approach to enhance productivity, increase carbon sequestration, and mitigate climate change. Diverse forests, composed of species with varying structures and functional trait profiles, may have higher functional and structural diversity, which are attributes relevant to a number of mechanisms that can influence productivity. However, it remains unclear whether the context‐dependent roles...
Landscape and habitat characteristics jointly drive the urban distribution of a nuisance speciesNARA Subscribed
Identifying environmental variables that affect the distribution of pest and/or nuisance species promotes effective management strategies by improving urban planning and the targeted application of direct interventions like population control. Australian white ibis Threskiornis moluccus are considered a nuisance species throughout Australia, having increased significantly in abundance in coastal urban landscapes following decl...
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open accessNARA Subscribed
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodivers...
BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plantsNARA Subscribed
Understanding how plants are constructed—i.e., how key size dimensions and the amount of mass invested in different tissues varies among individuals—is essential for modeling plant growth, carbon stocks, and energy fluxes in the terrestrial biosphere. Allocation patterns can differ through ontogeny, but also among coexisting species and among species adapted to different environments. While a variety of models dealing with bio...
Carbon sequestration potential of tropical pasture compared with afforestation in PanamaNARA Subscribed
Tropical forest ecosystems play an important role in regulating the global climate, yet deforestation and land‐use change mean that the tropical carbon sink is increasingly influenced by agroecosystems and pastures. Despite this, it is not yet fully understood how carbon cycling in the tropics responds to land‐use change, particularly for pasture and afforestation. Thus, the objectives of our study were: (1) to elucidate the e...
In vivo functional genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa for high‐throughput screening of new virulence factors and antibacterial targetsNARA Subscribed
Summary Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a model for studying opportunistic pathogens that are highly resistant to most classes of antibiotics and cause chronic pulmonary infections. We have developed and adapted a multiplex polymerase chain reaction‐based signature‐tagged mutagenesis (STM) for high‐throughput screening of a collection of 7968 P. aeruginosa mutants in a rat model of chronic respiratory infection. After three rounds o...
The objective of this study was to assess the spatiotemporal distribution of four landlocked Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) populations during their sympatric feeding phase in lake St‐Jean (Québec, Canada). A total of 1100 fish captured over a period of 25 years was genotyped at six microsatellite loci in order to assess the temporal stability of the relative proportion of each population in different lake sectors using both...
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