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Seasonal Variability of Residence Time and Ocean Exchange in a Semi-enclosed Gulf in Northwestern AustraliaNARA Subscribed
Coastal water exchange with the open ocean plays a key role in regulating the transport and distribution of nutrients, heat, pollutants, suspended sediments and organisms in semi-enclosed systems. In this study, we quantify coastal water exchange for Exmouth Gulf (Australian North West Shelf), a globally significant water body adjacent to the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area. We use a high-resolution (200 m) hydrodynamic mod...
Context matters: emotional responses to urban greening interventions depend on city settingNARA Subscribed
Urban green spaces deliver a remarkable range of human health and well-being benefits, and there is substantial, global effort into incorporating urban greening into the design of cities. However, intense competition for space in cities means small interstitial gaps in the urban fabric are being used for many contemporary green spaces, such as planter boxes or raised garden beds. These small urban greening interventions have b...
Wildfires are often a natural part of many European ecosystems, but human activities through land use, other socio‐economic factors and climate change have significantly changed how fires behave. Anthropogenic climate change is already intensifying fire‐prone weather and increasing wildfire risk across Europe with risk expected to grow sharply in coming decades. Past experience suggests that human action, such as fuel manageme...
Background and aims Soil water deficits develop at some point during many cropping seasons. To enhance crop drought resilience, cropping characteristics to conserve soil water have often proved desirable. In this paper, two case studies are presented that documented from discovery through to field evaluation the characteristic of initiation of decrease in transpiration rate at comparatively high soil water contents for drought...
Evaluating a structured expert elicitation approach for adaptive conservation management based on lessons from five years in practiceNARA Subscribed
Adaptive management of threatened species relies on having ex ante estimates of species’ responses to different interventions. Structured expert elicitation is often used to generate these estimates, but comparisons of these expert‐predicted outcomes with observed results are rare. This study aims to evaluate the utility of expert elicitation for adaptive management in the New South Wales Saving our Species program in Australi...
During catch‐and‐release angling, highly resident species are susceptible to multiple recapture events. Biologging offers the opportunity to study post‐release behaviour in detail; however, most studies have focused on a single capture‐release event. Using high‐resolution archival data and acoustic tracking, we present the post‐release behaviour of a single flapper skate ( Dipturus intermedius ) that was captured, tagged and r...
The hyperiid amphipod Brachyscelus rapacoides is a warm-water species associated with gelatinous zooplankton. In the Mediterranean it has been reported in association with Rhopilema nomadica in both Israel and Turkey. Here, we document the first record of B. rapacoides in Greek waters, representing the first confirmed record for Europe, based on both morphological examination and DNA barcoding of the mitochondrial COI gene. Sp...
Rationale Acute alcohol intoxication impairs cognitive and motor control, elevating risk in safety–critical contexts. While blood alcohol concentration (BAC) quantifies exposure, it does not reflect real-time functional impairment. Mobile, performance-based assessments may offer scalable detection tools, but their sensitivity under controlled alcohol challenge requires further validation. Objectives To evaluate the sensitivity...
Population Genomics of a Cosmopolitan Weed Provides Insights Into Its Local Adaptation and Recent Demographic HistoryNARA Subscribed
Invasive plant species present a growing ecological and economic challenge, and often adapt rapidly to their novel environments through complex demographic and evolutionary processes. Invasion genomics offers powerful tools to disentangle these processes, but most studies rely on geographically narrow sampling across native and non‐native ranges. Erigeron canadensis is a cosmopolitan weed native to North America that has succe...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of speci...
Background and aims Previously, triple super phosphate (TSP) application to one soil type was unexpectedly found to cause with soil drying an initiation of linear decrease in maize transpiration rate at an unusually high soil water content. The resulting overall slower soil water extraction resulted in crop drought resilience. A key issue is whether the response occurs with drying of other soils. The objective of this study wa...
As climate change progresses and severe disturbances become routine, understanding rates and mechanisms of recovery in habitat-forming species is central to predicting the broader response of ecosystems to climate change. Here, we combined acute experimental heat stress and RNA sequencing to explore patterns of transcriptome plasticity and resilience to heat stress in a common Acropora coral from the World Heritage-listed Ning...
Joint Estimation of Paternity, Sibships and Pollen Dispersal in a Snapdragon Hybrid ZoneNARA Subscribed
Inferring genealogical relationships of wild populations is useful because it gives direct estimates of mating patterns and variance in reproductive success. Inference can be improved by including information about parentage shared between siblings, or by modelling phenotypes or population data related to mating. However, we currently lack a framework to infer parent–offspring relationships, sibships and population parameters...