The coastal zone of the Gulf of Guinea is characterised by the intensive harvesting of Crassostrea tulipa oysters, locally known as ‘Adakpin’ or ‘Atcha’, which serve as a vital source of income for local communities. This study aims to identify the optimal areas, depths, and seasonal periods that favour the growth of juvenile C. tulipa oysters in the coastal lagoon waters of southern Benin. Relatively uniform juvenile oysters...

El Chichón volcano is the most active volcano in the state of Chiapas, México, and experienced its last Plinian eruption (VEI = 5) in 1982. To better assess its volcanic hazard, we studied its readiness to erupt by estimating changes in its internal stress state. These stress changes are difficult to calculate accurately, for example in the absence of focal mechanisms, but their existence can be indirectly revealed by the pres...

Although animal dispersal is known to play key roles in ecological and evolutionary processes such as colonization, population extinction and local adaptation, little is known about its genetic basis, particularly in vertebrates. Untapping the genetic basis of dispersal should deepen our understanding of how dispersal behaviour evolves, the molecular mechanisms that regulate it and link it to other phenotypic aspects in order...

The birth of a new monogenetic volcano is difficult to forecast with precision, both in space and time. Nevertheless, seismic activity can alert of the imminence of such an eruption because it usually occurs as small-magnitude earthquake swarms that can last for a few weeks to months prior to an eruption. These swarms are usually related to magma that becomes stalled in the Earth’s crust for variable periods of time before its...

Dispersal plasticity, when organisms adjust their dispersal decisions depending on their environment, can play a major role in ecological and evolutionary dynamics, but how it relates to fitness remains scarcely explored. Theory predicts that high dispersal plasticity should evolve when environmental gradients have a strong impact on fitness. Using microcosms, we tested in five species of the genus Tetrahymena whether dispersa...

The oceans are a fundamental source for climate balance, sustainability of resources and life on Earth, therefore society has a strong and pressing interest in maintaining and, where possible, restoring the health of the marine ecosystems. Effective, integrated ocean observation is key to suggesting actions to reduce anthropogenic impact from coastal to deep-sea environments and address the main challenges of the 21st century,...

The EUREF Permanent Network Densification is a collaborative effort of 26 European GNSS analysis centers providing series of daily or weekly station position estimates of dense national and regional GNSS networks, in order to combine them into one homogenized set of station positions and velocities. During the combination, the station meta-data, including station names, DOMES numbers, and position offset definitions were caref...

This study examines the influence of the Caspian Sea–Hindu Kush Index ( CasHKI ) on local and synoptic meteorology as well as on dust emissions over southwest ( SW ) Asia by means of National Center for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCEP‐NCAR ) re‐analysed mean sea‐level pressure ( MSLP ), geopotential height at 700 hPa and surface meridional wind, along with meteorological data at Zabol,...