Liquid biopsy is emerging as a powerful approach for less invasive biomarker discovery, with extracellular vesicles (EVs) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showing promise for the assessment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders without actual tissue biopsy and as a complement to imaging techniques. EVs carry molecular cargo such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids that mirror those at the tissue of origin, offering unique o...

Small pelagic fish (SPF) play a vital role in marine ecosystems, transferring energy from plankton to higher trophic levels. However, SPF dynamics in shallow coastal areas are often under-studied, despite their importance as crucial prey near breeding sites of fish-eating birds such as common terns ( Sterna hirundo ). This study had two connected objectives: to map the pelagic fish food landscape in the inlets of the Dutch Wad...

Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) provide a state‐of‐the‐art process‐based approach to study the complex interplay between vegetation and its physical environment. For example, they help to predict how terrestrial plants interact with climate, soils, disturbance and competition for resources. We argue that there is untapped potential for the use of DGVMs in ecological and ecophysiological research. One fundamental barri...

Arctic‐boreal landscapes are experiencing profound warming, along with changes in ecosystem moisture status and disturbance from fire. This region is of global importance in terms of carbon feedbacks to climate, yet the sign (sink or source) and magnitude of the Arctic‐boreal carbon budget within recent years remains highly uncertain. Here, we provide new estimates of recent (2003–2015) vegetation gross primary productivity (G...

The regional variability in tundra and boreal carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) fluxes can be high, complicating efforts to quantify sink‐source patterns across the entire region. Statistical models are increasingly used to predict (i.e., upscale) CO 2 fluxes across large spatial domains, but the reliability of different modeling techniques, each with different specifications and assumptions, has not been assessed in detail. Here, we com...

There is a growing demand for fine‐grained (e.g. 1 km) daily historical meteorological data. Traditional approaches interpolate between observations collected at existing meteorological stations; however, the demand for ever increasing fine resolutions has begun to outstrip the available ground‐station data, especially for daily timescales. One promising technique known as the climate‐aided interpolation ( CAI ) has the advant...

Fourteen individuals of the skunk clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos of different sizes and of different sexual status (non‐breeder, male or female) were analysed for four acoustic features. Dominant frequency and pulse duration were highly correlated with standard length ( r = 0·97), and were not related to sex. Both the dominant frequency and pulse duration were signals conveying information related to the size of the emitter,...

Agonistic sounds of two pomacentrid species, Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus and Dascyllus aruanus , were recorded in captivity. Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus produced trains of 2–5 pops, each composed of 18–25 cycles, with an average duration of 56 ms; most energy ranged from c. 100 to 1000 Hz. Dascyllus aruanus produced pops and chirps. Pops were generally composed of a single pulse, with 2–14 peaks and an average duration of...