Kelp forests are among the most extensive and productive coastal ecosystems, yet they remain underrepresented in global conservation policy despite widespread declines driven by interacting global- (i.e., ocean warming, marine heatwaves) to local-scale stressors. At the same time, kelp conservation and restoration efforts are expanding rapidly across regions, but measures of success and syntheses tend to primarily focus on eco...

Monitoring biodiversity patterns and their changes in Arctic coastal ecosystems is critical under ongoing climate change. However, common current approaches require high effort and expertise and this in turn limits the spatial and temporal scale of these monitoring efforts. Here, we investigated both the fish and the marine invertebrate communities across Svalbard using a multi-marker environmental DNA metabarcoding approach....

Summary Two new species of Digitaria are described from two locations in western Tanzania, including the Uzondo plateau, following collecting trips by Kaj Vollesen and colleagues, Digitaria laciniata and D. setarioides . Line drawings accompany the descriptions and scanning electron micrographs show spikelet and trichome morphology. Digitaria parodii is recorded from Tanzania for the first time. All three species represent asp...

Radon is an established lung carcinogen, but more research is needed to inform whether area-based measures of radon exposure reflect underlying cancer risk. This study, the first of its kind in the UK, aimed to investigate the association between a nationwide indicative radon atlas and lung cancer risk in Northern Ireland, a region in which lung cancer screening programmes are under design. A population-based case–control stud...

Proximal tubule in vitro systems are important tools in pre-clinical drug development, providing insights into drug disposition and safety. Cells are often cultured in medium containing fetal calf serum (FCS); however, FCS addition is not physiologically relevant for cells of human origin. Here, in vitro cultures of human kidney proximal tubule cells were transitioned to FCS-free medium. The impact of FCS-free medium on matura...

The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized biodiversity assessments in aquatic ecosystems, enabling non‐invasive monitoring of fish communities across diverse regions. However, the global comparability of these eDNA datasets remains ambiguous due to heterogeneous sampling protocols and bioinformatic workflows across studies, making it difficult to assess how robust and comparable the biodiversity patterns infe...

Aim Tree size distributions are an emergent feature of forest dynamics across space and time. Theory suggests that undisturbed forests exhibit a size‐abundance distribution captured by a power‐law relationship with a near‐2 slope. We aimed to quantify how disturbances systematically and predictably cause deviations from this expected pattern. Location Contiguous United States. Time Period 2001–2023. Major Taxa Studied Diverse...

The Rajapalot area of Finnish Lapland hosts an unusually high-grade association of cobalt-only and gold–cobalt deposits (10.91 Mt @ 2.5 g/t Au + 0.044% Co total inferred resources) within multiply folded metasedimentary rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Svecofennian collisional orogeny. Through the integration of X-ray computed micro-tomography and micro-X-ray fluorescence raster imaging of drill-core samples, we produce a model o...