Effective conservation of the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale ( Delphinapterus leucas ) requires comprehensive spatiotemporal data, yet monitoring efforts remain spatially biased, underrepresenting important southern habitats. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) provides the necessary broad‐scale coverage, but its expansion introduces substantial computational challenges, including high soundscape variability, rarity of targe...

In origins-of-life research, a key challenge is to explain the emergence of polymers of sufficient length to confer the complex functions needed for genetic inheritance. Previous studies have demonstrated that prebiotic environments enabling multilevel selection can facilitate the survival of cooperating polymers such as ribozymes, which allows that complex functions undertaken today by long polymers might have originated from...

Aim We investigated how local‐scale environmental heterogeneity influences biodiversity patterns across broad biogeographic gradients, using intertidal microhabitats as a model system within one of the most environmentally stressful ecosystems on Earth. Location Intertidal habitats at 26 locations (two rocky shore sites per location) across six continents, spanning 98° of latitude (38°S to 60°N). Time Period 2019–2022. Major T...