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Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management—The State of the Art and Prospects for Near‐Future OperationsNARA Subscribed
A recent UN report describes many regions as facing ‘water bankruptcy, ’ a condition in which available water resources can no longer meet existing demands. In practice, this means irrigation will likely bear the greatest burden of future water‐use reductions, a complicated and fraught decision to make given its critical role in food security. This review paper highlights the growing range of information now available through...
Whole genome sequencing of measles viruses: the benefit for outbreak investigation, The Netherlands, 2013–2014NARA Subscribed
Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease and remains a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Molecular surveillance of measles virus (MV) is used for tracing transmission chains, by, for instance, distinguishing between repeated introductions and endemic circulation. WHO guidelines used in the global measles surveillance network recommend sequencing of a 450-nucleotide region at the C-terminal end of the N-ge...
Putatively Adaptive and Genome‐Wide Genetic Variation Often Rank Populations as Similarly DistinctiveNARA Subscribed
Identifying which populations within species to prioritize to maintain genetic diversity is challenging. Due to its direct connection to current patterns of adaptation and presumed connection to adaptive capacity, some researchers advocate prioritizing adaptive variation. Other researchers advocate prioritizing populations using genome‐wide variation, citing the many limitations in identifying adaptive genetic variation, an un...
Freshwater mollusk shells serve as valuable archives for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions as they record water temperatures in their stable isotopic compositions during biomineralization. Yet, the impact of food availability on these isotopic records has never been fully explored. This study addresses that gap by investigating the effects of both temperature and food regime on the stable carbon (δ 13 C) and...
Motivation The database initiated by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is one of the few globally implemented standardized vegetation surveys in mountains. The focus is on collecting plant species occurrences at 5‐year intervals along and adjacent to mountain roads spanning elevational gradients, with the goal of providing critical information about the ongoing spread of non‐native plants and the potential impacts...
Aim Elevational gradients are excellent systems to study biodiversity variation, yet the ecosystem functions performed by animals along these gradients are poorly understood. We assessed tropical elevational patterns of ant‐mediated seed removal, insect predation and the phylogenetic diversity of the local ant assemblages performing these functions as well as the effects of climate and productivity. Location Southeast Brazil,...
Global patterns and regional insights into kelp forest protection, restoration, and stewardshipNARA Subscribed
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...
Effects of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on skeletal muscle metabolism: a link with muscle complaintsNARA Subscribed
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients receiving tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) often report muscle complaints (MC). Strategies to prevent or attenuate these muscle complaints remain enigmatic as the underlying mechanism is unclear, although a central role for mitochondria is proposed. We investigated the effects of TKIs on cellular metabolism in muscle biopsies of CML patients ( n = 20), compared with healthy controls ( n...
Carpobrotus taxa benefit more from clonal integration in their non-native than native rangesNARA Subscribed
Understanding physiological integration in invasive clonal plants is relevant to invasion biology because resource transfer across ramets may allow alien plants to buffer spatial heterogeneity in their introduced areas. However, experimental evidence across native and non-native ranges is limited. Here, we tested whether physiological integration provides greater performance benefits to Carpobrotus taxa in non-native than nati...