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The Asia region harbors exceptional chondrichthyan (shark, ray, and chimaera) diversity but faces intense fishing pressure. The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) process provides a collaborative, evidence-based framework to identify critical habitats and inform spatial management. We assessed ISRAs across the Bay of Bengal, Southeast Asia, and the Northwest Pacific to characterize their extent, ecological significance, and...
Methods for investigating trace metal speciation and partitioning in mangrove sediments: a systematic quantitative literature reviewNARA Subscribed
Purpose Mangrove rhizosphere sediments are strong sinks for trace metals, yet conventional sampling and analytical approaches often lack the resolution to capture the fine-scale biogeochemical processes driving metal immobilisation. This review evaluates the limitations of common methodologies used to study trace metal speciation and partitioning in mangrove sediments and provides recommendations for best practices. Methods A...
Diversity and functional group composition drive biogeographic patterns in marine biogenic structural complexityNARA Subscribed
Biogenic structural complexity is a key driver of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet its ecological and environmental determinants remain poorly understood across broad biogeographic scales. Here, we conducted standardized 90‐day field experiments at 16 coastal sites, spanning a 41‐degree latitudinal gradient, using naturally assembled marine fouling communities on settlement panels. We measured rugosity as our metric...
Integrated Reanalysis of Global Riverine Fish eDNA Datasets Shows Robustness and Congruence of Biodiversity ConclusionsNARA Subscribed
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...
Despite their potential to inform sustainable regional harvest and climate‐resilient fisheries management, spatial stock assessment models remain underused for management advice. To identify barriers that inhibit broader use of these methods, we conducted a blinded international simulation experiment mimicking real‐world stock assessment development when confronting spatial complexity. Seven analyst teams built spatially aggre...
Angler demographics and motivations are an important consideration to successful fisheries management. We examined 29 years of angler license and activity records from the recreational Atlantic salmon fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to: (1) provide a contemporary evaluation of angler demographic trends; (2) evaluate age and regional differences between anglers who prioritized retention versus catch‐and‐release; an...
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2024 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Understanding natural enemy communities in the native range of pest insects is critical for implementing management decisions where such pests are invasive. The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is a destructive invasive insect, causing decline of hemlock forests in eastern North America. We studied patterns of predator coexistence and prey suppression among native predators in western North America to inform biological control str...
Characterizing canopy light penetration in black walnut (Juglans nigra) cultivars to inform selection for alley croppingNARA Subscribed
Eastern black walnut ( Juglans nigra L.) is a nut-producing tree species that breaks dormancy late in the spring, allowing a winter alley crop to ripen before substantial canopy shade is formed. However, there is a high level of variation in the timing and structure of tree canopy development within the black walnut cultivar collection maintained at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA). To identify cultiva...
BMP9 knockout impairs pulmonary vessel muscularisation and confers aberrant tamoxifen sensitivityNARA Subscribed
Deleterious mutations in the GDF2 gene, encoding BMP9, are causative of pulmonary arterial hypertension and hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. Paradoxically, BMP9 germ-line knockout ( Gdf2 −/− ; Bmp9 KO) and double Bmp9 KO / conditional Bmp10 cKO (dKO) mice exhibit an attenuated response to PAH-inducing stimuli. We asked whether this contradiction is due to the pathological, physiological, or genetic consequences of BMP9...