The forest floor (FF) plays a key role in carbon, nutrient, and water cycling. It is the biologically most active compartment of forest soils, highly responsive to environmental conditions. Yet, its response to current changes in environmental conditions and forest management is understudied. Temperate forests are among the best studied ecosystems globally, providing the necessary ecological and biogeochemical background infor...

Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) represent a major segment of the global drugs of abuse market. Prolintane (1-(1-phenylpentan-2-yl)pyrrolidine), a substituted phenylethylamine ATS, was historically utilized as medication for several therapeutic indications. This study aimed to investigate the metabolic fate and urinary detectability of the three novel derivatives 2-, 3-, and 4-fluoroprolintane, which were recently shown to ac...

Ring-substituted synthetic cathinones represent a major subgroup within new psychoactive substances. This study investigated the in vitro toxicokinetics of the three 4-methoxy-substituted representatives 4MeO-NE-BP (4’-methoxy- N -ethylbutyrophenone), 4MeO-αP-BP (4’-methoxy-α-pyrrolidinobutyrophenone), and 4MeO-αP-VP (4’-methoxy-α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone) and the three related novel 4-methylthio analogs 4MeS-NE-BP (4’-methylt...

Digital transformation is the key to turning public authorities into organisations that make decisions based on data-driven insights. Big geodata analysis can enable public authorities to tackle complex sustainability issues in order to achieve long-term goals. However, the efficient management of large amounts of geodata through the implementation of viable and state-of-the-art data infrastructures represents a major challeng...

Ongoing shifts in climate and land use have altered interactions between trees and insect herbivores, changing biotic disturbance regimes. However, as these changes are complex and vary across host species, insect taxa, and feeding guilds, they remain poorly understood. We compiled annual records of forest insect disturbance from 15 countries in temperate and boreal Europe, spanning the period from 2000 to 2022. The dataset co...

Wildlife populations globally have experienced widespread historical declines due to anthropogenic and environmental impacts, yet for some species, contemporary management and conservation programmes have enabled recent recovery. The impacts of decline and recovery on genomic diversity and, vice versa, the genetic factors that contribute to conservation success or failure are rich areas for inquiry, with implications for shapi...

Mechanical organ models are crucial for understanding organ function and clinical applications. These models rely on input data regarding smooth muscle properties, typically gathered from experiments involving stimulations at different muscle lengths. However, reproducibility of these experimental results is a major challenge due to rapid changes in active and passive smooth muscle properties during the measurement period. Usu...

Amplified climate warming and the tectonically active landscape in High Mountain Asia (HMA) have led to the occurrence of 60 well-documented large rock and/or ice avalanches (RIAs), resulting in at least 1366 fatalities and extensive negative impacts on ecosystems, water resources, infrastructure, and social stability. In this study, we analyzed historical RIAs in HMA using detailed topographic, climatic, glacier, permafrost,...

Land use change threatens global biodiversity and compromises ecosystem functions, including pollination and food production. Reduced taxonomic α‐diversity is often reported under land use change, yet the impacts could be different at larger spatial scales (i.e., γ‐diversity), either due to reduced β‐diversity amplifying diversity loss or increased β‐diversity dampening diversity loss. Additionally, studies often focus on taxo...