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Earth's biodiversity is central to ecosystem health and resilience, providing essential functions and services. The Red Sea is a recognised marine biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and unique environmental conditions that support extensive but poorly resolved biodiversity. Here, we applied metagenomic analyses to sediment samples collected from coastal to deep‐sea environments during the Red Sea Decade Expedition 2022 to...
In Situ and Remote Observation of Baroclinic Waves, Mixing Processes, and Circulation in Lake Taupō, Aotearoa/New ZealandNARA Subscribed
Mixing processes in Lake Taupō are driven largely by wind stress that can generate barotropic (surface) and baroclinic (internal) waves. During a 2002 study, a baroclinic wave in the southern basin of Lake Taupō had a setup amplitude greater than 45 m, resulting in upwelling at the southern end of the lake following strong west/southwest winds. Vessel‐mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler data showed that this setup wave w...
Subtropical coral expansion into SE Australia: a haven for both temperate and expatriating tropical reef fishesNARA Subscribed
We examined reef fish assemblages in and adjacent to a newly established coral bed (subtropical Pocillopora aliciae ) in temperate south-eastern Australia, to understand whether novel coral habitat is facilitating assemblages of range-expanding tropical and local temperate fishes. This is the first comprehensive assessment of fish species associating with this novel coral habitat within a temperate environment. Twenty fish spe...
Recruiting a long way from home: Domino damselfish Dascyllus trimaculatus can detect new temperate coral habitat and conspecificsNARA Subscribed
Climate change is driving tropicalisation of temperate reefs, yet it is unclear how range‐shifting tropical fishes locate suitable habitat. The authors tested whether juvenile tropical damsels Dascyllus trimaculatus could detect rare coral habitat ( Pocillopora aliciae ) and conspecifics on temperate rocky reefs using olfactory and visual preference experiments. For all cues, individuals selected and spent more time than expec...
A decision support tool was developed to aid management of problematic parasites in marine fish aquaculture. The tool provides biologically relevant treatment intervals to interrupt the life cycle of ectoparasitic flatworms that occur in global kingfish and amberjack ( Seriola spp.) aquaculture. Temperature‐dependent life cycle parameters for the ‘skin flukes’, Benedenia seriolae and Neobenedenia girellae , and the ‘gill fluke...
Habitat associations can be critical predictors of larger‐scale organism distributions and range shifts. Here the authors consider how a critical habitat, kelp ( Ecklonia radiata ) and prey (mysid crustacean swarms), can influence small‐ and large‐scale distribution on the iconic common (weedy) seadragon ( Phyllopteryx taeniolatus :Syngnathidae). P. taeniolatus are charismatic fish endemic to the temperate reefs of southern Au...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
Space use by the endemic common (weedy) seadragon ( Phyllopteryx taeniolatus ): influence of habitat and preyNARA Subscribed
The weedy seadragon ( Phyllopteryx taeniolatus : Syngnathidae) is an iconic fish endemic to the southern coastal waters of Australia. The authors of this study analysed the habitat preferences and factors influencing microhabitat selection by P. taeniolatus in a population from Kurnell, NSW, Australia. Using field surveys and the resource selection probability function, the authors determined that P. taeniolatus significantly...
We examined the hypothesis that ecological niche models ( ENM s) more accurately predict species distributions when they incorporate information on population genetic structure, and concomitantly, local adaptation. Local adaptation is common in species that span a range of environmental gradients (e.g., soils and climate). Moreover, common garden studies have demonstrated a covariance between neutral markers and functional tra...
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