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Haptoglobin Attenuates Cerebrospinal Fluid Hemoglobin-Induced Neurological Deterioration in SheepNARA Subscribed
Secondary brain injury (SBI) occurs with a lag of several days post-bleeding in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) and is a strong contributor to mortality and long-term morbidity. aSAH-SBI coincides with cell-free hemoglobin (Hb) release into the cerebrospinal fluid. This temporal association and convincing pathophysiological concepts suggest that CSF-Hb could be a targetable trigger of SBI. However, spar...
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservationNARA Subscribed
Conservation efforts are increasingly supported by ecosystem service assessments. These assessments depend on complex multi-disciplinary methods, and rely on a number of assumptions which reduce complexity. If assumptions are ambiguous or inadequate, misconceptions and misinterpretations may arise when interpreting results of assessments. An interdisciplinary understanding of assumptions in ecosystem service science is needed...
Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differencesNARA Subscribed
Biodiversity studies are sensitive to well‐recognised temporal and spatial scale dependencies. Cross‐study syntheses may inflate these influences by collating studies that vary widely in the numbers and sizes of sampling plots. Here we evaluate sources of inaccuracy and imprecision in study‐level and cross‐study estimates of biodiversity differences, caused by within‐study grain and sample sizes, biodiversity measure, and choi...
Relative impacts of land‐use and climate change on grasshopper range shifts have changed over timeNARA Subscribed
Aim Stopping the decline of biodiversity is one of today’s greatest challenges. To help address this, we require studies that disentangle the effects of the most important drivers behind species range losses and shifts. In this large‐scale study, we aim to evaluate the relative impacts of changes in land use and climate on distributional changes in grasshoppers. Location Central Europe. Time period Historical (pre‐1990 vs. 199...
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open accessNARA Subscribed
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodivers...
Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysisNARA Subscribed
Most current research on land‐use intensification addresses its potential to either threaten biodiversity or to boost agricultural production. However, little is known about the simultaneous effects of intensification on biodiversity and yield. To determine the responses of species richness and yield to conventional intensification, we conducted a global meta‐analysis synthesizing 115 studies which collected data for both vari...
Social reinstatement: a rat model of peer-induced relapseNARA Subscribed
Modeling Effectiveness of Gradual Increases in Source Level to Mitigate Effects of Sonar on Marine MammalsNARA Subscribed
Ramp‐up or soft‐start procedures (i.e., gradual increase in the source level) are used to mitigate the effect of sonar sound on marine mammals, although no one to date has tested whether ramp‐up procedures are effective at reducing the effect of sound on marine mammals. We investigated the effectiveness of ramp‐up procedures in reducing the area within which changes in hearing thresholds can occur. We modeled the level of soun...