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Principal results of the Portoviejo (Ecuador) seismic microzonation project and importance for seismic hazard mitigationNARA Subscribed
The 2016 Mw7.8 Pedernales earthquake caused extensive damage along the central Ecuadorian coastline, resulting in 661 casualties, 4859 injured and the collapse of numerous buildings. The city of Portoviejo (Ecuador), located 140 km from the epicenter, was one of the most severely impacted municipalities with approximately 10% of its buildings damaged and 40 reinforced concrete buildings in the city center collapsed. A seismic...
Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this...
Movement patterns of juvenile green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) in the San Francisco Bay EstuaryNARA Subscribed
Little is known about the distribution and ecology of juvenile green sturgeon throughout their range and specifically within California’s Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay Estuary. The objective of our study was to identify rearing movement patterns of juvenile green sturgeon and their interaction with Delta and Bay habitats. Acoustic biotelemetry was used to record juvenile movements and residence within different regi...
Epigenetic clocks based on patterns of DNA methylation have great importance in understanding aging and disease; however, there are basic questions to be resolved in their application. It remains unknown whether epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) within an individual shows strong correlation between different primary tissue sites, the extent to which tissue pathology and clinical illness correlate with EAA in the target organ,...
Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact this critical ecosystem service. Because standardized data on crop pollination are rarely available, we are limited in our capacity to understand the variation in pollination benefits to crop yield, as well as to anticipate changes in this service, develop predictions, and...
There is increasing pressure from policymakers for ecologists to generate more detailed ‘attribution’ analyses aimed at quantitatively estimating relative contributions of different driving forces, including anthropogenic climate change ( ACC ), to observed biological changes. Here, we argue that this approach is not productive for ecological studies. Global meta‐analyses of diverse species, regions and ecosystems have already...
Process, correlation and parameter fitting in species distribution models: a response to Kriticos et alNARA Subscribed
In a recent article (Dormann et al ., 2012, Journal of Biogeography , 39, 2119–2131), we compared different approaches to species distribution modelling and depicted modelling approaches along an axis from purely ‘correlative’ to ‘forward process‐based’ models. In their correspondence, Kriticos et al . (2013, Journal of Biogeography , doi: 10.1111/j.1365‐2699.2012.02791.x ) challenge this view, claiming that our continuum repr...
Within the field of species distribution modelling an apparent dichotomy exists between process‐based and correlative approaches, where the processes are explicit in the former and implicit in the latter. However, these intuitive distinctions can become blurred when comparing species distribution modelling approaches in more detail. In this review article, we contrast the extremes of the correlative–process spectrum of species...