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Population Genomics of a Cosmopolitan Weed Provides Insights Into Its Local Adaptation and Recent Demographic HistoryNARA Subscribed
Invasive plant species present a growing ecological and economic challenge, and often adapt rapidly to their novel environments through complex demographic and evolutionary processes. Invasion genomics offers powerful tools to disentangle these processes, but most studies rely on geographically narrow sampling across native and non‐native ranges. Erigeron canadensis is a cosmopolitan weed native to North America that has succe...
Mapping material use and embodied carbon in UK constructionNARA Subscribed
Increased recycling and reuse rates are a central part of the objectives laid out by the COP21. Nonetheless, the practical implementation of what has been called the circular economy, as well as its true potential, are not easily established. This is because the impact and implementation time scales of any intervention depend on knowing the lifetime of products, which is frequently unknown. This is particularly true in constru...
Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyon...
Marine snow was implicated in the transport of oil to the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but the exact processes remain controversial. In this study, we investigated the concentrations and distributions of the 16 USEPA priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in marine snow aggregates collected during a mesocosm experiment. Seawater only, oil in a water accommodated fraction (WAF), and Corexit-enhance...
Association between APOE e4 and white matter hyperintensity volume, but not total brain volume or white matter integrityNARA Subscribed
Apolipoprotein ( APOE ) e4 genotype is an accepted risk factor for accelerated cognitive aging and dementia, though its neurostructural substrates are unclear. The deleterious effects of this genotype on brain structure may increase in magnitude into older age. This study aimed to investigate in UK Biobank the association between APOE e4 allele presence vs. absence and brain imaging variables that have been associated with wor...
UAV-hyperspectral imaging of spectrally complex environmentsNARA Subscribed
Functionalised microwave sensors for real-time monitoring of copper and zinc concentration in mining-impacted waterNARA Subscribed
Microwave spectroscopy has been identified as a novel and inexpensive method for the monitoring of water pollutants. Integrating microwave sensors with developed coatings is a novel strategy to make the sensing system more specific for a target contaminant. This study describes the determination of copper and zinc concentration in water in both laboratory-prepared and acquired mine water samples from two abandoned mining areas...
NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
Xenarthrans—anteaters, sloths, and armadillos—have essential functions for ecosystem maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem engineers. Because of habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting pressure, and conflicts with domestic dogs, these species have been threatened locally, regionally, or even across their full distribution ranges. The Neotropics harbor 21 species of armadillos,...
Jaguar movement database: a GPS‐based movement dataset of an apex predator in the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
The field of movement ecology has rapidly grown during the last decade, with important advancements in tracking devices and analytical tools that have provided unprecedented insights into where, when, and why species move across a landscape. Although there has been an increasing emphasis on making animal movement data publicly available, there has also been a conspicuous dearth in the availability of such data on large carnivo...
ATLANTIC ‐ CAMTRAPS : a dataset of medium and large terrestrial mammal communities in the Atlantic Forest of South AmericaNARA Subscribed
Our understanding of mammal ecology has always been hindered by the difficulties of observing species in closed tropical forests. Camera trapping has become a major advance for monitoring terrestrial mammals in biodiversity rich ecosystems. Here we compiled one of the largest datasets of inventories of terrestrial mammal communities for the Neotropical region based on camera trapping studies. The dataset comprises 170 surveys...
Summary We developed protocols for, and demonstrated successful transfection of, the free‐living kinetoplastid flagellate Parabodo caudatus with three plasmids carrying a fluorescence reporter gene (pEF‐GFP with the EF1 alpha promoter, pUB‐GFP with Ubiquitin C promoter, and pEYFP‐Mitotrap with CMV promoter). We evaluated three electroporation approaches: (1) a square‐wave electroporator designed for eukaryotes, (2) a novel mic...
Clouds are important features of many high‐altitude and glaciated areas, yet detecting their presence and specifying their effects on incoming shortwave ( SW ↓), longwave ( LW ↓) and net all‐wave radiation ( Rnet ) remains challenging in these environments. These limitations hamper efforts to understand atmospheric controls on glacier surface mass balance ( SMB ) in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, as both cloud and airmass f...
A tephrochronology for the Lateglacial palynological record of the Endinger Bruch (Vorpommern, north‐east Germany)NARA Subscribed
The tephrostratigraphy of lake sediments in the Endinger Bruch provides the first robust age model for the Lateglacial palynological records of Vorpommern (north‐east Germany). Cryptotephra investigations revealed six tephra layers within sediments spanning from Open vegetation phase I (∼Bølling, ∼15 ka) to the Early Holocene Betula / Pinus forest phase (∼Pre‐boreal, ∼10.5 ka). Four of these layers have been correlated with pr...
Habitat fragmentation may disrupt original patterns of gene flow and lead to drift‐induced differentiation among local population units. Top predators such as the jaguar may be particularly susceptible to this effect, given their low population densities, leading to small effective sizes in local fragments. On the other hand, the jaguar’s high dispersal capabilities and relatively long generation time might counteract this pro...