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Environmental filtering shapes biosynthetic potential and resistome of antarctic microbiomesNARA Subscribed
Environmental filtering is a major driver of microbial community assembly in Antarctic ecosystems, yet its influence on biosynthetic potential and antimicrobial resistance remains poorly understood. Here, we analyzed 319 medium- to high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) recovered from four Antarctic sites (Whalers Bay, Crater Lake, Fumarole Bay, and Hannah Point) to investigate the relationship between geochemical gr...
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has caused unprecedented coral mortality across Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) since 2014, raising concerns about whether coral restoration can succeed under chronic disease conditions and whether outplanting activities may increase disease transmission risk. As the disease transitioned from epizootic outbreak to enzootic persistence, we conducted a large-scale experimental outplanting to as...
Improving GNSS-IR sea level retrievals using WinLSP with damping-aware height-rate correction and normalized IRLSNARA Subscribed
GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) provides an independent and cost-effective approach for monitoring coastal sea level, but current methods still have important limitations. The classical height-rate correction relies on uniform weighting, which neglects amplitude decay effects, while the WinLSP framework applies bisquare weights directly to unscaled residuals, leading to inconsistent behavior across datasets. We in...
Baleen Whale Occurrence in the Waters Off Virginia and North Carolina, U.S.A. From 2001 to 2019NARA Subscribed
Eighteen years of visual survey and strandings data were used to describe baleen whale occurrence along the continental shelf of Virginia and North Carolina, U.S.A. This region experiences heavy anthropogenic use, which poses risks for mortality and injury to baleen whales. Between 2001 and 2019, six species of baleen whales were recorded, and whales occurred year‐round. The total number of (on‐ and off‐effort) sightings and s...
Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of Earth's land surfaces, account for 44% of cultivated lands and 60% of food sources, and make large contributions to the global water and carbon cycles. However, these ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented extremes including heatwaves, floods, and droughts as well as hotter temperatures and often declining water resource availability. These ecosystems are some of the most challenging to monit...
Using the Diet Composition of Adult Chinook Salmon to Understand the Regional Structure of Salish Sea Forage CommunitiesNARA Subscribed
Small pelagic fish and other forage species are patchily distributed over space and time, resulting in variable foraging conditions experienced by their predators. The high‐resolution data necessary to understand the spatiotemporal structure of forage communities are challenging to collect with expensive fishery‐independent surveys, meaning that other, complementary approaches are needed. To fill this gap, we partnered with re...
Bottom‐tow gear fisheries (trawls and dredges) produce ~24 million mt of harvest annually, representing a globally important animal‐sourced food system. While many are currently sustainably managed, growing concern over the potential for ecosystem impacts from bottom‐tow gears has increased pressure to improve these fisheries. We assembled an international working group of > 30 contributors, including fishing industry particip...
Promoting Research Excellence in Down Syndrome: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Trisomy 21 Research SocietyNARA Subscribed
Down syndrome (DS), or trisomy 21 (T21), represents the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability worldwide and is associated with a wide range of medical, developmental, and neurodegenerative conditions, including a universal predisposition to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Since its establishment in 2014, the Trisomy 21 Research Society (T21RS) has provided a global forum for advancing DS research across di...
Effects of Pig Slurry Treatment with a Peroxide-Based Additive, GasAbate, on the Seasonal Growth of Perennial RyegrassNARA Subscribed
Livestock manures are valuable sources of crop nutrients, however greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during storage exacerbate climate change and also preclude the closing of nutrient loops. Chemical additives applied during storage can reduce these emissions, where a peroxide-based slurry additive (GasAbate) successfully reduces GHG emissions from stored pig slurry. However, its effects upon crop uptake, and thus plant yields, fo...
An exceptionally large blood O 2 store underlies the remarkable dive performance of elephant seals. However, elevated carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) concentrations in these seals complicate estimations of blood O 2 content and O 2 depletion rates, and may also affect monitoring of brain oxygenation in seals with new non-invasive near-infrared (NIR) recorders. Using hemoximetry analyses of blood samples during sleep apneas of juvenil...
Pandemic Vibrio cholerae and the Environmental Reservoir Hypothesis—Outstanding Questions Central to Global Cholera ControlNARA Subscribed
Despite global cholera cases rising to more than 560,000 in 2024, there remains no consensus on a fundamental aspect of cholera epidemiology: whether pandemic Vibrio cholerae forms long‐term environmental reservoirs which become the source of future outbreaks. This knowledge gap prevents optimal disease forecasting, resource allocation and outbreak response in a variety of at‐risk settings, from places experiencing annual chol...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...