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This study sought to evaluate the characteristics of clinical-pharmacological (CP) medication reviews conducted by the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology of Hannover Medical School for older, multimorbid, polymedicated insurants of the German statutory health insurance fund Kaufmännische Krankenkasse (KKH). Special emphasis was put on potential sex-specific differences between female and male insurants, prescriptions of poten...
The Asia region harbors exceptional chondrichthyan (shark, ray, and chimaera) diversity but faces intense fishing pressure. The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) process provides a collaborative, evidence-based framework to identify critical habitats and inform spatial management. We assessed ISRAs across the Bay of Bengal, Southeast Asia, and the Northwest Pacific to characterize their extent, ecological significance, and...
Assessment of Bottom Trawl Impacts on the Status of Seabed Communities in European SeasNARA Subscribed
Bottom trawling affects seabed habitats, but its large‐scale impacts remain poorly quantified. Assessment of trawling impacts is essential to support monitoring and achieving sustainability objectives under international conventions, sustainable development goals, and seafood certification programs. We present a Europe‐wide quantitative assessment of bottom trawling impacts, accounting for regional seabed‐community sensitivity...
A Snapshot of the Ecological Contributions of an Active Coral Restoration Effort in an Indo-Pacific ReefNARA Subscribed
Active coral restoration is promoted to rebuild reef ecosystems, yet its ecological contributions remain uncertain. We conducted a field experiment across three sites in Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area (MPA): a natural site as the closest reference to the reef’s original state, a rubble site degraded by anthropogenic stressors, and a restoration site (est. 2020) with a monoculture of transplanted Acropora pulchra . We compar...
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threatsNARA Subscribed
Aim Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the following research questions: (1) What are the patterns of dominance and rarity in tree...
Environment and microbiome drive different microbial traits and functions in the macroscale soil organic carbon cycleNARA Subscribed
Soil microbial traits and functions play a central role in soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics. However, at the macroscale (regional to global) it is still unresolved whether (i) specific environmental attributes (e.g., climate, geology, soil types) or (ii) microbial community composition drive key microbial traits and functions directly. To address this knowledge gap, we used 33 grassland topsoils (0–10 cm) from a geoclimatic...
Purpose This study aimed to investigate physiological responses, muscle–tendon unit properties of the quadriceps muscle, and mechanical performance after repeated sprint cycling at optimal and 70% of optimal cadence. Methods Twenty recreational cyclists performed as first sprint performance cycling test and during subsequent sessions two repeated sprint cycling protocols at optimal and 70% of optimal cadence, in random order....
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilizationNARA Subscribed
The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large‐scale datasets. We buried 36,000 individual litterbags (tea bags) worldwide and found an overall negative correlation between initial mass‐loss rates and stabilization factors of plant‐derived carbon, using the Tea...
The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in EuropeNARA Subscribed
Motivation Trait variation within species can reveal plastic and/or genetic responses to environmental gradients, and may indicate where local adaptation has occurred. Here, we present a dataset of rangewide variation in leaf traits from seven of the most ecologically and economically important tree species in Europe. Sample collection and trait assessment are embedded in the GenTree project (EU‐Horizon 2020), which aims at ch...