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Animal-borne cameras are effective tools to study the fine-scale behavior and habitat use of a wide range of marine taxa, including birds, mammals, sea turtles, and elasmobranchs. We deployed animal-borne camera and accelerometer packages on 13 juvenile white sharks ( Carcharodon carcharias ; 174–283 cm total length) along the coast of New South Wales (Australia) to investigate white shark foraging behavior and habitat prefere...
Microstructure Simulation to Predict the Influence of Particle Properties on Permeability of Granular Porous MediaNARA Subscribed
This work investigates the influence of particle shape and asperity height on the flow behavior of porous granular media using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The developed framework includes the generation of random structured particle beds with LIGGGHTS using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) and the subsequent analysis of the pore space in terms of porosity and specific surface area. CFD is then applied to analyze the f...
Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are covered by protected areas. However, doing so is hindered by missing information on most species owing to extremely high insect diversity and difficulties in morphological identification. To address this knowledge gap, we used one of the most comprehe...
Environmental temperature is an important determinant of physiological processes and life histories in ectotherms. Over latitudinal scales, variation in temperature has been linked to changes in life‐history traits and demographic rates, with growth and mortality rates generally being greatest at low latitudes, and longevity and maximum length being greater at higher latitudes. Using the two‐spined angelfish, Centropyge bispin...
Myocardial Perfusion Simulation for Coronary Artery Disease: A Coupled Patient-Specific Multiscale ModelNARA Subscribed
Patient-specific models of blood flow are being used clinically to diagnose and plan treatment for coronary artery disease. A remaining challenge is bridging scales from flow in arteries to the micro-circulation supplying the myocardium. Previously proposed models are descriptive rather than predictive and have not been applied to human data. The goal here is to develop a multiscale patient-specific model enabling blood flow s...
Intraspecific diversity is central to the management and conservation of exploited species, yet knowledge of how this diversity is distributed and maintained in the genome of many marine species is lacking. Recent advances in genomic analyses allow for genome‐wide surveys of intraspecific diversity and offer new opportunities for exploring genomic patterns of divergence. Here, we analysed genome‐wide polymorphisms to measure g...
Testing the generality of above‐ground biomass allometry across plant functional types at the continent scaleNARA Subscribed
Accurate ground‐based estimation of the carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems is critical to quantifying the global carbon budget. Allometric models provide cost‐effective methods for biomass prediction. But do such models vary with ecoregion or plant functional type? We compiled 15 054 measurements of individual tree or shrub biomass from across Australia to examine the generality of allometric models for above‐ground bioma...
A review of contemporary patterns of endemism for shallow water reef fauna in the Red SeaNARA Subscribed
Aim The Red Sea is characterised by a unique fauna and historical periods of desiccation, hypersalinity and intermittent isolation. The origin and contemporary composition of reef‐associated taxa in this region can illuminate biogeographical principles about vicariance and the establishment (or local extirpation) of existing species. Here we aim to: (1) outline the distribution of shallow water fauna between the Red Sea and ad...
Aim Suture zones are areas where closely related species from different biogeographical regions come into contact and interbreed. This concept originated from the study of terrestrial ecosystems but it remains unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurs in the marine environment. Here we investigate a potential suture zone from a previously unknown hybrid hotspot at the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen), located in the Arabian Sea,...
Highly Differentiated Populations of the Narrow Endemic Plant Maguire Primrose ( Primula maguirei )NARA Subscribed
Maguire primrose (Primula maguirei) is a geographically restricted plant species, known only from a 19‐km stretch of Logan Canyon in northern Utah (U.S.A.). We examined variation at 13 isozyme loci from 25 individuals of P. maguirei at each of eight sites. At individual loci we detected no statistically significant deviations from Hardy‐Weinberg proportions within sites (subpopulations). However, some loci were almost fixed fo...
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