Cancer genetic counseling and testing is potentially lifesaving for individuals at risk of hereditary cancers. Yet, it is severely underutilized among under-resourced Latinas. There has been limited examination of implementing cancer genetic risk screening—the first step of cancer genetic counseling and testing –via community-based organizations (CBOs) serving Latinas. This project explored multilevel barriers and facilitators...

Global change is threatening the integrity of forest ecosystems worldwide, amplifying the need for resilience‐based management to ensure their conservation and sustain the services they provide. Yet, current efforts are still limited by the lack of implementation of clear frameworks for operationalizing resilience in decision‐making processes. To overcome this limitation, we aim to identify reliable and effective drivers of fo...

Resilience is commonly addressed when dealing with the sustainable planning and management of social–ecological systems, but we lack a unified framework for its quantitative assessment and application. We present an operational resilience framework (ORF) based on recognizing and relating several elements: system variables (e.g., ecosystem services), disturbances and stressors acting at given spatiotemporal scales, a reference...

A significant fraction of Earth's ecosystems undergoes periodic wet‐dry alternating transitional states. These globally distributed water‐driven transitional ecosystems, such as intermittent rivers and coastal shorelines, have traditionally been studied as two distinct entities, whereas they constitute a single, interconnected meta‐ecosystem. This has resulted in a poor conceptual and empirical understanding of water‐driven tr...

Traditional approaches in trait‐based community ecology typically expect that trait filtering across broad environmental gradients is largely due to replacement of species, rather than intraspecific trait adjustments. Recently, the role of intraspecific trait variability has been largely highlighted as an important contributor mediating the ability of communities to persist under changing conditions and determining the communi...