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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...
Throughout Earth’s history, eruptions from volcanic fissures have been responsible for some of the largest outpourings of basaltic magma, impacting climate and society. In continental monogenetic settings, these eruptions can occur on short timescales and with short notice after long quiescence. Their deposits are often quickly destroyed or buried as the eruption progresses, limiting understanding of eruption triggers and haza...
Manistee, a new Round-White Early to Mid-Season Maturing Potato Variety with Excellent Long-Term Storage PotentialNARA Subscribed
Manistee is a round white chip-processing potato ( Solanum tuberosum ) variety developed for long-term storage. Evaluated as MSL292-A, Manistee is a selection from a cross between Snowden and the chip-processing breeding line MSH098-2. The tubers of Manistee are compressed, round with shallow eyes and early to mid-season maturity. Field testing and on-farm trials show that this variety has high yield potential with specific gr...
Efficacy of unbaited and baited green multi-funnel traps for detection of Agrilus species and other wood-boring beetle taxaNARA Subscribed
Semiochemical-baited traps are a key component of post-border surveillance for detection of non-native and potentially invasive bark and wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) at risk of introduction in untreated woody materials used in global trade. Because the particular species that may arrive with imported goods is unknown, plant protection agencies need trapping protocols that effective...
The genus Agrilus is one of the most diverse insect genera worldwide. The larval feeding activity causes extensive damage in both forests and orchards. In addition, more than 30 species have been introduced outside their native range so far, including the emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire. Thus, the availability of efficient trapping protocols for early detection of Agrilus species at entry points is of utmost im...
Quota use in mixed‐stock fisheriesNARA Subscribed
Although most fisheries assessment and management focuses on the status of individual stocks, and regulations are commonly established as single‐species total allowable catch limits (TACs), much of the catch from global fisheries comes from mixed‐stock fisheries where species cannot be harvested separately. We show that in some fisheries where TAC and catch of demersal fish stocks are tracked, the average fraction of TAC harve...
Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux networkNARA Subscribed
In 2020, the Australian and New Zealand flux research and monitoring network, OzFlux, celebrated its 20 th anniversary by reflecting on the lessons learned through two decades of ecosystem studies on global change biology. OzFlux is a network not only for ecosystem researchers, but also for those ‘next users’ of the knowledge, information and data that such networks provide. Here, we focus on eight lessons across topics of cli...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...