Purpose Designed to accelerate delivery of translational technologies, The Innovation Fellows (IF) Program at the Center for Medical Innovation blends experiential learning, competency-building, and industry engagement to prepare early-career engineers, clinicians, and scientists for diverse professional pathways, including entrepreneurship, industry, and clinical translation. Fellows consist of senior graduate students, postd...

Nutrient availability drives community structure and ecosystem processes, especially in tropical lagoons that are typically oligotrophic but often receive allochthonous inputs from land. Terrestrially derived nutrients are introduced to tropical lagoons by surface runoff and submarine groundwater discharge, which are influenced by seasonal precipitation. However, terrigenous inputs presumably diminish along the onshore–offshor...

The fundamental trade‐off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a larger size. Due to the prolonged time required to reach maturity, estimates of tree maturation size remain very rare and we lack a global view on the generality and the shape of this trade‐off. Using seed production from five continents, we estimate tree...

Habitat loss, flood control infrastructure, and drought have left most of southern California and northern Baja California's native freshwater fish near extinction, including the endangered unarmoured threespine stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus williamsoni ). This subspecies, an unusual morph lacking the typical lateral bony plates of the G. aculeatus complex, occurs at arid southern latitudes in the eastern Pacific Ocean...

Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and biotic interactions responsible for biodiversity. A global synthesis of raw seedproduction data shows a 250‐fold increase in seed abundance from cold‐dry to warm‐wet climates, driven primarily by a 100‐fold increase in seed production for a given tree size. The modest (three...

The vertical distribution of foliage biomass is important because it is associated with photosynthesis and is closely related to some wood quality attributes such as branch diameter and sapwood content. In this article we propose a model to predict foliage biomass distribution within the crown for jack pine trees in Eastern Canada. This model has two parts. The first one distinguishes the proportion of nodal (formed at the end...