Calcifying bivalves account for > 80% of the total macrozoobenthic biomass in the southern Baltic Sea. Salinity declines from around 30 in the western Kattegat to 7 in the central Baltic Proper providing a natural gradient along which to investigate the impact of lowering salinity on shelled organisms. Low salinity conditions constrain biomineralisation with limited calcification substrates and periods of aragonite undersatura...

Commercially grown garlic is usually infected by complex mixtures of carla-, poty-, and allexiviruses. Specific detection of these viruses is difficult, particularly as some such as the allexiviruses exhibit serological cross-reactivity, and intraspecific nucleic acid sequence diversity is relatively large. While next generation sequencing shows much promise as a diagnostic method, it is not yet widely used for routine virus s...

Plants can ‘cry for help’ in response to herbivory as well as anticipate herbivory by detecting specific environmental cues before damage occurs. But can plants ‘anticipate help?’ Building on the optimal defence and information transfer models of induced plant defence, we argue they can. We find literature support for key assumptions of the ‘anticipating help’ hypothesis, which proposes plants can (1) detect cues that signal r...

Headstarting is a translocation technique involving the hatching or rearing of wild eggs or young in captivity and the release of those individuals back to the wild at or before independence. It has been trialed as a conservation intervention for shorebirds over recent decades to improve the population trend of target populations by increasing survival during the vulnerable early‐life stages. We used a population modeling appr...

In 2019, symptoms typical of infection by iris yellow spot virus (IYSV; family Tospoviridae , genus Orthotospovirus ) were observed on shallot ( A. cepa var. aggregatum ) grown at the Gatton Research Facility, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland. Initial testing by DAS-ELISA was positive for IYSV, and subsequent specific RT-PCR amplifying part of the RdRp (L-segment) and sequencing of amplicons confirmed the IY...

South Africa has a large captive lion ( Panthera leo ) sector, but detailed knowledge on the origin of individuals and any potential genetic value to conservation targets is lacking. In 2021, the South African government committed to closing the sector and have since appointed a Ministerial Lion Task Team (2022) to initiate this process. Some have suggested that captive lions could be integrated into wild populations as part o...

Apalachicola Bay, a river-fed estuary in the northeast Gulf of Mexico is experiencing impacts from anthropogenic and climate-induced changes in freshwater inputs and sea level rise. These synergistic pressures have resulted in a historic oyster fishery collapse and the expansion of mangroves, which are displacing native salt marsh. Understanding how these natural and man-made-driven changes have affected the nekton community i...

Many studies have focused on vegetation across forest edges to study impacts of edges created by human activities on forest structure and composition, or patterns of vegetation at inherent natural edges. Our objective was to create a database of plant‐related variables across different types of edges from various studies (mainly from across Canada, but also in Brazil and Belize) to facilitate edge research. We compiled data on...

Increasing shares of microfibers are being detected in environmental samples and a closer look to identify the risk associated with them using ecologically relevant endpoints, especially at sensitive early life stages, is needed. To assess exposure hazards, we used rope samples representative of fiber types ubiquitous in coastal systems, where microfibers are often the most common debris type found in the water column. To comp...