Climate change poses an unprecedented risk to fisheries ecosystems and economies globally. Ocean warming has led to observed geographic shifts and changes in the productivity of fish stocks. Due to the rapid pace of change in many of the world's oceans, there is a critical need to develop and apply scientific knowledge and tools that can help account for non‐stationarity and integrate climate and ecosystem drivers into fishery...

Nutrient supply is an important determinant of N fixation rates in pelagic cyanobacteria. In shallow aquatic ecosystems, benthic primary producers can affect nutrient release from the sediment to the pelagic zone, yet the relationship between benthic primary producers and pelagic N fixation is not well understood. Here, we explore the effect of benthic primary producers on benthic nutrient fluxes and pelagic N fixation rates i...

Microplastics have been identified in hundreds of species, with evidence of trophic transfer via contaminated prey. Sarasota Bay common bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) serve as sentinels of coastal pollution, including plastics and chemical plasticizers. Previous research confirmed microplastic ingestion in these dolphins (100.0%, n = 7) and extensive contamination in 11 common prey species (96.5%, n = 86). This stu...

Characterizing the genetic structure and connectivity between populations of endangered species can be used to inform management actions. In vagile species with high gene flow or recently established populations, such characterizations can be difficult to undertake using traditional genetic markers, and genetic stock identification (GSI) may be confounded by allele-sharing between populations. Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta...

The community of benthic crustaceans in Lake Mývatn, Iceland, is dynamic, with different taxa showing different patterns of variation through time. Here, we analyze the dynamics of eight crustaceans collected during the summer from a central station in Mývatn over 29 years, 1995–2023. We investigated the hypothesis that fluctuations in the dominant benthic tube-forming midge, Tanytarsus gracilentus , drives fluctuations in ben...

In nitrogen-limited lakes, cyanobacterial nitrogen (N) fixation rates can be high. However, the effect of cyanobacterial N fixation on ecosystem N availability depends, in part, on the retention of fixed N. Here, we explore patterns of benthic and pelagic N fixation and fixed N retention in Lake Mývatn, Iceland. Our N budget, updated from previous assessments, showed that the annual rate of lake-scale N fixation needed to acco...

Fruit producers and exporters around the world are grappling with challenges related to post-harvest fruit decay, particularly in fruits such as apples and oranges destined for export, leading to waste and financial losses. The filamentous fungi, specifically Penicillium species, are the primary post-harvest pathogens affecting apples and oranges. This study evaluated the use of five non -Saccharomyces yeast species ( Suhomyce...

Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and noninvasive monitoring techniques that can gather large amounts of data cost‐effectively at various ecological scales, from local to large spatial scales. These data can then be analyzed to inform stakeholders and decision‐makers. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic identification of animal sp...

In recent years, there has been an increasing need for climate information across diverse sectors of society. This demand has arisen from the necessity to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate variability and change. Likewise, this period has seen a significant increase in our understanding of the physical processes and mechanisms that drive precipitation and its variability across different regions of Africa. By levera...

Quantifying sea turtle nesting behavior is essential for recovery planning and evaluating management actions. Traditional monitoring approaches, based on nest counts from beach surveys, can misclassify non-nesting emergences, obscure true fecundity, and underestimate clutch frequency, metrics that directly influence population models and regulatory decisions. Here, we demonstrate that high-resolution acceleration data loggers...

Dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) is the most abundant steroid in humans and some nonhuman primates. This adrenal androgen contributes to immune enhancement, neuroprotection, and reproduction. In humans and apes, DHEAS levels increase before puberty, a phenomenon called adrenarche. However, a postnatal increase in the levels of these hormones is not apparent in cercopithecoids. In marmosets, DHEAS is only synthesized from...

Stingless bees engage in a range of visually guided behaviours that require relatively high spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity. Although the eyes of honeybees, bumblebees, carpenter bees, and sweat bees have been studied extensively, there is limited knowledge of stingless bees. Here, we studied two sympatric Australian species, Tetragonula carbonaria and Austroplebeia australis , which are important crop pollinators....

Introduction Exposure to phthalate esters has previously been documented in bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) inhabiting an urban estuary (Sarasota Bay, FL, USA; 2010-2019). Phthalates are chemicals commonly added to plastic products and consumer goods to enhance qualities such as flexibility, fragrance, and stability. Chemical leaching from products into the marine environment leaves wildlife vulnerable to reproducti...

Conservation measures require accurate estimates of density and abundance and population trend assessments. The bonobo ( Pan paniscus ) is considered Endangered in the IUCN Red List. This classification assumes that available population data are representative. However, with only 30% of the bonobo’s historic geographical range surveyed, reliable information is needed to assess the species' population status. Here, we use infor...