Foliar moisture content (FMC) plays a crucial role in arid, frequent-fire forests by influencing fire behavior, tree survival, and serving as a proxy for tree health. Management actions such as mechanical thinning, flammable fuels reduction, and prescribed fires can act to mitigate wildfire risk and improve forest health by reducing fuel connectivity, diversifying forest structure, and creating canopy gaps. These management ac...

Sufficiency calls for an absolute reduction of production and consumption volumes in affluent societies and is seen by many sustainability scholars as a fundamental strategy for businesses to tackle environmental and social crises. Existing literature emphasizes challenges that businesses experience when implementing sufficiency. However, the complex and paradoxical nature of implementing sufficiency has so far hindered schola...

Whole genome resequencing can be a powerful tool for uncovering biological insights and quantifying population genomic metrics relevant to conservation. These insights have the potential to be most profound in secretive or elusive species that are understudied but whose populations may be waning. The western chicken turtle ( Deirochelys reticularia miaria ) is one such example where conservationists are concerned about reporte...

Illegal trade in leopard tortoises Stigmochelys pardalis is widespread, yet the origins of confiscated S. pardalis are often unknown. Accurate assignment to source populations is essential for informed conservation management and release. We expanded and tested a genetic reference database for assigning S. pardalis to their original wild populations in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, and Eswatini. We added 50 newly genot...

[ 11 C]COU is a trapped metabolite radiotracer for in vivo analysis of Monoamine Oxidase B activity using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. [ 11 C]COU has the potential to quantify astrocytosis in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, providing an earlier marker of disease than currently available for staging disease progression. Prior preclinical studies have demonstrated the efficacy of this radiotracer in precl...

Stable isotopes are commonly used to characterize food web structure and resource use by aquatic organisms. White muscle is generally preferred for stable isotope analysis of fishes. However, obtaining white muscle tissue typically requires lethal take or invasive sampling techniques, which are undesirable for small-bodied species or those of conservation concern. We assessed the use of fish fin as a nonlethal alternative to m...

Habitat fragmentation is a pressing threat to wildlife populations, and maintenance of gene flow between populations is an essential goal of conservation. Resistance surfaces have emerged as an important tool for modelling connectivity and developing management strategies to mitigate effects of habitat fragmentation. However, recent studies have noted inconsistencies in the factors most strongly associated with connectivity ac...

Although drones are a promising alternative to traditional wildlife monitoring methods, validation efforts are needed to quantify the accuracy of abundance and distribution estimates obtained from using drones. We used drones equipped with high‐resolution Red‐Green‐Blue (RGB) and thermal cameras, coupled with machine learning techniques, to assess the abundance and thermal physiology in northern elephant seals ( Mirounga angus...

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable surveillance tool for SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens globally, providing insights into community-level infections, including asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic cases. While most WBE programmes focus on quantitative pathogen assessment, next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches have enabled more detailed analyses, including variant and recombinant genotype identifica...