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Soil Plant Growth‐Promoting Bacterial Diversity Changes With Land Use Intensity and Environmental ConditionsNARA Subscribed
Aim Plant growth‐promoting bacteria (PGPB) play crucial roles in supporting plant growth and, therefore, in undisturbed ecosystems and agricultural systems. We aimed to understand how these microbial communities change under different land use and environmental conditions. This is an important prerequisite to utilising the positive impact PGPB may have for sustainable food production. Location 537 sites across Aotearoa New Zea...
Complex staged emplacement of a basaltic lava: The example of the July 1974 flow of KīlaueaNARA Subscribed
Basaltic lava flows can be highly destructive. Forecasting the future path and/or behavior of an active lava flow is challenging because topography is often poorly constrained and lava has a complex rheology and emplacement history. Preserved lavas are an important source of information which, combined with observations of active flows, underpins conceptual models of lava flow emplacement. However, the value of preserved lavas...
Diplomonorchis fallax n. sp. (Digenea: Monorchiidae) from the northern Gulf of Mexico with evaluation of sympatric congenersNARA Subscribed
Diplomonorchis micropogoni Nahhas & Cable, 1964 was considered a junior subjective synonym of Diplomonorchis leiostomi Hopkins, 1941 in 1969. Diplomonorchis leiostomi has since been widely reported from the coastal Western Atlantic between Delaware Bay and southern Brazil. Until now, taxonomically verifiable DNA sequence data for D . leiostomi has been available from an individual worm collected from the northern Gulf of Mexic...
Targeting RNA-protein interactions with small molecules: promise and therapeutic potentialNARA Subscribed
The therapeutic potential of targeting protein-RNA interactions has not been fully explored. While several approaches to block the interactions between various RNA and protein partners have been developed, rational efforts to target pre-assembled complexes have not been broadly pursued. This is despite the recent commercial success of risdiplam, and the high-resolution structure of the EIF4A-polypurine-Rocaglamide A ternary co...
Floods are amongst the most frequent disasters in terms of human and economic impacts. This study provides new insights into the frequency of loss of life at the global scale, mortality fractions of the population exposed to floods, and underlying trends. A dataset is compiled based on the EM-DAT disaster database covering the period 1975 until 2022, extending previous studies on this topic. Flood impact data are analysed over...
Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristicsNARA Subscribed
Each year, an average of 45 tropical cyclones affect coastal areas and potentially impact forests. The proportion of the most intense cyclones has increased over the past four decades and is predicted to continue to do so. Yet, it remains uncertain how topographical exposure and tree characteristics can mediate the damage caused by increasing wind speed. Here, we compiled empirical data on the damage caused by 11 cyclones occu...
Drug Dissolution in Oral Drug Absorption: Workshop ReportNARA Subscribed
The in-person workshop “Drug Dissolution in Oral Drug Absorption” was held on May 23–24, 2023, in Baltimore, MD, USA. The workshop was organized into lectures and breakout sessions. Three common topics that were re-visited by various lecturers were amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs), dissolution/permeation interplay, and in vitro methods to predict in vivo biopharmaceutics performance and risk. Topics that repeatedly surfaced...
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disab...
Background Preclinical and human studies suggest that adolescent cannabis use may be associated with worse cognitive outcomes than adult cannabis use. We investigated the associations between chronic cannabis use and cognitive function in adolescent and adult cannabis users and controls. We hypothesised user-status would be negatively associated with cognitive function and this relationship would be stronger in adolescents tha...
Our understanding of trophic interactions of small insectivorous mammals has been drastically improved with the advent of DNA metabarcoding. The technique has continued to be optimised over the years, with primer choice repeatedly being a vital factor for dietary inferences. However, the majority of dietary studies examining the effect of primer choice often rely on in silico analyses or comparing between species that occupy a...
Exploring fire adaptation in a land with little fire: serotiny in Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae)NARA Subscribed
Aim Immigrant floras often have distinctive traits, well suited to the host region but absent from the autochthonous flora. An example is serotiny in the New Zealand ( NZ ) small tree, Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae) belonging to a strongly fire‐adapted Australian clade. Serotiny in L. scoparium has been attributed either to strong selection by fire since human settlement, or taken as evidence that pre‐human fire in NZ was...
Restoration initiatives are becoming increasingly applied around the world. Billions of dollars have been spent on ecological restoration research and initiatives, but restoration outcomes differ widely among these initiatives in part due to variable socioeconomic and ecological contexts. Here, we present the most comprehensive dataset gathered to date on forest restoration. It encompasses 269 primary studies across 221 study...