Effective monitoring of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) populations and coral cover is critical for informing management of COTS outbreaks throughout their tropical Indo-Pacific range, including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. However, existing monitoring tools such as manta tow and cull diver surveys have well-known limitations including accuracy and resource demands. This study evaluates a range of monitoring tools for asses...

Purpose Carbohydrate availability is reduced during prolonged exercise, and this may contribute to the loss of power output at the intensity domain transitions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of lowered carbohydrate availability on power output at intensity domain transitions, muscle activation, and gross cycling efficiency in endurance-trained female cyclists. Methods Nine well-trained female cyclists co...

Offshore wind turbine fixed-bottom foundations provide artificial hard substrate through the water column that encourages marine flora and fauna to colonise and aggregate around the introduced structures, a well-documented phenomenon known as the ‘artificial reef effect’. The cumulative impact thousands of turbine foundations at multiple offshore sites have on local and regional marine species populations and communities is no...

Gut bacterial communities play a key role in shrimp health; thus, their modulation has been a target of dietary supplements which also function in enhancing disease and stress resistance of shrimp. However, this also raised the question of whether immunostimulants yield distinct changes in the gut bacterial composition or whether there are consistent features across all treatments. Here, we performed a machine learning‐aided m...

Purpose Dynamometers are commonly used to assess muscle force properties, with isokinetic dynamometers (IKD) considered the gold standard. However, their high cost and limited portability have led to the development of alternative devices. In this study, we investigated validity and reliability of a tension dynamometer (Tindeq) compared to an IKD and how different methods of determining peak torque and rate of torque developme...