Aim To examine how butterfly population trends respond to climate change and urbanisation at a continental scale, and whether responses differ between urban and rural environments. Location 869 sites across 12 European countries, spanning six bioclimatic zones. Time Period 1976–2021. Major Taxa Studied Butterflies (Lepidoptera). Methods We analysed long‐term monitoring data from > 8400 populations of 145 species representing a...

The identification of areas resistant to climate change is a strategy to support biodiversity conservation on a warming planet. Such ‘refugia’ are often detected by modeling future climate and species distributions. More rarely, refugia hypotheses are tested in the field. The easternmost sector of the Eastern Mediterranean is affected by the largest climate-driven collapse of native biodiversity hitherto documented. However, a...

Large-scale seaweed and shellfish aquaculture are increasingly being considered by policymakers as a source of food, animal feed and bioproducts for Europe. These aquacultures are generally thought to be low impact or even beneficial for marine ecosystems as they are ‘extractive’ – i.e., growing passively on foodstuff already available in seawater, and with potential habitat provision, fisheries, climate mitigation and eutroph...

Sea turtles spend the majority of their lives at foraging grounds. These areas are important for population persistence but generally occur in coastal habitats, which are under increasing human pressure. Identifying key foraging areas is therefore an important step to understanding critical sea turtle habitats, and therefore their threats. Isotope ratios ( δ 15 N, δ 13 C) from skin tissues of 90 green turtles ( Chelonia mydas...

In the cosmetic industry there is an increasing demand for substances obtained from natural sources that can replace synthetic ones. Due to consumer demand for a protective filter with (SPF) labels in sunscreens, moisturizers, face make-up, and lipsticks worldwide, they produce tonnes of such products every year. Many species of cyanobacteria live in extreme environments, including sites with excessive doses of sunlight and dr...

Global warming, bioinvasions, and parasitism affect single‐species performances and species interactions, substantially impacting the structure and stability of marine ecosystems. In light of accelerated global change, the information derived from studies focusing on single species and single drivers is insufficient, calling for a multi‐stressor approach under near‐natural conditions. We investigated the effects of warming (+3...

A series of novel Ga(III)—pyridine carboxylates ([Ga(Pic) 3 ]·H 2 O (GaPic; HPic = picolinic acid), H 3 O[Ga(Dpic) 2 ]·H 2 O (GaDpic; H 2 Dpic = dipicolinic acid), [Ga(Chel)(H 2 O)(OH)] 2 ·4H 2 O (GaChel; H 2 Chel = chelidamic acid) and [Ga(Cldpic)(H 2 O)(OH)] 2 (GaCldpic; H 2 Cldpic = 4-chlorodipicolinic acid)) have been synthesized by simple one-step procedure. Vibrational spectroscopy (mid-IR), elemental analysis, thermogra...

During the past two decades, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been widely used to study mechanisms of human neural development, disease modeling, and drug discovery in vitro. Especially in the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), where this treatment is lacking, tremendous effort has been put into the investigation of molecular mechanisms behind this disease using induced pluripotent stem cell-based models. Numerous o...