Accurate ocean forecasting is essential for supporting a wide range of marine applications. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have highlighted the potential of data-driven models to outperform traditional numerical approaches, particularly in atmospheric weather forecasting. However, extending these methods to ocean systems remains challenging due to their inherently slower dynamics and complex boundary conditions. In...

Background Military deep divers experience extreme environmental stressors, particularly with prolonged diving. Alterations such as hyperbaric conditions and variable O 2 levels can prompt systemic/local oxidative stress (OxS) and elevated nitric oxide (NO . ) post-dive release, heightening the risk of inflammation and cardiovascular events. Yet, deep diving (e.g. saturation diving) can also lead to cognitive impairment, whose...

In most bird species, breeding individuals behave as central-place foragers during reproduction, commuting regularly between the breeding site and foraging areas to find food for both self-maintenance and offspring rearing. Such movements are constrained by the need to find enough resources around the breeding site in a short time and may be modulated by several factors, including resource availability, weather, and breeding p...

Riparian vegetation consists of different Structural Vegetation Types (SVTs): woodland, shrubland, and herbaceous communities. Since each SVT may respond differently to abiotic and biotic drivers, our study aimed to disentangle the independent and shared effects of these drivers on distinct SVTs. Using a stratified random sampling approach, we collected 144 plots in a Mediterranean river of central Italy. We applied RDA and va...

Wetlands are among the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. Particularly in the Mediterranean region, farmland ponds are strongly influenced by the agricultural land use in their surroundings, though supporting unique biodiversity. This study aimed to highlight the patterns of farmland pond plant diversity across different pondscapes—networks of interconnected ponds within a landscape—and different spatial scales, from local (p...

Trait‐based ecology has already revealed main independent axes of trait variation defining trait spaces that summarize plant adaptive strategies, but often ignoring intraspecific trait variability (ITV). By using empirical ITV‐level data for two independent dimensions of leaf form and function and 167 species across five habitat types (coastal dunes, forests, grasslands, heathlands, wetlands) in the Italian peninsula, we found...