KIF1A- Associated Neurological Disorder (KAND) is a heterogeneous group of ultra-rare neurodegenerative conditions. Severe forms of KAND, classified within the broader category of childhood dementia, lead to progressive loss of motor, communication and cognitive skills with markedly reduced life expectancy. Although the disorder is genetically and clinically defined, little is known about how families experience diagnosis and...

Concerns about memory often increase with age and have been suggested as a precursor to impending memory impairment or dementia. However, subjective memory concern (SMC) has also been shown to reflect an individual’s trait-like tendency to worry about memory, which is more strongly linked to negative affect than to objective memory performance. Despite behavioral evidence supporting a trait-like dimension of SMC, its neuroanat...

Aim To compare field‐based evidence of plant and animal responses to fire with remotely sensed signals of fire heterogeneity and post‐fire biomass recovery. Location South‐eastern Australia; New South Wales. Time Period 2019–2022. Major Taxa Studied A total of 982 species of plants and animals, in eight taxonomic groups: amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals, molluscs, plants and reptiles. Methods We collated 545,223 plant...

Aim The term ‘megafire’ is increasingly used to describe large fires worldwide. We proposed a size‐based definition of megafire—fires exceeding 10,000 ha arising from single or multiple related ignition events. A recent perspective in Global Ecology and Biogeography argues against a size‐based definition of megafire and suggest that the term is too emotive for scientific use. We highlight that many scientific terms originate f...

Animals within social groups respond to costs and benefits of sociality by adjusting the proportion of time they spend in close proximity to other individuals in the group (cohesion). Variation in cohesion between individuals, in turn, shapes important group‐level processes such as subgroup formation and fission–fusion dynamics. Although critical to animal sociality, a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing coh...

Motivation Terrestrial predators play key roles in cycling nutrients, as well as limiting prey populations, and shaping the behaviour of their prey. Prehistoric, historic and ongoing declines of the world's predators have reshaped terrestrial ecosystems and are a topic of conservation concern. However, the availability of ecologically relevant predator functional traits is limited, hampering efforts to understand macroecologic...

Lake Untersee, a lake in Antarctica that is perennially covered with ice, is home to unique microbial structures that are not lithified. We have evaluated the structure of the community and its metabolic potential across the pigmented upper layers and the sediment‐enriched deeper layers in these pinnacle and cone‐shaped microbial structures using metagenomics. These microbial structures are inhabited by distinct communities. T...

Increases in fluxes of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in the environment have led to negative impacts affecting drinking water, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Because of the importance, scale, and complexity of these issues, it may be useful to consider methods for prioritizing nutrient research in representative drainage basins within a regional or national context. Two systemati...