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Local and Landscape‐Level Environmental Conditions Drive Habitat Selection Across Terrestrial Mammal SpeciesNARA Subscribed
Aim Animal movements are a fundamental process affecting communities and ecosystems. Quantifying habitat selection across species and habitats is key for understanding how animals respond to environmental change. Currently, we lack comparative studies that examine how habitat selection varies across species traits and landscapes. We aim to quantify global patterns of habitat selection to help understand the fundamental drivers...
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...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of acute nitrate (NO 3 − )-rich beetroot juice ingestion on explosive and high-intensity exercise performance, oral microbiota composition, and cognitive flexibility (i.e., function), before and after maximal intermittent running exercise. Fifteen women team-sport athletes were assigned in a randomized, double-blind, crossover design to consume concentrated NO 3 – -deple...
Into the danger zone: How the within‐host distribution of parasites controls virulenceNARA Subscribed
Despite the importance of virulence in epidemiological theory, the relative contributions of host and parasite to virulence outcomes remain poorly understood. Here, we use reciprocal cross experiments to disentangle the influence of host and parasite on core virulence components—infection and pathology—and understand dramatic differences in parasite‐induced malformations in California amphibians. Surveys across 319 populations...
Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals requires assessments of the global state of fish populations. While we have reliable estimates of stock status for fish populations accounting for approximately half of recent global catch, our knowledge of the state of the majority of the world's “unassessed” fish stocks remains highly uncertain. Numerous publications have produced estimates of the global stat...
Trade‐offs for data‐limited fisheries when using harvest strategies based on catch‐only modelsNARA Subscribed
Many of the world's fisheries are unassessed, with little information about population status or risk of overfishing. Unassessed fisheries are particularly predominant in developing countries and in small‐scale fisheries, where they are important for food security. Several catch‐only methods based on time series of fishery catch and commonly available life‐history traits have been developed to estimate stock status (defined as...
The distribution of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) was examined among 80 cages from three Atlantic salmon grow‐out farms in Maine, USA that were stocked with smolts from a single hatchery. Cage‐level disease was broadly defined as one or more moribund fish testing positive for infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) by RT‐PCR and a second confirmatory test (IFAT, culture or genotype sequence). Spatio‐temporal and cage‐level ri...
A novel method for patch-clamp automationNARA Subscribed