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Thermal history and behavioural plasticity shape reef fish tolerance to marine heatwavesNARA Subscribed
Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense, driving mass fish mortalities and reshaping marine ecosystems, yet the capacity of fishes to tolerate heatwaves remains unclear. We quantified physiological condition and behavioural responses of juvenile warm-water ( Abudefduf vaigiensis ) and cool-water ( Microcanthus strigatus ) fishes from three natural climate analogues—an ambient temperate reef, an ocean warming an...
Extreme climatic events and gradual climate change are increasingly anticipated to interact and reshape ecological communities. However, the combined effects of ocean warming, acidification and marine heatwaves on host‐associated microbial communities and their potential role in host adaptation remain poorly understood. Here, we assessed shifts in gut microbiome communities and their associations with physiological performance...
Range‐extending fish become competitive dominants under ocean warming but not heatwaves or acidificationNARA Subscribed
Ocean warming is driving species range extensions into cooler regions. The direct physiological influence of warming on species performance can accelerate such extensions into novel ecosystems; however, indirect effects of invader–resident interactions in cooler regions may counter these positive effects. Here, we examined the foraging performance and densities of competing warm‐water and cool‐water fishes across a latitudinal...
Constructed water quality wetlands, designed to accept tile drainage and surface runoff, are a promising solution for reducing surface water nutrient loading from agricultural systems. In addition to their water quality benefits, these systems may also offset losses of migratory waterbird stopover sites resulting from historical and future agricultural drainage modernization. To assess this possibility, we developed spatially...
Stomach Microbiome Simplification of a Coral Reef Fish at Its Novel Cold‐Range Edge Under Climate ChangeNARA Subscribed
Climate‐driven range extensions of animals into higher latitudes are often facilitated by phenotypic plasticity. Modifications to habitat preference, behaviour and diet can increase the persistence of range‐extending species in novel high‐latitude ecosystems. These strategies may be influenced by changes in their gut and stomach microbial communities that are critical to host fitness and potentially adaptive plasticity. Yet, i...
Purpose of Review Environmental chemical exposures may disrupt child development, with long-lasting health impacts. To date, U.S. studies of early environmental exposures have been limited in size and diversity, hindering power and generalizability. With harmonized data from over 60,000 participants representing 69 pregnancy cohorts, the National Institutes of Health’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) P...
Crowdsourced observation networks are typically much more dense than those maintained by National Meteorological Services, and sample a much wider range of local climates. This offers an opportunity to build observed climatologies that are more representative of lived experience, particularly in cities. This study provides a worked example to show their potential for improving operational climate services, and to identify the...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2022 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Functional network disorganization and cognitive decline following fractionated whole-brain radiation in miceNARA Subscribed
Cognitive dysfunction following radiotherapy (RT) is one of the most common complications associated with RT delivered to the brain, but the precise mechanisms behind this dysfunction are not well understood, and to date, there are no preventative measures or effective treatments. To improve patient outcomes, a better understanding of the effects of radiation on the brain’s functional systems is required. Functional magnetic r...
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Some studies have linked bilingualism with a later onset of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Not all studies have observed such relationships, however. Differences in study outcomes may be due to methodological limitations and the presence of confounding factors within studies such as immigration status and level of education. We conducted the first systematic review with meta-analysis c...
Immune ageing and susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniaeNARA Subscribed
An ecoclimatic framework for evaluating the resilience of vegetation to water deficitNARA Subscribed
The surge in global efforts to understand the causes and consequences of drought on forest ecosystems has tended to focus on specific impacts such as mortality. We propose an ecoclimatic framework that takes a broader view of the ecological relevance of water deficits, linking elements of exposure and resilience to cumulative impacts on a range of ecosystem processes. This ecoclimatic framework is underpinned by two hypotheses...
Winter climate change affects growing‐season soil microbial biomass and activity in northern hardwood forestsNARA Subscribed
Understanding the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to global change remains a major challenge of ecological research. We exploited a natural elevation gradient in a northern hardwood forest to determine how reductions in snow accumulation, expected with climate change, directly affect dynamics of soil winter frost, and indirectly soil microbial biomass and activity during the growing season. Soils from lower elevation plots...
Phenotypic and fitness consequences of maternal nest‐site choice across multiple early life stagesNARA Subscribed
Identifying the relative contributions of genetic, maternal, and environmental factors to phenotypic variation is critical for evaluating the evolutionary potential of fitness‐related traits. We employed a novel two‐step cross‐fostering experiment to quantify the relative contributions of clutch (i.e., maternal identity) and maternally chosen nest sites to phenotypic variation during three early life stages (incubation, hibern...