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Air pollution is a major environmental risk to public health, strongly associated with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. According to the World Health Organization, at least 99% of the global population lives in areas that do not meet its air-quality guidelines. PM $$_{2.5}$$ 2.5 variability reflects the interaction between local emission sources and meteorological processes that regulate near-surface dispersion and acc...
The Impact of Urbanization on the Functions Supported by Arthropods: A Global Meta‐AnalysisNARA Subscribed
Aim Urbanization poses a significant challenge to terrestrial biodiversity, yet how different urban matrices drive functional responses across varying spatial scales remains unclear. We evaluated how urbanization impacts arthropod‐mediated ecosystem functions across different taxonomic groups and spatial scales, testing the hypothesis that environmental filtering in urban areas leads to scale‐dependent functional responses. Lo...
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
This review analyses 73 peer‐reviewed publications using a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to examine how inequality in small‐scale fisheries is conceptualised, which drivers are most frequently identified, how they manifest, and how proposed interventions address them. The literature shows some conceptual overlap among terms such as ‘inequality’, ‘inequity’, ‘unfairness’ or ‘injustice’, which may reflect both i...
Dense water formation in the eastern Mediterranean (EMed) is essential in sustaining the Mediterranean overturning circulation. Changes in the sources of dense water in the EMed point to changes in the circulation and water properties of the Mediterranean Sea. Here we examine with a regional climate system model the changes in the dense water formation in the EMed through the 21st century under the RCP8.5 emission scenario. Ou...
Rock n' Seeds: A database of seed functional traits and germination experiments from Brazilian rock outcrop vegetationNARA Subscribed
Advancing functional ecology depends fundamentally on the availability of data on reproductive traits, including those from tropical plants, which have been historically underrepresented in global trait databases. Although some valuable databases have been created recently, they are mainly restricted to temperate areas and vegetative traits such as leaf and wood traits. Here, we present Rock n' Seeds, a database of seed functi...
IgG subclasses in New World Monkeys: an issue for debate?NARA Subscribed
Extinction risk, reconstructed catches and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic OceanNARA Subscribed
Chondrichthyan fishes are among the most threatened vertebrates on the planet because many species have slow life histories that are outpaced by intense fishing. The Western Central Atlantic Ocean, which includes the Greater Caribbean, is a hotspot of chondrichthyan biodiversity and abundance, but has been characterized by extensive shark and ray fisheries and a lack of sufficient data for effective management and conservation...
Assessment of the Canary current upwelling system in a regionally coupled climate modelNARA Subscribed
The Canary current upwelling is one of the major eastern boundary coastal upwelling systems in the world, bearing a high productive ecosystem and commercially important fisheries. The Canary current upwelling system (CCUS) has a large latitudinal extension, usually divided into upwelling zones with different characteristics. Eddies, filaments and other mesoscale processes are known to have an impact in the upwelling productivi...