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Managing the Unmanageable: Understanding the Competing Effects of Salinity and Nutrient Loading on Estuarine Water QualityNARA Subscribed
Changing climatic conditions that can alter physical characteristics of surface waters may limit the effectiveness of conventional approaches to nutrient management. This study evaluated the competing effects of nutrient loads and changing salinity on chlorophyll-a dynamics in Tampa Bay (Florida, USA). This estuary has demonstrated long-term recovery of water quality primarily through wastewater infrastructure improvements, wh...
Mating systems shape the population dynamics of species, influencing attributes such as effective population size and population persistence. Traditionally, genetic analysis of mating systems includes the genotyping of putative parents to determine parentage. However, for cryptic or migratory species, and those with large populations, comprehensive sampling of adults is often not feasible. One underutilised alternative is to r...
Marine Isotope Stage 4 glaciation in northern England, UK: Evidence from Victoria Cave, North YorkshireNARA Subscribed
Victoria Cave, north Yorkshire, England, contains a long sequence of Pleistocene clastic sediments and calcite flowstones. Earlier work, using U–Th dating, established that the flowstone units formed in interglacial stages corresponding to Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13, 11, 9, 7 and 5. The intervening laminated sediments were therefore assigned to glacial stages (MIS 12, 10, 6 and 2) and regarded as rhythmites that settled fr...
The Integration of Fire Ecology and Freshwater Ecosystems in North America: Knowledge Gaps and Research NeedsNARA Subscribed
Wildfires, unplanned fires that start and spread under the influence of weather and fuel composition, are increasing in frequency, duration, and severity across North America. While wildfires are one component of wildland fire, a broader natural process in many ecosystems, their changing behavior poses growing ecological and management challenges. Although wildfire is widely recognized as an important disturbance, empirical re...
Diversity and functional group composition drive biogeographic patterns in marine biogenic structural complexityNARA Subscribed
Biogenic structural complexity is a key driver of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet its ecological and environmental determinants remain poorly understood across broad biogeographic scales. Here, we conducted standardized 90‐day field experiments at 16 coastal sites, spanning a 41‐degree latitudinal gradient, using naturally assembled marine fouling communities on settlement panels. We measured rugosity as our metric...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of speci...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women and carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), yet little is known about how sex and APOE interact to influence white matter (WM) integrity during disease progression. We integrated diffusion MRI and matched blood transcriptomic data to investigate these interactions and their underlying biological mechanisms. WM microstructure was quantified using diffusion te...
Waveforms from Nuclear Explosions (WFNE) RepositoryNARA Subscribed
A key element of successful nuclear monitoring involves the assessment of any newly acquired data in the light of the vast amount of data previously recorded from historical nuclear explosions. To support this effort, the “Waveforms From Nuclear Explosions (WFNE)” repository was developed and is maintained by Leidos under sponsorship of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to provide convenient access to such historical...
NCBI Orthologs: Public Resource and Scalable Method for Computing High-Precision Orthologs Across Eukaryotic GenomesNARA Subscribed
Orthologs are fundamental for enabling comparative genomics analyses that further our understanding of eukaryotic biology. The unprecedented increase in the availability of high-quality eukaryotic genomes necessitates scalable and accurate methods for orthology inference. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) developed “NCBI Orthologs”, a resource and a computational pipeline designed to meet this challenge...
The behavioural effects of the serotonin 1A receptor agonist buspirone on cognition and emotional processing in healthy volunteersNARA Subscribed
Rationale The 5-HT 1A receptor is expressed widely across the brain and is implicated in the mechanism of action of several therapeutics for mood disorders. However, there is limited and contradictory evidence about the role of this receptor in emotional processing and cognition. Objectives The current study tested the acute effects of a single dose of the 5-HT 1A agonist buspirone (20 mg), on a range of emotional processing (...
Understanding deer management dilemmas: A mixed methods approach to understand diverse stakeholder values in human-wildlife conflictsNARA Subscribed
Wildlife conservation and management is evolving to address new challenges that encompass diverse socio-economic, political, and ecological demands. The traditional expert-driven approach has shifted towards an inclusive stakeholder-driven form of management, necessitating multidisciplinary research and stakeholder input. Modern wildlife management therefore requires the bridging of research and practice, with policymakers bal...