Meta-analyses of field studies have shown that biomass, density, species richness, and size of organisms protected by no-take marine reserves generally increase over time. The magnitude and timing of changes in these response variables, however, vary greatly and depend upon the taxonomic groups protected, size and type of reserve, oceanographic...
A large amount of organic carbon is stored in high-latitude soils. A substantial proportion of this carbon stock is vulnerable and may decompose rapidly due to temperature increases that are already greater than the global average. It is therefore crucial to quantify and understand carbon exchange between the atmosphere and...
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catchment using a dynamic
ecosystem model at high spatial resolution
Tang, J., Miller, P. A., Persson, A
Large amount of organic carbon is stored in high latitude soils. A substantial proportion of this carbon stock is vulnerable and may decompose rapidly due to temperature increases that are already greater than the global average. It is therefore crucial to quantify and understand carbon exchange between the atmosphere and...
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catchment using a dynamic
ecosystem model at high spatial resolution
Tang, J., Miller, P. A., Persson, A
Significant seabird mortality on the Oregon (OR) and Washington (WA) coast in 2009 has been attributed
to a massive bloom of the dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea (K. Hirasaka) G. Hansen & Ø. Moestrup.
Initial, albeit limited, observations suggested this bloom began in WA and reached OR waters through
southward transport. Here,...
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, R., Kahru, M., Ryan, J., Foley, D., 2011. Decadal changes in dinoflagellate
abundance in the central
Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly applied in conservation management
to predict suitable habitat for poorly known populations. High predictive performance of
SDMs is evident in validations performed within the model calibration area (interpolation),
but few studies have assessed SDM transferability to novel areas (extrapolation), particularly
across large spatial scales...
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Habitat Preferences
across Ocean Basins
Torres, L. G., Sutton, P. J. H., Thompson, D. R., Delord, K
Advances in forest carbon mapping have the potential
to greatly reduce uncertainties in the global carbon
budget and to facilitate effective emissions mitigation strategies
such as REDDC (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation). Though broad-scale mapping
is based primarily on remote sensing data, the accuracy of
resulting forest carbon...
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, S. C., Le Toan, T.,
Saatchi, S. S., ... & Chave, J. (2014). Local spatial structure of forest
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that...
The goal of this project was to investigate the effects and possible developmental disease implication of chronic dietary
TCDD exposure on global gene expression anchored to histopathologic analysis in juvenile zebrafish by functional genomic,
histopathologic and analytic chemistry methods. Specifically, juvenile zebrafish were fed Biodiet starter with TCDD added at...
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, Jan M. Spitsbergen3, Ronan Cariou4, Chun-Yuan Huang5, Nan Jiang6, Giles Goetz7,
Reinhold J. Hutz1
Dysregulation of Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling has been implicated in glioma pathogenesis. Yet, the role of this pathway
in gliomagenesis remains controversial because of the lack of relevant animal models. Using the cytokeratin 5 promoter, we
ectopically expressed a constitutively active zebrafish Smoothened (Smoa1) in neural progenitor cells and analyzed...
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., Chen, W., Spitsbergen, J. M., Lu, J., Vogel, P., Peters, J. L., ... & Taylor, M.
R. (2014). Activation
BACKGROUND: We compared 24-hour waist-worn accelerometer wear time characteristics of 9-11 year old children
in the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) to similarly aged U.S. children
providing waking-hours waist-worn accelerometer data in the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES).
METHODS: Valid cases were...
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. V., Schuna, J. M., Mire, E. F., Chaput, J. P.,
Fogelholm, M., ... & Katzmarzyk, P. T. (2015