Marine teleost fishes often experience over 99% mortality in the early life stages (eggs and larvae), yet larval survival is essential to population sustainability. Marine fish larvae from a wide range of families display elaborate, delicate features that bear little resemblance to adult forms and hinder their swimming escape ability...
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provided comments on an earlier version of the manu-
script. David Hall’s suggestions improved various
Probabilistic event attribution (PEA) is an important tool for assessing the contribution of climate change to extreme weather events. Here, PEA is applied to explore the climate attribution of recent extreme heat events in California’s Central Valley. Heat waves have become progressively more severe due to increasing relative humidity and...
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Central Valley
Roberto Mera1,2 & Neil Massey3 & David E. Rupp1 &
Philip Mote1 & Myles Allen3,4 & Peter C
The terrestrial biosphere sequesters up to a
third of annual anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions,
offsetting a substantial portion of greenhouse
gas forcing of the climate system. Although a number
of factors are responsible for this terrestrial carbon
sink, atmospheric nitrogen deposition contributes by
enhancing tree productivity and promoting carbon
storage...
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nutrient foraging and stress of roots
(Robinson 1986; Ostonen et al. 2007), were assessed using in situ
The U.S. Culture Collection Network was formed in 2012 by a group of culture collection scientists and stakeholders in order to continue the progress established previously through efforts of an ad hoc group. The network is supported by a Research Coordination Network grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)...
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Preservation, Fort Collins, Colorado.
K. McCluskey, “History and context of the USCCN”
David Nobles
Most of the policy debate surrounding the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change has been framed by observations of the past 150 years as well as climate and sea-level projections for the twenty-first century. The focus on this 250-year window, however, obscures some of the most...
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. Weaver4,
Ricarda Winkelmann7, David Archer16, Edouard Bard17, Aaron Goldner18, Kurt Lambeck19,20
Consumer-grade GPS units are a staple of modern field ecology, but the relatively
large error radii reported by manufacturers (up to 10 m) ostensibly precludes their
utility in measuring fine-scale movement of small animals such as insects. Here
we demonstrate that for data collected at fine spatio-temporal scales, these devices...
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Academic editor
David Roberts
Additional Information and
Declarations can be found on
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DOI 10.7717
The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) shifted federal lands management from a focus on timber production to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. The plan established a network of conservation reserves and an ecosystem management strategy on ~10 million hectares from northern California to Washington State, USA, within the range of...
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, Chris A. Frissell 4, James R. Karr 5,
S. Kim Nelson 6, Barry R. Noon 7, David Olson 8 and James
Dams impound the majority of rivers and provide important societal benefits, especially daily water releases that enable on-peak hydroelectricity generation. Such “hydropeaking” is common worldwide, but its downstream impacts remain unclear. We evaluated the response of aquatic insects, a cornerstone of river food webs, to hydropeaking using a life history–hydrodynamic...
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River Food Webs
THEODORE A. KENNEDY, JEFFREY D. MUEHLBAUER, CHARLES B. YACKULIC, DAVID A. LYTLE, SCOTT
BACKGROUND: Individual berries in a grape (Vitis vinifera L.) cluster enter the ripening phase at different times
leading to an asynchronous cluster in terms of ripening. The factors causing this variable ripening initiation among
berries are not known. Because the influence via hormonal communication of the seed on fruit set...
The genetic underpinnings associated with the earliest stages of plant and animal domestication have remained elusive. Because a genome-wide response to selection can take many generations, the earliest detectable changes associated with domestication may first manifest as heritable changes to global patterns of gene expression. Here, to test this hypothesis,...
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anadromous steelhead
(Oncorhynchus mykiss) transcriptome. Mar. Genome 15, 13–15 (2014).
39. Robinson, M. D