Data from: A model to identify urban traffic congestion hotspots in complex...
The rapid growth of population in urban areas is jeopardizing the mobility and air quality worldwide. One of the most notable problems arising is that of traffic congestion. With the advent of...
View ArticleData from: Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009
Remotely-sensed and bottom-up survey information were compiled on eight variables measuring the direct and indirect human pressures on the environment globally in 1993 and 2009. This represents not...
View ArticleData from: Environmental DNA from seawater samples correlate with trawl...
Remote polar and deepwater fish faunas are under pressure from ongoing climate change and increasing fishing effort. However, these fish communities are difficult to monitor for logistic and financial...
View ArticleData from: A 45-second self-test for cardiorespiratory fitness: heart...
Cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF) is a widespread essential indicator in Sports Science as well as in Sports Medicine. This study aimed to develop and validate a prediction model for CRF based on a 45...
View ArticleData from: Global population structure of a worldwide pest and virus vector:...
The whitefly Bemisia tabaci sibling species (sibsp.) group comprises morphologically indiscernible lineages of well-known exemplars referred to as biotypes. It is distributed throughout tropical and...
View ArticleData from: Explaining high-diversity death assemblages: undersampling of the...
Molluscan benthic assemblages provide unique opportunities for understanding both spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity. Species richness in the shell remains found at a site (i.e. the death...
View ArticleData from: Co-adjustment of yolk antioxidants and androgens in birds
Mothers can shape the developmental trajectory of their offspring through the transmission of resources such as hormones, antioxidants or immunoglobulins. Over the last two decades, an abundant...
View ArticleData from: Adaptation to divergent larval diets in the medfly, Ceratitis...
Variation in diet can influence the timing of major life history events and can drive population diversification and ultimately speciation. Proximate responses of life histories to diet have been well...
View ArticleData from: The influence of spatially structured soil properties on tree...
1. Species distribution within plant communities results from the influence of deterministic processes, related to environmental conditions, but also from neutral processes related to dispersal...
View ArticleData from: The genetic architecture of novel trophic specialists: higher...
The genetic architecture of adaptation is fundamental to understanding the mechanisms and constraints governing diversification. However, most case studies focus on loss of complex traits or parallel...
View ArticleData from: Machine learning for characterization of insect vector feeding
Insects that feed by ingesting plant and animal fluids cause devastating damage to humans, livestock, and agriculture worldwide, primarily by transmitting pathogens of plants and animals. The feeding...
View ArticleData from: High-frequency resonance in the gerbil medial superior olive
A high-frequency, subthreshold resonance in the guinea pig medial superior olive (MSO) was recently linked to the efficient extraction of spatial cues from the fine structure of acoustic stimuli. We...
View ArticleData from: Global and regional priorities for marine biodiversity protection
The ocean holds much of the planet's biodiversity, yet < 4% of the ocean is within protected areas. On land, the protecting of areas with low biodiversity and under little threat, rather than...
View ArticleData from: Fearlessness towards extirpated large carnivores may exacerbate...
By suppressing mesocarnivore foraging, the fear large carnivores inspire can be critical to mitigating mesocarnivore impacts. Where large carnivores have declined, mesocarnivores may quantitatively...
View ArticleData from: Salinity tolerance loci revealed in rice using high-throughput...
High-throughput phenotyping produces multiple measurements over time, which require new methods of analyses that are flexible in their quantification of plant growth and transpiration, yet are...
View ArticleData from: Microbe-mediated host defence drives the evolution of reduced...
Microbes that protect their hosts from pathogens are widespread in nature and are attractive disease control agents. Given that pathogen adaptation to barriers against infection can drive changes in...
View ArticleData from: Steady streaming around a cylinder pair
The steady streaming motion that appears around a pair of circular cylinders placed in a small-amplitude oscillatory flow is considered. Attention is focused on the case where the Stokes layer...
View ArticleData from: Children in the Syrian civil war: the familial, educational, and...
The Syrian civil war since 2011 has led to one of the most complex humanitarian emergencies in history. The objective of this study was to document the impact of the conflict on the familial,...
View ArticleData from: Optimizing countershading camouflage
Because the sun and sky are above us, natural illumination is directional and the cues from shading reveal shape and depth. However, many animals are darker on their backs and, over 100 years ago, it...
View ArticleData from: Surprising flexibility in parental care revealed by experimental...
Parental behaviour often exhibits plasticity to factors expected to affect the benefits or costs of care. For example, parent songbirds typically increase their provisioning behaviour as nestlings...
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