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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Assessing the spatiotemporal distribution of bufonid herpesvirus 1 (BfHV1) in Europe

Scientific Reports
Adverting biodiversity loss is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. The ongoing amphibian extinction crisis is the result of a multitude of factors, with emerging infectious diseases having played a key role.
Philipp Böning, Tobias Hildwein, Viktoria Ferner, Jonas Henn, Eva Kappe, Jesse Erens, Benjamin Lamp, Tobias Eisenberg, Amadeus Plewnia   +8 more
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Modelling the effects of global climate change on Chikungunya transmission in the 21st century

Scientific Reports, 2017
The arrival and rapid spread of the mosquito-borne viral disease Chikungunya across the Americas is one of the most significant public health developments of recent years, preceding and mirroring the subsequent spread of Zika.
Nils B. Tjaden, Jonathan E. Suk, Dominik Fischer, Stephanie M. Thomas, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jan C. Semenza   +5 more
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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 more
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How weather triggers the emergence of bats from their subterranean hibernacula

Scientific Reports, 2023
Hibernation is one of the most important behaviours of bats of the temperate zone. During winter, when little food or liquid water is available, hibernation in torpor lowers metabolic costs.
Martin Koch, Julia Manecke, Jan Pablo Burgard, Ralf Münnich, Karl Kugelschafter, Andreas Kiefer, Michael Veith   +6 more
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PharmVar GeneFocus: NAT2—Genetic Variation and Updated Nomenclature

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
The Pharmacogene Variation Consortium (PharmVar) provides nomenclature for the highly polymorphic human N‐acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) gene. NAT2 metabolizes several clinically used drugs including isoniazid, hydralazine, amifampridine, procainamide, and sulfonamides such as dapsone, and also some highly carcinogenic arylamines.
Georgia Papanikolaou, Estella S. Poloni, José A.G. Agúndez, Raquel L.F. Teixeira, Erin C. Boone, Adalberto Rezende Santos, Michelle Whirl‐Carrillo, Katrin Sangkuhl, Teri E. Klein, Mariam R. Habil, Giannoulis Fakis, Rodney F. Minchin, David W. Hein, Sotiria Boukouvala, Andrea Gaedigk   +14 more
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Environmental DNA metabarcoding reliably recovers arthropod interactions which are frequently observed by video recordings of flowers

Environmental DNA
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding promises to be a cost‐ and time‐efficient monitoring tool to detect interactions of arthropods with plants.
Manuel Stothut, Damaris Kühne, Vanessa Ströbele, Lisa Mahla, Sven Künzel, Henrik Krehenwinkel   +5 more
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Environmental and local habitat variables as predictors of trophic interactions in subtidal rocky reefs along the SE Pacific coast

Ecography, EarlyView.
Temperature generally drives latitudinal patterns in the strength of trophic interactions, including consumption rates. However, local community and other environmental conditions might also affect consumption, disrupting latitudinal gradients, which results in complex large‐scale patterns.
Catalina A. Musrri, Alistair G. B. Poore, Oscar Pino, Nicolás Riquelme, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Fadia Tala, Martin Thiel   +6 more
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Conference program and abstracts. International Biogeography Society 6th Biennial Meeting – 9-13 January 2013, Miami, Florida, USA

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2012
Proceedings of the Sixth biennial conference of the International Biogeography Society, an international and interdisciplinary society contributing to the advancement of all studies of the geography of nature.
Joaquín Hortal, Karen Faller, Kenneth Feeley, Richard Field, Catherine Graham, François Guilhaumon, Daniel Gavin   +6 more
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Spatiotemporally Explicit Epidemic Model for West Nile Virus Outbreak in Germany: An Inversely Calibrated Approach

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Since the first autochthonous transmission of West Nile Virus was detected in Germany (WNV) in 2018, it has become endemic in several parts of the country and is continuing to spread due to the attainment of a suitable environment for vector occurrence ...
Oliver Chinonso Mbaoma, Stephanie Margarete Thomas, Carl Beierkuhnlein   +2 more
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