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    Ecological succession in the vaginal microbiota during pregnancy and birth

    Shared OTUs between mother’s vagina, and child’s gut and airways Vaginal birth samples were obtained from 57 women after rupture of membranes but before childbirth. These women also had vaginal samples characterized at pregnancy week 24 (n = 56) and week 36 (n = 57) and samples were collected from the children (all singletons) of these 57 women 1 […] More

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    Sanitation and climate

    1. Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 2000–2017: Special Focus on Inequalities (World Health Organization, 2019). 2. World Health Statistics 2018: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals (World Health Organization, 2018). 3. Graham, J. P. & Polizzotto, M. L. Environ. Health Perspect. 121, 521–530 (2013). Article Google Scholar 4. van Eekert, […] More

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    Resource stress and subsistence diversification across societies

    1. Cochrane, L. & Cafer, A. Does diversification enhance community resilience? A critical perspective. Resilience 6, 129–143 (2018). Article Google Scholar 2. African Ecological Futures 2015 (WWF and AfDB Group, 2015). 3. Kremen, C. & Miles, A. Ecosystem services in biologically diversified versus conventional farming systems: benefits, externalities, and trade-offs. Ecol. Soc. 17, 40 (2012). […] More

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    Impacts of hydrothermal plume processes on oceanic metal cycles and transport

    1. German, C. R. & Seyfried, W. E. in Treatise on Geochemistry 2nd Edition – Volume 8: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry (eds Mottl, M. J. & Elderfield, H.) 191–233 (Elsevier, 2014). 2. Tagliabue, A. et al. Hydrothermal contribution to the oceanic dissolved iron inventory. Nat. Geosci. 3, 252–256 (2010). Google Scholar 3. Yücel, M., […] More

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    Climate-resilient coasts require diverse defence solutions

    1. Galili, E. et al. PLoS ONE 14, e0222560 (2019). 2. Young, I. R., Zieger, S. & Babanin, A. V. Science 332, 451 (2011). 3. Hinkel, J. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 111, 3292–3297 (2014). 4. Bishop, M. J. et al. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 492, 7–30 (2017). Article Google Scholar 5. […] More

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    Chesapeake Bay acidification buffered by spatially decoupled carbonate mineral cycling

    1. Gattuso, J.-P. et al. Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios. Science 349, aac4722 (2015). Google Scholar 2. Feely, R. A. et al. The combined effects of acidification and hypoxia on pH and aragonite saturation in the coastal waters of the California current ecosystem and the northern Gulf of […] More