Oceanography and protist community composition In summer 2012, the Arctic Ocean experienced an unprecedented decline in sea ice, resulting in a record sea ice minimum5. It has previously been shown that profound sea ice melt in summer 2012 led to increases in the light conditions and nutrient supply, affecting the microbial community and increasing net […] More
1. Frölicher, T. L. & Laufkötter, C. Emerging risks from marine heat waves. Nat. Commun. 9, 650 (2018). 2. Hughes, T. P. et al. Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature 543, 373 (2017). 3. Smale, D. A., Wernberg, T. & Vanderklift, M. A. Regional-scale variability in the response of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages […] More
Hiding behaviour of the predator under screen house The hiding behaviour of R. longifrons revealed that the percentage of predator adults hiding under pebbles was higher at 6 a.m. (F = 42.53; df = 3; P < 0.000) and 10.30 a.m. (F = 8.60; df = 3; P < 0.05) than other hiding places (Fig. 1). As day light increased, the predator moved under […] More
1. Monk, J. D., Giglio, E., Kamath, A., Lambert, M. R. & McDonough, C. E. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 3, 1622–1631 (2019). Article Google Scholar 2. Dickins, T. E. & Rahman, Q. Ancestral primacy of same-sex sexual behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations Nat. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1187-5 (2020). 3. Clive, J., Flintham, […] More
New Unionidae genera and species from Southeast Asia Our multi-locus phylogenies were constructed using BEAST v2.6.1, MrBayes v3.2.6 and IQ-TREE v1.6.11 based on the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), small ribosomal RNA (16 S rRNA), and the nuclear large ribosomal RNA (28 S rRNA) gene fragments. These analyses returned well-resolved consensus phylogenies having a similar […] More
Bottom-up effects of precipitation manipulation on Brandt’s voles To confirm the bottom-up effects of precipitation on small mammal, we monitored the vole population and plant community in a rainfall simulation experiment. We first assessed whether the plant community differed between rainfall treatment and control. In enclosures, the plant community structure mainly comprised of species such […] More
Sampling design The Asinara National Park (http://www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.asinara/Eindex.php), located at the island of Asinara in the North-Western tip of Sardinia, Italy, covers a Marine Protected Area of about 110 km2. Before a National Park was established in 1997, the island hosted a hospital in the nineteenth century and then a prisoner camp and a maximum-security prison from […] More
1. Bocherens, H. et al. The last of its kind? Radiocarbon, ancient DNA and stable isotope evidence from a late cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER, 1794) from Rochedane (France). Quat. Int. 339–340, 179–188 (2014). Article Google Scholar 2. Baca, M. et al. Retreat and extinction of the Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus spelaeus sensu lato). […] More
