Philippa Kaur

In order to maximize fitness, life history traits vary under different environmental pressures31,32. In this study, our results showed that maternal investment strategies differ among altitudes. When the effect of body size is removed, the clutch data across seven B. minshanicus populations indicated that females are more fecund but produce smaller egg sizes at higher […] More

Saline alkaline (soda) lakes are extreme environments for most organisms. Although microbial extremophiles often flourish in these settings, few animals survive under the prolonged stressed conditions that characterise these lakes7,24,47. Hydrologically closed lakes nonetheless are dynamic environments that can undergo rapid, and sometimes extreme, changes in salinity and alkalinity during periods of freshening or evaporation […] More

Land-use and land-cover changes have impacted many natural ecosystems to provide ecosystem goods and services for an ever-growing human population1. This often has unintended consequences that may threaten biodiversity and ecosystem health2. Such consequences include changes in local, regional, and global climate3, alteration of natural habitats4, pollution of land, air, and water5,6,7, and changes in […] More

Identification of bulking bacteria in the A2O process train using amplicon sequencing, and their correlation with SVI Quantities of putative bulking bacteria in the 12 sludge samples after amplicon sequencing are expressed here as relative abundances of each as a percentage of the total number of amplicons. Figure 1 lists the filamentous genera mentioned in the […] More

1. Harley, C. D. G. et al. The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems. Ecol. Lett 9, 228–241 (2006). 2. Doney, S. C. et al. Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems. Annual Review of Marine Science, Vol 4 4, 11–37, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-041911-111611 (2012). 3. Pörtner, H.-O. et al. In Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, […] More

1. Morens, D. M. & Fauci, A. S. Emerging Infectious Diseases: Threats to Human Health and Global Stability. Plos Pathog. 9, e1003467 (2013). 2. Engering, A., Hogerwerf, L. & Slingenbergh, J. Pathogen-host-environment interplay and disease emergence. Emerging Microbes and Infections 2, e5, https://doi.org/10.1038/emi.2013.5 (2013). 3. Woolhouse, M. E. J., Haydon, D. T. & Antia, R. […] More

1. Grill, G. et al. Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers. Nature 569, 215–221, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1111-9 (2019). 2. Poff, N. L. et al. The natural flow regime. Bioscience 47, 769–784, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313099 (1997). Article Google Scholar 3. Yang, D. et al. Distribution and movement of Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, on the spawning ground located below the Gezhouba Dam […] More

In March 2011, large amounts of radionuclides were released into the environment as a result of an accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). Approximately 13–15 PBq of caesium-137 (hereinafter, 137Cs, physical half-life of 30 years) was released from the FDNPP accident1,2, and as a result, 137Cs became a major […] More