Philippa Kaur

In this phase I/II single (only participant) blinded pilot trial, we tested safety and efficacy of A. soehngenii in metabolic syndrome subjects and found that daily ingestion of increasing A. soehngenii doses for 1 month was associated with increased fecal levels of A. soehngenii with greatest efficacy in the subjects who received the highest dose. […] More

Field sampling Investigated site was located in Central Siberia, about 15 km west of Krasnoyarsk (N56°01′41.46″; E92°34′39.30″). Samples were collected from five A. sibirica trees exhibiting typical symptoms of the disease. The trees were approximately 30–50 years-old, 6–13 m high, and 8 –14 cm in dbh. The sampling targeted parts of branches and stems representing discrete cankers (Fig. 2A–C). […] More

NEWS FEATURE 27 March 2020 Several cancer and HIV drugs have come from marine organisms, but scientists worry that a new agreement to save species could hinder some research. Olive Heffernan Olive Heffernan is a science journalist in Dublin. Search for this author in: A new treaty will govern uses of organisms from the open […] More

Site description and soil property measurements The soil warming experiment was set up at the Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station in McClain County, OK (34° 59′ N, 96° 31′ W). The mean annual temperature is 16.3 °C and mean annual precipitation is 914 mm [20]. The experiment was a blocked split-plot design and initiated in July, […] More

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The diverse influences of individual species on air quality are reflected by the immeasurable range of phenotypes. As well as consideration of the planting environment, effective plant selection for air pollution mitigation requires an understanding of the balance between beneficial and detrimental aspects of vegetation at species level and below. In the following sub-sections, we […] More

In Jones et al. (2018) we describe a dataset uploaded to the Dryad Digital Repository (Dataset 112) comprising 63,070 unique raw time-lapse images captured by the Penguin Watch remote camera network, metadata for these photographs (e.g. date/time and temperature information), raw anonymised classifications from the Penguin Watch citizen science project, and ‘consensus clicks’ derived from […] More

Study location and field methods We attached either light-level geolocator or Global Positioning System (GPS) tags to adult Swainson’s Thrushes in breeding condition in coastal California, and in the Tahoe and Lassen regions within California’s northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Mountains (hereafter the Cascade-Sierra), in the summers of 2014–2015 (Fig. 1; Supplementary Table S1). Light-level tags […] More