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    Long-term observations from Antarctica demonstrate that mismatched scales of fisheries management and predator-prey interaction lead to erroneous conclusions about precaution

    Strata We defined two geographical strata to spatially match season-specific penguin foraging locations with estimates of LKB and LHR. These strata were based on areas where foraging penguins and krill fishing overlap26 and on the availability of krill biomass estimates from research-vessel surveys22,23. We defined the strata as the Drake Passage, combining the western and […] More

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    Chronicles of nature calendar, a long-term and large-scale multitaxon database on phenology

    Data acquisition The data were collected by two research programs: the Chronicles of Nature (Letopisi Prirody) monitoring program, and a volunteer network of phenological observers (Fenologicheskii Klub). The Chronicles of Nature monitoring program22 is based on the network of strictly protected areas (zapovedniks) and national parks. The program gradually evolved during early 1900s23 and was […] More

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    Distinct iron cycling in a Southern Ocean eddy

    Voyage The cold-core cyclonic eddy was studied between 28 March and 3 April 2016 and was part of a GEOTRACES process study (Fig. 1). The eddy was about 190 km in diameter and was a stable feature that had formed approximately 1 month prior to sampling (Fig. 1, Supplementary Movie 1). It was formed by detaching from waters 2 degrees […] More

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    Endosymbiont diversity in natural populations of Tetranychus mites is rapidly lost under laboratory conditions

    Ahmed MZ, Breinholt JW, Kawahara AY (2016) Evidence for common horizontal transmission of Wolbachia among butterflies and moths. BMC Evol Biol 16:118 Anbutsu H, Goto S, Fukatsu T (2008) High and low temperatures differently affect infection density and vertical transmission of male-killing Spiroplasma symbionts in Drosophila hosts. Appl Environ Microbiol 74(19):6053–6059 Atyame CM, Delsuc F, […] More

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    Bacterial dominance is due to effective utilisation of secondary metabolites produced by competitors

    Microbial interactions are dependent on diversity and time since inoculation The link between increasing biodiversity and primary productivity is well-established in environmental bacteria, and our results confirmed this relationship in clinical isolates (Fig. 1a) was significant (β48 = 1.49 ± 0.46 log10(colony forming units (cfu) ml−1) species−1, R2 = 0.29, p = 0.003) over time scales encompassing initial growth, but became non-significant (β168 = 0.79 ± 0.39 log10(cfu […] More

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    Disentangling the impact of environmental and phylogenetic constraints on prokaryotic within-species diversity

    Delineation of pangenomes and habitats descriptors The basis of this study is a large collection of pangenomes from a diverse set of prokaryotic species. To establish this collection, we filtered the proGenomes database of annotated prokaryotic genomes [32] to select consistently defined species (see “Methods”, also [31]) for which at least ten high-quality genomes (conspecific […] More

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    Active sulfur cycling in the terrestrial deep subsurface

    1. Mcmahon S, Parnell J. Weighing the deep continental biosphere. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2014;87:113–20. 2. Magnabosco C, Lin L-H, Dong H, Bomberg M, Ghiorse W, Stan-Lotter H, et al. The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface. Nat Geosci. 2018;11:707–17. 3. Pedersen K. Microbial life in deep granitic rock. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 1997;20:399–414. 4. Bagnoud […] More

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    Food availability modulates the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming on fish growth

    1. Breitburg, D. L. et al. Understanding Effects of Multiple Stressors: Ideas and Challenges. in Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science (eds. Pace, M. L. & Groffman, P. M.) 416–431, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1724-4_17, (Springer New York, 1998) Google Scholar 2. Frost, T. M. et al. Multiple stresses from a single agent: Diverse responses to the experimental […] More