Thermal evolution ameliorates the long-term plastic effects of warming, temperature fluctuations and heat waves on preda...
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Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble st...
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A methodology to downscale water demand data with application to the Andean region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile)
Mountainous regions are a hotspot for water scarcity and anthropogenic pressure on water resources. Substantial uncertainty surrounds projections of future climate and water availability. Furthermore, quantitative and distributed data on water demand are generally scarce, dispersed, and highly heterogeneous. This forms a major bottleneck to studyin...
Species-specific effects of thermal stress on the expression of genetic variation across a diverse group of plant and an...
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Assessing the genetic adaptive potential of populations and species is essential for better understanding evolutionary processes. However, the expression of genetic variation may depend on environmental conditions, which may speed up or slow down evolutionary responses. Thus, the same selection pressure may lead to different responses. Against this...
Effects of temperature and interspecific competition on population fitness of free-living marine nematodes
Global average temperature, frequency of temperature extremes and amplitude of daily fluctuations are all expected to change under prospected scenarios of climate change. The amplitudes of temperature variation and the ability of species to tolerate thermal stress are crucial for species fitness and survival in rapidly changing environments. Small ...
Niche evolution reveals disparate signatures of speciation in the ‘great speciator‘ (white-eyes, Aves : Zosterops)
Aim Recent breakthroughs in environmental niche models (ENMs) have substantially improved our insights in niche evolution. Assuming that closely related taxa have similar niches (i.e. niche conservatism), the combination of ENMs with phylogenetic information allows the reconstruction of ancestral niches. This reconstruction helps to identify the un...
Sustainable Development Goals relevant to kidney health: an update on progress
...Published in Nature Reviews Nephrology
Each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) has the potential to improve kidney health and prevent kidney disease by improving the general health and well-being of individuals and societies, and by protecting the environment. Achievement of each SDG is interrelated to the achievement of multiple other SDGs; therefore, a multisectoral approach is requir...
Toxic effects of phenanthrene intensify with an increase of temperature for the populations of a free-living nematode
Phenanthrene is one of the most common Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the marine environment. It has high lipoafinity and environmental persistence and tends to accumulate in benthic ecosystems. Exposure to phenanthrene can have severe impacts on a wide range of marine organisms, from nematodes to fish. These effects can be exacerbated ...
Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors
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Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction of agricultural yields. We evaluated the temporal dynamics of 18 state-of-the-art (quasi-)global near-surface soil moisture products, including six based on satellite ret...
Oceanic response to the consecutive Hurricanes Dorian and Humberto (2019) in the Sargasso Sea
Understanding the oceanic response to tropical cyclones (TCs) is of importance for studies on climate change. Although the oceanic effects induced by individual TCs have been extensively investigated, studies on the oceanic response to the passage of consecutive TCs are rare. In this work, we assess the upper-oceanic response to the passage of Hurr...
