Gong, An-Dong Lian, Shuai-Bin Wu, Nan-Nan Zhou, Yong-Jie Zhao, Shi-Qi Zhang, Li-Min Cheng, Lin Yuan, Hong-Yu
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BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundCatechins, caffeine, and theanine as three important metabolites in the tea leaves play essential roles in the formation of specific taste and shows potential health benefits to humans. However, the knowledge on the dynamic changes of these metabolites content over seasons, as well as the candidate regulatory factors, remains largely unde...
Ten Brink, Hanna Gremer, Jennifer R Kokko, Hanna
For organisms living in unpredictable environments, timing important life-history events is challenging. One way to deal with uncertainty is to spread the emergence of offspring across multiple years via dormancy. However, timing of emergence is not only important among years, but also within each growing season. Here, we study the evolutionary int...
Somveille, Marius Wikelski, Martin Beyer, Robert M Rodrigues, Ana SL Manica, Andrea Jetz, Walter
Gremer, Jennifer R Chiono, Alec Suglia, Elena Bontrager, Megan Okafor, Lauren Schmitt, Johanna
PREMISE:The timing of germination has profound impacts on fitness, population dynamics, and species ranges. Many plants have evolved responses to seasonal environmental cues to time germination with favorable conditions; these responses interact with temporal variation in local climate to drive the seasonal climate niche and may reflect local adapt...
Roug, Annette Muse, Epaphras A Clifford, Deana L Larsen, Randy Paul, Goodluck Mathayo, Daniel Mpanduji, Donald Mazet, Jonna AK Kazwala, Rudovick Kiwango, Halima
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BACKGROUND:Assessing wildlife movements and habitat use is important for species conservation and management and can be informative for understanding population dynamics. The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) population of Ruaha National Park, Tanzania has been declining, and little was known about the movement, habitat selection, and space use of ...
Xu, Bing Arain, M Altaf Black, T Andrew Law, Beverly E Pastorello, Gilberto Z Chu, Housen
Climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts are projected to occur more frequently with increasing temperature and an intensified hydrological cycle. It is important to understand and quantify how forest carbon fluxes respond to heat and drought stress. In this study, we developed a series of daily indices of sensitivity to heat and drought st...
FORTUNEL, Claire Stahl, Clement Heuret, Patrick Nicolini, Eric Baraloto, Christopher
1.Soil water and nutrient availability are key drivers of tree species distribution and forest ecosystem functioning, with strong species differences in water and nutrient use. Despite growing evidence for intraspecific trait differences, it remains unclear under which circumstances the effects of environmental gradients trump those of ontogeny and...
Gardner, Janet L Amano, Tatsuya Peters, Anne Sutherland, William Mackey, Brendan Joseph, Leo Stein, John Ikin, Karen Little, Roellen Smith, Jesse
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Observed variation in the body size responses of endotherms to climate change may be explained by two hypotheses: size increases with climate variability (The starvation resistance hypothesis); size shrinks as mean temperatures rise (The heat exchange hypothesis). Across 82 Australian passerine species over 50 years, shrinking was associated with a...
Baker, Rachel E Mahmud, Ayesha S Wagner, Caroline E Yang, Wenchang Pitzer, Virginia E Viboud, Cecile Vecchi, Gabriel A Metcalf, C Jessica E Grenfell, Bryan T
A key question for infectious disease dynamics is the impact of the climate on future burden. Here, we evaluate the climate drivers of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an important determinant of disease in young children. We combine a dataset of county-level observations from the US with state-level observations from Mexico, spanning much of the...
Escosteguy, Juliana Ribas Beskow, Murilo Sand, Cezar Roberto Van Der
Abstract Background: Hypertension in Brazil affects 32.5% of the population, accounting for 50% of deaths due to cardiovascular disease. The correct measurement and interpretation of blood pressure are essential for attaining an adequate disease diagnosis and management. Objective: To verify the correlation between the seasonal temperature variatio...
