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Deep-sea benthic megafauna hotspot shows indication of resilience to impact from massive turbidity flow

Published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Sediment density flows are large scale disturbances that can have dramatic impacts on seafloor animal communities in the deep sea. Seafloor imagery collected in Kaikōura Canyon (New Zealand), before and after a sediment density flow event that included debris and turbidity flows triggered by a 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, shows the recovery tra...

Spatial and temporal patterns of methane emissions from mountain peatlands in the northern Andes across a disturbance gr...

Published in Frontiers in Earth Science

Methane emitted by wetlands accounts for nearly 30% of the global methane emissions and is expected to double by 2,100. Methane fluxes from peatlands are related to m soil temperature, water table, and vegetation. Disturbances, mostly drainage, are considered to have a more limited impact on CH4 fluxes from peatlands. Here, we studied the temporal ...

A call for strategic water-quality monitoring to advance assessment and prediction of wildfire impacts on water supplies...

Published in Frontiers in Water

Wildfires pose a risk to water supplies in the western U.S. and many other parts of the world, due to the potential for degradation of water quality. However, a lack of adequate data hinders prediction and assessment of post-wildfire impacts and recovery. The dearth of such data is related to lack of funding for monitoring extreme events and the ch...

Managing human activity and marine mammals: A biologically based, relativistic risk assessment framework

Published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Presented here is a broadly applicable, transparent, repeatable analytical framework for assessing relative risk of anthropogenic disturbances on marine vertebrates, with the emphasis on the sound generating aspects of the activity. The objectives are to provide managers and action-proponents tools with which to objectively evaluate drivers of pote...

The Electrical Behaviour of Railway Pantograph Arcs

Electric arcing is an unavoidable consequence of the current collection process by sliding contact in railways and metros, and in general in many electrified transportation systems (ETSs). The most relevant consequences in an electrical perspective are: the occurrence of transients triggering resonant behaviour and transient responses, reduction of...

Urbanization increases stochasticity and reduces the ecological stability of microbial communities in amphibian hosts

Published in Frontiers in Microbiology

Urbanization not only profoundly alters landscape profiles, ecosystems and vertebrate faunal diversity but also disturbs microbial communities by increasing stochasticity, vulnerability, biotic homogenization, etc. However, because of the buffering effect of host species, microbial communities are expected to be influenced by both host species and ...

Towards relevant ecological experiments and assessments of coastal oil spill effects: Insights from the 2010 Deepwater H...

Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science

Spatio-temporal patterns in coral reef composition and function across an altered environmental gradient: A 15-year stud...

Published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Coral species, which function to build the framework structure of reef ecosystems, vary across sheltered to exposed environmental gradients. For centuries, conditions in sheltered environments that impact lagoonal reefs have been altered by local anthropogenic disturbances, while conditions in exposed environments that impact forereefs have largely...