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Niche separation between two dominant crustacean predators in European estuarine soft-bottom habitats (2022)
Journal Article
Siegenthaler, A., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., Benvenuto, C., Lollobrigidi, R., & Mariani, S. (2022). Niche separation between two dominant crustacean predators in European estuarine soft-bottom habitats. Ecological Indicators, 138(108839), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108839

Epibenthic predators in estuarine shallow soft-bottom environments are generally considered to have broad ecological niches with a wide overlap. This allows them to cope with abundant but highly variable prey communities. The assessment of trophic re... Read More about Niche separation between two dominant crustacean predators in European estuarine soft-bottom habitats.

Transplantation of Gut Microbiota From High-Fat-Diet-Tolerant Cynomolgus Monkeys Alleviates Hyperlipidemia and Hepatic Steatosis in Rats. (2022)
Journal Article

Emerging evidence has been reported to support the involvement of the gut microbiota in the host's blood lipid and hyperlipidemia (HLP). However, there remains unexplained variation in the host's blood lipid phenotype. Herein a nonhuman primate HLP m... Read More about Transplantation of Gut Microbiota From High-Fat-Diet-Tolerant Cynomolgus Monkeys Alleviates Hyperlipidemia and Hepatic Steatosis in Rats..

N-mixture models provide informative crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) abundance estimates in dynamic environments (2022)
Journal Article
Nobrega, J., González-Jaurégui, M., & Jehle, R. (2022). N-mixture models provide informative crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) abundance estimates in dynamic environments. PeerJ, 10, e12906

Estimates of animal abundance provide essential information for population
ecological studies. However, the recording of individuals in the field can be
challenging, and accurate estimates require analytical techniques which account for
imperfect... Read More about N-mixture models provide informative crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) abundance estimates in dynamic environments.

Urban green infrastructures: an assessment of urban bird diversity, abundance and behaviour associated with green walls and street trees in Manchester and Salford, UK. (2022)
Thesis
Morton, L. Urban green infrastructures: an assessment of urban bird diversity, abundance and behaviour associated with green walls and street trees in Manchester and Salford, UK. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Urbanisation is a worldwide process with serious wellbeing impacts on people and wildlife. Reconciliation ecology, a novel approach to conservation, is particularly relevant for urban conservation as new habitats can be established and maintained. St... Read More about Urban green infrastructures: an assessment of urban bird diversity, abundance and behaviour associated with green walls and street trees in Manchester and Salford, UK..

Mobility as a Service: Defining a Transport Utopia (2022)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Hardman, M., Davies, N., & Armitage, R. (2022). Mobility as a Service: Defining a Transport Utopia. Future Transportation, 2(1), 300-309. https://doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp2010016

Having been widely acknowledged as enabling access to education, employment, leisure and social activities, transport choices are also the cause of many challenges cities face. Recognising that change is needed, planners and policymakers are consider... Read More about Mobility as a Service: Defining a Transport Utopia.

Reproductive phenologies of phyllostomid bats in the Central Amazon (2022)
Journal Article
Hazard, Q., Sabino-Pinto, J., López-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Meyer, C., & Rocha, R. (2022). Reproductive phenologies of phyllostomid bats in the Central Amazon. Mammalian Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00242-6

Mammals tend to align their most energetically demanding phenological events with periods of peak resource availability. Their reproductive phenology is influenced by local resource availability, potentially leading to geographical variation in their... Read More about Reproductive phenologies of phyllostomid bats in the Central Amazon.

Heavy metal distribution in Wrigley Head, Moston Brook, Greater Manchester, Northwest England : implications for risk assessment and remediation (2022)
Thesis
Northwest England : implications for risk assessment and remediation. (Thesis). University of Salford

Heavy metal contaminated sites pose potential environmental and health problems and represent a great barrier to the beneficial use of contaminated sites. Therefore, the study of heavy metal contamination is a vital knowledge gap which, when filled,... Read More about Heavy metal distribution in Wrigley Head, Moston Brook, Greater Manchester, Northwest England : implications for risk assessment and remediation.

Challenging a host–pathogen paradigm: Susceptibility to chytridiomycosis is decoupled from genetic erosion (2022)
Journal Article

The putatively positive association between host genetic diversity and the ability to defend against pathogens has long attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists. Chytridiomycosis, a disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dend... Read More about Challenging a host–pathogen paradigm: Susceptibility to chytridiomycosis is decoupled from genetic erosion.

Out of the shadows : multilocus systematics and biogeography of night monkeys suggest a Central Amazonian origin and a very recent widespread southeastward expansion in South America (2022)
Journal Article

Neotropical primates with a poorly understood taxonomy and biogeography. The number of species in the genus varies from one to nine, depending on the author, and there are at least 18 known karyotypes, varying from 2n = 46 to 2n = 58. Historically, n... Read More about Out of the shadows : multilocus systematics and biogeography of night monkeys suggest a Central Amazonian origin and a very recent widespread southeastward expansion in South America.

Cold case : the disappearance of Egypt bee virus, a fourth distinct master strain of deformed wing virus linked to honeybee mortality in 1970’s Egypt (2022)
Journal Article

In 1977, a sample of diseased adult honeybees (Apis mellifera) from Egypt was found to contain large amounts of a previously unknown virus, Egypt bee virus, which was subsequently shown to be serologically related to deformed wing virus (DWV). By seq... Read More about Cold case : the disappearance of Egypt bee virus, a fourth distinct master strain of deformed wing virus linked to honeybee mortality in 1970’s Egypt.

Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution (2021)
Journal Article
Chambers, H., Heldstab, S., & O'Hara, S. (2021). Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0261185. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261185

Despite decades of research, much uncertainty remains regarding the selection pressures responsible for brain size variation. Whilst the influential social brain hypothesis once garnered extensive support, more recent studies have failed to find supp... Read More about Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution.

Evaluation of Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B ocean land colour instrument green instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (2021)
Journal Article

This article presents the evaluation of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Ocean Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) operational terrestrial products corresponding to the green instantaneous Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) and its a... Read More about Evaluation of Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B ocean land colour instrument green instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation.

Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil (2021)
Journal Article
Mandal, J., Sengupta, S., Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Wood, M., Hutchinson, S., & Mondal, D. (2021). Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 760125. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.760125

It is now well-established that not just drinking water, but irrigation water contaminated with arsenic (As) is an important source of human As exposure through water-soil-rice transfer. While drinking water As has a permissible, or guideline value,... Read More about Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil.

The School Farms Network in the UK : history, context, and adding value (2021)
Book Chapter
and adding value. In A. Farag, S. Badawi, G. Lalli, & M. Kamareddine (Eds.), School farms : feeding and educating children (67-83). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003176558-7

Alongside recent renewed interest in urban agriculture, there has been an increased focus on school farming. The School Farms Network has a large membership base and interest from other green space organisations across the UK. Using contributions fro... Read More about The School Farms Network in the UK : history, context, and adding value.

Next‐generation phylogeography resolves post‐glacial colonization patterns in a widespread carnivore, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), in Europe (2021)
Journal Article

Carnivores tend to exhibit a lack of (or less pronounced) genetic structure at continental scales in both a geographic and temporal sense and this can confound the identification of post-glacial colonization patterns in this group. In this study we u... Read More about Next‐generation phylogeography resolves post‐glacial colonization patterns in a widespread carnivore, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), in Europe.

Uncertainty regarding species delimitation, geographic distribution, and the evolutionary history of south-central Amazonian titi monkey species (Plecturocebus, Pitheciidae) (2021)
Journal Article

Platyrrhine primate taxonomy is a rapidly evolving area of research. The recent description of the Parecis titi monkey, Plecturocebus parecis, has raised substantial questions regarding the taxonomy, distribution, and evolutionary history of titi tax... Read More about Uncertainty regarding species delimitation, geographic distribution, and the evolutionary history of south-central Amazonian titi monkey species (Plecturocebus, Pitheciidae).

Genetic and morphological data demonstrate hybridization and backcrossing in a pair of salamanders at the far end of the speciation continuum (2021)
Journal Article
Arntzen, J., Jehle, R., & Wielstra, B. (2021). Genetic and morphological data demonstrate hybridization and backcrossing in a pair of salamanders at the far end of the speciation continuum. Evolutionary Applications, 14(12), 2784-2793. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13312

Deeply diverged yet hybridizing species provide a system to investigate the final stages of the speciation
process. We study a hybridizing pair of salamander species — the morphologically and genetically
drastically different newts Triturus cristat... Read More about Genetic and morphological data demonstrate hybridization and backcrossing in a pair of salamanders at the far end of the speciation continuum.