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Linking environmental flows to sediment dynamics (2016)
Journal Article
De Jalón, D. G., Bussettini, M., Rinaldi, M., Grant, G., Friberg, N., Cowx, I. G., Magdaleno, F., & Buijse, T. (2017). Linking environmental flows to sediment dynamics. Water policy : official journal of the World Water Council, 19(2), 358-375. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2016.106

© 2017 The Authors. This is a policy discussion paper aimed at addressing possible alternative approaches for environmental flows (e- Flows) assessment and identification within the context of best strategies for fluvial restoration. We focus on damm... Read More about Linking environmental flows to sediment dynamics.

Genetic architecture and evolution of the S locus supergene in Primula vulgaris (2016)
Journal Article
Li, J., Cocker, J. M., Wright, J., Webster, M. A., McMullan, M., Dyer, S., Swarbreck, D., Caccamo, M., Oosterhout, C. V., & Gilmartin, P. M. (2016). Genetic architecture and evolution of the S locus supergene in Primula vulgaris. Nature Plants, 2(12), Article 16188. https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.188

Darwin's studies on heterostyly in Primula described two floral morphs, pin and thrum, with reciprocal anther and stigma heights that promote insect-mediated cross-pollination. This key innovation evolved independently in several angiosperm families.... Read More about Genetic architecture and evolution of the S locus supergene in Primula vulgaris.

Small-scale coastal fisheries in European Seas are not what they were: Ecological, social and economic changes (2016)
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Lloret, J., Cowx, I. G., Cabral, H., Castro, M., Font, T., Gonçalves, J. M., Gordoa, A., Hoefnagel, E., Matić-Skoko, S., Mikkelsen, E., Morales-Nin, B., Moutopoulos, D. K., Muñoz, M., dos Santos, M. N., Pintassilgo, P., Pita, C., Stergiou, K. I., Ünal, V., Veiga, P., & Erzini, K. (2018). Small-scale coastal fisheries in European Seas are not what they were: Ecological, social and economic changes. Marine Policy, 98, 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.11.007

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. Coastal, small-scale fisheries (SSF), whether artisanal (professional) or recreational, represent important socioeconomic activities across Europe that are currently undergoing a number of changes. This paper reviews and analyses... Read More about Small-scale coastal fisheries in European Seas are not what they were: Ecological, social and economic changes.

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences (2016)
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Böhme, W., Bogdanowicz, W., Bockmann, F. A., Boano, G., Blick, T., Birindelli, J., …Dubois, A. (2016). Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa, 4196(3), 435-445. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois &... Read More about Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences.

Exclusions for resolving urban badger damage problems: Outcomes and consequences (2016)
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Ward, A. I., Finney, J. K., Beatham, S. E., Delahay, R. J., Robertson, P. A., & Cowan, D. P. (2016). Exclusions for resolving urban badger damage problems: Outcomes and consequences. PeerJ, 4(10), e2579. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2579

Increasing urbanisation and growth of many wild animal populations can result in a greater frequency of human-wildlife conflicts. However, traditional lethal methods of wildlife control are becoming less favoured than non-lethal approaches, particula... Read More about Exclusions for resolving urban badger damage problems: Outcomes and consequences.

Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates (2016)
Journal Article
Santos, E. S., Bueno, P. P., Gilbert, J. D. J., & Machado, G. (2017). Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates. Biological Reviews, 92(3), 1688-1701. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12303

The intensity of biotic interactions varies around the world, in such a way that mortality risk imposed by natural enemies is usually higher in the tropics. A major role of offspring attendance is protection against natural enemies, so the benefits o... Read More about Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates.

Is climate change an unforeseen, irresistible and external factor – A force majeure in marine environmental law? (2016)
Journal Article
Saul, R., Barnes, R., & Elliott, M. (2016). Is climate change an unforeseen, irresistible and external factor – A force majeure in marine environmental law?. Marine pollution bulletin, 113(1-2), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.074

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Several environmental laws include provisions on natural causes or force majeure, which except States from their commitments if it can be proven that the failure to meet the commitment is due to factors outside their control. The... Read More about Is climate change an unforeseen, irresistible and external factor – A force majeure in marine environmental law?.

Effective River Restoration in the 21st Century: From Trial and Error to Novel Evidence-Based Approaches (2016)
Book Chapter
Friberg, N., Angelopoulos, N., Buijse, A., Cowx, I., Kail, J., Moe, T., Moir, H., O’Hare, M., Verdonschot, P., & Wolter, C. (2016). Effective River Restoration in the 21st Century: From Trial and Error to Novel Evidence-Based Approaches. In A. Dumbrell, R. Kordas, & G. Woodward (Eds.), Advances in Ecological Research; Large-Scale Ecology: Model Systems to Global Perspectives (535-611). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.08.010

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper is a comprehensive and updated overview of river restoration and covers all relevant aspects from drivers of restoration, linkages between hydromorphology and biota, the current restoration paradigm, effects of restorat... Read More about Effective River Restoration in the 21st Century: From Trial and Error to Novel Evidence-Based Approaches.

Genetic drift, not life history or RNAi, determine long term evolution of transposable elements (2016)
Journal Article
Szitenberg, A., Cha, S., Opperman, C. H., Bird, D. M., Blaxter, M. L., & Lunt, D. H. (2016). Genetic drift, not life history or RNAi, determine long term evolution of transposable elements. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8(9), 2964-2978. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw208

Transposable elements (TEs) are a major source of genome variation across the branches of life. Although TEs may play an adaptive role in their host’s genome, they are more often deleterious, and purifying selection is an important factor controlling... Read More about Genetic drift, not life history or RNAi, determine long term evolution of transposable elements.

Do fish go with the flow? The effects of periodic and episodic flow pulses on 0+ fish biomass in a constrained lowland river (2016)
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Walton, S. E., Nunn, A. D., Probst, W. N., Bolland, J. D., Acreman, M. C., & Cowx, I. G. (2017). Do fish go with the flow? The effects of periodic and episodic flow pulses on 0+ fish biomass in a constrained lowland river. Ecohydrology, 10(1), Article e1777. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1777

The hydrological regime is a significant driver of fish population dynamics in rivers, but there is a dearth of information regarding the mechanisms behind its effects on temperate species, especially non-salmonids. This study investigated the effect... Read More about Do fish go with the flow? The effects of periodic and episodic flow pulses on 0+ fish biomass in a constrained lowland river.

Angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of two-color XUV-NIR ionization with polarization control (2016)
Journal Article
Düsterer, S., Hartmann, G., Babies, F., Beckmann, A., Brenner, G., Buck, J., Costello, J., Dammann, L., Fanis, A. D., Geßler, P., Glaser, L., Ilchen, M., Johnsson, P., Kazansky, A. K., Kelly, T. J., Mazza, T., Meyer, M., Nosik, V. L., Sazhina, I. P., Scholz, F., …Kabachnik, N. M. (2016). Angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of two-color XUV-NIR ionization with polarization control. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 49(16), 165003. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/16/165003

Electron emission caused by extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation in the presence of a strong near infrared (NIR) field leads to multiphoton interactions that depend on several parameters. Here, a comprehensive study of the influence of the angle betwe... Read More about Angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of two-color XUV-NIR ionization with polarization control.

Phospholipid dependent mechanism of smp24, an α-helical antimicrobial peptide from scorpion venom (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. L., Heath, G. R., Johnson, B. R., Abdel-Rahman, M. A., Strong, P. N., Evans, S. D., & Miller, K. (2016). Phospholipid dependent mechanism of smp24, an α-helical antimicrobial peptide from scorpion venom. BBA - Biomembranes, 1858(11), 2737-2744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.07.018

Determining the mechanism of action of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) is critical if they are to be developed into the clinical setting. In recent years high resolution techniques such as atomic force microscopy (AFM) have increasingly been utilised t... Read More about Phospholipid dependent mechanism of smp24, an α-helical antimicrobial peptide from scorpion venom.

Molecular changes in skin pigmented lesions of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (2016)
Journal Article
Lerebours, A., Chapman, E. C., Rotchell, J. M., Heupel, M. R., & Sweet, M. J. (2016). Molecular changes in skin pigmented lesions of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus. Marine environmental research, 120, 130-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.07.009

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd A high prevalence of skin pigmented lesions of 15% was recently reported in coral trout Plectropomus leopardus, a commercially important marine fish, inhabiting the Great Barrier Reef. Herein, fish were sampled at two offshore sit... Read More about Molecular changes in skin pigmented lesions of the coral trout Plectropomus leopardus.

Life as an early career researcher: Ruth Bower (2016)
Journal Article
Bower, R. (2016). Life as an early career researcher: Ruth Bower. Future Science OA, 2(3), FSO132. https://doi.org/10.4155/fsoa-2016-0045

Ruth Bower talks to Francesca Lake, Managing Editor: Ruth is currently researching head and neck cancer chemoradiotherapy regimens utilizing microfluidic technology to maintain and interrogate biopsies. Tissue response is investigated using a variety... Read More about Life as an early career researcher: Ruth Bower.

Environmental concentration of carbamazepine accelerates fish embryonic development and disturbs larvae behavior (2016)
Journal Article
Qiang, L., Cheng, J., Yi, J., Rotchell, J. M., Zhu, X., & Zhou, J. (2016). Environmental concentration of carbamazepine accelerates fish embryonic development and disturbs larvae behavior. Ecotoxicology, 25(7), 1426-1437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-016-1694-y

Environmental pollution caused by pharmaceuticals has been recognized as a major threat to the aquatic ecosystems. Carbamazepine, as the widely prescribed antiepileptic drug, has been frequently detected in the aquatic environment and has created con... Read More about Environmental concentration of carbamazepine accelerates fish embryonic development and disturbs larvae behavior.

Short-term effects of CO₂-induced low pH exposure on target gene expression in Platynereis dumerilii (2016)
Journal Article
Wäge, J., Rohr, S., Hardege, J. D., & Rotchell, J. M. (2016). Short-term effects of CO₂-induced low pH exposure on target gene expression in Platynereis dumerilii. Journal of Marine Biology and Oceanography, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-8661.1000155

Objective: Increasing atmospheric CO₂ concentration are causing changes to the seawater carbonate chemistry, lowering the pH and we study potential impacts of these changes at the molecular level in a non-calcifying, marine polychaete species Platyne... Read More about Short-term effects of CO₂-induced low pH exposure on target gene expression in Platynereis dumerilii.

Electro-oxidation of Ni42 steel: A highly active bifunctional electrocatalyst (2016)
Journal Article
Schäfer, H., Chevrier, D. M., Zhang, P., Stangl, J., Müller-Buschbaum, K., Hardege, J. D., Kuepper, K., Wollschläger, J., Krupp, U., Dühnen, S., Steinhart, M., Walder, L., Sadaf, S., & Schmidt, M. (2016). Electro-oxidation of Ni42 steel: A highly active bifunctional electrocatalyst. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(35), 6402-6417. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201601581

Janus type water‐splitting catalysts have attracted highest attention as a tool of choice for solar to fuel conversion. AISI Ni42 steel is upon harsh anodization converted into a bifunctional electrocatalyst. Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydro... Read More about Electro-oxidation of Ni42 steel: A highly active bifunctional electrocatalyst.

Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules (2016)
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Roggatz, C. C., Lorch, M., Hardege, J. D., & Benoit, D. M. (2016). Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules. Global change biology, 22(12), 3914-3926. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13354

Ocean acidification is a global challenge that faces marine organisms in the near future with a predicted rapid drop in pH of up to 0.4 units by the end of this century. Effects of the change in ocean carbon chemistry and pH on the development, growt... Read More about Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules.

Diapausing egg banks, lake size, and genetic diversity in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller (Rotifera, Monogononta) (2016)
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Montero-Pau, J., Serra, M., & Gómez, A. (2017). Diapausing egg banks, lake size, and genetic diversity in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller (Rotifera, Monogononta). Hydrobiologia, 796(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2833-4

Diapausing egg banks are reservoirs of ecological and genetic diversity in continental zooplankton. However, although habitat size has often been used as a proxy for population size, the relationship between the size of diapausing egg banks and genet... Read More about Diapausing egg banks, lake size, and genetic diversity in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller (Rotifera, Monogononta).