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Nutrient pollution disrupts key ecosystem functions on coral reefs
- Nyssa J. Silbiger
- Craig E. Nelson
- Kristina Remple
- Jessica K. Sevilla
- Zachary A. Quinlan
- Hollie M. Putnam
- Michael D. Fox
- Megan J. Donahue
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1880

Published:06 June 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2718
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There is a long history of examining the impacts of nutrient pollution and pH on coral reefs. However, little is known about how these two stressors interact and influence coral reef ecosystem functioning. Using a six-week nutrient addition experiment, we ...
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Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations
- Curdin Derungs
- Martina Köhl
- Robert Weibel
- Balthasar Bickel
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2851
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Linguistic diversity is a key aspect of human population diversity and shapes much of our social and cognitive lives. To a considerable extent, the distribution of this diversity is driven by environmental factors such as climate or coast access. An ...
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Australian native mammals recognize and respond to alien predators: a meta-analysis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0857
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Prey naiveté is a failure to recognize novel predators and thought to cause exaggerated impacts of alien predators on native wildlife. Yet there is equivocal evidence in the literature for native prey naiveté towards aliens. To address this, we conducted ...
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Combined exposure to sublethal concentrations of an insecticide and a fungicide affect feeding, ovary development and longevity in a solitary bee
- Fabio Sgolastra
- Xavier Arnan
- Riccardo Cabbri
- Gloria Isani
- Piotr Medrzycki
- Dariusz Teper
- Jordi Bosch
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0887
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Pollinators in agroecosystems are often exposed to pesticide mixtures. Even at low concentrations, the effects of these mixtures on bee populations are difficult to predict due to potential synergistic interactions. In this paper, we orally exposed newly ...
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Evolutionary and food supply implications of ongoing maize domestication by Mexican campesinos
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:29 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1049
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Maize evolution under domestication is a process that continues today. Case studies suggest that Mexican smallholder family farmers, known as campesinos, contribute importantly to this, but their significance has not been explicitly quantified and ...
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Trait-dependent tolerance of bats to urbanization: a global meta-analysis
- Kirsten Jung
- Caragh Grace Threlfall
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1222
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Urbanization is a severe threat to global biodiversity, often leading to taxonomic and functional homogenization. However, current urban ecology research has focused mostly on urban birds and plants, limiting our ability to make generalizations about the ...
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Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests
- Xiaojuan Liu
- Stefan Trogisch
- Jin-Sheng He
- Pascal A. Niklaus
- Helge Bruelheide
- Zhiyao Tang
- Alexandra Erfmeier
- Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
- Katherina A. Pietsch
- Bo Yang
- Peter Kühn
- Thomas Scholten
- Yuanyuan Huang
- Chao Wang
- Michael Staab
- Katrin N. Leppert
- Christian Wirth
- Bernhard Schmid
- Keping Ma
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1240
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Forest ecosystems are an integral component of the global carbon cycle as they take up and release large amounts of C over short time periods (C flux) or accumulate it over longer time periods (C stock). However, there remains uncertainty about whether ...
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Direct and indirect effects of chemical contaminants on the behaviour, ecology and evolution of wildlife
- Minna Saaristo
- Tomas Brodin
- Sigal Balshine
- Michael G. Bertram
- Bryan W. Brooks
- Sean M. Ehlman
- Erin S. McCallum
- Andrew Sih
- Josefin Sundin
- Bob B. M. Wong
- Kathryn E. Arnold
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 285, Issue 1885

Published:22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1297
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Chemical contaminants (e.g. metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals) are changing ecosystems via effects on wildlife. Indeed, recent work explicitly performed under environmentally realistic conditions reveals that chemical contaminants can have both direct ...
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In situ-produced ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon
- R. Braucher
- R. Oslisly
- I. Mesfin
- P. P. Ntoutoume
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0482
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Discovered in 1988 by R. Oslisly and B. Peyrot, Elarmékora is a high terrace that, today, is situated 175 m above the Ogooué River in the historical complex of Elarmékora, attached to the Lopé National Park in Gabon, a World Heritage site since 2007. The ...
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The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0483
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The most profound shift in the African hydroclimate of the last 1 million years occurred around 300 thousand years (ka) ago. This change in African hydroclimate is manifest as an east-west change in moisture balance that cannot be fully explained through ...
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Human behaviour and climate-linked fluctuations in the rainforests of West-Central Africa
- Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0488
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Africa, the cradle of human evolution, has one of the largest and most diverse rainforests in the world. The African rainforests contain evidence of human occupation as well as fluctuating climate during the Pleistocene; such evidence offers ...
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Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human–environment interactions in the uplands of northern Vietnam
- Conor McAdams
- Mike W. Morley
- Xiao Fu
- Alexander V. Kandyba
- Anatoly P. Derevianko
- Dong Truong Nguyen
- Nguyen Gia Doi
- Richard G. Roberts
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0493
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Northern Vietnam is situated on a major route of Pleistocene hominin dispersal in East Asia, and the area's karstic caves preserve many prehistoric shell middens. Fossil and genomic evidence suggest a complex human history in this region and more widely ...
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Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania
- Patrick Roberts
- Katerina Douka
- Monica Tromp
- Stuart Bedford
- Stuart Hawkins
- Laurie Bouffandeau
- Jana Ilgner
- Mary Lucas
- Sara Marzo
- Rebecca Hamilton
- Wallace Ambrose
- David Bulbeck
- Sindy Luu
- Richard Shing
- Chris Gosden
- Glenn Summerhayes
- Matthew Spriggs
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0495
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Oceania is a key region for studying human dispersals, adaptations and interactions with other hominin populations. Although archaeological evidence now reveals occupation of the region by approximately 65–45 000 years ago, its human fossil record, which ...
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Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0498
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Humans have been present in Amazonia throughout the Holocene, with the earliest archaeological sites dating to 12 000 years ago. The earliest inhabitants began managing landscapes through fire and plant domestication, but the total extent of vegetation ...
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Legacies of Indigenous land use and cultural burning in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest ecotone
- S. Yoshi Maezumi
- Sarah Elliott
- Mark Robinson
- Carla Jaimes Betancourt
- Jonas Gregorio de Souza
- Daiana Alves
- Mark Grosvenor
- Lautaro Hilbert
- Dunia H. Urrego
- William D. Gosling
- José Iriarte
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1849

Published:07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0499
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The southwestern Amazon Rainforest Ecotone (ARE) is the transitional landscape between the tropical forest and seasonally flooded savannahs of the Bolivian Llanos de Moxos. These heterogeneous landscapes harbour high levels of biodiversity and some of the ...
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Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1848

Published:21 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0002
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Understanding where, when and how species’ ranges will be modified is both a fundamental problem and essential to predicting how spatio-temporal environmental changes in abiotic and biotic factors impact biodiversity. Notably, different species may ...
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Effects of species interactions on the potential for evolution at species' range limits
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1848

Published:21 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0020
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Species’ ranges are limited by both ecological and evolutionary constraints. While there is a growing appreciation that ecological constraints include interactions among species, like competition, we know relatively little about how interactions ...
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Climate-driven variation in biotic interactions provides a narrow and variable window of opportunity for an insect herbivore at its ecological margin
- James E. Stewart
- Ilya M. D. Maclean
- Gara Trujillo
- Jon Bridle
- Robert J. Wilson
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 377, Issue 1848

Published:21 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0021
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Climate-driven geographic range shifts have been associated with transitions between dietary specialism and generalism at range margins. The mechanisms underpinning these often transient niche breadth modifications are poorly known, but utilization of ...
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High attack rate in a Tong Lau house outbreak of COVID-19 with subdivided units in Hong Kong
- Qun Wang
- David Christopher Lung
- Pak-To Chan
- Wei Jia
- Chung-Hin Dung
- Te Miao
- Jianxiang Huang
- Wenzhao Chen
- Zixuan Wang
- Kai-Ming Leung
- Pengcheng Xu
- Zhang Lin
- Daniel Wong
- Herman Tse
- Sally Cheuk Ying Wong
- Garnet Kwan-Yue Choi
- Kelvin Kai-Wang To
- Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng
- Kwok-Yung Yuen
- Yuguo Li
Interface Focus Volume 12, Issue 2

Published:11 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2021.0063
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Poor housing conditions are known to be associated with infectious diseases such as high Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidences. Transmission causes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in poor housing conditions can be ...
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Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 at a hospice: terminated after the implementation of enhanced aerosol infection control measures
- Luke Feathers
- Tracey Hinde
- Tammy Bale
- Jo Hyde
- Paul W. Bird
- Christopher W. Holmes
- Julian W. Tang
Interface Focus Volume 12, Issue 2

Published:11 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2021.0066
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Outbreaks of COVID-19 in hospices for palliative care patients pose a unique and difficult situation. Staff, relatives and patients may be possible sources and recipients of infection. We present an outbreak of COVID-19 in a hospice setting, during the UK'...

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