Multiple introductions, polyploidy and mixed reproductive strategies are linked to genetic diversity and structure in the most widespread invasive plant across Southern Ocean archipelagos.
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Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Male Mediterranean fruit flies prefer warmer temperatures that improve sexual performance
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Emerging biological archives can reveal ecological and climatic change in Antarctica onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Is there a cost to natural cloning?
In a new Science study, researchers studied a parthenogenetic grasshopper with a hybrid origin and found no decrease in fitness, across many traits, relative to its sexual counterparts. fcld.ly/fzg8981
Parthenogenesis without costs in a grasshopper with hybrid origins science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Using near‐ground leaf temperatures alters the projected climate change impacts on the historical range of a floristic biodiversity hotspot onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Heat stress is unavoidable for vulnerable informal settlement residents in the tropics. @_Emma_Ramsay discusses her findings, published by @iScience_CP
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New research in @iScience_CP shows that heat stress is unavoidable for vulnerable informal settlement residents in the tropics @MonashBiol @Monash_SPHM @CHE_Monash @hasanuddin_univ
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Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates.
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Sub-critical limits are viable alternatives to critical thermal limits.
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Human activity strongly influences genetic dynamics of the most widespread invasive plant in the sub‐Antarctic.
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Contamination across water sources (except municipal, which not all households have access to) was high. Well water did not meet @WHO drinking water guidelines and E. coli levels of environmental water indicates sewage contamination
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A new international study in @PNASNews shows remarkable #evolution in isolation: beetles speciated across sub- #Antarctic islands as the climate cooled, in synchrony with many marine groups. @MonashBiol @CSIRO @ACE_Expedition doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017384…
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Monitoring of diverse enteric pathogens across environmental and host reservoirs ...
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Geographical bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts.
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Time course of acclimation of critical thermal limits in two springtail species (Collembola)
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Diatoms define a novel freshwater biogeography of the Antarctic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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A new @MonashUni led study has shown that Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly.
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Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/d…