Seagrass perform critical provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting ecological functions and services humans rely on worldwide. Unfortunately, many seagrass ecosystems are vulnerable to disturbance and are being ...

Biological invasions comprise the human-mediated introduction, establishment and dispersal of species beyond their natural geographic range. Species movement around the globe can be seen as a large scale community assembly ...

Environmental toxicology, or ecotoxicology, is the study of the effects of anthropogenic contamination on the environment, from singular organisms to whole ecosystems. Until recently laboratory aquatic environmental ...

Freshwater wetlands are an important part of the global carbon cycle due to their role in sequestering carbon in the soil. Despite covering less than 8% of global land area, freshwater wetlands are significant reservoirs ...

Ghana is one of the 11 countries in the world with the highest malaria burden. Like many other African countries, the majority of individuals of all ages harbour asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections, which sustain ...

Diabetes and hypertension are conditions that contribute to cardiovascular disease, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world. As the prevalence of obesity rises, the health burden will only ...

RNA sequencing of individual cells allows us to take a snapshot of the dynamic processes within a cell and explore differences between cell types. As this technology has developed over the last few years it has been rapidly ...

Ornaments like plumage colours or complex song are generally regarded as male traits that are shaped by sexual selection. By contrast, the factors that shape female elaborate traits have often been overlooked, though they ...

Understanding the processes underlying the phenology and distribution of species is a key problem in ecology. These relationships are important for predicting the responses to species to environmental change. Phenology and ...

Over the last few decades, soil salinisation has become one of the most severe abiotic stresses that adversely affect agricultural productivity in Australia. Understanding the molecular basis of salinity tolerance mechanisms ...