BioSciencePub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad105
Alexandra J Wright, Scott L Collins
{"title":"Drought experiments need to incorporate atmospheric drying to better simulate climate change","authors":"Alexandra J Wright, Scott L Collins","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad105","url":null,"abstract":"Climate models predict more frequent, prolonged, and extreme droughts in the future. Therefore, drought experiments varying in amount and duration across a range of biogeographical scenarios provide a powerful tool for estimating how drought will affect future ecosystems. Past experimental work has been focused on the manipulation of meteorological drought: Rainout shelters are used to reduce precipitation inputs into the soil. This work has been instrumental in our ability to predict the expected effects of altered rainfall. But what about the nonrainfall components of drought? We review recent literature on the co-occurring and sometimes divergent impacts of atmospheric drying and meteorological drying. We discuss how manipulating meteorological drought or rainfall alone may not predict future changes in plant productivity, composition, or species interactions that result from climate change induced droughts. We make recommendations for how to improve these experiments using manipulations of relative humidity.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138579850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad104
Niki Wilson
{"title":"Predatory Journals","authors":"Niki Wilson","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad104","url":null,"abstract":"Many academic family physicians, especially those involved in research, receive regular, frequent e-mails from medical journals requesting that they submit manuscripts or join editorial boards. In our “publish or perish” academic culture this can be tempting. Unfortunately, some authors who are not aware of predatory journals succumb to the lure of submitting work to these dubious entities, only to have their payments wasted, their valuable research published in a noncredible journal, and their work held hostage.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-29eCollection Date: 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad107
Pim Martens
{"title":"Planetary health: The need for a paradigm shift.","authors":"Pim Martens","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad107","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biad107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 3","pages":"128-129"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10977863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140334636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad106
M. Krofel
{"title":"Half a century of knowledge on lions in Tanzania","authors":"M. Krofel","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139212873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad099
Shelby C Carlson, John A Vucetich, L Mark Elbroch, Shelby Perry, Lydia A Roe, Tom Butler, Jeremy T Bruskotter
{"title":"The role of governance in rewilding the United States to stem the biodiversity crisis","authors":"Shelby C Carlson, John A Vucetich, L Mark Elbroch, Shelby Perry, Lydia A Roe, Tom Butler, Jeremy T Bruskotter","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad099","url":null,"abstract":"A critical but underattended feature of the biodiversity crisis is the contraction of geographic range experienced by most studied terrestrial vertebrates. In the United States, the primary policy tool for mitigating the biodiversity crisis is a federal law, the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For the past two decades, the federal agencies that administer the ESA have interpreted the act in a manner that precludes treating this geographic element of the crisis. Therefore, the burden of mitigating the biodiversity crisis largely falls on wildlife agencies within state government, which are obligated to operate on behalf of the interests of their constituents. We present survey research indicating that most constituents expect state agencies to prioritize species restoration over other activities, including hunting. This prioritization holds even among self-identified hunters, which is significant because state agencies often take the provisioning of hunting opportunity as their top priority. By prioritizing rewilding efforts that restore native species throughout portions of their historic range, state agencies could unify hunting and nonhunting constituents while simultaneously stemming the biodiversity crisis.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-16eCollection Date: 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad098
Carly N Cook, Kent H Redford, Mark W Schwartz
{"title":"Species conservation in the era of genomic science.","authors":"Carly N Cook, Kent H Redford, Mark W Schwartz","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad098","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biad098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The exponential increase in the availability of genomic data, derived from sequencing thousands of loci or whole genomes, provides exciting new insights into the diversity of life. However, it can also challenge established species concepts and existing management regimes derived from these concepts. Genomic data can help inform decisions about how to manage genetic diversity, but policies that protect identified taxonomic entities can generate conflicting recommendations that create challenges for practitioners. We outline three dimensions of management concern that arise when facing new and potentially conflicting interpretations of genomic data: defining conservation entities, deciding how to manage diversity, and evaluating the risks and benefits of management actions. We highlight the often-underappreciated role of values in influencing management choices made by individuals, scientists, practitioners, the public, and other stakeholders. Such values influence choices through mechanisms such as the Rashomon effect, whereby management decisions are complicated by conflicting perceptions of the causes and consequences of the conservation problem. To illustrate how this might operate, we offer a hypothetical example of this effect for the interpretation of genomic data and its implications for conservation management. Such value-based decisions can be challenged by the rigidity of existing management regimes, making it difficult to achieve the necessary flexibility to match the changing biological understanding. We finish by recommending that both conservation geneticists and practitioners reflect on their respective values, responsibilities, and roles in building a more robust system of species management. This includes embracing the inclusion of stakeholders in decision-making because, as in many cases, there are not objectively defensible right or wrong decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"73 12","pages":"885-890"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10755706/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139073340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad100
M. K. Joyce, Jyotsna L Pandey, Dajoie R Croslan
{"title":"The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0","authors":"M. K. Joyce, Jyotsna L Pandey, Dajoie R Croslan","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"57 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139275967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad096
Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R Allen, David G Angeler, Lance Gunderson, J B Ruhl
{"title":"Multiscale adaptive management of social–ecological systems","authors":"Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R Allen, David G Angeler, Lance Gunderson, J B Ruhl","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Adaptive management is an approach for stewardship of social–ecological systems in circumstances with high uncertainty and high controllability. Although they are largely overlooked in adaptive management (and social–ecological system management), it is important to account for spatial and temporal scales to mediate within- and cross-scale effects of management actions, because cross-scale interactions increase uncertainty and can lead to undesirable consequences. The iterative nature of an adaptive approach can be expanded to multiple scales to accommodate different stakeholder priorities and multiple ecosystem attributes. In this Forum, we introduce multiscale adaptive management of social–ecological systems, which merges adaptive management with panarchy (a multiscale model of social–ecological systems) and demonstrate the importance of this approach with case studies from the Great Plains of North America and the Platte River Basin, in the United States. Adaptive management combined with a focus on the panarchy model of social–ecological systems can help to improve the management of social–ecological systems.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"1 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad089
Cátia Lúcio Pereira, Zeynep Ersoy, M Thomas P Gilbert, Dominique Gravel, Miguel B Araújo, Miguel G Matias
{"title":"Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs","authors":"Cátia Lúcio Pereira, Zeynep Ersoy, M Thomas P Gilbert, Dominique Gravel, Miguel B Araújo, Miguel G Matias","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biad089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad089","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Food webs represent trophic interactions within ecosystems. Matching traits of consumers and resources helps infer trophic interactions and food-web properties. Environmental (e)DNA, commonly used for detecting species occurrences, is rarely used in trait-matching studies because abundance estimates and descriptions of relevant traits are generally missing. We synthesized recent literature on inferences of trophic interactions with eDNA and trait matching to identify challenges and opportunities for coupled eDNA–trait recording schemes. Our case study shows how coupling eDNA and trait data collection improves the ability to characterize greater numbers of food webs across multiple scales ranging from spatiotemporal to trait variation. Future-proofing eDNA data sets requires the collection of new traits or the compilation of existing trait data at spatiotemporal scales that are relevant to detect current and future changes in food webs and ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"69 11-12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135455539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.24036/bsc.v7i2.125246
Bintang Fadhil Ramadhan, Muhammad Farikh, Muhammad Naufal Arrafi, Nagra Aulia Valofi, Walidatul Awaliyah, Jessi Rizkanauli Simangungsong, Dini Herisanti, S. Farma
{"title":"Design and Specificity Test of Specific Primers for Neuroglobin Gene Expression Modulation in Brain Tissue of Rattus norvegicus using qRT-PCR","authors":"Bintang Fadhil Ramadhan, Muhammad Farikh, Muhammad Naufal Arrafi, Nagra Aulia Valofi, Walidatul Awaliyah, Jessi Rizkanauli Simangungsong, Dini Herisanti, S. Farma","doi":"10.24036/bsc.v7i2.125246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24036/bsc.v7i2.125246","url":null,"abstract":". Neuroglobin (Ngb) is a newly discovered globin that is found in large numbers in neurons. Brain cells are very sensitive to lack of oxygen and can begin to die within five minutes after the oxygen supply is cut off. Hypoxic conditions of brain tissue are ischemic in the area of the bleeding center This study aims to design and test the specificity of the Neuroglobin Rattus norvegicus mRNA gene in silico as a nucleotide capable of reading neuroglobin gene expression. The neuroglobin gene sequence was obtained using a \"nucleotide\" search menu provided by NCBI GenBank and designed using Geneious Prime bioinformatics software. The neuroglobin gene sequence used in this study was Rattus norvegicus mRNA with accession number NM_033359.3|:1-1,773. Synthesized primary pairs are optimized using PCR gradients. PCR products were analyzed by electrophoresis using 1.5% agarose gel, 100 V for 27 minutes. The results obtained one forward primer for Rattus norvegicus neuroglobin (Ngb) which has a length of 20 bases with the order of 5' AGTCTTAGCCTCTCCCCCAG -3' and reverse primer has a length of 20 bases with the order of 5' GTCTACAGAACCACGGCACAcx-3' product size 803 bp. The difference Tm in this pair of primers is 0.9 0C. The gradient PCR results showed the thickest and clearest DNA bands were at 57.7°C. Primers with the best primary criteria for neuroglobin genes were obtained with an amplicon size of 803 bp and an aneealing temperature of 57.7 °C. The design results meet the requirements of good criteria so that the primary candidate design results can be used for the PCR process.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139308576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}