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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Emily J. Dickson, Dana L. M. Campbell, Caroline Lee, Jim M. Lea, Paul G. McDonald, Jessica E. Monk
Summary: The study focused on how environmental enrichment, such as a cattle brush, hanging rope, tree stump, and woodchip pile, can enhance the welfare of beef cattle kept in barren pasture environments. While cattle showed a preference for the brush, stump, and woodchip, their overall use of enrichments decreased over time. The enrichments allowed for natural behaviors and potentially contributed to improved welfare.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matti Janhunen, Jorma Piironen, Anssi Vainikka, Pekka Hyvarinen
Summary: Enrichment of rearing environment with natural elements can improve the welfare and post-release survival of critically endangered landlocked Atlantic salmon, although it may lead to greater growth variation and physical damages during development.
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Emma Desforges
Summary: Environmental enrichment aims to improve animal welfare by providing equipment and enhancements to their living areas, but it must consider constraints and challenges specific to different animal settings. Attention to individual needs and preferences is key to creating enriching environments that offer diverse opportunities for animals to thrive.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Congcong Liu, Lawren Sack, Ying Li, Jiahui Zhang, Kailiang Yu, Qiongyu Zhang, Nianpeng He, Guirui Yu
Summary: The relationship between stomatal traits and environmental drivers across plant communities is important for understanding ecosystem fluxes. This study explores the community-scale stomatal trait-environment relationships and finds a trade-off between stomatal density and size. Stomatal density is mainly associated with precipitation, while stomatal size is mainly associated with temperature. The study also reveals that stomatal traits vary with climatic seasonality and extreme conditions. These findings have implications for predicting future water and carbon cycles.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
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Veterinary Sciences
Aurelien Delaval, Martine Roysted Solas, Helge Skoglund, Anne Gro Vea Salvanes
Summary: Sagittal otoliths in hatchery-reared juvenile Atlantic salmon can be affected by vaterite, which may impair hearing and balance. However, structural tank enrichment did not directly affect vaterite formation. After release into the wild, salmon fry with vaterite otoliths were less likely to be eaten by predators and more likely to be recaptured in the river.
FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Robert M. W. Ferguson, Eoin J. O'Gorman, David J. McElroy, Boyd A. McKew, Ross A. Coleman, Mark C. Emmerson, Alex J. Dumbrell
Summary: The study suggests that the effects of warming and nutrient enrichment on coastal microbial communities may offset each other, while warming and top-predator population size structure have significant impacts on bacterial biofilm community composition.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Michael S. Blouin, Madeleine C. Wrey, Stephanie R. Bollmann, James C. Skaar, Ronald G. Twibell, Claudio Fuentes
Summary: Salmonid fish raised in hatcheries often have lower fitness compared to wild fish, potentially due to hatcheries inadvertently selecting for traits that enhance growth but are maladaptive in the wild. Offspring of hatchery origin grow faster in hatchery conditions but have lower survival in the wild. There is no evidence that reducing the fat content in hatchery feed would reduce variation in body size among families.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Minkang Zhi, Xi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Simon J. Ussher, Wenli Lv, Jie Li, Jian Gao, Yuqian Luo, Fan Meng
Summary: The pollution characteristics of size-segregated particles and metal elements in the atmosphere in 2016 were investigated following the release of the Chinese Air Pollution Prevention Action Plan in 2013. It was found that the composition of coarse particles is as important as that of fine particles when comparing pollution levels in 2016 to 2013. Additionally, the size distributions of particle mass concentrations were bimodal, with an increase in fine particle proportion as pollution levels elevated.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
(2021)
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Engineering, Environmental
Merel Kooi, Sebastian Primpke, Svenja M. Mintenig, Claudia Lorenz, Gunnar Gerdts, Albert A. Koelmans
Summary: Understanding the multidimensionality of microplastics is essential for realistic assessment of risks they pose. The study captures characteristics of over 60,000 individual microplastic particles as continuous distributions, revealing differences in distribution patterns among particles from different aquatic compartments. This suggests potential sources, removal or fragmentation processes, as well as toxicologically relevant dose metrics.
Article
Fisheries
Nicholas Robinson, Christian Karlsen, Elisabeth Ytteborg, Aleksei Krasnov, Jascha Gerwins, Hanne Johnsen, Jelena Kolarevic
Summary: Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) have potential benefits, such as reducing water use and improving biosecurity, but may hinder the early development of Atlantic salmon, leading to thinner epidermis, less vertebral mineralization, and altered gene expression related to bone and skin development. These differences in early development could potentially affect the robustness of salmon at later life stages.
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Joao L. Saraiva, Margarida Nogueirinha, Rita Teodosio, Claudia Aragao, Sofia Engrola, Pablo Arechavala-Lopez
Summary: This study tested the effects of tank covers on the welfare of farmed Nile tilapia, showing that partially covered tanks had lower welfare outcomes for both behavioral and physiological variables. Proper ethological assessment is crucial before implementing enrichment strategies to avoid negative effects on farmed fish welfare.
APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Fisheries
Robert H. Devlin, Janine Supernault, Salvador A. Gezan, Michelle T. T. Chan, Mike Wetklo, Carlo A. Biagi, Dionne Sakhrani, Stu Barnetson, Glen Dixon, Evelyn Tattersall, William S. Davidson, Ben F. Koop, David M. Willis, Ruth E. Withler
Summary: The study found significant genetic and phenotypic variation in the coho salmon population over the past three generations, with body size and reproductive traits consistently decreasing while heritability remained stable. Despite many years of hatchery propagation, the population still retains substantial capacity for adaptation.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Rebecca L. Hunt, Helen Whiteside, Susanne Prankel
Summary: The study evaluated the effects of seven EE activities on dog behavior and found that EE led to a significant increase in relaxation behaviors and a decrease in alert and stress behaviors. Among the activities, Conspecific Play and Playhouse had the greatest positive impact on behavior, while Interactive toy and Stuffed food toy had the least effect.
Article
Fisheries
Mary Akers, Henry Quinlan, Andrew Johnson, Edward Baker, Amy Welsh
Summary: The objective of this study was to compare paternal representation and genetic diversity between the two stocking strategies. Parentage analysis based on genetic data determined that none of the family groups in the hatchery had equal paternal representation, while wild-produced offspring had equal paternal representation. Despite the larger number of breeders contributing to the wild-caught larvae, there was no significant difference in genetic diversity between the wild-caught larvae and representative hatchery-produced offspring.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Nicolas Captier, Jane Merlevede, Askhat Molkenov, Ainur Seisenova, Altynbek Zhubanchaliyev, Petr Nazarov, Emmanuel Barillot, Ulykbek Kairov, Andrei Zinovyev
Summary: BIODICA is an integrated computational environment for analyzing bulk and single-cell molecular profiles, allowing non-experts to perform ICA-based omics data analysis and communicate with biology experts through interactive graphical user interface.
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Laith A. Jawad, Ronald Fricke, Joacim Naslund
JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
(2018)
Article
Fisheries
Barbara Koeck, Libor Zavorka, David Aldven, Joacim Naslund, Robert Arlinghaus, Per-Ove Thornqvist, Svante Winberg, Bjorn Thrandur Bjornsson, Jorgen I. Johnsson
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Malin Rosengren, Per-Ove Thornqvist, Svante Winberg, Kristina Sundell
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Zoology
Joacim Naslund, Niklas Wengstrom, Fredrik Wahlqvist, David Aldven, Libor Zavorka, Johan Hojesjo
INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Fisheries
Laith A. Jawad, Ana L. Ibanez, Zahra Sadighzade, Joacim Naslund, Erhan Unlu
MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH
(2018)
Review
Fisheries
Jorgen I. Johnsson, Joacim Naslund
REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES
(2018)
Article
Zoology
L. Zavorka, J. Brijs, N. Wengstrom, M. L. Wallerius, J. Naslund, B. Koeck, D. Aldven, R. Lassus, J. Hojesjo, J. I. Johnsson, J. Cucherousset
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
(2019)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Joacim Naslund, Markus Lundgren
Article
Behavioral Sciences
A. Landeira-Dabarca, J. Naslund, J. I. Johnsson, M. Alvarez
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Libor Zavorka, Nicolas Larranaga, Magnus Loven Wallerius, Joacim Naslund, Barbara Koeck, Niklas Wengstrom, Julien Cucherousset, Jorgen I. Johnsson
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2020)
Review
Fisheries
Knut Wiik Vollset, Robert J. Lennox, Eva B. Thorstad, Samuel Auer, Kerstin Baer, Martin H. Larsen, Shad Mahlum, Joacim Naslund, Henrik Stryhn, Ian Dohoo
REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES
(2020)
Article
Fisheries
Haoyu Guo, Dongxue Zhang, Liang Wang, Wentao Li, Pingguo He, Joacim Naslund, Xiumei Zhang
Summary: Sperm competition in golden cuttlefish shows a consistent pattern of last-male sperm precedence, with no detected effect of male size on offspring paternity.This study contributes to the understanding of mating systems in cephalopods and highlights the importance of proper mating schemes for resource use efficiency and genetic diversity in offspring production.
Article
Entomology
Joacim Naslund
Summary: This study found inter-individual repeatability in distance moved in an open-field test for larval Limnephilus lunatus, comparable to previous studies on arthropod species, suggesting it is a suitable model species. The study also identified two potential nuisance factors affecting activity and recommended excluding data from initial trials for higher repeatability in future studies.