Editorial Material
Fisheries
R. Stafford
Summary: The role of animal (and plant) respiration in assessing the true carbon sequestration potential of a system is vital to acknowledge. However, there is confusion around the respiration of kelp once exported to open waters from kelp ecosystems but respired before sequestration in this article. The concept of open and closed systems is redefined and the magnitude of carbon sink is poorly quantified.
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Immunology
Christian A. Devaux, Laurence Camoin-Jau, Jean-Louis Mege, Didier Raoult
Summary: Elevated antiphospholipid antibodies have been found in many COVID-19 patients, suggesting a link to antiphospholipid syndrome. Hydroxychloroquine, known for its antithrombotic properties in APS therapy, may be a potential candidate for preventing thrombotic events in COVID-19 patients. Further evaluation of its repurposing is warranted.
JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Forestry
J. Julio Camarero, Antonio Gazol
Summary: There is uncertainty regarding how European silver fir forests will respond to climate warming, with some studies suggesting positive growth trends under warmer conditions. However, localized dieback events may occur in drought-prone Mediterranean areas.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Editorial Material
Fisheries
Karen Filbee-Dexter, Albert Pessarrodona, Carlos M. Duarte, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Kasper Hancke, Daniel Smale, Thomas Wernberg
Summary: Recently, Gallagher et al. (2022) argued that seaweed ecosystems are net heterotrophic carbon sources, but we highlight flaws in their argument and provide evidence to support the view that most seaweed ecosystems are autotrophic. Their reliance on a dataset with highly variable measures of net ecosystem production and incomplete representation of seaweed ecosystems globally undermines their conclusion. We emphasize that the climate change mitigation value of an ecosystem depends on the net difference in CO2 uptake between the original ecosystem and its replacement.
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Fisheries
John Barry Gallagher, Victor Shelamoff
Summary: This article discusses the contradiction between the comment's view on seaweed ecosystems as global carbon sinks and the findings in the article. It points out the misinterpretation and errors in the comment's conclusion, while emphasizing the need for a more holistic view in assessing carbon sequestration services.
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, Heather A. Landazuri, Elizabeth Leclerc
Summary: The study suggests that the Central Pacific flavor of El Nino may contribute to the aridity observed in the highland Titicaca Basin of the South Central Andes during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. There is an urgent need for a longer record of CP presence and frequency to better understand this phenomenon.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Luke E. Painter, Robert L. Beschta, William J. Ripple
Summary: The recruitment of aspen saplings increased as elk browsing decreased after the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park in 1995-96. The results support the idea of a trophic cascade benefiting aspen, countering claims that recent aspen recovery has been exaggerated.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Joana Gomes, Joana Barbosa, Paula Teixeira
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the minimum inhibitory concentrations of three natural antimicrobial compounds against 37 microorganisms using agar dilution and drop diffusion methods. The results showed that lower pH values and the agar dilution method generally led to lower minimum inhibitory concentrations. However, the inhibition of different compounds varied under different conditions.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Laura D. Kubzansky
Summary: The question of whether optimism and pessimism are bipolar or represent two separate dimensions is a conceptual rather than an empirical issue. The analysis by Scheier et al. (2021) can be helpful in guiding the development of interventions as they suggest.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2021)
Letter
Fisheries
John B. Gallagher
Summary: Filbee-Dexter et al. commented on the limitations of seaweed ecosystems in mitigating CO2 emissions proposed by Gallagher et al. However, there are differing understandings and contradictory claims between the two parties regarding key aspects and heterotrophic bias. Filbee-Dexter et al.'s reliance on net primary production fails to consider consumption and remineralization, while their endorsements of seaweed ecosystem autotrophy from the literature are conceptually, temporally or community assemblage-inappropriate. The existing literature does not support their claim of methodological bias in net ecosystem production measurements, and the study by Gallagher et al. does consider the export of sequestered seaweed.
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jozsef Szilagyi
Summary: Thanks to the author's in-depth analysis of the complementary relationship between evaporation and its involved processes, readers are able to gain a clearer understanding of how to interpret it correctly.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2023)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Civil
G. Buerger
Summary: This comment serves as a reminder to be cautious of using ready-made program packages uncritically and estimating trends in serially correlated time series. It specifically addresses the recent publication by Lischeid et al. regarding lake-level trends in Germany.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Marta Garcia-Montojo, Elena Rita Simula, Saeed Fathi, Cynthia McMahan, Anubrata Ghosal, James D. Berry, Merit Cudkowicz, Abdel Elkahloun, Kory Johnson, Gina Norato, Peter Jensen, Tony James, Leonardo A. Sechi, Avindra Nath
Summary: This study found that individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) had a stronger antibody response against HML-2 env compared to healthy controls. Lower levels of HML-2 antibodies in ALS were associated with poor prognosis and decreased survival probability.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Michael R. Jackson
Summary: The survey sheds light on the perception of psychologists' roles in national security, but the data and authors' interpretations are subject to scrutiny.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2021)
Editorial Material
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Arjun Datta
Summary: The errors in the surface wave Green's tensor shown by Malkoti et al. have been acknowledged, as pointed out in the comment by Haney and Nakahara. The H/V amplitude ratio calculations were recomputed using expressions for Love and Rayleigh wave Green's tensors valid in the near-field provided by Haney and Nakahara. The differences due to the use of corrected Green's tensors only appear when the receivers are placed close to the edges of the modeling domain.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2023)