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Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2018)
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Henkel, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1889), Article 20181527. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1527

Primates were traditionally thought to have a reduced sense of smell. Although there is now evidence that olfaction plays a greater role in primate social life than previously assumed, research on the sense of smell in non-human apes is scarce. Chimp... Read More about Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies (2019)
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Fischer, J., Higham, J. P., Alberts, S. C., Barrett, L., Beehner, J. C., Bergman, T. J., …Zinner, D. (2019). Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. eLife, 8, Article e50989. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.50989

Baboons, members of the genus Papio, comprise six closely related species distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more ecological flexibility and a wider range of social systems than many other primates. Th... Read More about Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies.

What drives at-risk species richness? Environmental factors are more influential than anthropogenic factors or biological traits (2018)
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Howard, C., Flather, C., & Stephens, P. (2019). What drives at-risk species richness? Environmental factors are more influential than anthropogenic factors or biological traits. Conservation Letters, 12(2), Article e12624. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12624

Species at risk of extinction are not uniformly distributed in space. Concentrations of threatened species may occur where threatening processes are intense, in refuges from those processes, or in areas of high species diversity. However, there have... Read More about What drives at-risk species richness? Environmental factors are more influential than anthropogenic factors or biological traits.

Ecology: Luck, Scarcity and the Fate of Populations (2018)
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Stephens, P. (2018). Ecology: Luck, Scarcity and the Fate of Populations. Current Biology, 28(24), R1384-R1386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.059

An animal’s choice of diet plays a large part in determining whether it will find food during a period of searching. This has profound implications for the likelihood of reproductive success or starvation and many other important questions in ecology... Read More about Ecology: Luck, Scarcity and the Fate of Populations.

Bionomics and insecticide resistance of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus in northern Lao PDR (2018)
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Tangena, J. A., Marcombe, S., Thammavong, P., Chonephetsarath, S., Somphong, B., Sayteng, K., …Brey, P. T. (2018). Bionomics and insecticide resistance of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus in northern Lao PDR. PLoS ONE, 13(10), Article e0206387. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206387

In the last four decades there has been a staggering increase in the geographical range of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894). This species is now found in every continent except Antarctica, increasing the distribution of arboviral d... Read More about Bionomics and insecticide resistance of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus in northern Lao PDR.

An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy (2018)
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Jiménez, Á. V., Stubbersfield, J. M., & Tehrani, J. J. (2018). An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy. Social Science & Medicine, 215, 23-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.032

Rationale: Although vaccines are an invaluable weapon in combatting diseases, they are often surrounded by controversy. Vaccine controversies usually arise with the claims of some parents or doctors who link vaccines to harmful outcomes. These contro... Read More about An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy.

Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco (2018)
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Waters, S., Watson, T., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 64(6), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-018-1230-x

Conservationists consider open and direct communication as best practice even when their data conflict with local beliefs. However, ensuring the effective delivery of a controversial message without overtly challenging community identity is difficult... Read More about Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco.

Expression levels of inositol phosphorylceramide synthase modulate plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana (2019)
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Pinneh, E., Stoppel, R., Knight, H., Knight, M., Steel, P., & Denny, P. (2019). Expression levels of inositol phosphorylceramide synthase modulate plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE, 14(5), Article e0217087. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217087

This research was undertaken to investigate the global role of the plant inositol phosphorylceramide synthase (IPCS), a non-mammalian enzyme previously shown to be associated with the pathogen response. RNA-Seq analyses demonstrated that over-express... Read More about Expression levels of inositol phosphorylceramide synthase modulate plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Enhancing the upstream passage of river lamprey at a microhydropower installation using horizontally-mounted studded tiles (2018)
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Tummers, J. S., Kerr, J. R., O'Brien, P., Kemp, P., & Lucas, M. C. (2018). Enhancing the upstream passage of river lamprey at a microhydropower installation using horizontally-mounted studded tiles. Ecological Engineering, 125, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.10.015

Passage performance of upstream-migrating lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) was compared between sections of a Crump flow-gauging weir with and without studded tiles, and at a bottom-baffle fishway, on the River Derwent, England. The effects of microhyd... Read More about Enhancing the upstream passage of river lamprey at a microhydropower installation using horizontally-mounted studded tiles.

A test of the cumulative effect of river weirs on downstream migration success, speed and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts: An empirical study (2018)
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Newton, M., Barry, J., Dodd, J., Lucas, M., Boylan, P., & Adams, C. (2019). A test of the cumulative effect of river weirs on downstream migration success, speed and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts: An empirical study. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 28(1), 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12441

This study investigated the cumulative impact of weirs on the downstream migration of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in the River Foyle, Northern Ireland. In spring of 2013 fish were released in two tributaries of similar length; one tribu... Read More about A test of the cumulative effect of river weirs on downstream migration success, speed and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts: An empirical study.

Revisiting an old idea: engineering against vector-borne diseases in the domestic environment (2018)
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Wilson, A., Davies, M., & Lindsay, S. (2019). Revisiting an old idea: engineering against vector-borne diseases in the domestic environment. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 113(2), 53-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try103

On 21 April 1983 the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held a joint meeting with the Institute of Civil Engineers at Manson House on ‘Engineering against Insect-borne Diseases in the Domestic Environment’. The summary of a talk by Chris... Read More about Revisiting an old idea: engineering against vector-borne diseases in the domestic environment.

Climate change vulnerability assessment of species (2018)
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Foden, W., Young, B., Akçakaya, H., Garcia, R., Hoffman, A., Stein, B., …Huntley, B. (2019). Climate change vulnerability assessment of species. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(1), Article e551. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.551

Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the number of studies evaluating how, how much, why, when, and where spe... Read More about Climate change vulnerability assessment of species.

Volatile Terpenes and Brain Function: Investigation of the Cognitive and Mood Effects of Mentha × Piperita L. Essential Oil with In Vitro Properties Relevant to Central Nervous System Function (2018)
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Kennedy, D., Okello, E., Chazot, P., Howes, M., Ohiomokhare, S., Jackson, P., …Wightman, E. (2018). Volatile Terpenes and Brain Function: Investigation of the Cognitive and Mood Effects of Mentha × Piperita L. Essential Oil with In Vitro Properties Relevant to Central Nervous System Function. Nutrients, 10(8), Article 1029. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10081029

Background: Extracts of several members of the monoterpene-rich Lamiaceae sub-family Nepetoideae, including those from the Salvia (sage), Melissa (Lemon balm) and Rosmarinus (rosemary) genera, evince cognitive and mood effects in humans that are pote... Read More about Volatile Terpenes and Brain Function: Investigation of the Cognitive and Mood Effects of Mentha × Piperita L. Essential Oil with In Vitro Properties Relevant to Central Nervous System Function.

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change (2018)
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Nolan, C., Overpeck, J. T., Allen, J. R., Anderson, P. M., Betancourt, J. L., Binney, H. A., …Jackson, S. T. (2018). Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science, 361(6405), 920-923. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5360

Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred in response to warming and associated climatic changes during the last gl... Read More about Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change.

Social Structure Facilitated the Evolution of Care-giving as a Strategy for Disease Control in the Human Lineage (2018)
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Kessler, S. E., Bonnell, T. R., Setchell, J. M., & Chapman, C. A. (2018). Social Structure Facilitated the Evolution of Care-giving as a Strategy for Disease Control in the Human Lineage. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 13997. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31568-2

Humans are the only species to have evolved cooperative care-giving as a strategy for disease control. A synthesis of evidence from the fossil record, paleogenomics, human ecology, and disease transmission models, suggests that care-giving for the di... Read More about Social Structure Facilitated the Evolution of Care-giving as a Strategy for Disease Control in the Human Lineage.

Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology (2018)
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Ochoa, B., García-Diez, M., Maíllo-Fernández, J., Arrizabalaga, Á., & Pettitt, P. (2019). Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology. European Journal of Archaeology, 22(2), 168-184. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.31

The timing and nature of the emergence of art in human evolution has been one of the more debated subjects in palaeoanthropology in the last few years, and one of the areas where archaeology has made impressive advances. Here, we discuss the first ev... Read More about Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology.

Did Einstein Really Say that? Testing Content Versus Context in the Cultural Selection of Quotations (2018)
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Acerbi, A., & Tehrani, J. (2018). Did Einstein Really Say that? Testing Content Versus Context in the Cultural Selection of Quotations. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 18(3-4), 293-311. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340032

We experimentally investigated the influence of context-based biases, such as prestige and popularity, on the preferences for quotations. Participants were presented with random quotes associated to famous or unknown authors (experiment one), or with... Read More about Did Einstein Really Say that? Testing Content Versus Context in the Cultural Selection of Quotations.