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Nitrogen‐Doped Carbons with Hierarchical Porosity via Chemical Blowing Towards Long‐Lived Metal‐Free Catalysts for Acetylene Hydrochlorination
<p>Porous nitrogen-doped carbons (NCs) are sustainable alternatives to the toxic mercury-based acetylene hydrochlorination catalysts applied in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride. However, the application of NCs as metal-free catalysts is hampered by their insufficient durability under industrially relevant process conditions. In particular, pore blockage leads to accelerated deactivation of NCs compared to the state-of-the-art precious metal-based systems. Herein, we develop a salt template-assisted synthesis strategy coupled with chemical blowing to tune the textural properties of NCs, while preserving the N-content and speciation. The addition of metal salts (i.e., Mg(OAc)2 or CaCO3) enhances gas evolution, leading to an increased formation of micro- and mesopores, while the in-situ generated CaO/CaCl2 and MgO/MgCl2 develop auxiliary pore networks. Micropores are easily blocked during acetylene hydrochlorination, but meso- and macropores are structurally stable, enhancing the lifetime of hierarchical NCs by ca. 50 times compared to their non-templated analogues, rivalling the stability of benchmark metal-based catalysts.</p>
Figs 172–177. Live specimens. 172–173. Chisosa caquetio Huber, 2019 in On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Figs 172–177. Live specimens. 172–173. Chisosa caquetio Huber, 2019; male and female with egg sac from Falcón, Cueva del Guano. 174–175. Galapa spiniphila Huber sp. nov.; male and female with egg sac from Falcón, near Cueva del Guano. 176–177. Ibotyporanga bariro Huber sp. nov.; male and female from Falcón, SE Bariro.
Figs 1–4. Live specimens. 1–2 in On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Figs 1–4. Live specimens. 1–2. Anopsicus ana Huber sp. nov.; male from Falcón, Cueva del Guano and female from Cerro Santa Ana. 3–4. Blancoa piacoa Huber, 2000; male and female with egg sac from Bolívar, Ciudad Guayana.
Figs 50–57. Canaima Huber, 2000, live specimens. 50–51. C in On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Figs 50–57. Canaima Huber, 2000, live specimens. 50–51. C. loca Huber sp. nov., male and female with egg sac from Trujillo, Laguna Negra. 52–53. C. avila Huber sp. nov., male and female with egg sac from Miranda, El Ávila National Park. 54–55. C. guaquira Huber sp. nov., male and female with egg sac from Yaracuy, Guaquira. 56–57. C. guaraque Huber sp. nov.; males from Mérida, between Tovar and Guaraque.
Data from: Comparative analysis of microbiota along the length of the gastrointestinal tract of two tree squirrel species (Sciurus aberti and S. niger) living in sympatry
<p>Microbiota inhabiting the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of animals have important impacts on many host physiological processes. Although host diet is a major factor influencing the composition of the gut microorganismal community, few comparative studies have considered how differences in diet influence community composition across the length the GI tract. We used 16S sequencing to compare the microbiota along the length of the GI tract in Abert's (<i>Sciurus aberti</i>) and fox squirrels (<i>S. niger</i>) living in the same habitat. While fox squirrels are generalist omnivores, the diet of Abert's squirrels is unusually high in plant fiber, particularly in winter when they extensively consume fiber-rich inner bark of ponderosa pine (<i>Pinus ponderosa</i>). Consistent with previous studies, microbiota of the upper GI tract of both species consisted primarily of facultative anaerobes and was less diverse than that of the lower GI tract, which included mainly obligate anaerobes. While we found relatively little differentiation between the species in the microbiota of the upper GI tract, the community composition of the lower GI tract was clearly delineated. Notably, the Abert's squirrel lower GI community was more stable in composition and enriched for microbes that play a role in the degradation of plant fiber. In contrast, overall microbial diversity was higher in fox squirrels. We hypothesize that these disparities reflect differences in diet quality and diet breadth between the species.</p>
Data used in the Living Planet Index analysis in Pacoureau et al. 2020 - Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays
<p>Data used in the Living Planet Index analysis in Pacoureau et al. 2020 - Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays.</p> <p>Available at <a href="http://www.sharkipedia.org">www.sharkipedia.org</a>.</p>
Data from: Living with floating vegetation invasions
<p>Shapefiles of locations of 20 reservoirs and river systems.</p> <p>CSV-files with time series of floating vegetation occurence on 20 reservoirs and river systems based on Landsat imagery</p>
Supplementary material 1 from: Duron Q, Cornulier T, Vidal E, Bourguet E, Ruffino L (2020) Combining live and lethal trapping to inform the management of alien invasive rodent populations in a tropical montane forest. NeoBiota 63: 101-125. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.63.53811
Density of rats
Supplementary material 2 from: Duron Q, Cornulier T, Vidal E, Bourguet E, Ruffino L (2020) Combining live and lethal trapping to inform the management of alien invasive rodent populations in a tropical montane forest. NeoBiota 63: 101-125. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.63.53811
Rat abundance and density, rat capture probabilities
Data for: Immigration counter-acts local micro-evolution of a major fitness component: migration-selection balance in free-living song sparrows
<p>Ongoing adaptive evolution, and resulting 'evolutionary rescue' of declining populations, requires additive genetic variation in fitness. Such variation can be increased by gene flow resulting from immigration, potentially facilitating evolution. But, gene flow could in fact constrain rather than facilitate local adaptive evolution if immigrants have low additive genetic values for local fitness. Local migration-selection balance and micro-evolutionary stasis could then result. However, key quantitative genetic effects of natural immigration, comprising the degrees to which gene flow increases the total local additive genetic variance yet counter-acts local adaptive evolutionary change, have not been explicitly quantified in wild populations. Key implications of gene flow for population and evolutionary dynamics consequently remain unclear. Our quantitative genetic analyses of long-term data from free-living song sparrows (<i>Melospiza melodia</i>) show that mean breeding value for local juvenile survival to adulthood, a major component of fitness, increased across cohorts more than expected solely due to drift. Such micro-evolutionary change should be expected given non-zero additive genetic variance and consistent directional selection. However, this evolutionary increase was counter-acted by negative additive genetic effects of recent immigrants, which increased total additive genetic variance but prevented a net directional evolutionary increase in total additive genetic value. These analyses imply an approximate quantitative genetic migration-selection balance in a major fitness component, and hence demonstrate a key mechanism by which substantial additive genetic variation can be maintained yet decoupled from local adaptive evolutionary change.</p>
FIGURES 11–14 in Thysanoptera host-plant associations, with an account of species living on Tamarix, and a new species of Lissothrips (Phlaeothripidae)
FIGURES 11–14. Liothrips reuteri (female), variation in antenna.
FIGURE 117. Live late instar S in Generic relationships of New World Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea:Stenopelmatinae), including all known species of Stenopelmatus
FIGURE 117. Live late instar S. piceiventris from Sierra de Juárez (S06-36, photo D.C. Lightfoot).
FIGURE 126. Live holotype S in Generic relationships of New World Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea:Stenopelmatinae), including all known species of Stenopelmatus
FIGURE 126. Live holotype S. saltillo.
FIGURE 99. Live adult male holotype S in Generic relationships of New World Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea:Stenopelmatinae), including all known species of Stenopelmatus
FIGURE 99. Live adult male holotype S. perote.
FIGURE 26. Live holotype adult female S in Generic relationships of New World Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea:Stenopelmatinae), including all known species of Stenopelmatus
FIGURE 26. Live holotype adult female S. cusuco.
Data from: Telomere length reflects phenotypic quality and costs of reproduction in a long-lived seabird
Telomere length is associated with cellular senescence, lifestyle and ageing. Short telomeres indicate poor health in humans and reduced life expectancy in several bird species, but little is known about telomeres in relation to phenotypic quality in wild animals. We investigated telomere lengths in erythrocytes of known-age common terns (Sterna hirundo), a migratory seabird, in relation to arrival date and reproductive performance. Cross-sectional data revealed that, independent of age, individuals with short telomeres performed better: they arrived and reproduced earlier in the season and had more chicks in the nest. The latter effect was stronger the older the brood and stronger in males, which do most of the chick provisioning. Longitudinal data confirmed this pattern: compared with birds that lost their brood, birds that raised chicks beyond the 10th nestling day experienced higher telomere attrition from one year to the next. However, more detailed analysis revealed that the least and most successful individuals lost the fewest base pairs compared with birds with intermediate success. Our results suggest that reproductive success is achieved at the expense of telomeres, but that individual heterogeneity in susceptibility to such detrimental effects is important, as indicated by low telomere loss in the most successful birds.
Data from: How do growth and sibling competition affect telomere dynamics in the first month of life of long-lived seabird?
Telomeres are nucleotide sequences located at the ends of chromosomes that promote genome stability. Changes in telomere length (dynamics) are related to fitness or life expectancy, and telomere dynamics during the development phase are likely to be affected by growth and stress factors. Here, we examined telomere dynamics of black-tailed gull chicks (Larus crassirostris) in nests with and without siblings. We found that the initial telomere lengths of singletons at hatching were longer than those of siblings, indicating that singletons are higher-quality chicks than siblings in terms of telomere length. Other factors likely affecting individual quality (i.e., sex, laying date, laying order of eggs, and clutch size) were not related to telomere lengths. Within broods, initial telomere lengths were longer in older chicks than in younger chicks, suggesting that maternal effects, which vary with laying sequence, influence the initial lengths. Additionally, telomeres of chicks with a sibling showed more attrition between hatching and fledging than those of singleton chicks, suggesting that being raised with siblings can cause a sustained competitive environment that leads to telomere loss. High growth rates were associated with a low degree of telomere shortening observed in older siblings, perhaps because slower growth reflects higher food stress and/or higher aerobic metabolism from increased begging effort. Our results show that developmental telomere attrition was an inevitable consequence in two-chick nests in the pre- and post-hatching microenvironments due to the combination of social stress within the nest and maternal effects. The results of our study shed light on telomere dynamics in early life, which may represent an important physiological undercurrent of life-history traits.
Data from: Actuarial senescence in a long-lived orchid challenges our current understanding of ageing
The dominant evolutionary theory of actuarial senescence—an increase in death rate with advancing age—is based on the concept of a germ cell line that is separated from the somatic cells early in life. However, such a separation is not clear in all organisms. This has been suggested to explain the paucity of evidence for actuarial senescence in plants. We used a 32 year study of Dactylorhiza lapponica that replaces its organs each growing season, to test whether individuals of this tuberous orchid senesce. We performed a Bayesian survival trajectory analysis accounting for reproductive investment, for individuals under two types of land use, in two climatic regions. The mortality trajectory was best approximated by a Weibull model, showing clear actuarial senescence. Rates of senescence in this model declined with advancing age, but were slightly higher in mown plots and in the more benign climatic region. At older ages, senescence was evident only when accounting for a positive effect of reproductive investment on mortality. Our results demonstrate actuarial senescence as well as a survival–reproduction trade-off in plants, and indicate that environmental context may influence senescence rates. This knowledge is crucial for understanding the evolution of demographic senescence and for models of plant population dynamics.
Data from: Immunocompetence in a long-lived ectothermic vertebrate is temperature dependent but shows no decline in older adults
1. Temperature affects nearly all aspects of the physiology of ectotherms, including their ability to mount an immune response. Typically, the ectothermic vertebrate immune system can respond over a wide range of temperatures, but there is a species-specific temperature at which responses are strongest, with impaired responses above and below this threshold. In long-lived ectotherms, aging could also influence the ability to respond to temperature changes as immunosenecence, the functional decrease in immune function with age, is widely reported. 2. This study examined the effects of the interaction between temperature and age on B cell function in a long-lived reptile, the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta. B cells in this species have previously been shown to have two main functions, phagocytosis and antibody production. 3. Adult turtles were trapped and blood samples taken. Because sliders grow throughout their lifetime, plastron length was used as a proxy for age. Leukocytes were isolated and used in either an ELISpot assay to examine their ability to produce antibodies spontaneously or when stimulated, or used in a phagocytic assay. The ELISpot and phagocytic assays were conducted over a range of biologically relevant temperatures. 4. We found no interaction between age and temperature on any measure of B cell function. In all cases there was a significant effect of temperature, with impaired function at temperatures below 29°C, but no impairment of function at higher temperatures. We also found little evidence of immunosenesce in any response. 5. This study provides insight into the thermal biology of B cell function in sliders and provides an interesting connection between immunology, behavior, and ecology in this long-lived turtle.
Data from: Population density and climate shape early-life survival and recruitment in a long-lived pelagic seabird
1. Our understanding of demographic processes is mainly based on analyses of traits from the adult component of populations. Early-life demographic traits are poorly known mainly for methodological reasons. Yet, survival of juvenile and immature individuals is critical for the recruitment into the population and thus for the whole population dynamic, especially for long-lived species. This bias currently restrains our ability to fully understand population dynamics of long-lived species and life-history theory. 2. The goal of this study was to estimate the early-life demographic parameters of a long-lived species with a long immature period (9–10 years), to test for sex and age effects on these parameters and to identify the environmental factors encountered during the period of immaturity that may influence survival and recruitment. 3. Using capture–mark–recapture multievent models allowing us to deal with uncertain and unobservable individual states, we analysed a long-term data set of wandering albatrosses to estimate both age- and sex-specific early-life survival and recruitment. We investigated environmental factors potentially driving these demographic traits using climatic and fisheries covariates and tested for density dependence. 4. Our study provides for the first time an estimate of annual survival during the first 2 years at sea for an albatross species (0·801 ± 0·014). Both age and sex affected early-life survival and recruitment processes of this long-lived seabird species. Early-life survival and recruitment were highly variable across years although the sensitivity of young birds to environmental variability decreased with age. Early-life survival was negatively associated with sea surface temperature, and recruitment rate was positively related to both Southern Annular Mode and sea surface temperature. We found strong evidence for density-dependent mortality of juveniles. Population size explained 41% of the variation of this parameter over the study period. 5. These results indicate that early-life survival and recruitment were strongly age and sex dependent in a dimorphic long-lived species. In addition, early-life demographic parameters were affected by natal environmental conditions and by environmental conditions faced during the period of immaturity. Finally, our results constitute one of the first demonstrations of density dependence on juvenile survival in seabirds, with major consequences for our understanding of population dynamics in seabirds.
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