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View article: ASM incorporates Imagetwin to address image duplication and preserve scientific accuracy
ASM incorporates Imagetwin to address image duplication and preserve scientific accuracy Open
Image duplication in scientific articles—accidental or intentional—undermines trust in research, authors, institutions, and publishers. Duplications not only cast doubt on researchers’ scientific rigor, but they also raise concerns about p…
View article: GPT-4o System Card
GPT-4o System Card Open
GPT-4o is an autoregressive omni model that accepts as input any combination of text, audio, image, and video, and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It's trained end-to-end across text, vision, and audio, meaning…
Enrichable consortia of microbial symbionts degrade macroalgal polysaccharides in <i>Kyphosus</i> fish Open
Coastal herbivorous fishes consume macroalgae, which is then degraded by microbes along their digestive tract. However, there is scarce genomic information about the microbiota that perform this degradation. This study explores the potenti…
Nutrient-rich submarine groundwater discharge increases algal carbon uptake in a tropical reef ecosystem Open
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) in high volcanic islands can be an important source of freshwater and nutrients to coral reefs. High inorganic nutrient content is generally thought to augment primary production in coastal systems but…
Hawaiian coral holobionts reveal algal and prokaryotic host specificity, intraspecific variability in bleaching resistance, and common interspecific microbial consortia modulating thermal stress responses Open
Historically, Hawai'i had few massive coral bleaching events, until two consecutive heatwaves in 2014-2015. Consequent mortality and thermal stress were observed in Kāne'ohe Bay (O'ahu). The two most dominant local species exhibited a phen…
Herbivorous Fish Microbiome Adaptations to Sulfated Dietary Polysaccharides Open
This work connects specific uncultured bacterial taxa with distinct polysaccharide digestion capabilities lacking in their marine vertebrate hosts, providing fresh insights into poorly understood processes for deconstructing complex sulfat…
View article: Small-scale oxygen distribution patterns in a coral reef
Small-scale oxygen distribution patterns in a coral reef Open
One mechanism giving fleshy algae a competitive advantage over corals during reef degradation is algal-induced and microbially-mediated hypoxia (typically less than 69.5 µmol oxygen L −1 ). During hypoxic conditions oxygen availability bec…
View article: Microbial Interactions with Dissolved Organic Matter Are Central to Coral Reef Ecosystem Function and Resilience
Microbial Interactions with Dissolved Organic Matter Are Central to Coral Reef Ecosystem Function and Resilience Open
To thrive in nutrient-poor waters, coral reefs must retain and recycle materials efficiently. This review centers microbial processes in facilitating the persistence and stability of coral reefs, specifically the role of these processes in…
Herbivorous fish microbiome adaptations to sulfated dietary polysaccharides Open
Marine herbivorous fish that feed primarily on macroalgae, such as those from the genus Kyphosus, are essential for maintaining coral health and abundance on tropical reefs. Here, deep metagenomic sequencing and assembly of gut compartment…
Herbivorous fish microbiome adaptations to sulfated dietary polysaccharides Open
Background. Gut microbiota of kyphosid herbivorous fish, known for feeding almost exclusively on red and brown macroalgae rich in sulfated polysaccharides, contain highly compartmentalized, herbivore-specific taxonomic compositions. The cu…
Bacterioplankton communities reveal horizontal and vertical influence of an Island Mass Effect Open
Summary Coral reefs are highly productive ecosystems with distinct biogeochemistry and biology nestled within unproductive oligotrophic gyres. Coral reef islands have often been associated with a nearshore enhancement in phytoplankton, a p…
Molecular Commerce on Coral Reefs: Using Metabolomics to Reveal Biochemical Exchanges Underlying Holobiont Biology and the Ecology of Coastal Ecosystems Open
The rapidly advancing field of metabolomics encompasses a diverse suite of powerful analytical and bioinformatic tools that can help to reveal the diversity and activity of chemical compounds in individual organisms, species interactions, …
Marine heatwaves depress metabolic activity and impair cellular acid-base homeostasis in reef-building corals regardless of bleaching susceptibility Open
Ocean warming is causing global coral bleaching events to increase in frequency, resulting in widespread coral mortality and disrupting the function of coral reef ecosystems. However, even during mass bleaching events, many corals resist b…
View article: Stable Isotope Probing Identifies Bacterioplankton Lineages Capable of Utilizing Dissolved Organic Matter Across a Range of Bioavailability
Stable Isotope Probing Identifies Bacterioplankton Lineages Capable of Utilizing Dissolved Organic Matter Across a Range of Bioavailability Open
Bacterioplankton consume about half of the dissolved organic matter (DOM) produced by phytoplankton. DOM released from phytoplankton consists of a myriad of compounds that span a range of biological reactivity from labile to recalcitrant. …
Benthic macroalgal and water column carbon uptake rates in an experimental chamber, Maunalua, O’ahu, Hawai’i, 2015-2016 Open
Benthic macroalgal and water column carbon uptake rates in an experimental chamber, Maunalua, O’ahu, Hawai’i, 2015-2016.
Evidence for a biological source of widespread, reproducible nighttime oxygen spikes in tropical reef ecosystems has implications for coral health Open
Primary producers release oxygen as the by-product of photosynthetic light reactions during the day. However, a prevalent, globally-occurring nighttime spike in dissolved oxygen in the absence of light challenges the traditional assumption…
View article: Collaborative research to inform adaptive comanagement: a framework for the He&#699;eia National Estuarine Research Reserve
Collaborative research to inform adaptive comanagement: a framework for the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve Open
Globally, an increasing recognition of the importance of ecosystem-based management (EBM), Indigenous resource management (IRM), and Indigenous-led research and management is emerging; yet, case studies within scholarly literature illustra…
View article: The nature of science as a foundation for fostering a better understanding of evolution
The nature of science as a foundation for fostering a better understanding of evolution Open
Misunderstandings of the nature of science (NOS) contribute greatly to resistance to evolutionary theory especially among non-scientific audiences. Here we delineate three extended instructional examples that make extensive use of NOS to e…
View article: Kū Hou Kuapā: Cultural Restoration Improves Water Budget and Water Quality Dynamics in Heʻeia Fishpond
Kū Hou Kuapā: Cultural Restoration Improves Water Budget and Water Quality Dynamics in Heʻeia Fishpond Open
In Hawaiʻi, the transition from customary subsistence flooded taro agroecosystems, which regulate stream discharge rate trapping sediment and nutrients, to a plantation-style economy (c. the 1840s) led to nearshore sediment deposition - sm…
The effects of food stoichiometry and temperature on copepods are mediated by ontogeny Open
Climate change is warming the oceans, increasing carbon dioxide partial pressure and reducing nutrient recycling from deep layers. This will affect carbon (C) and phosphorus (P) availability in the oceans, thus, altering the balance betwee…
Supplement 1. Original data used for all analyses and figures in the main article. Open
File List Cardinale_et_al_2008dataset.txt Description Cardinale_et_al_2008dataset.txt is a tab-delimited file that contains all of the original data used for all analyses and figures in Cardinale, B. J., D. Bennett, C. Nelson, and K. Gross…
Appendix A. Responses of individual periphyton species to nutrient enrichment. Open
Responses of individual periphyton species to nutrient enrichment.
Appendix A. Distribution of ambient nitrate concentrations and molar nitrate:orthophosphate ratios among streams used in this study, with photos of the experimental design and measured nutrient diffusion rates. Open
Distribution of ambient nitrate concentrations and molar nitrate:orthophosphate ratios among streams used in this study, with photos of the experimental design and measured nutrient diffusion rates.
Supplement 1. Complete data set used in all analyses conducted in this manuscript, with corresponding metadata. Open
File List Nelson_etal_supplement.csv (md5: 76931e8b5d9cbfd8f730ba8b19972b1b) Description The file Nelson_etal_supplement.csv is a comma delimited text file containing all data used in the manuscript. Column definitions and units: Sample: A…