Biological & Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions

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    • Coral reef resilience differs among islands within the Gulf of Mannar, southeast India, following successive coral bleaching events 

      Raj, K. Diraviya; Aeby, Greta S.; Mathews, G.; Williams, Gareth J.; Caldwell, Jamie M.; ... more authors ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Article)
      We used a 12-yr data set of benthic cover (2005�2017), spanning two bleaching events, to assess changes in benthic cover and coral community composition along 21 islands within Gulf of Mannar (GoM), southeast India. Overall, ...

    • Case-control design identifies ecological drivers of endemic coral diseases 

      Caldwell, Jamie M.; Aeby, Greta; Heron, Scott F.; Donahue, Megan J. ( Nature Research , 2020 , Article)
      Endemic disease transmission is an important ecological process that is challenging to study because of low occurrence rates. Here, we investigate the ecological drivers of two coral diseases growth anomalies and tissue ...

    • Feeding Behavior of Coralliophila sp. on Corals Affected by Caribbean Ciliate Infection (CCI): A New Possible Vector? 

      Montano, Simone; Aeby, Greta; Galli, Paolo; Hoeksema, Bert W ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)
      Coral reefs in the Caribbean are known to be affected by many coral diseases, yet the ecology and etiology of most diseases remain understudied. The Caribbean ciliate infection (CCI) caused by ciliates belonging to the ...

    • Observations of brown band disease in the Gulf of Mannar, India 

      Bharath, M. Selva; Raj, K. Diraviya; Aeby, Greta S.; Edward, J. K. Patterson ( CSIRO , 2021 , Article)
      The abundance and frequency of coral diseases have increased significantly during recent decades. The Gulf of Mannar in India has well-established coral reefs that have been affected by various climatic and non-climatic ...

    • Genetic engineering to enhance microalgal-based produced water treatment with emphasis on CRISPR/Cas9: A review 

      Hassanien, Alaa; Saadaoui, Imen; Schipper, Kira; Al-Marri, Sara; Dalgamouni, Tasneem; ... more authors ( Frontiers Media , 2023 , Article Review)
      In recent years, the increased demand for and regional variability of available water resources, along with sustainable water supply planning, have driven interest in the reuse of produced water. Reusing produced water can ...

    • Understanding impact of heat, drought, and salinity stresses on growth and physiological attributes of Chenopodium album under field conditions 

      Attar, Al Zahraa; Ahmed, Talaat; Kato, Atsushi; Saadaoui, Imen; Shabala, Sergey ( Springer , 2023 , Article)
      Utilizing potential of wild crop relatives becomes a necessity under current climate trends scenario. Chenopodium album is a natural inhabitant of Qatari harsh environment that is characterised by a combination of various ...

    • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes 

      Ika, Djukic; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Schmidt, Inger Kappel; Larsen, Klaus Steenberg; Beier, Claus; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)
      Through litter decomposition enormous amounts of carbon is emitted to the atmosphere. Numerous large-scale decomposition experiments have been conducted focusing on this fundamental soil process in order to understand the ...

    • Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome 

      Thomas, H. J. D.; Myers-Smith, I. H.; Bjorkman, A. D.; Elmendorf, S. C.; Blok, D.; ... more authors ( Wiley , 2019 , Article)
      Aim: Plant functional groups are widely used in community ecology and earth system modelling to describe trait variation within and across plant communities. However, this approach rests on the assumption that functional ...

    • Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes 

      Kwon, Taeoh; Shibata, Hideaki; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Schmidt, Inger K.; Larsen, Klaus S.; ... more authors ( Frontiers Media , 2021 , Article)
      Litter decomposition is a key process for carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems and is mainly controlled by environmental conditions, substrate quantity and quality as well as microbial community abundance ...

    • Impacts of urban land use changes on ecosystem services in Dianchi lake basin, China 

      Wang, Ruibo; Xu, Xiaojun; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M.; Yang, Zongbao; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2021 , Article)
      Land use change is widely regarded as a key factor altering the structure and function of ecosystems. Urbanization is a particular driver and influence in land use change and is expanding globally, especially in developing ...

    • Impacts of seven years of experimental warming and nutrient addition on neighbourhood species interactions and community structure in two contrasting alpine plant communities 

      Gaurav, Baruah; Molau, Ulf; Jägerbrand, Annika K.; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)
      Global change is predicted to have major impacts on alpine and arctic ecosystems. Plant fitness and growth will be determined by how plants interact with each other at smaller scales. Local-scale neighbourhood interactions ...

    • Toads in Qatar: The species present and their probable original source 

      Nobuyuki, Yamaguchi; Vasconcelos, Raquel; Mohamed, Toqa; Abdel-Fattah Ahmed, Talaat; Alatalo, Juha Mikael; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)
      Toads are likely to have been introduced to Qatar, but little information is available on toad populations in the country, including the species present and their probable origin. Therefore, we collected tissue samples for ...

    • Ecosystem service supply and demand: Theory and management application 

      Bai, Yang; Wang, Min; Li, Hui; Huang, Shen Fa; Alatalo, Juha M. ( ACTA ECOLOGICA SINICA , 2017 , Article)
      Ecosvstem service is a very important issue for current, sustainable scientific research. Environmental protection and management requirements are increasing and policymakers hope to incorporate ecological service information ...

    • The power of phytochemicals combination in cancer chemoprevention 

      Rizeq, Balsam; Gupta, Ishita; Ilesanmi, Josephine; AlSafran, Mohammed; Rahman, MD Mizanur; ... more authors ( Ivyspring International Publisher , 2020 , Article Review)
      Conventional therapies for cancer treatment have posed many challenges, including toxicity, multidrug resistance and economic expenses. In contrast, complementary alternative medicine (CAM), employing phytochemicals have ...

    • Nox2 activity is required in obesity-mediated alteration of bone remodeling 

      Rahman, Md Mizanur; El Jamali, Amina; Halade, Ganesh V.; Ouhtit, Allal; Abou-Saleh, Haissam; ... more authors ( Hindawi Limited , 2018 , Article)
      Despite increasing evidence suggesting a role for NADPH oxidases (Nox) in bone pathophysiology, whether Nox enzymes contribute to obesity-mediated bone remodeling remains to be clearly elucidated. Nox2 is one of the ...

    • Deregulation of cell growth and apoptosis in UV-induced melanomagenesis 

      Ouhtit A.; Gupta I.; Gaur R.L.; Fernando A.; Abd El-Azim A.O.; ... more authors ( Frontiers in Bioscience , 2020 , Article Review)
      We have previously characterized the role of p16/Rb in coordinating the early events in UVB-irradiated skin. As an extension to this work, normal melanocytes and mutant p16-inducible melanoma cell models were employed to ...

    • KYNU, a novel potential target that underpins CD44-promoted breast tumour cell invasion 

      Al-Mansoob, Maryam; Gupta, Ishita; Stefan Rusyniak, Radoslaw; Ouhtit, Allal ( Blackwell Publishing Inc. , 2021 , Article Review)
      Using a validated tetracycline-off-inducible CD44 expression system in mouse model, we have previously demonstrated that the hyaluronan (HA) receptor CD44 promotes breast cancer (BC) metastasis to the liver. To unravel the ...

    • Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) and the role of complement system in disease pathogenesis 

      Thomas, Swapna; Smatti, Maria K.; Ouhtit, Allal; Cyprian, Farhan S.; Almaslamani, Muna A.; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article Review)
      Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) has been associated with severe disease outcomes in several viral infections, including respiratory infections. In vitro and in vivo studies showed that antibody-response to SARS-CoV ...

    • PCF11, a Novel CD44-Downstream Transcriptional Target, Linking Its 3'-End Polyadenylation Function to Tumor Cell Metastasis 

      Al-Mansoob, Maryam; Ahmad, Salma M. S.; Ouhtit, Allal ( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2022 , Article Review)
      Breast Cancer (BC) is the most common and the major health issue in women worldwide. Metastasis, a multistep process, is the worst aspect of cancer and tumor cell invasion is the defining step. Tumor cell invasion requires ...

    • SIRT1, a novel transcriptional downstream target of CD44, linking its deacetylase activity to tumor cell invasion/metastasis 

      Ahmad, Salma M. S.; Al-Mansoob, Maryam; Ouhtit, Allal ( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2022 , Article Review)
      Our tetracycline-off-inducible CD44 expression system previously established in mouse model, revealed that activation of CD44 with its major ligand hyaluronan (HA) promoted breast cancer (BC) metastasis to the liver. To ...