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Tricarico P, Chardin D, Martin N, Contu S, Hugonnet F, Otto J, Humbert O. Total metabolic tumor volume on 18F-FDG PET/CT is a game-changer for patients with metastatic lung cancer treated with immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer 2024; 12:e007628. [PMID: 38649279 PMCID: PMC11043703 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2023-007628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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PURPOSE Because of atypical response imaging patterns in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPIs), new biomarkers are needed for a better monitoring of treatment efficacy. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the prognostic value of volume-derived positron-emission tomography (PET) parameters on baseline and follow-up 18F-fluoro-deoxy-glucose PET (18F-FDG-PET) scans and compare it with the conventional PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors (PERCIST). METHODS Patients with metastatic NSCLC were included in two different single-center prospective trials. 18F-FDG-PET studies were performed before the start of immunotherapy (PETbaseline), after 6-8 weeks (PETinterim1) and after 12-16 weeks (PETinterim2) of treatment, using PERCIST criteria for tumor response assessment. Different metabolic parameters were evaluated: absolute values of maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of the most intense lesion, total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), but also their percentage changes between PET studies (ΔSUVmax, ΔTMTV and ΔTLG). The median follow-up of patients was 31 (7.3-31.8) months. Prognostic values and optimal thresholds of PET parameters were estimated by ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve analysis of 12-month overall survival (12M-OS) and 6-month progression-free survival (6M-PFS). Tumor progression needed to be confirmed by a multidisciplinary tumor board, considering atypical response patterns on imaging. RESULTS 110 patients were prospectively included. On PETbaseline, TMTV was predictive of 12M-OS [AUC (Area Under Curve) =0.64; 95% CI: 0.61 to 0.66] whereas SUVmax and TLG were not. On PETinterim1 and PETinterim2, all metabolic parameters were predictive for 12M-OS and 6M-PFS, the residual TMTV on PETinterim1 (TMTV1) being the strongest prognostic biomarker (AUC=0.83 and 0.82; 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.91, for 12M-OS and 6M-PFS, respectively). Using the optimal threshold by ROC curve to classify patients into three TMTV1 subgroups (0 cm3; 0-57 cm3; >57 cm3), TMTV1 prognostic stratification was independent of PERCIST criteria on both PFS and OS, and significantly outperformed them. Subgroup analysis demonstrated that TMTV1 remained a strong prognostic biomarker of 12M-OS for non-responding patients (p=0.0003) according to PERCIST criteria. In the specific group of patients with PERCIST progression on PETinterim1, low residual tumor volume (<57 cm3) was still associated with a very favorable patients' outcome (6M-PFS=73%; 24M-OS=55%). CONCLUSION The absolute value of residual metabolic tumor volume, assessed 6-8 weeks after the start of ICPI, is an optimal and independent prognostic measure, exceeding and complementing conventional PERCIST criteria. Oncologists should consider it in patients with first tumor progression according to PERCIST criteria, as it helps identify patients who benefit from continued treatment. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER 2018-A02116-49; NCT03584334.
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- Pierre Tricarico
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France
- IBV, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inserm, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Biostatistics, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grâce, Monaco
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France
- IBV, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inserm, Nice, France
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Schiappa R, Contu S, Culie D, Chateau Y, Gal J, Pace-Loscos T, Bailleux C, Haudebourg J, Ferrero JM, Barranger E, Chamorey E. Validation of RUBY for Breast Cancer Knowledge Extraction From a Large French Electronic Medical Record System. JCO Clin Cancer Inform 2023; 7:e2200130. [PMID: 37235837 DOI: 10.1200/cci.22.00130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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PURPOSE RUBY is a tool for extracting clinical data on breast cancer from French medical records on the basis of named entity recognition models combined with keyword extraction and postprocessing rules. Although initial results showed a high precision of the system in extracting clinical information from surgery, pathology, and biopsy reports (≥92.7%) and good precision in extracting data from consultation reports (81.8%), its validation is needed before its use in routine practice. METHODS In this work, we analyzed RUBY's performance compared with the manual entry and we evaluated the generalizability of the approach on different sets of reports collected on a span of 40 years. RESULTS RUBY performed similarly or better than the manual entry for 15 of 27 variables. It showed similar performances when structuring newer reports but failed to extract entities for which changes in terminology appeared. Finally, our tool could automatically structure 15,990 reports in 77 minutes. CONCLUSION RUBY can automate the data entry process of a set of variables and reduce its burden, but a continuous evaluation of the format and structure of the reports and a subsequent update of the system is necessary to ensure its robustness.
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- Renaud Schiappa
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Cervico-facial Oncology Surgical Department, University Institute of Face and Neck, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Anatomy and Pathological Cytology Laboratory, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France
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Burton VJ, Contu S, De Palma A, Hill SLL, Albrecht H, Bone JS, Carpenter D, Corstanje R, De Smedt P, Farrell M, Ford HV, Hudson LN, Inward K, Jones DT, Kosewska A, Lo-Man-Hung NF, Magura T, Mulder C, Murvanidze M, Newbold T, Smith J, Suarez AV, Suryometaram S, Tóthmérész B, Uehara-Prado M, Vanbergen AJ, Verheyen K, Wuyts K, Scharlemann JPW, Eggleton P, Purvis A. Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages. BMC Ecol Evol 2022; 22:135. [PMID: 36397002 PMCID: PMC9673366 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Land-use is a major driver of changes in biodiversity worldwide, but studies have overwhelmingly focused on above-ground taxa: the effects on soil biodiversity are less well known, despite the importance of soil organisms in ecosystem functioning. We modelled data from a global biodiversity database to compare how the abundance of soil-dwelling and above-ground organisms responded to land use and soil properties. Results We found that land use affects overall abundance differently in soil and above-ground assemblages. The abundance of soil organisms was markedly lower in cropland and plantation habitats than in primary vegetation and pasture. Soil properties influenced the abundance of soil biota in ways that differed among land uses, suggesting they shape both abundance and its response to land use. Conclusions Our results caution against assuming models or indicators derived from above-ground data can apply to soil assemblages and highlight the potential value of incorporating soil properties into biodiversity models. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4.
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Schiappa R, Contu S, Uzbelger G, Toledano S, Barranger E, Culie D, Chamorey E. 7RUBY: Développement et utilisation d'algorithme d'IA pour la structuration des données des comptes rendus médicaux de patientes atteintes d'un cancer du sein. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2022.09.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Culié D, Schiappa R, Contu S, Scheller B, Villarme A, Dassonville O, Poissonnet G, Bozec A, Chamorey E. Validation and Improvement of a Convolutional Neural Network to Predict the Involved Pathology in a Head and Neck Surgery Cohort. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:12200. [PMID: 36231500 PMCID: PMC9564535 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The selection of patients for the constitution of a cohort is a major issue for clinical research (prospective studies and retrospective studies in real life). Our objective was to validate in real life conditions the use of a Deep Learning process based on a neural network, for the classification of patients according to the pathology involved in a head and neck surgery department. 24,434 Electronic Health Records (EHR) from the first visit between 2000 and 2020 were extracted. More than 6000 EHR were manually classified in ten groups of interest according to the reason for consultation with a clinical relevance. A convolutional neural network (TensorFlow, previously reported by Hsu et al.) was then used to predict the group of patients based on their pathology, using two levels of classification based on clinically relevant criteria. On the first and second level of classification, macro-average performances were: 0.95, 0.83, 0.85, 0.97, 0.84 and 0.93, 0.76, 0.83, 0.96, 0.79 for accuracy, recall, precision, specificity and F1-score versus accuracy, recall and precision of 0.580, 580 and 0.582 for Hsu et al., respectively. We validated this model to predict the pathology involved and to constitute clinically relevant cohorts in a tertiary hospital. This model did not require a preprocessing stage, was used in French and showed equivalent or better performances than other already published techniques.
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- Dorian Culié
- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data Department, Antoine Laccassagne Center, 06100 Nice, France
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Schiappa R, Contu S, Culie D, Thamphya B, Chateau Y, Gal J, Bailleux C, Haudebourg J, Ferrero JM, Barranger E, Chamorey E. RUBY: Natural Language Processing of French Electronic Medical Records for Breast Cancer Research. JCO Clin Cancer Inform 2022; 6:e2100199. [PMID: 35960900 PMCID: PMC9470144 DOI: 10.1200/cci.21.00199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Electronic medical records are a valuable source of information about patients' clinical status but are often free-text documents that require laborious manual review to be exploited. Techniques from computer science have been investigated, but the literature has marginally focused on non-English language texts. We developed RUBY, a tool designed in collaboration with IBM-France to automatically structure clinical information from French medical records of patients with breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS RUBY, which exploits state-of-the-art Named Entity Recognition models combined with keyword extraction and postprocessing rules, was applied on clinical texts. We investigated the precision of RUBY in extracting the target information. RESULTS RUBY has an average precision of 92.8% for the Surgery report, 92.7% for the Pathology report, 98.1% for the Biopsy report, and 81.8% for the Consultation report. CONCLUSION These results show that the automatic approach has the potential to effectively extract clinical knowledge from an extensive set of electronic medical records, reducing the manual effort required and saving a significant amount of time. A deeper semantic analysis and further understanding of the context in the text, as well as training on a larger and more recent set of reports, including those containing highly variable entities and the use of ontologies, could further improve the results.
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- Renaud Schiappa
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Cervico-facial Oncology Surgical Department, University Institute of Face and Neck, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Anatomy and Pathological Cytology Laboratory, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Anatomy and Pathological Cytology Laboratory, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Data, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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Pacé-loscos T, Thamphya B, Gal J, Château Y, Contu S, Culié D, Schiappa R, Chamorey E. Développement d'un dashboard interactif pour la visualisation des données d'une plateforme de données de santé. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2022.03.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Contu S, Pitoy F, Schiappa R, Pouy-Berlemont I, Chamorey E. Surveillance automatisée des épidémies d'infections associées aux soins à partir des données de bactériologie: EPI-DETECT. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2022.03.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Budhota A, Chua KSG, Hussain A, Kager S, Cherpin A, Contu S, Vishwanath D, Kuah CWK, Ng CY, Yam LHL, Loh YJ, Rajeswaran DK, Xiang L, Burdet E, Campolo D. Robotic Assisted Upper Limb Training Post Stroke: A Randomized Control Trial Using Combinatory Approach Toward Reducing Workforce Demands. Front Neurol 2021; 12:622014. [PMID: 34149587 PMCID: PMC8206540 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.622014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Post stroke upper limb rehabilitation is a challenging problem with poor outcomes as 40% of survivors have functionally useless upper limbs. Robot-aided therapy (RAT) is a potential method to alleviate the effort of intensive, task-specific, repetitive upper limb exercises for both patients and therapists. The present study aims to investigate how a time matched combinatory training scheme that incorporates conventional and RAT, using H-Man, compares with conventional training toward reducing workforce demands. In a randomized control trial (NCT02188628, www.clinicaltrials.gov), 44 subacute to chronic stroke survivors with first-ever clinical stroke and predominant arm motor function deficits were recruited and randomized into two groups of 22 subjects: Robotic Therapy (RT) and Conventional Therapy (CT). Both groups received 18 sessions of 90 min; three sessions per week over 6 weeks. In each session, participants of the CT group received 90 min of 1:1 therapist-supervised conventional therapy while participants of the RT group underwent combinatory training which consisted of 60 min of minimally-supervised H-Man therapy followed by 30 min of conventional therapy. The clinical outcomes [Fugl-Meyer (FMA), Action Research Arm Test and, Grip Strength] and the quantitative measures (smoothness, time efficiency, and task error, derived from two robotic assessment tasks) were independently evaluated prior to therapy intervention (week 0), at mid-training (week 3), at the end of training (week 6), and post therapy (week 12 and 24). Significant differences within group were observed at the end of training for all clinical scales compared with baseline [mean and standard deviation of FMA score changes between baseline and week 6; RT: Δ4.41 (3.46) and CT: Δ3.0 (4.0); p < 0.01]. FMA gains were retained 18 weeks post-training [week 24; RT: Δ5.38 (4.67) and week 24 CT: Δ4.50 (5.35); p < 0.01]. The RT group clinical scores improved similarly when compared to CT group with no significant inter-group at all time points although the conventional therapy time was reduced to one third in RT group. There were no training-related adverse side effects. In conclusion, time matched combinatory training incorporating H-Man RAT produced similar outcomes compared to conventional therapy alone. Hence, this study supports a combinatory approach to improve motor function in post-stroke arm paresis. Clinical Trial Registration: www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT02188628.
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- Aamani Budhota
- Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Robotic Research Center, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotic Research Center, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotic Research Center, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotic Research Center, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Robotic Research Center, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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Contu S, Schiappa R, Chateau Y, Chamorey E. Automatisation du processus de réconciliation des événements indésirables graves entre les bases de données d’essais cliniques et celles de pharmacovigilance. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2021.04.097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Cherpin A, Kager S, Budhota A, Contu S, Vishwanath D, Kuah CW, Ng CY, Yam LH, Xiang L, Hussain A, Karen S G C, Campolo D. A preliminary study on the relationship between proprioceptive deficits and motor functions in chronic stroke patients. IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot 2020; 2019:465-470. [PMID: 31374673 DOI: 10.1109/icorr.2019.8779447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Although motor and sensory impairments of the upper limb after stroke have been widely studied, the relationship between sensory deficits and motor functions has been less thoroughly explored. In this ongoing study, we investigated the relationship between proprioceptive impairments and motor functions with 20 chronic stroke survivors. Their proprioceptive abilities were assessed with a passive joint position matching test using H-Man and their motor functions were assessed with ARAT (Action Research Arm Test) and FMA (Fugl Meyer Upper Extremity Assessment) clinical scores. The assessments were conducted before, during and after the therapy. Results indicated a significant difference between the proprioceptive outcomes of healthy and stroke participants (at baseline) in both matching accuracy (absolute error, p=0.02) and precision (variability of the signed error, p=0.03). Significant correlations were found between the proprioceptive assessment outcomes (assessed before the beginning of the motor rehabilitation) of stroke participants with impaired proprioception and their ARAT clinical scores assessed at the first follow-up (week 12) (rho =- 0.74 and p=0.047 for the absolute error; rho =-0.78 and p= 0.03 for the variability of the signed error). The results from this preliminary study indicated a significant relationship between proprioceptive impairments and motor function performances in proprioceptively impaired chronic stroke participants.
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Newbold T, Hudson LN, Contu S, Hill SLL, Beck J, Liu Y, Meyer C, Phillips HRP, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. Widespread winners and narrow-ranged losers: Land use homogenizes biodiversity in local assemblages worldwide. PLoS Biol 2018; 16:e2006841. [PMID: 30513079 PMCID: PMC6279023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Human use of the land (for agriculture and settlements) has a substantial negative effect on biodiversity globally. However, not all species are adversely affected by land use, and indeed, some benefit from the creation of novel habitat. Geographically rare species may be more negatively affected by land use than widespread species, but data limitations have so far prevented global multi-clade assessments of land-use effects on narrow-ranged and widespread species. We analyse a large, global database to show consistent differences in assemblage composition. Compared with natural habitat, assemblages in disturbed habitats have more widespread species on average, especially in urban areas and the tropics. All else being equal, this result means that human land use is homogenizing assemblage composition across space. Disturbed habitats show both reduced abundances of narrow-ranged species and increased abundances of widespread species. Our results are very important for biodiversity conservation because narrow-ranged species are typically at higher risk of extinction than widespread species. Furthermore, the shift to more widespread species may also affect ecosystem functioning by reducing both the contribution of rare species and the diversity of species’ responses to environmental changes among local assemblages. Previous studies have shown that human use of the land, mainly for agriculture and settlements, causes a detectable but relatively small net loss of biodiversity. However, not all species are affected equally, and some species even benefit from the new habitats we create. One group of species of particular concern for biodiversity conservation are those that inhabit only a small area. These narrow-ranged species are at higher risk of extinction because it is more likely that any threats to the species (including human land use) will affect their entire range. Such species can also play a unique role in the healthy functioning of ecosystems. Here, we show that the observed small declines in biodiversity in human-disturbed land can be broken down into large declines in narrow-ranged species, offset by increases in wide-ranged species. All else being equal, this finding means that ecological communities are losing their distinctive, narrow-ranged species and are becoming dominated by the same species everywhere, leading to a reduction in global biodiversity. The divergent effects of human land use on narrow-ranged and widespread species are important for the conservation of already threatened, narrow-ranged species and may lead to a negative effect on the functioning of ecosystems.
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- Tim Newbold
- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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- College of Agricultural Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
- Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Hussain A, Budhota A, Contu S, Kager S, Vishwanath DA, Kuah CWK, Yam LHL, Chua KSG, Masia L, Campolo D. Quantitative assessment of motor functions post-stroke: Responsiveness of upper-extremity robotic measures and its task dependence. IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot 2018; 2017:1037-1042. [PMID: 28813958 DOI: 10.1109/icorr.2017.8009386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Technology aided measures offer a sensitive, accurate and time-efflcient approach for the assessment of sensorimotor function after neurological impairment compared to standard clinical assessments. This preliminary study investigated the relationship between task definition and its effect on robotic measures using a planar, two degree of freedom, robotic-manipulator (H-Man). Four chronic stroke participants (49.5±11.95 years, 2 Female, FMA: 37.5±13.96) and eight healthy control participants (26.25± 4.70 years, 2 Female) participated in the study. Motor functions were evaluated using line tracing and circle tracing tasks with dominant and nondominant hand of healthy and affected vs. non affected hand of stroke participants. The results show significant dependence of quantitative measures on investigated tasks.
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Chua K, Kuah C, Ng C, Yam L, Budhota A, Contu S, Kager S, Hussain A, Xiang L, Campolo D. Clinical and kinematic evaluation of the H-Man arm robot for post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation: Preliminary findings of a randomised controlled trial. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2018.05.203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Proprioceptive signals from cutaneous, joint, tendon and muscle receptors create the basis for bodily perception and are known to be essential for motor control. However, which are the mechanisms underlying the proprioceptive signals and which are the variables that affect them is still a matter of debate. In particular, what is worth to investigate is, namely, the codification of proprioceptive information related to pointing movements of the wrist towards kinesthetic targets. In this work we asked 10 healthy adults to perform with their wrist a robot-aided proprioceptive matching task, in which the starting position of the matching movements was shifted forward or backward, in order to ascertain to which extent such shifts cause target over/under estimation and how important is movement's length on task performance. Results indicate that accuracy and precision of performance are highly correlated with the starting position and targets tended to be undershot when the active matching movements were longer. Moreover, further analysis revealed a consistent decrement of movement speed for shorter movements and conversely, faster displacement in case of backward of starting position.
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Purvis A, Newbold T, De Palma A, Contu S, Hill SL, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Phillips HR, Hudson LN, Lysenko I, Börger L, Scharlemann JP. Modelling and Projecting the Response of Local Terrestrial Biodiversity Worldwide to Land Use and Related Pressures: The PREDICTS Project. ADV ECOL RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2017.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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De Palma A, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Martin PA, Chadwick A, Gilbert G, Bates AE, Börger L, Contu S, Hill SL, Purvis A. Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis. ADV ECOL RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2017.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Contu S, Hussain A, Kager S, Budhota A, Deshmukh VA, Kuah CWK, Yam LHL, Xiang L, Chua KSG, Masia L, Campolo D. Proprioceptive assessment in clinical settings: Evaluation of joint position sense in upper limb post-stroke using a robotic manipulator. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0183257. [PMID: 29161264 PMCID: PMC5697829 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Proprioception is a critical component for motor functions and directly affects motor learning after neurological injuries. Conventional methods for its assessment are generally ordinal in nature and hence lack sensitivity. Robotic devices designed to promote sensorimotor learning can potentially provide quantitative precise, accurate, and reliable assessments of sensory impairments. In this paper, we investigate the clinical applicability and validity of using a planar 2 degrees of freedom robot to quantitatively assess proprioceptive deficits in post-stroke participants. Nine stroke survivors and nine healthy subjects participated in the study. Participants’ hand was passively moved to the target position guided by the H-Man robot (Criterion movement) and were asked to indicate during a second passive movement towards the same target (Matching movement) when they felt that they matched the target position. The assessment was carried out on a planar surface for movements in the forward and oblique directions in the contralateral and ipsilateral sides of the tested arm. The matching performance was evaluated in terms of error magnitude (absolute and signed) and its variability. Stroke patients showed higher variability in the estimation of the target position compared to the healthy participants. Further, an effect of target was found, with lower absolute errors in the contralateral side. Pairwise comparison between individual stroke participant and control participants showed significant proprioceptive deficits in two patients. The proposed assessment of passive joint position sense was inherently simple and all participants, regardless of motor impairment level, could complete it in less than 10 minutes. Therefore, the method can potentially be carried out to detect changes in proprioceptive deficits in clinical settings.
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- Sara Contu
- Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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Marini F, Contu S, Antuvan CW, Morasso P, Masia L. The Influence of External Forces on Wrist Proprioception. Front Hum Neurosci 2017; 11:440. [PMID: 28912703 PMCID: PMC5583607 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Proprioception combines information from cutaneous, joint, tendon, and muscle receptors for maintaining a reliable internal body image. However, it is still a matter of debate, in both neurophysiology and psychology, to what extent such body image is modified or distorted by a changing haptic environment. In particular, what is worth investigating is the contribution of external forces on our perception of body and joint configuration. The proprioceptive acuity of fifteen young participants was tested with a Joint Position Matching (JPM) task, performed with the dominant wrist under five different external forces, in order to understand to what extent they affect proprioceptive acuity. Results show that accuracy and precision in target matching do not change in a significant manner as a function of the loading condition, suggesting that the multi-sensory integration process is indeed capable of discriminating different sub-modalities of proprioception, namely the joint position sense and the sense of force. Furthermore, results indicate a preference for target undershooting when movements are performed in a viscous or high resistive force field, rather than passive or null fields in which subjects did not show any predominance for under/over estimation of their position.
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- Francesca Marini
- Motor Learning and Robotic Rehabilitation Laboratory, Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaGenova, Italy
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore, Singapore
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore, Singapore
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- Motor Learning and Robotic Rehabilitation Laboratory, Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaGenova, Italy
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore, Singapore
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Contu S, Hussain A, Masia L, Campolo D. A preliminary study for quantitative assessment of upper limb proprioception. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2017; 2016:4614-4617. [PMID: 28269303 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2016.7591755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Proprioception, or sense of position and movement of the body, strongly correlates with motor recovery of the hemiplegic arm. The evaluation of the awareness of the location of joints in space involves measuring the accuracy of joint-angle replication. Robotic devices allow an accurate manipulation of joint movements necessary to assess proprioceptive status. This study evaluated the proprioceptive performance of healthy subjects by mean of the H-Man, a planar robot designed for upper-limb rehabilitation to gather preliminary normative data for neurorehabilitation applications. Twelve participants were equally divided into Aged and Young groups and were asked to indicate when their dominant hand position matched a predefined target in the contralateral, sagittal and ipsilateral direction. Results indicated a better performance for movements towards the contralateral target in terms of both absolute and signed error while there was not a significant effect of age group. Error variability was not affected by the target location and participants' age. The present study established preliminary proprioceptive metrics that could assist in providing information about the normal range of proprioceptive acuity of healthy subjects of different age.
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Contu S, Marini F, Masia L. Robotic assessment of the contribution of motor commands to wrist position sense. IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot 2017; 2017:941-946. [PMID: 28813942 DOI: 10.1109/icorr.2017.8009370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Assessing joint position sense for rehabilitation after neurological injury provides a prognostic factor in recovery and long-term functional outcomes. A common method for testing joint position sense involves the active replication of a joint configuration presented via a passive movement. However, recent evidence showed how this sense is mediated by the centrally generated signals of motor command, such that movements produced volitionally may be coded differently from passive movements and accuracy may be different when matching targets presented actively. To verify this hypothesis we asked ten participants to actively replicate a target wrist angle with the help of a visual feedback in two conditions, which differed in the mode of target presentation: active (aaJPM) or passive (paJPM). The accuracy of target matching, directional bias and variability were analyzed, as well as speed and smoothness of the matching movement and criterion movement in the aaJPM. Overall results indicate higher accuracy and lower variability in the paJPM, while directional bias showed the tendency to overshoot the target regardless of condition. The speed did not differ in the two conditions and movements were smoother in the aaJPM, suggesting a higher confidence by participants in their matching ability. In conclusion, this study suggests that motor commands negatively affect the accuracy of joint position sense when matching involves the integration of visual and proprioceptive information.
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Contu S, Marini F, Cappello L, Masia L. Robot-assisted assessment of wrist proprioception: does wrist proprioceptive acuity follow Weber's law? Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2017; 2016:4610-4613. [PMID: 28269302 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2016.7591754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Proprioception is essential for planning and controlling limb posture and movement. In our recent work, we introduced a standardized robot-aided method for measuring proprioceptive discrimination thresholds at the wrist to obtain reliable and accurate measures of proprioceptive acuity. Weber's law defines discrimination thresholds as a constant ratio between the just noticeable difference and the reference or standard stimulus. Reporting Weber's fractions thus provides the possibility of comparing results with the reports of others collected worldwide. This work aims to determine that Weber's Law holds for proprioceptive discrimination thresholds and to provide Weber's fraction for wrist joint proprioception. To this end, eight healthy subjects experienced two passive wrist movements of different amplitude and verbally indicated which was larger. An adaptive psychophysical procedure established the amplitude of the largest stimulus according to participants' responses. This comparison stimulus was then compared to a standard stimulus amplitude of 10°, 20°, 30° or 40°. The discrimination thresholds for each standard stimulus were established at the 75% correct response level. The obtained thresholds followed Weber's Law indicating that larger amplitudes were associated with higher discrimination thresholds. Based on a linear regression function the overall Weber's fraction, defined as the slope of the line, was computed to be 0.09. This result expands the present limited knowledge on wrist proprioception showing that its proprioceptive acuity follows Weber's law.
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Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría‐Londoño S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, Pask‐Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez‐Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar‐Barquero V, Aizen MA, Albertos B, Alcala EL, del Mar Alguacil M, Alignier A, Ancrenaz M, Andersen AN, Arbeláez‐Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Arroyo‐Rodríguez V, Aumann T, Axmacher JC, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Bakayoko A, Báldi A, Banks JE, Baral SK, Barlow J, Barratt BIP, Barrico L, Bartolommei P, Barton DM, Basset Y, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Baur B, Bayne EM, Beja P, Benedick S, Berg Å, Bernard H, Berry NJ, Bhatt D, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Blake RJ, Bobo KS, Bóçon R, Boekhout T, Böhning‐Gaese K, Bonham KJ, Borges PAV, Borges SH, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Bragagnolo C, Brandt JS, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Bros V, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buddle CM, Bugter R, Buscardo E, Buse J, Cabra‐García J, Cáceres NC, Cagle NL, Calviño‐Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Caparrós R, Cardoso P, Carpenter D, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Cassano CR, Castro H, Castro‐Luna AA, Rolando CB, Cerezo A, Chapman KA, Chauvat M, Christensen M, Clarke FM, Cleary DF, Colombo G, Connop SP, Craig MD, Cruz‐López L, Cunningham SA, D'Aniello B, D'Cruze N, da Silva PG, Dallimer M, Danquah E, Darvill B, Dauber J, Davis ALV, Dawson J, de Sassi C, de Thoisy B, Deheuvels O, Dejean A, Devineau J, Diekötter T, Dolia JV, Domínguez E, Dominguez‐Haydar Y, Dorn S, Draper I, Dreber N, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Eggleton P, Eigenbrod F, Elek Z, Entling MH, Esler KJ, de Lima RF, Faruk A, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Fensham RJ, Fernandez IC, Ferreira CC, Ficetola GF, Fiera C, Filgueiras BKC, Fırıncıoğlu HK, Flaspohler D, Floren A, Fonte SJ, Fournier A, Fowler RE, Franzén M, Fraser LH, Fredriksson GM, Freire GB, Frizzo TLM, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Gaigher R, Ganzhorn JU, García KP, Garcia‐R JC, Garden JG, Garilleti R, Ge B, Gendreau‐Berthiaume B, Gerard PJ, Gheler‐Costa C, Gilbert B, Giordani P, Giordano S, Golodets C, Gomes LGL, Gould RK, Goulson D, Gove AD, Granjon L, Grass I, Gray CL, Grogan J, Gu W, Guardiola M, Gunawardene NR, Gutierrez AG, Gutiérrez‐Lamus DL, Haarmeyer DH, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hassan SN, Hatfield RG, Hawes JE, Hayward MW, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J, Henschel P, Hernández L, Herrera JP, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Higuera‐Diaz D, Hilje B, Höfer H, Hoffmann A, Horgan FG, Hornung E, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs‐Cubides P, Ishida H, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Hernández FJ, Johnson MF, Jolli V, Jonsell M, Juliani SN, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kappes H, Kati V, Katovai E, Kellner K, Kessler M, Kirby KR, Kittle AM, Knight ME, Knop E, Kohler F, Koivula M, Kolb A, Kone M, Kőrösi Á, Krauss J, Kumar A, Kumar R, Kurz DJ, Kutt AS, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Lara F, Lasky JR, Latta SC, Laurance WF, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J, Lehouck V, Lencinas MV, Lentini PE, Letcher SG, Li Q, Litchwark SA, Littlewood NA, Liu Y, Lo‐Man‐Hung N, López‐Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas‐Borja ME, Luja VH, Luskin MS, MacSwiney G MC, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Malone LA, Malonza PK, Malumbres‐Olarte J, Mandujano S, Måren IE, Marin‐Spiotta E, Marsh CJ, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Martínez Pastur G, Moreno Mateos D, Mayfield MM, Mazimpaka V, McCarthy JL, McCarthy KP, McFrederick QS, McNamara S, Medina NG, Medina R, Mena JL, Mico E, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Miranda‐Esquivel DR, Moir ML, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Mudri‐Stojnic S, Munira AN, Muoñz‐Alonso A, Munyekenye BF, Naidoo R, Naithani A, Nakagawa M, Nakamura A, Nakashima Y, Naoe S, Nates‐Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Navarro‐Iriarte L, Ndang'ang'a PK, Neuschulz EL, Ngai JT, Nicolas V, Nilsson SG, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Norton DA, Nöske NM, Nowakowski AJ, Numa C, O'Dea N, O'Farrell PJ, Oduro W, Oertli S, Ofori‐Boateng C, Oke CO, Oostra V, Osgathorpe LM, Otavo SE, Page NV, Paritsis J, Parra‐H A, Parry L, Pe'er G, Pearman PB, Pelegrin N, Pélissier R, Peres CA, Peri PL, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Peters MK, Pethiyagoda RS, Phalan B, Philips TK, Pillsbury FC, Pincheira‐Ulbrich J, Pineda E, Pino J, Pizarro‐Araya J, Plumptre AJ, Poggio SL, Politi N, Pons P, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Ramesh BR, Ramirez‐Pinilla MP, Ranganathan J, Rasmussen C, Redpath‐Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Rey Benayas JM, Rey‐Velasco JC, Reynolds C, Ribeiro DB, Richards MH, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Ríos RM, Robinson R, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero‐Duque LP, Rös M, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roth DS, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Rubio AV, Ruel J, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña‐Vázquez RA, Sam K, Samnegård U, Santana J, Santos X, Savage J, Schellhorn NA, Schilthuizen M, Schmiedel U, Schmitt CB, Schon NL, Schüepp C, Schumann K, Schweiger O, Scott DM, Scott KA, Sedlock JL, Seefeldt SS, Shahabuddin G, Shannon G, Sheil D, Sheldon FH, Shochat E, Siebert SJ, Silva FAB, Simonetti JA, Slade EM, Smith J, Smith‐Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Soto Quiroga G, St‐Laurent M, Starzomski BM, Stefanescu C, Steffan‐Dewenter I, Stouffer PC, Stout JC, Strauch AM, Struebig MJ, Su Z, Suarez‐Rubio M, Sugiura S, Summerville KS, Sung Y, Sutrisno H, Svenning J, Teder T, Threlfall CG, Tiitsaar A, Todd JH, Tonietto RK, Torre I, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Uehara‐Prado M, Urbina‐Cardona N, Vallan D, Vanbergen AJ, Vasconcelos HL, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Verdasca MJ, Verdú JR, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Virgilio M, Vu LV, Waite EM, Walker TR, Wang H, Wang Y, Watling JI, Weller B, Wells K, Westphal C, Wiafe ED, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Wolters V, Woodcock BA, Wu J, Wunderle JM, Yamaura Y, Yoshikura S, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Zeidler J, Zou F, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:145-188. [PMID: 28070282 PMCID: PMC5215197 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 09/10/2016] [Accepted: 09/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and EnvironmentResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
- Frankfurt Zoological SocietyAfrica Regional OfficeArushaTanzania
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP and the Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonSouth KensingtonLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
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- School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of LondonLondonUK
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- School of Biological and Ecological SciencesUniversity of StirlingStirlingUK
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- School of Biological SciencesRoyal Holloway University of LondonEgham, SurreyUK
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- Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldWestern BankSheffieldUK
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- School of EnvironmentNatural Resources and GeographyBangor UniversityBangorGwyneddUK
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- Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldWestern BankSheffieldUK
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- School of Biological SciencesQueen's University BelfastBelfastUK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
- Evolutionary Ecology GroupUniversity of AntwerpAntwerpBelgium
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- Wildlife and Range Management DepartmentFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR)College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
- SAVE THE FROGS! GhanaAdum‐KumasiGhana
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- Laboratorio Ecotono‐CRUBUniversidad Nacional del Comahue and INIBIOMARío NegroArgentina
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- Departamento de BotánicaFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de ValenciaBurjassot, ValenciaSpain
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- Marine LaboratorySilliman University‐Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental ManagementSilliman UniversityDumaguete CityPhilippines
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- Department of Soil and Water ConservationCSIC‐Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del SeguraMurciaSpain
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- INRAUR 0980 SAD‐PaysageRennes CedexFrance
- INRAUMR 1201 DYNAFORCastanet Tolosan CedexFrance
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- HUTAN – Kinabatangan Orang‐utan Conservation ProgrammeKota KinabaluMalaysia
- Borneo FuturesKota KinabaluMalaysia
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- Museo de ZoologíaFacultad de CienciasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMéxico D.F.Mexico
- Colección de TejidosInstituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von HumboldtValle del CaucaColombia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y SustentabilidadUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMexico
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- College of Science, Engineering & HealthRMIT UniversityMelbourneVic.Australia
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- UCL Department of GeographyUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Biodiversity UnitInstitute of BioscienceUniversiti Putra MalaysiaSerdangMalaysia
- Faculty of ForestryUniversiti Putra MalaysiaSerdangMalaysia
| | - Adrián B. Azpiroz
- Departamento de Biodiversidad y GenéticaInstituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente EstableMontevideoUruguay
| | - Lander Baeten
- Forest & Nature LabDepartment of Forest and Water ManagementGhent UniversityGontrodeBelgium
- Terrestrial Ecology UnitDepartment of BiologyGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
| | - Adama Bakayoko
- UFR Science de la NatureUniversité Naangui AbrogouaAbidjanIvory Coast
- Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'IvoireAbidjanIvory Coast
| | - András Báldi
- MTA Centre for Ecological ResearchVácrátótHungary
| | | | | | - Jos Barlow
- Lancaster Environment CentreLancaster UniversityLancasterUK
- MCT/Museu Paraense Emílio GoeldiBelémBrazil
| | | | - Lurdes Barrico
- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
| | | | - Diane M. Barton
- AgResearch LimitedInvermay Agricultural CentrePuddle Alley, MosgielNew Zealand
| | - Yves Basset
- Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteBalboaAnconPanama CityRepublic of Panama
| | - Péter Batáry
- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
| | - Adam J. Bates
- BiosciencesSchool of Science & TechnologyNottingham Trent UniversityClifton, NottinghamUK
- University of BirminghamEdgbaston, BirminghamUK
| | - Bruno Baur
- Section of Conservation BiologyDepartment of Environmental SciencesUniversity of BaselBaselSwitzerland
| | - Erin M. Bayne
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
| | - Pedro Beja
- CIBIO/InBioCentro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoVairãoPortugal
| | - Suzan Benedick
- Faculty of Sustainable AgricultureUniversiti Malaysia SabahSandakanMalaysia
| | - Åke Berg
- The Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesThe Swedish Biodiversity CentreUppsalaSweden
| | - Henry Bernard
- Institute for Tropical Biology and ConservationUniversiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMSKota KinabaluMalaysia
| | | | - Dinesh Bhatt
- Department of Zoology & Environmental ScienceGurukula Kangri UniversityHaridwarIndia
| | - Jake E. Bicknell
- Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)School of Anthropology and ConservationUniversity of KentCanterburyUK
- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and DevelopmentGeorgetownGuyana
| | - Jochen H. Bihn
- Department of Ecology‐Animal EcologyFaculty of BiologyPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
| | - Robin J. Blake
- Compliance Services InternationalPentlands Science ParkPenicuik, EdinburghUK
- Centre for Agri‐Environmental ResearchSchool of Agriculture, Policy and DevelopmentUniversity of ReadingReadingUK
| | - Kadiri S. Bobo
- School for the Training of Wildlife Specialists GarouaGarouaCameroon
- Department of ForestryFaculty of Agronomy and Agricultural SciencesUniversity of DschangDschangCameroon
| | - Roberto Bóçon
- Mater Natura – Instituto de Estudos AmbientaisCuritibaBrazil
| | - Teun Boekhout
- CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS‐KNAW)UtrechtThe Netherlands
| | - Katrin Böhning‐Gaese
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F)Frankfurt am MainGermany
- Institute for Ecology, Evolution & DiversityGoethe University FrankfurtBiologicum, Frankfurt am MainGermany
| | - Kevin J. Bonham
- School of Land and FoodUniversity of TasmaniaSandy BayTas.Australia
| | - Paulo A. V. Borges
- Departamento de Ciências AgráriascE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos AçoresAngra do Heroísmo, AçoresPortugal
| | | | - Céline Boutin
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Science & Technology BranchCarleton UniversityOttawaONCanada
| | - Jérémy Bouyer
- Unité Mixte de Recherche Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et EmergentesCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)MontpellierFrance
- Unité Mixte de Recherche 1309 Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et EmergentesInstitut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)MontpellierFrance
| | - Cibele Bragagnolo
- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de BiociênciasUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
| | - Jodi S. Brandt
- Human Environment Systems CenterBoise State UniversityBoiseIDUSA
| | - Francis Q. Brearley
- School of Science and the EnvironmentManchester Metropolitan UniversityManchesterUK
| | | | - Vicenç Bros
- Natural Parks Technical OfficeDiputació de BarcelonaBarcelonaSpain
- Natural History Museum of BarcelonaBarcelona, CataloniaSpain
| | - Jörg Brunet
- Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSouthern Swedish Forest Research CentreAlnarpSweden
| | | | | | - Rob Bugter
- Alterra, part of Wageningen University and ResearchRB WageningenThe Netherlands
| | - Erika Buscardo
- Departamento de Ciências da VidaCentro de Ecologia FuncionalUniversidade de CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
- Departamento de Biologia VegetalInstituto de BiologiaUniversidade Estadual de CampinasCampinasBrazil
- Department of BotanySchool of Natural SciencesTrinity College DublinDublin 2Ireland
| | - Jörn Buse
- Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
| | - Jimmy Cabra‐García
- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de BiociênciasUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
- Departamento de BiologíaGrupo de investigación en BiologíaEcología y Manejo de HormigasSección de EntomologíaUniversidad del ValleCaliColombia
| | - Nilton C. Cáceres
- Department of BiologyFederal University of Santa Maria, CCNESanta MariaBrazil
| | | | - María Calviño‐Cancela
- Department of Ecology and Animal BiologyFaculty of SciencesUniversity of VigoVigoSpain
| | - Sydney A. Cameron
- Department of EntomologyUniversity of IllinoisUrbanaILUSA
- Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation BiologyUniversity of IllinoisUrbanaILUSA
| | | | - Rut Caparrós
- Departamento de BotánicaFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de ValenciaBurjassot, ValenciaSpain
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | - Pedro Cardoso
- Departamento de Ciências AgráriascE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos AçoresAngra do Heroísmo, AçoresPortugal
- Finnish Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
| | - Dan Carpenter
- Parks and CountrysideBracknell Forest CouncilBracknellUK
- Soil Biodiversity GroupLife Sciences DepartmentNatural History MuseumLondonUK
| | | | | | - Camila R. Cassano
- Laboratório de Ecologia Aplicada à ConservaçãoUniversidade Estadual de Santa CruzIlhéusBrazil
| | - Helena Castro
- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
| | | | - Cerda B. Rolando
- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education CenterTurrialbaCosta Rica
| | - Alexis Cerezo
- Department of Quantitative Methods and Information SystemsFaculty of AgronomyUniversity of Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina
| | | | - Matthieu Chauvat
- Normandie UnivEA 1293 ECODIV‐RouenSFR SCALEUFR Sciences et TechniquesMont Saint Aignan CedexFrance
| | | | - Francis M. Clarke
- Institute of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
| | | | - Giorgio Colombo
- Dipartimento di BiologiaUniversità degli Studi di MilanoMilanoItaly
| | - Stuart P. Connop
- Sustainability Research InstituteUniversity of East LondonLondonUK
| | - Michael D. Craig
- Centre of Excellence for Environmental DecisionsSchool of Plant BiologyUniversity of Western AustraliaNedlandsWAAustralia
- School of Veterinary and Life SciencesMurdoch UniversityMurdochWAAustralia
| | - Leopoldo Cruz‐López
- Grupo Ecología de Artrópodos y Manejo de PlagasEl Colegio de la Frontera SurTapachulaMexico
| | | | - Biagio D'Aniello
- Dipartimento di BiologiaUniversità di Napoli Federico IINapoliItaly
| | - Neil D'Cruze
- Wildlife Conservation Research UnitDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of OxfordRecanati‐Kaplan CentreTubneyUK
| | - Pedro Giovâni da Silva
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em EcologiaUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaFlorianópolisBrazil
| | - Martin Dallimer
- Sustainability Research InstituteSchool of Earth and EnvironmentUniversity of LeedsLeedsUK
| | - Emmanuel Danquah
- Wildlife and Range Management DepartmentFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR)College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
| | | | - Jens Dauber
- Thünen Institute of BiodiversityBraunschweigGermany
| | - Adrian L. V. Davis
- Scarab Research GroupDepartment of Zoology & EntomologyUniversity of PretoriaHatfieldSouth Africa
| | - Jeff Dawson
- Durrell Wildlife Conservation TrustTrinityJersey
| | | | | | - Olivier Deheuvels
- CIRADUMR SystemMontpellierFrance
- ICRAFRegional Office for Latin AmericaLimaPeru
| | - Alain Dejean
- UPSINPLaboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et EnvironnementUniversité de ToulouseToulouseFrance
- CNRS – UMR 5245EcolabToulouseFrance
- CNRS – UMR 8172Écologie des Forêts de GuyaneKourou cedexFrance
| | | | - Tim Diekötter
- Department of Landscape EcologyInstitute of Natural Resource ConservationKiel UniversityKielGermany
- Department of Biology, Nature ConservationUniversity MarburgMarburgGermany
- Institute of Integrative BiologyETH ZürichZürichSwitzerland
| | - Jignasu V. Dolia
- Post Graduate Program in Wildlife Biology and ConservationNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangaloreIndia
- Wildlife Conservation Society (India Program)Centre for Wildlife StudiesBangaloreIndia
| | - Erwin Domínguez
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias – INIA – CRI – KampenaikePunta ArenasChile
| | | | - Silvia Dorn
- Applied EntomologyETH ZürichZürichSwitzerland
| | - Isabel Draper
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | - Niels Dreber
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth‐West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa
- Department of Ecosystem ModellingBüsgen‐InstituteGeorg‐August‐University of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
| | | | - Simon G. Dures
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
- Institute of ZoologyZoological Society of London, Regents ParkLondonUK
| | - Mats Dynesius
- Department of Ecology and Environmental ScienceUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
| | - Lars Edenius
- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeaSweden
| | - Paul Eggleton
- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
| | - Felix Eigenbrod
- Centre for Biological SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
| | - Zoltán Elek
- MTA‐ELTE‐MTM Ecology Research GroupHungarian Academy of Sciencesc/o Biological InstituteEötvös Lóránd UniversityBudapestHungary
- Hungarian Natural History MuseumBudapestHungary
| | - Martin H. Entling
- Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity of Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
| | - Karen J. Esler
- Department of Conservation Ecology and EntomologyStellenbosch UniversityMatielandSouth Africa
- Centre for Invasion BiologyStellenbosch UniversityMatielandSouth Africa
| | - Ricardo F. de Lima
- CE3C – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental ChangesFaculdade de CiênciasUniversidade de LisboaLisboaPortugal
- Associação Monte PicoMonte CaféMé ZóchiSão Tomé and Príncipe
| | - Aisyah Faruk
- Kew GardensWakehurstArdingly, Haywards Heath, SussexUK
- Wild AsiaUpper PenthouseWisma RKTKuala LumpurMalaysia
| | - Nina Farwig
- Conservation EcologyFaculty of BiologyPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
| | - Tom M. Fayle
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
- Institute of EntomologyBiology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech RepublicČeské BudějoviceCzech Republic
- Institute for Tropical Biology and ConservationUniversiti Malaysia SabahKota KinabaluMalaysia
| | | | | | - Roderick J. Fensham
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandSt LuciaQldAustralia
- Queensland Herbarium (DSITIA)ToowongQldAustralia
| | | | | | | | - Cristina Fiera
- Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian AcademyBucharestRomania
| | | | | | - David Flaspohler
- School of Forest Resources and Environmental ScienceMichigan Technological UniversityHoughtonMIUSA
| | - Andreas Floren
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | - Steven J. Fonte
- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
- Department of Soil and Crop SciencesColorado State UniversityFort CollinsCOUSA
| | | | | | - Markus Franzén
- Department of Community EcologyUFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchHalleGermany
| | - Lauchlan H. Fraser
- Department of Natural Resource SciencesThompson Rivers UniversityKamloopsBCCanada
| | - Gabriella M. Fredriksson
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)University of AmsterdamGE AmsterdamThe Netherlands
- PanEco/Yayasan Ekosistem LestariSumatran Orangutan Conservation ProgrammeMedanIndonesia
| | - Geraldo B. Freire
- Programa de Pós Graduação em EcologiaUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasília, Distrito FederalBrazil
| | - Tiago L. M. Frizzo
- Programa de Pós Graduação em EcologiaUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasília, Distrito FederalBrazil
| | | | - Dario Furlani
- Dipartimento di BiologiaUniversità degli Studi di MilanoMilanoItaly
| | - René Gaigher
- Department of Conservation Ecology and EntomologyStellenbosch UniversityMatielandSouth Africa
| | | | - Karla P. García
- Departamento de ZoologíaFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y OceanográficasUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
- Departamento de Planificación TerritorialFacultad de Ciencias AmbientalesCentro EULA‐ChileUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
| | | | - Jenni G. Garden
- Seed Consulting ServicesAdelaideSAAustralia
- Environmental Futures Research InstituteGriffith UniversityBrisbaneQldAustralia
- Barbara Hardy InstituteUniversity of South AustraliaMawson LakesSAAustralia
| | - Ricardo Garilleti
- Departamento de BotánicaFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de ValenciaBurjassot, ValenciaSpain
| | - Bao‐Ming Ge
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline SoilsYancheng Teachers UniversityYanchengChina
| | - Benoit Gendreau‐Berthiaume
- Département des sciences biologiquesCentre d’études de la forêt Université du Québec à Montréal Succursale Centre‐villeMontréalQCCanada
| | | | - Carla Gheler‐Costa
- Ecologia Aplicada/Applied EcologyUniversidade Sagrado Coração (USC)BauruBrazil
| | - Benjamin Gilbert
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
| | | | | | | | | | - Rachelle K. Gould
- Rubenstein School of Natural ResourcesUniversity of VermontBurlingtonVTUSA
| | - Dave Goulson
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
| | - Aaron D. Gove
- Astron Environmental ServicesEast PerthWAAustralia
- Department of Environment and AgricultureCurtin UniversityPerthWAAustralia
| | - Laurent Granjon
- Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (CBGP)INRAIRDCIRADSUPAGROMontferrier‐sur‐Lez cedexFrance
| | - Ingo Grass
- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
- Conservation EcologyFaculty of BiologyPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
| | - Claudia L. Gray
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
- Department of ZoologyUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
| | - James Grogan
- Department of Biological SciencesMount Holyoke CollegeSouth HadleyMAUSA
| | - Weibin Gu
- China International Engineering Consulting CorporationHaidian DistrictBeijingChina
| | | | | | - Alvaro G. Gutierrez
- Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales RenovablesFacultad de Ciencias AgronómicasUniversidad de ChileLa PintanaChile
| | | | - Daniela H. Haarmeyer
- Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology of Plants (BEE)Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical GardenUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
| | - Mick E. Hanley
- School of Biological ScienceUniversity of PlymouthPlymouthUK
| | | | - Nor R. Hashim
- International University of Malaya‐Wales, Jalan Tun IsmailKuala LumpurMalaysia
| | - Shombe N. Hassan
- Department of Wildlife ManagementSokoine University of AgricultureMorogoroTanzania
| | | | - Joseph E. Hawes
- Animal & Environment Research GroupDepartment of Life SciencesAnglia Ruskin UniversityCambridgeUK
| | - Matt W. Hayward
- Walter Sisulu UniversityMthatha, TranskeiSouth Africa
- Centre for African Conservation EcologyNelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityPort ElizabethSouth Africa
- College of Natural SciencesBangor UniversityBangor, GwyneddUK
| | - Christian Hébert
- Natural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceLaurentian Forestry CentreQuébecQCCanada
| | - Alvin J. Helden
- Animal & Environment Research GroupDepartment of Life SciencesAnglia Ruskin UniversityCambridgeUK
| | - John‐André Henden
- Department of Arctic and Marine BiologyUniversity of TromsøTromsøNorway
| | | | - Lionel Hernández
- Universidad Nacional Experimental de GuayanaPuerto OrdazVenezuela
| | - James P. Herrera
- Richard Gilder Graduate SchoolAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkNYUSA
| | - Farina Herrmann
- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
| | | | | | - Branko Hilje
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences DepartmentUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
| | - Hubert Höfer
- State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (SMNK)BiosciencesKarlsruheGermany
| | - Anke Hoffmann
- Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity ScienceBerlinGermany
| | - Finbarr G. Horgan
- University of Technology SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
- University of New BrunswickFrederictonNBCanada
| | - Elisabeth Hornung
- Department of EcologyFaculty of Veterinary ScienceSZIE UniversityBudapestHungary
| | - Roland Horváth
- Department of EcologyUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary
| | - Kristoffer Hylander
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant SciencesStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
| | - Paola Isaacs‐Cubides
- Instituto de Investigaciones y Recursos Biológicos Alexander von HumboldtBogotá, Colombia
| | - Hiroaki Ishida
- Institute of Natural and Environmental SciencesUniversity of HyogoHyogoJapan
| | | | - Carmen T. Jacobs
- Scarab Research GroupDepartment of Zoology & EntomologyUniversity of PretoriaHatfieldSouth Africa
| | - Víctor J. Jaramillo
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y SustentabilidadUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMéxico C.P.Mexico
| | - Birgit Jauker
- Department of Animal EcologyJustus‐Liebig‐UniversityGiessenGermany
| | | | | | - Virat Jolli
- Biodiversity and Environmental SustainabilityRohiniIndia
- Department of Environmental StudiesShivaji College (University of Delhi)New DelhiIndia
| | - Mats Jonsell
- Department of EcologySwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
| | - S. Nur Juliani
- School of Biological SciencesUniversiti Sains MalaysiaMindenMalaysia
| | | | | | - Heike Kappes
- Cologne BiocenterZoological InstituteUniversity of CologneKölnGermany
| | - Vassiliki Kati
- Department of Environmental & Natural Resources ManagementUniversity of PatrasAgrinioGreece
| | - Eric Katovai
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) & College of Marine and Environmental SciencesJames Cook UniversityCairnsQldAustralia
- School of Science and TechnologyPacific Adventist UniversityPort MoresbyPapua New Guinea
| | - Klaus Kellner
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth‐West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa
| | - Michael Kessler
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary BotanyUniversity of ZürichZürichSwitzerland
| | - Kathryn R. Kirby
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Geography and PlanningUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
| | | | | | - Eva Knop
- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
| | - Florian Kohler
- Section EnvironnementDéveloppement durable et TerritoireDivision Environnement et TerritoireBundesamt für StatistikNeuchâtelSwitzerland
| | - Matti Koivula
- School of Forest SciencesUniversity of Eastern FinlandJoensuuFinland
| | - Annette Kolb
- Institute of Ecology, FB2University of BremenBremenGermany
| | - Mouhamadou Kone
- Université Peleforo Gon CoulibalyKorhogoIvory Coast
- Station d'Ecologie de LamtoN'DouciIvory Coast
| | - Ádám Kőrösi
- MTA‐ELTE‐MTM Ecology Research GroupHungarian Academy of Sciencesc/o Biological InstituteEötvös Lóránd UniversityBudapestHungary
- Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology GroupDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | - Jochen Krauss
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
| | - Ajith Kumar
- Wildlife Conservation Society‐IndiaNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangaloreIndia
| | | | - David J. Kurz
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
| | - Alex S. Kutt
- School of BioSciencesUniversity of MelbourneMelbourneVic.Australia
| | - Thibault Lachat
- School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFLBern University of Applied SciencesZollikofenSwitzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for ForestSnow and Landscape Research WSLBirmensdorfSwitzerland
| | - Victoria Lantschner
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología AgropecuariaEEA BarilocheBarilocheArgentina
| | - Francisco Lara
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | - Jesse R. Lasky
- Department of BiologyPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkPAUSA
| | | | - William F. Laurance
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability SciencesCollege of Marine and Environmental ScienceJames Cook UniversityCairnsQldAustralia
| | - Patrick Lavelle
- Université Pierre‐et‐Marie‐CurieParisFrance
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental SciencesParisFrance
| | | | - Gretchen LeBuhn
- Department of BiologySan Francisco State UniversitySan FranciscoCAUSA
| | - Jean‐Philippe Légaré
- Laboratoire de diagnostic en phytoprotectionMinistère de l'agriculture, des pêcheries et de l'alimentation du QuébecVille de QuébecQCCanada
| | - Valérie Lehouck
- Research Unit Terrestrial EcologyGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
| | - María V. Lencinas
- Laboratorio de Recursos AgroforestalesCentro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)UshuaiaArgentina
| | - Pia E. Lentini
- School of BiosciencesUniversity of MelbourneParkvilleVic.Australia
| | | | - Qi Li
- Institute of Applied EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShenyangChina
| | - Simon A. Litchwark
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of CanterburyChristchurchNew Zealand
| | | | - Yunhui Liu
- College of Resources and Environmental SciencesChina Agricultural UniversityBeijingChina
| | | | | | - Mounir Louhaichi
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)Amman OfficeAmmanJordan
- Animal and Rangeland Sciences DepartmentOregon State UniversityCorvallisORUSA
| | - Gabor L. Lövei
- Department of AgroecologyFlakkebjerg Research CentreAarhus UniversitySlagelseDenmark
| | - Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja
- Department of Agroforestry Technology and Science and GeneticsSchool of Advanced Agricultural EngineeringCastilla La Mancha UniversityAlbaceteSpain
| | - Victor H. Luja
- Unidad Académica de TurismoCoordinación de Investigación y PosgradoUniversidad Autónoma de NayaritTepicMexico
| | - Matthew S. Luskin
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
| | | | - Kaoru Maeto
- Graduate School of Agricultural ScienceKobe UniversityKobeJapan
| | - Tibor Magura
- Department of EcologyUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary
| | - Neil Aldrin Mallari
- Center for Conservation InnovationSan Jose Tagaytay CityPhilippines
- Biology DepartmentDe La Salle UniversityManilaPhilippines
| | - Louise A. Malone
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research LimitedAucklandNew Zealand
| | | | - Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and ClimateNatural History Museum of DenmarkUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagen ØDenmark
| | - Salvador Mandujano
- Red de Biología y Conservación de VertebradosInstituto de Ecología A.C.XalapaMexico
| | | | | | | | | | - Eliana Martínez
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad UniversitariaBogotáColombia
| | - Guillermo Martínez Pastur
- Laboratorio de Recursos AgroforestalesCentro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)UshuaiaArgentina
| | | | | | - Vicente Mazimpaka
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
| | | | - Kyle P. McCarthy
- Department of Entomology and Wildlife EcologyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDEUSA
| | | | - Sean McNamara
- Centre for Mined Land RehabilitationThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
| | - Nagore G. Medina
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica)Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio GlobalMuseo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)MadridSpain
| | - Rafael Medina
- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
| | - Jose L. Mena
- Museo de Historia Natural “Vera Alleman Haeghebaert”Universidad Ricardo PalmaLima 33Peru
| | - Estefania Mico
- Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO)Universidad de AlicanteAlicanteSpain
| | - Grzegorz Mikusinski
- Department of EcologySwedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Grimsö Wildlife Research StationRiddarhyttanSweden
| | - Jeffrey C. Milder
- Rainforest AllianceNew YorkNYUSA
- Department of Natural ResourcesCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
| | - James R. Miller
- Department of Natural Resources & Environmental SciencesUniversity of IllinoisUrbanaILUSA
| | | | - Melinda L. Moir
- School of BiosciencesUniversity of MelbourneParkvilleVic.Australia
- School of Plant BiologyUniversity of Western AustraliaCrawleyWAAustralia
| | - Carolina L. Morales
- Lab. EcotonoINIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue‐CONICET)BarilocheArgentina
| | | | - Muchai Muchane
- Department of Wildlife ManagementUniversity of EldoretEldoretKenya
| | - Sonja Mudri‐Stojnic
- Department of Biology and EcologyFaculty of SciencesUniversity of Novi SadNovi SadSerbia
| | - A. Nur Munira
- School of Biological SciencesUniversiti Sains MalaysiaPenangMalaysia
| | - Antonio Muoñz‐Alonso
- El Colegio de la Frontera SurEcología Evolutiva y ConservaciónSan Cristóbal de las CasasMexico
| | | | | | - A. Naithani
- Independent Research ScholarNew DelhiIndia
- Avian Diversity and Bioacoustic LabDepartment of ZoologyGurukula Kangri UniversityHaridwarIndia
| | - Michiko Nakagawa
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural SciencesNagoya UniversityNagoyaJapan
| | - Akihiro Nakamura
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest EcologyXishuangbanna Tropical Botanical GardenChinese Academy of SciencesMenglunChina
- Environmental Futures Research Institute, and Griffith School of EnvironmentGriffith UniversityNathanBrisbaneQldAustralia
| | | | - Shoji Naoe
- Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTsukubaJapan
| | - Guiomar Nates‐Parra
- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas (Departamento de Biología)Universidad Nacional de ColombiaBogotáColombia
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- BirdLife International – Africa Partnership SecretariatNairobiKenya
- Ornithology SectionNational Museums of KenyaNairobiKenya
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F)Frankfurt am MainGermany
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, BiodiversitéISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHEMuséum national d'Histoire naturelleSorbonne UniversitésParisFrance
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- Department of BiosciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
- Department of Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- School of BiologyThe University of NottinghamUniversity ParkNottinghamUK
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- Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática – LAZOEAUniversidad de Los AndesBogotáColombia
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- School of ForestryUniversity of CanterburyChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation BiologyUniversity of California, DavisDavisCAUSA
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- IUCN‐Centre for Mediterranean CooperationCampanillas, MálagaSpain
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- Oxford University Centre for the EnvironmentUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Natural Resources and the EnvironmentCSIRStellenboschSouth Africa
- Plant Conservation UnitBiological SciencesUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschSouth Africa
| | - William Oduro
- Wildlife and Range Management DepartmentFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR)College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
- International Programme Office (IPO)Vice Chancellor's OfficeKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)KumasiGhana
| | - Sabine Oertli
- Naturschutz – Planung und BeratungWiesendangenSwitzerland
| | - Caleb Ofori‐Boateng
- Department of Wildlife and Range ManagementKwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyKumasiGhana
- Forestry Research Institute of GhanaKumasiGhana
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del PaisajeFacultad de Ciencias ForestalesUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
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- Laboratorio EcotonoCONICET–INIBIOMAUniversidad Nacional del ComahueBarilocheArgentina
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en AbejasLABUNUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaBogotá D.C.Colombia
| | - Luke Parry
- Lancaster Environment CentreLancaster UniversityLancasterUK
- Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazonicos (NAEA)BelémBrazil
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- Department of Community EcologyUFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchHalleGermany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigGermany
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- Department of Plant Biology and EcologyFaculty of Science and TechnologyUniversity of the Basque CountryLeioaSpain
- IKERBASQUE. Basque Foundation for ScienceBilbaoSpain
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA, CONICET‐UNC) and Centro de Zoología AplicadaFCEFyNUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaCórdobaArgentina
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- IRDUMR AMAPTA A51/PS2Montpellier cedex 05France
- French Institute of PondicherryUMIFRE 21 CNRS‐MAEEPuducherryIndia
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- School of Environmental SciencesUniversity of East AngliaNorwichUK
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- National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA)Río GallegosArgentina
- National University of Southern Patagonia (UNPA)Río GallegosArgentina
- National Commission of Scientist Research and Technology (CONICET)Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Biogeography & EcologyDepartment of GeographyUniversity of the AegeanMytileneGreece
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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- Conservation Science GroupDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
| | - T. Keith Philips
- Systematics and Evolution LaboratoryDepartment of BiologyWestern Kentucky UniversityBowling GreenKYUSA
| | - Finn C. Pillsbury
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and ManagementIowa State UniversityAmesIAUSA
| | - Jimmy Pincheira‐Ulbrich
- Departamento de ZoologíaFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y OceanográficasUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
- Facultad de Recursos NaturalesEscuela de Ciencias AmbientalesLaboratorio de Planificación TerritorialUniversidad Católica de TemucoTemucoChile
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- Biología y Conservación de VertebradosInstituto de Ecología A.C.El Haya, XalapaMexico
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- CREAFCerdanyola del Vallès, CataloniaSpain
- Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
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- Laboratorio de Entomología EcológicaDepartamento de BiologíaFacultad de CienciasUniversidad de La SerenaLa SerenaChile
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- Albertine Rift ProgramWildlife Conservation SocietyKampalaUganda
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- IFEVA/Cátedra de Producción VegetalDepartamento de Producción VegetalFacultad de AgronomíaUniversidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET.Buenos AiresArgentina
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- Directora del Programa Conservación de Biodiversidad en Bosques SubtropicalesCátedra de Desarrollo Sustentable y BiodiversidadFacultad de Ciencias AgrariasUniversidad Nacional de JujuyCIT‐Jujuy CONICET, Fundaciòn CEBioSan Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
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- Departament de Ciències AmbientalsUniversitat de GironaGironaSpain
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- BotanySchool of Natural SciencesTrinity College DublinDublin 2Ireland
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- Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
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- MARETEC, Instituto Superior TécnicoUniversidade de LisboaLisbonPortugal
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- CREA‐ABP, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria, Centro di ricerca per l'agrobiologia e la pedologiaFirenzeItaly
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- Laboratorio EcotonoCONICET–INIBIOMAUniversidad Nacional del ComahueBarilocheArgentina
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- Ecosystem Management, School of Environment and Rural ScienceUniversity of New EnglandArmidaleNSWAustralia
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- French Institute of PondicherryUMIFRE 21 CNRS‐MAEEPuducherryIndia
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- National Center for Ecological Analysis and SynthesisUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCAUSA
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable DevelopmentMissouri Botanical GardenSaint LouisMOUSA
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- Departamento de BiologiaUniversidade Federal de SergipeSão Cristóvão/SeBrazil
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- Entomology Colletion, Systematics and Biogeography LaboratorySchool of BiologyIndustrial University of SantanderBucaramangaColombia
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- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African OrnithologyDST/NRF Centre of ExcellenceUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschCape TownSouth Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental SciencesUniversity of the WitwatersrandWitsSouth Africa
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da SaúdeUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulCampo GrandeBrazil
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- EdinburghUK
- Luquillo LTER, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, College of Natural SciencesUniversity of Puerto Rico at Rio PiedrasSan JuanPRUSA
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- EdinburghUK
- Luquillo LTER, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, College of Natural SciencesUniversity of Puerto Rico at Rio PiedrasSan JuanPRUSA
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- Escuela Nacional de Estudios SuperioresUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMexico
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- Science and Conservation DivisionDepartment of Parks and WildlifeManjimupWAAustralia
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- PROPLAME‐PRHIDEB‐CONICETDepartamento de Biodiversidad y Biología ExperimentalFacultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria(CP1428EHA) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos AiresArgentina
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- ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbHFlörsheim am MainGermany
- LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK‐FFrankfurt/MainGermany
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- Facultad de Ciencias AmbientalesUniversidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.ABogotáColombia
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- Catedras CONACYTCIIDIR, Unidad Oaxaca, IPNSanta Cruz Xoxocotlán, Mexico
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- Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A.BogotáColombia
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- School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of LondonLondonUK
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- School of Natural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Environmental SciencesUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesvilleVAUSA
- Blandy Experimental FarmBoyceVAUSA
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- Département des sciences biologiques (SB)Universitédu Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)MontréalQCCanada
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of BirminghamBirminghamUK
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- Institute of Silviculture and Forest ProtectionUniversity of West HungarySopronHungary
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- Red de Ecología FuncionalInstituto de Ecología A.C. Carretera antigua a CoatepecEl Haya, XalapaMexico
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- Environmental Futures Research InstituteGriffith UniversityBrisbaneQldAustralia
- Biology Centre CASInstitute of EntomologyCeske BudejoviceCzech Republic
- Faculty of ScienceUniversity of South BohemiaCeske BudejoviceCzech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant SciencesStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
- Department of Biology/BiodiversityLund UniversityLundSweden
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- CIBIO/InBioCentro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoVairãoPortugal
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- CIBIO/InBioCentro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoVairãoPortugal
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterCR LeidenThe Netherlands
- Institute for Tropical Biology and ConservationUniversiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMSKota KinabaluMalaysia
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- Biocentre Klein Flottbek & Botanical GardenUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
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- Center for Development Research (ZEF)University of BonnBonnGermany
- Chair for Landscape ManagementUniversity of FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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- AgResearch LimitedLincoln Research CentreChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Institute for Ecology, Evolution and DiversityGoethe University FrankfurtFrankfurt am MainGermany
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- Department of Community EcologyUFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchHalleGermany
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- Biology and Biomedical Sciences DivisionUniversity of BrightonBrightonUK
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- School of Natural Resources and ExtensionUniversity of Alaska FairbanksFairbanksAKUSA
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- College of Natural SciencesBangor UniversityBangor, GwyneddUK
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of KwaZulu‐NatalDurbanSouth Africa
| | - Douglas Sheil
- Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA)Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)ÅsNorway
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
- Baton RougeLAUSA
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- Department of Life SciencesBen‐Gurion University of the NegevBe'er ShevaIsrael
- The Yerucham Center of Ornithology and EcologyYeruchamIsrael
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth‐West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa
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- Organic Research CentreElm FarmNewburyUK
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- United States Department of AgricultureSouth San FranciscoCAUSA
- Universidad Nacional de ColombiaSede MedellinMedellinColombia
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- Department of Biological SciencesNational University of SingaporeSingaporeSingapore
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- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education CenterTurrialbaCosta Rica
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- Ecología de Comunidades Ãridas y Semiaridas (EComAS)Departamento de RecursosFacultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesUNLPam.Santa rosaLa PampaUruguay
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- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education CenterTurrialbaCosta Rica
- Gobierno Autónomo Departamental Santa CruzSanta Cruz de la SierraBolivia
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- Université du Québec à RimouskiCentre for Northern Research, Centre for Forest StudiesRimouskiQCCanada
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- CREAFCerdanyola del Vallès, CataloniaSpain
- Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
- Museu de Ciències Naturals de GranollersGranollersBarcelonaSpain
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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- School of Renewable Natural ResourcesLouisiana State University Agricultural CenterBaton RougeLAUSA
- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments ProjectInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManausBrazil
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- BotanySchool of Natural SciencesTrinity College DublinDublin 2Ireland
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental ManagementUniversity of HawaiiManoaHonoluluHIUSA
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- Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)School of Anthropology and ConservationUniversity of KentCanterburyUK
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and EvolutionInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang DistrictBeijingChina
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional EcologyResearch Center for Eco‐Environmental SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesHaidian DistrictBeijingChina
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- Institute of ZoologyUniversity of Natural Resources and Life SciencesViennaAustria
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- Graduate School of Agricultural ScienceKobe UniversityKobeJapan
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- Department of BiologyHong Kong Baptist UniversityKowloon Tong, Hong Kong SARChina
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- Zoological DivisionResearch Center For BiologyThe Indonesian Institute of SciencesCibinongBogorIndonesia
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- Section for Ecoinformatics & BiodiversityDepartment of BioscienceAarhus UniversityAarhus CDenmark
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth SciencesUniversity of TartuTartuEstonia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, Faculty of ScienceThe University of MelbourneRichmondVic.Australia
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth SciencesUniversity of TartuTartuEstonia
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research LimitedAucklandNew Zealand
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- Museu de Ciències Naturals de GranollersGranollersBarcelonaSpain
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- MTA‐DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research GroupDebrecenHungary
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- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
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- Insect Ecology GroupDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological SciencesUniversity of CanterburyChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Department of Ecology and TerritorySchool of Environmental and Rural StudiesPontificia Universidad JaverianaBogotaColombia
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- Naturhistorisches Museum BaselLeiter BiowissenschaftenBaselSwitzerland
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem ResearchBulgarian Academy of ScienceSofiaBulgaria
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- Division Forest, Nature, and LandscapeDepartment of Earth & Environmental SciencesKU LeuvenLeuvenBelgium
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- Museu Nacional de História Natural e da CiênciaBorboletário – Depart. ZoologiaLisboaPortugal
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- Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO)Universidad de AlicanteAlicanteSpain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Químico‐BiológicasUniversidad de las Américas PueblaCholulaMexico
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- Departamento de Gestión AgrariaUniversidad de Santiago de ChileSantiagoChile
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- Vietnam National Museum of NatureVietnam Academy of Science and TechnologyCau GiayHanoiVietnam
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- School of BiologyThe University of NottinghamUniversity ParkNottinghamUK
- School for Resource and Environmental StudiesFaculty of ManagementDalhousie UniversityHalifaxNSCanada
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- Key Laboratory of Protection and Development Utilization of Tropical Crop Germplasm Resource, Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture and Landscape AgricultureHainan UniversityHaikouChina
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- College of Life SciencesZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of BiologyJohn Carroll UniversityUniversity HeightsOHUSA
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- Biocentre GrindelUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
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- The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental SciencesThe University of AdelaideAdelaideSAAustralia
- Environmental Futures Research InstituteGriffith UniversityBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- AgroecologyDepartment of Crop SciencesGeorg‐August UniversityGöttingenGermany
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- Department of Environmental and Natural ResourcesPresbyterian University CollegeAkropong AkuapemGhana
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- Center for Environmental Sciences & EngineeringUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCTUSA
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)University of AmsterdamGE AmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Animal EcologyJustus‐Liebig‐UniversityGiessenGermany
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- NERC Centre for Ecology & HydrologyCrowmarsh GiffordWallingfordUK
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- Institute of Biodiversity Science, School of Life SciencesFudan UniversityShanghaiChina
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- International Institute of Tropical ForestryUSDA Forest Service, Sabana Field Research StationLuquilloPRUSA
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTsukubaJapan
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of East AngliaNorwich Research ParkNorwichUK
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesKunmingChina
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- Department of Animal EcologyJustus‐Liebig‐UniversityGiessenGermany
- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and EvolutionMoscowRussia
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- Integrated Environmental Consultants Namibia (IECN)WindhoekNamibia
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- Guangdong Entomological Institute/South China Institute of Endangered AnimalsGuangzhouChina
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and EnvironmentResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and EnvironmentResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Computational Ecology and Environmental ScienceMicrosoft ResearchCambridgeUK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreCambridgeUK
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of SussexBrightonUK
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science 2016; 353:288-91. [PMID: 27418509 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary ("safe limit"). We estimate that land use and related pressures have already reduced local biodiversity intactness--the average proportion of natural biodiversity remaining in local ecosystems--beyond its recently proposed planetary boundary across 58.1% of the world's land surface, where 71.4% of the human population live. Biodiversity intactness within most biomes (especially grassland biomes), most biodiversity hotspots, and even some wilderness areas is inferred to be beyond the boundary. Such widespread transgression of safe limits suggests that biodiversity loss, if unchecked, will undermine efforts toward long-term sustainable development.
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- Tim Newbold
- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Land and Water Flagship, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Land and Water Flagship, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. Luc Hoffmann Institute, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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Contu S, Hughes CML, Masia L. The Role of Visual and Haptic Feedback During Dynamically Coupled Bimanual Manipulation. IEEE Trans Haptics 2016; 9:536-547. [PMID: 27655023 DOI: 10.1109/toh.2016.2609909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The mechanisms that underlie the control of bimanual actions in which the two hands act separately to manipulate different objects (uncoupled independent control) has been well studied. In contrast, much less is known about how the central nervous system controls bimanual actions that require the two hands act cooperatively to manipulate a single object (dynamically coupled control). Furthermore, there is scant research into the manual lateralization and role assignment in the processing of visual and haptic feedback during dynamically coupled bimanual tasks. In this experiment, we examined the role of the dominant and non-dominant hands during a dynamically coupled bimanual task in which visual and haptic feedback regarding object penetration were manipulated. Twelve subjects performed a bimanual grasp and reach task towards different target locations in the workspace by using two identical wrist robotic devices. Results showed haptic feedback is necessary for task completion, and that hand specialization plays a fundamental role in spatial and temporal coordination between the two limbs.
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Contu S, Cappello L, Konczak J, Masia L. Preliminary analysis of non-dominant proprioceptive acuity and interlimb asymmetry in the human wrist. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2016; 2015:3598-601. [PMID: 26737071 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Proprioception provides information about limb configuration which are essential for planning and controlling its posture and movement. Asymmetries in the way dominant and non-dominant limbs exploit proprioceptive information have been previously evaluated, with contradictory results due to the difference in the employed methodology. A measure of proprioceptive acuity that does not reflect the influence of one limb on the other consists in the evaluation of the psychophysical threshold. This metric, evaluated separately for each limb and involving only passive movements, reflects a reliable measure of proprioceptive acuity. The aim of this work is to first evaluate the proprioceptive acuity of the non-dominant wrist joint in flexion/extension and adduction/abduction and to compare these results to the acuity of the dominant wrist. Data were collected during a unidirectional 2-alternative-forcedchoice test performed by six right-handed subjects. We found acuity of 1.31°, 1.26°, 1.33° and 1.63° respectively for abduction, adduction, extension and flexion of the non-dominant wrist. Acuity of the dominant wrist was assessed for five of the subjects for abduction and flexion and resulted lower (mean values were respectively 1.64° and 2.14°). The preliminary results suggest a leading role of the non-dominant wrist in the processing of the proprioceptive feedback.
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Echeverría-Londoño S, Newbold T, Hudson LN, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Boekhout T, Cabra-García J, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Nates-Parra G, Gutiérrez-Lamus DL, Higuera D, Isaacs-Cubides PJ, López-Quintero CA, Martinez E, Miranda-Esquivel DR, Navarro-Iriarte LE, Noriega JA, Otavo SE, Parra-H A, Poveda K, Ramirez-Pinilla MP, Rey-Velasco JC, Rosselli L, Smith-Pardo AH, Urbina-Cardona JN, Purvis A. Modelling and projecting the response of local assemblage composition to land use change across Colombia. DIVERS DISTRIB 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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- Susy Echeverría-Londoño
- Department of Life Science; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK
- Department of Life Science; Imperial College London; Buckhurst Road Ascot SL5 7QN UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre; 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3 0DL UK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment; Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research; University College London; Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK
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- Department of Life Science; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK
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- Department of Life Science; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK
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- Department of Life Science; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK
- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre; 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3 0DL UK
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- Department of Life Science; Imperial College London; Buckhurst Road Ascot SL5 7QN UK
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- Colección de Tejidos; Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt; Km 17 carretera Cali-Palmira (CIAT) Valle del Cauca Colombia
- Grupo de Estudios en Biodiversidad, Escuela de Biología; Universidad Industrial de Santander; Bucaramanga Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología; Universidad del Valle; Apartado Aéreo 25360 Cali Colombia
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- CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS-KNAW); Uppsalalaan 8 3584 CT Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo SP 05508-090 Brazil
- Grupo de Investigación en Biología, Ecología y Manejo de Hormigas; Sección de Entomología; Departamento de Biología; Universidad del Valle; A.A. 25360 Cali Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Carrera 6 No. 76-103 Montería Colombia
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- Grupo de fauna Amazónica; Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi; Leticia Colombia
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- Corporación Sentido Natural; Carrera 70H No. 122 a-98, Apartamento 101 Bogotá D.C Colombia
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- Laboratorio TEHO; Instituto de Biología; Universidad de Antioquia; P.O. Box 1226, Calle 67 N 53-108 Medellín Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología; Universidad Nacional de Colombia; A.A 7945 Bogotá D.C Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biogeografía, Colección de Entomología, Escuela de Biología; Universidad Industrial de Santander; Bucaramanga Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática (LAZOEA); Universidad de Los Andes; Bogotá D.C Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje; Facultad de Ciencias Forestales; Universidad de Concepción; Concepción Chile
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- Corporación para la Gestión de Servicios Ecosistémicos; Polinización y Abejas - SEPyA; Bogotá D.C Colombia
- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas LABUN; Departamento de Biología; Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Carrera 45 No. 26-85 Bogotá D.C Colombia
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- Department of Entomology; Cornell University; 4126 Comstock Hall Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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- Colección Herpetológica y Laboratorio de Biología Reproductiva de Vertebrados; Grupo de Estudios en Biodiversidad, Escuela de Biología; Universidad Industrial de Santander; Bucaramanga Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biogeografía, Colección de Entomología, Escuela de Biología; Universidad Industrial de Santander; Bucaramanga Colombia
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt; Calle 28 A N 15 - 09 Bogotá DC Colombia
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- Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales; Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales; Bogotá D.C Colombia
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- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); San Francisco CF USA
- Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Sede Medellin (UNALMED); Medellín Colombia
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- Department of Life Science; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK
- Department of Life Science; Imperial College London; Buckhurst Road Ascot SL5 7QN UK
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Gray CL, Hill SLL, Newbold T, Hudson LN, Börger L, Contu S, Hoskins AJ, Ferrier S, Purvis A, Scharlemann JPW. Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12306. [PMID: 27465407 PMCID: PMC4974472 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Protected areas are widely considered essential for biodiversity conservation. However, few global studies have demonstrated that protection benefits a broad range of species. Here, using a new global biodiversity database with unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage, we compare four biodiversity measures at sites sampled in multiple land uses inside and outside protected areas. Globally, species richness is 10.6% higher and abundance 14.5% higher in samples taken inside protected areas compared with samples taken outside, but neither rarefaction-based richness nor endemicity differ significantly. Importantly, we show that the positive effects of protection are mostly attributable to differences in land use between protected and unprotected sites. Nonetheless, even within some human-dominated land uses, species richness and abundance are higher in protected sites. Our results reinforce the global importance of protected areas but suggest that protection does not consistently benefit species with small ranges or increase the variety of ecological niches. Protected areas are thought essential for biodiversity conservation, but few studies confirm that protection benefits species. Here, Gray and Hill et al. analyse a global, taxonomically broad database to show that local species richness and abundance are higher inside protected areas than outside.
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- Claudia L Gray
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK.,Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.,Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.,United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science 2016. [PMID: 27418509 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201/suppl_file/newbold-sm.pdf] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary ("safe limit"). We estimate that land use and related pressures have already reduced local biodiversity intactness--the average proportion of natural biodiversity remaining in local ecosystems--beyond its recently proposed planetary boundary across 58.1% of the world's land surface, where 71.4% of the human population live. Biodiversity intactness within most biomes (especially grassland biomes), most biodiversity hotspots, and even some wilderness areas is inferred to be beyond the boundary. Such widespread transgression of safe limits suggests that biodiversity loss, if unchecked, will undermine efforts toward long-term sustainable development.
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- Tim Newbold
- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Land and Water Flagship, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Land and Water Flagship, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. Luc Hoffmann Institute, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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El-Khoury S, Batzianoulis I, Antuvan CW, Contu S, Masia L, Micera S, Billard A. EMG-based learning approach for estimating wrist motion. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2016; 2015:6732-5. [PMID: 26737838 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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This paper proposes an EMG based learning approach for estimating the displacement along the 2-axes (abduction/adduction and flexion/extension) of the human wrist in real-time. The algorithm extracts features from the EMG electrodes on the upper and forearm and uses Support Vector Regression to estimate the intended displacement of the wrist. Using data recorded with the arm outstretched in various locations in space, we train the algorithm so as to allow robust prediction even when the subject moves his/her arm across several positions in space. The proposed approach was tested on five healthy subjects and showed that a R(2) index of 63.6% is obtained for generalization across different arm positions and wrist joint angles.
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Brummitt NA, Bachman SP, Griffiths-Lee J, Lutz M, Moat JF, Farjon A, Donaldson JS, Hilton-Taylor C, Meagher TR, Albuquerque S, Aletrari E, Andrews AK, Atchison G, Baloch E, Barlozzini B, Brunazzi A, Carretero J, Celesti M, Chadburn H, Cianfoni E, Cockel C, Coldwell V, Concetti B, Contu S, Crook V, Dyson P, Gardiner L, Ghanim N, Greene H, Groom A, Harker R, Hopkins D, Khela S, Lakeman-Fraser P, Lindon H, Lockwood H, Loftus C, Lombrici D, Lopez-Poveda L, Lyon J, Malcolm-Tompkins P, McGregor K, Moreno L, Murray L, Nazar K, Power E, Quiton Tuijtelaars M, Salter R, Segrott R, Thacker H, Thomas LJ, Tingvoll S, Watkinson G, Wojtaszekova K, Nic Lughadha EM. Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135152. [PMID: 26252495 PMCID: PMC4529080 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Plants provide fundamental support systems for life on Earth and are the basis for all terrestrial ecosystems; a decline in plant diversity will be detrimental to all other groups of organisms including humans. Decline in plant diversity has been hard to quantify, due to the huge numbers of known and yet to be discovered species and the lack of an adequate baseline assessment of extinction risk against which to track changes. The biodiversity of many remote parts of the world remains poorly known, and the rate of new assessments of extinction risk for individual plant species approximates the rate at which new plant species are described. Thus the question 'How threatened are plants?' is still very difficult to answer accurately. While completing assessments for each species of plant remains a distant prospect, by assessing a randomly selected sample of species the Sampled Red List Index for Plants gives, for the first time, an accurate view of how threatened plants are across the world. It represents the first key phase of ongoing efforts to monitor the status of the world's plants. More than 20% of plant species assessed are threatened with extinction, and the habitat with the most threatened species is overwhelmingly tropical rain forest, where the greatest threat to plants is anthropogenic habitat conversion, for arable and livestock agriculture, and harvesting of natural resources. Gymnosperms (e.g. conifers and cycads) are the most threatened group, while a third of plant species included in this study have yet to receive an assessment or are so poorly known that we cannot yet ascertain whether they are threatened or not. This study provides a baseline assessment from which trends in the status of plant biodiversity can be measured and periodically reassessed.
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- Neil A. Brummitt
- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
- School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
- School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, KRC, Private Bag X7, Claremont, South Africa
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- School of Biology, Dyers Brae, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
- King's College London, Strand, London, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Cappello L, Contu S, Konczak J, Masia L. Wrist proprioceptive acuity: A comprehensive robot-aided assessment. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2015; 2015:3594-3597. [PMID: 26737070 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Proprioception is the sense of the body awareness. Proprioceptive deficits represent frequent consequences of several neurological conditions like stroke, Parkinson's disease and others. The assessment of such somatosensory function is crucial, although the available clinical tests are not sensitive enough. The human wrist is a crucial joint for many activities of daily living and to address the lack of its characterization in terms of proprioceptive acuity the authors in previous studies proposed a novel method that combined the use of a 3-DoF robot and a threshold haunting paradigm. Further experiments were performed to characterize the proprioceptive acuity of the dominant wrist for adduction, extension, pronation and supination by using a 2-alternative-forced-choice test. The acuity thresholds obtained from six subjects (mean values ± standard deviation of 1.65±0.39 for extension, 1.13±0.34 for adduction, 1.90±0.58 for pronation and 1.70±0.30 for supination) were finally combined with the ones harvested in the previous studies for flexion and abduction in order to build the first comprehensive database of human wrist proprioceptive acuity.
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Newbold T, Hudson LN, Phillips HRP, Hill SLL, Contu S, Lysenko I, Blandon A, Butchart SHM, Booth HL, Day J, De Palma A, Harrison MLK, Kirkpatrick L, Pynegar E, Robinson A, Simpson J, Mace GM, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures. Proc Biol Sci 2015; 281:rspb.2014.1371. [PMID: 25143038 PMCID: PMC4150326 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Habitat loss and degradation, driven largely by agricultural expansion and intensification, present the greatest immediate threat to biodiversity. Tropical forests harbour among the highest levels of terrestrial species diversity and are likely to experience rapid land-use change in the coming decades. Synthetic analyses of observed responses of species are useful for quantifying how land use affects biodiversity and for predicting outcomes under land-use scenarios. Previous applications of this approach have typically focused on individual taxonomic groups, analysing the average response of the whole community to changes in land use. Here, we incorporate quantitative remotely sensed data about habitats in, to our knowledge, the first worldwide synthetic analysis of how individual species in four major taxonomic groups—invertebrates, ‘herptiles’ (reptiles and amphibians), mammals and birds—respond to multiple human pressures in tropical and sub-tropical forests. We show significant independent impacts of land use, human vegetation offtake, forest cover and human population density on both occurrence and abundance of species, highlighting the value of analysing multiple explanatory variables simultaneously. Responses differ among the four groups considered, and—within birds and mammals—between habitat specialists and habitat generalists and between narrow-ranged and wide-ranged species.
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- Tim Newbold
- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, 21 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2FB, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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Newbold T, Hudson LN, Hill SLL, Contu S, Lysenko I, Senior RA, Börger L, Bennett DJ, Choimes A, Collen B, Day J, De Palma A, Díaz S, Echeverria-Londoño S, Edgar MJ, Feldman A, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Alhusseini T, Ingram DJ, Itescu Y, Kattge J, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Kleyer M, Correia DLP, Martin CD, Meiri S, Novosolov M, Pan Y, Phillips HRP, Purves DW, Robinson A, Simpson J, Tuck SL, Weiher E, White HJ, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature 2015; 520:45-50. [PMID: 25832402 DOI: 10.1038/nature14324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1256] [Impact Index Per Article: 139.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear--a concern given their importance for many ecosystem functions and services. We analysed a terrestrial assemblage database of unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage to quantify local biodiversity responses to land use and related changes. Here we show that in the worst-affected habitats, these pressures reduce within-sample species richness by an average of 76.5%, total abundance by 39.5% and rarefaction-based richness by 40.3%. We estimate that, globally, these pressures have already slightly reduced average within-sample richness (by 13.6%), total abundance (10.7%) and rarefaction-based richness (8.1%), with changes showing marked spatial variation. Rapid further losses are predicted under a business-as-usual land-use scenario; within-sample richness is projected to fall by a further 3.4% globally by 2100, with losses concentrated in biodiverse but economically poor countries. Strong mitigation can deliver much more positive biodiversity changes (up to a 1.9% average increase) that are less strongly related to countries' socioeconomic status.
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- Tim Newbold
- 1] United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. [2] Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, 21 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2FB, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- 1] United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. [2] Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- 1] Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. [2] Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- 1] Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. [2] Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Deptartment of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Deptartment of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- 1] Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans Knöll Straße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany. [2] German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Deptartment of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Deptartment of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- 1] Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. [2] Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, 21 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2FB, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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- Biology Department, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- 1] United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK. [2] School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- 1] Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. [2] Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, London SL5 7PY, UK
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Cappello L, Elangovan N, Contu S, Khosravani S, Konczak J, Masia L. Robot-aided assessment of wrist proprioception. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:198. [PMID: 25926785 PMCID: PMC4396514 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Impaired proprioception severely affects the control of gross and fine motor function. However, clinical assessment of proprioceptive deficits and its impact on motor function has been difficult to elucidate. Recent advances in haptic robotic interfaces designed for sensorimotor rehabilitation enabled the use of such devices for the assessment of proprioceptive function. PURPOSE This study evaluated the feasibility of a wrist robot system to determine proprioceptive discrimination thresholds for two different DoFs of the wrist. Specifically, we sought to accomplish three aims: first, to establish data validity; second, to show that the system is sensitive to detect small differences in acuity; third, to establish test-retest reliability over repeated testing. METHODOLOGY Eleven healthy adult subjects experienced two passive wrist movements and had to verbally indicate which movement had the larger amplitude. Based on a subject's response data, a psychometric function was fitted and the wrist acuity threshold was established at the 75% correct response level. A subset of five subjects repeated the experimentation three times (T1, T2, and T3) to determine the test-retest reliability. RESULTS Mean threshold for wrist flexion was 2.15°± 0.43° and 1.52°± 0.36° for abduction. Encoder resolutions were 0.0075°(flexion-extension) and 0.0032°(abduction-adduction). Motor resolutions were 0.2°(flexion-extension) and 0.3°(abduction-adduction). Reliability coefficients were r T2-T1 = 0.986 and r T3-T2 = 0.971. CONCLUSION We currently lack established norm data on the proprioceptive acuity of the wrist to establish direct validity. However, the magnitude of our reported thresholds is physiological, plausible, and well in line with available threshold data obtained at the elbow joint. Moreover, system has high resolution and is sensitive enough to detect small differences in acuity. Finally, the system produces reliable data over repeated testing.
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- Leonardo Cappello
- Department of Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Genova , Italy
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- School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN , USA
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University , Singapore , Singapore
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- School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN , USA
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- School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN , USA
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University , Singapore , Singapore
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Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Senior RA, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, White HJ, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Ancrenaz M, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Báldi A, Banks JE, Barlow J, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Bayne EM, Beja P, Berg Å, Berry NJ, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Böhning-Gaese K, Boekhout T, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buscardo E, Cabra-García J, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Cerda R, Cerezo A, Chauvat M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Connop SP, D'Aniello B, da Silva PG, Darvill B, Dauber J, Dejean A, Diekötter T, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dormann CF, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Elek Z, Entling MH, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Ficetola GF, Filgueiras BKC, Fonte SJ, Fraser LH, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Ganzhorn JU, Garden JG, Gheler-Costa C, Giordani P, Giordano S, Gottschalk MS, Goulson D, Gove AD, Grogan J, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hawes JE, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden JA, Hernández L, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Horgan FG, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Jonsell M, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kati V, Katovai E, Kessler M, Knop E, Kolb A, Kőrösi Á, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré JP, Letcher SG, Littlewood NA, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Marin-Spiotta E, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Mayfield MM, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Naidoo R, Nakamura A, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Neuschulz EL, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Nöske NM, O'Dea N, Oduro W, Ofori-Boateng C, Oke CO, Osgathorpe LM, Paritsis J, Parra-H A, Pelegrin N, Peres CA, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Phalan B, Philips TK, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Redpath-Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Ribeiro DB, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero-Duque LP, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña-Vázquez RA, Samnegård U, Schüepp C, Schweiger O, Sedlock JL, Shahabuddin G, Sheil D, Silva FAB, Slade EM, Smith-Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Stout JC, Struebig MJ, Sung YH, Threlfall CG, Tonietto R, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Vanbergen AJ, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Walker TR, Wang Y, Watling JI, Wells K, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Woodcock BA, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A. The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. Ecol Evol 2014; 4:4701-35. [PMID: 25558364 PMCID: PMC4278822 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Revised: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodiversity indicators, is necessary to enable better understanding of historical declines and to project – and avert – future declines. We describe and assess a new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database contains measurements taken in 208 (of 814) ecoregions, 13 (of 14) biomes, 25 (of 35) biodiversity hotspots and 16 (of 17) megadiverse countries. The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups – including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. The dataset, which is still being added to, is therefore already considerably larger and more representative than those used by previous quantitative models of biodiversity trends and responses. The database is being assembled as part of the PREDICTS project (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems – http://www.predicts.org.uk). We make site-level summary data available alongside this article. The full database will be publicly available in 2015.
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- Lawrence N Hudson
- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, U.K ; Computational Ecology and Environmental Science, Microsoft Research 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB, U.K
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K ; United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, U.K
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- Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K ; Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K ; Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, U.K
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- Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, U.K ; Frankfurt Zoological Society, Africa Regional Office PO Box 14935, Arusha, Tanzania
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K ; Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K
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- Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K ; Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QG, U.K
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- Center for Macroecology, Climate and Evolution, the Natural History Museum of Denmark Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- School of Biological and Ecological Sciences, University of Stirling Bridge of Allan, Stirling, FK9 4LA, U.K
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- Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, U.K
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, U.K
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- School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, U.K
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Nees Institute for Plant Biodiversity, University of Bonn Meckenheimer Allee 170, 53113, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Wildlife and Range Management, FRNR, CANR, KNUST Kumasi, Ghana ; SAVE THE FROGS! Ghana Box KS 15924, Adum-Kumasi, Ghana
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- CONICET, Lab. INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue-CONICET) Pasaje Gutierrez 1125, 8400, Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
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- HUTAN - Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme PO Box 17793, 88874, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México México D.F, Mexico ; Colección de Tejidos, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt Km 17 Cali-Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle Calle 13 #100-00, Cali, Colombia
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- Biodiversity Unit, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ; Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Laboratorio de Genética de la Conservación, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Forest and Water Management, Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090, Gontrode, Belgium ; Terrestrial Ecology Unit Department of Biology, Ghent University K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000, Gent, Belgium
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research Alkotmány u. 2-4, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, Washington, 98402, U.K
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, U.K ; MCT/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Agroecology, Georg-August University Grisebachstrasse 6, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta CW 405 - Biological Sciences Centre, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
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- EDP Biodiversity Chair, CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-601, Vairão, Portugal
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- The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Swedish Biodiversity Centre SE 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences Crew Building, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JN, U.K
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- Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NR, U.K ; Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development 77 High Street, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Philipps-University Marburg Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ; Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Biologicum, Goethe University Frankfurt Max von Laue St. 13, D 60439, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Environment Canada, Science & Technology Branch, Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0H3, Canada
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et Emergentes, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) 34398, Montpellier, France ; Unité Mixte de Recherche 1309 Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et Emergentes, Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) 34398, Montpellier, France
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- School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, U.K
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- University of Évora - ICAAMA, Apartado 94 7002-554, Évora, Portugal
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 49, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University 901 W. State Street, West Lafayette, 47907, Indiana, Portugal
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- Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Portugal ; Escritório Central do LBA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia Av. André Araújo, 2936, Campus II, Aleixo, CEP 69060-001, Manaus, AM, Brazil ; Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo 36310, Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois, 61801, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Nazaré 481, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Nazaré 481, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Av. André Araújo, 2.936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Instituto de Biotecnologia y Ecologia Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana Av. de las Culturas Veracruzanas, 101, Col. Emiliano Zapata, CP 91090, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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- Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center 7170, Cartago, Turrialba, 30501, Costa Rica
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- Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires Av. San Martín 4453, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, C.P. 1417, Argentina
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- Normandie Univ., EA 1293 ECODIV-Rouen, SFR SCALE, UFR Sciences et Techniques 76821, Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France
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Sotgiu S, Pugliatti M, Contu S, Sanna A, Sgaramella E, VanNoort JM, Rosati G. Alpha B-crystallin is not a dominant peripheral T-cell autoantigen in multiple sclerosis amongst Sardinians. Eur J Neurol 2003; 10:583-6. [PMID: 12940843 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00652.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
The heat shock protein alpha B-crystallin appears to be the dominantly recognized autoantigen in the early demyelinative process of multiple sclerosis (MS) in brain of patients. In Sardinia, MS is linked to human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-DR alleles that might influence the production of cytokines from peripheral lymphocytes. We tested the nature of peripheral anti-alpha B-crystallin-specific T-cell response in the context of predisposing HLA haplotypes both in MS patients and healthy controls. The alpha B-crystallin specific T-cell lines were generated by using the 'split-well' technique. The results indicate that the presence of short-term T-cell lines towards alpha B-crystallin is numerically comparable between the two groups and not restricted to MS-predisposing HLA-DR alleles. As for the T-cell characterization, CD4+ anti-alpha B-crystallin T cells secreting high levels of interferon-gamma are similarly identified in MS and healthy donors. In conclusion, the peripheral response towards the myelin antigen alpha B-crystallin is neither quantitatively nor qualitatively peculiar to MS, in contrast to the theoretical paradigm suggesting peripheral activation of myelin-reactive T cells to be the prerequisite for MS induction.
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Affiliation(s)
- S Sotgiu
- Institute of Clinical Neurology, University of Sassari, Viale San Pietro, Sassari, Italy.
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