Browsing Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences by Journals "Science Advances"
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Actions on sustainable food production and consumption for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Current food production and consumption trends are inconsistent with the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature. Here, we examine how, and under what conditions, the post-2020 ... -
Arctic Ocean Amplification in a warming climate in CMIP6 models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Arctic near-surface air temperature warms much faster than the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic Amplification. The change of the underlying Arctic Ocean could influence climate through its interaction with sea ... -
Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period of rapid climate cooling that occurred at the end of the last glaciation. Here, we present the first palaeoglacier-derived reconstruction of YD precipitation across Europe, determined ... -
A bending rigidity parameter for stress granule condensates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Interfacial tension plays an important role in governing the dynamics of droplet coalescence and determining how condensates interact with and deform lipid membranes and biological filaments. We demonstrate that an interfacial ... -
Cell identity and nucleo-mitochondrial genetic context modulate OXPHOS performance and determine somatic heteroplasmy dynamics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Heteroplasmy, multiple variants of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the same cytoplasm, may be naturally generated by mutations but is counteracted by a genetic mtDNA bottleneck during oocyte development. Engineered heteroplasmic ... -
Chlamydial contribution to anaerobic metabolism during eukaryotic evolution
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The origin of eukaryotes is a major open question in evolutionary biology. Multiple hypotheses posit that eukaryotes likely evolved from a syntrophic relationship between an archaeon and an alphaproteobacterium based on ... -
Earthquakes track subduction fluids from slab source to mantle wedge sink
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Subducting plates release fluids as they plunge into Earth’s mantle and occasionally rupture to produce intraslab earthquakes. It is debated whether fluids and earthquakes are directly related. By combining seismic ... -
Evolution of vegetation and climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau over the past 1.74 million years
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Tibetan Plateau exerts a major influence on Asian climate, but its long-term environmental history remains largely unknown. We present a detailed record of vegetation and climate changes over the past 1.74 million years ... -
How is a turbidite actually deposited?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The deposition of a classic turbidite by a surge-type turbidity current, as envisaged by conceptual models, is widely considered a discrete event of continuous sediment accumulation at a falling rate by the gradually waning ... -
Lake sediments with Azorean tephra reveal ice-free conditions on coastal northwest Spitsbergen during the Last Glacial Maximum
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-23)Lake sediments retrieved from the beds of former nonerosive ice sheets offer unique possibilities to constrain changes in the extent and style of past glaciation, and place them in an absolutely dated context. We present ... -
Light penetration structures the deep acoustic scattering layers in the global ocean
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)The deep scattering layer (DSL) is a ubiquitous acoustic signature found across all oceans and arguably the dominant feature structuring the pelagic open ocean ecosystem. It is formed by mesopelagic fishes and pelagic ... -
North Atlantic Oscillation in winter is largely insensitive to autumn Barents-Kara sea ice variability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Arctic sea ice extent in autumn is significantly correlated with the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in the satellite era. However, questions about the robustness and reproducibility of the relationship persist. ... -
North Atlantic surface ocean warming and salinization in response to middle Eocene greenhouse warming
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Quantitative reconstructions of hydrological change during ancient greenhouse warming events provide valuable insight into warmer-than-modern hydrological cycles but are limited by paleoclimate proxy uncertainties. We ... -
Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)What drives ecosystem buildup, diversity, and stability? We assess species arrival and ecosystem changes across 16 millennia by combining regional-scale plant sedimentary ancient DNA from Fennoscandia with near-complete ... -
Pushing the limits of photoreception in twilight conditions: The rod-like cone retina of the deep-sea pearlsides
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Most vertebrates have a duplex retina comprising two photoreceptor types, rods for dim-light (scotopic) vision and cones for bright-light (photopic) and color vision. However, deep-sea fishes are only active in dim-light ... -
Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The effects of climate change on species richness are debated but can be informed by the past. Here, we generated a sedimentary ancient DNA dataset covering 10 lakes and applied novel methods for data harmonization. We ...