Ross T. Nickson, J.M. McArthur, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce et al.
In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related "Aichi Targets" to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. W...
Peter Ravenscroft, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Melanie Burren et al.
Abhijit Mukherjee, Poulomee Coomar, Soumyajit Sarkar, Karen H. Johannesson et al.
Carol A. Gilchrist, Sarah E. Petri, Brittany N. Schneider, Daniel Reichman et al.
BACKGROUND: An estimated 1 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diarrhea. Previous population-based surveys of pediatric diarrheal diseases have identified the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica, the etiological agent of amebiasis, as one of the causes of moderate-to...
Kôji Watanabe, Carol A. Gilchrist, Md. Jashim Uddin, Stacey L. Burgess et al.
The disease severity of Entamoeba histolytica infection ranges from asymptomatic to life-threatening. Recent human and animal data implicate the gut microbiome as a modifier of E. histolytica virulence. Here we have explored the association of the microbiome with susceptibility to amebiasis in infan...
M. A. Hoque, William Burgess
Axel Bruns, Anja Bechmann, Jean Burgess, Andrew Chadwick et al.
In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. Researchers at leading international research organisations are deeply concerned about collateral impac...
M. A. Hoque, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed
Groundwater arsenic (As) presents a public health risk of great magnitude in densely populated Asian delta regions, most acutely in the Bengal Basin (West Bengal, India and Bangladesh). Research has focused on the sources, mobilisation, and heterogeneity of groundwater As, but a consistent explanati...
Alexander Upfill‐Brown, Mami Taniuchi, James A Platts-Mills, Beth D. Kirkpatrick et al.
BACKGROUND: As the global polio eradication initiative prepares to cease use of oral polio vaccine (OPV) in 2020, there is increasing interest in understanding if oral vaccination provides non-specific immunity to other infections so that the consequences of this transition can be effectively planne...
Stacey L. Burgess, Jhansi L. Leslie, Md. Jashim Uddin, David N Oakland et al.
The microbiome provides resistance to infection. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We demonstrate that colonization with the intestinal bacterium Clostridium scindens protects from Entamoeba histolytica colitis via innate immunity. Introduction of C. scindens into the gut mic...
Joslin L. Moore, Michael Folkmann, Andrew Balmford, Thomas M. Brooks et al.
Area‐selection methods have recently gained prominence in conservation biology. A typical problem is to identify the minimum number of areas required to represent all species over some geographic region. Iterative heuristic methods have been developed by conservation scientists to solve these proble...
Han Meng, Jamie Carr, Joe Beraducci, Phil Bowles et al.
Assessments of biodiversity patterns and threats among African reptiles have lagged behind those of other vertebrate groups and regions. We report the first systematic assessment of the distribution, threat status, and climate change vulnerability for the reptiles of Tanzania. A total of 321 reptile...
Rasmus Gren Havmøller, Junaidi Payne, Widodo Ramono, Susie Ellis et al.
Abstract The Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis formerly ranged across South-east Asia. Hunting and habitat loss have made it one of the rarest large mammals and the species faces extinction despite decades of conservation efforts. The number of individuals remaining ...
William Burgess, M. K. Hasan, Emma Rihani, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, is a megacity dependant on groundwater for the majority of its water supply, pumped from 420 boreholes distributed throughout the city. Recharge to the groundwater aquifer is insufficient to balance abstraction, groundwater levels are in decline and water quality is com...