Research on long-distance migratory birds has yielded some of the strongest evidence that shifts in climate are changing ecosystem processes. Much of this work has focused on understanding whether rising temperatures on temperate breeding grounds are advancing migration phenology and limiting reproductive success. However, conditions on tropical nonbreeding quarters can also shape these process...

We report two cases of septic shocks due to Salmonella non typhi infection on sickle cell patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Such patients should enforce food hygiene measures, especially under tropical settings, to avoid potentially deadly severe infections.

Abstract In the discourse about development of farmed animal production (terrestrial livestock and aquaculture) in tropics, two important food system outcomes emerge: (1) to supply animal-sourced (ASF) at a level that suffices healthy future diets, including for poor people, (2) contribute climate change mitigation minimize pollution with nitrogen phosphorus. Livestock aquaculture security dire...

Many studies have evaluated the effect of forest fragmentation on dung beetle assemblage structure. However, few have analyzed how forest fragmentation affects the processes carried out by these insects in tropical forests where their food sources consist mainly of dung produced by native herbivore mammals. With the conversion of forests to pastures, cattle dung has become an exotic alternative...

Most species reproduce seasonally, even in the tropics where activity occurs year-round. Squamate reptiles provide ideal model organisms to clarify the ultimate (adaptive) reasons for the restriction of reproduction to specific times of year. Females of almost all temperate-zone reptile species produce their eggs or offspring in the warmest time of the year, thereby synchronizing embryogenesis ...

1 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Unit of Nutrition and Child Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, 4 Public Health Section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 Africa...

1 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Unit of Nutrition and Child Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, 4 Public Health Section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 Africa...

Plants play an important, but often insufficiently recognized. role in human societies, chiefly as providers of food, feed, and fiber, but for other uses as well such as drugs and building materials. In those cases where demand for a particular plant product exceed natural supply, humans initiated cultivation of those plants 10,000 years ago, resulting in the domestication of a limited number o...

Climate-driven changes are altering production and functioning of biotic assemblages in terrestrial and aquatic environments. In temperate coastal waters, rising sea temperatures, warm water anomalies and poleward shifts in the distribution of tropical herbivores have had a detrimental effect on algal forests. We develop generalized scenarios of this form of tropicalization and its potential ef...