Heat stress does not induce wasting symptoms in the giant California sea cucumber ().

Oceanic heatwaves have significant impacts on disease dynamics in marine ecosystems. Following an extreme heatwave in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Canada, a severe sea cucumber wasting event occurred that resulted in the mass mortality of Here, we sought to determine if heat stress in isolation could trigger wasting symptoms in . We exposed sea cucumbers to (i) a simulated marine heatwave (22 °C), (ii) an elevated temperature treatment (17 °C), or (iii) control conditions (12 °C).

No effect of passive integrated transponder tagging method on survival or body condition in a northern population of Black-capped Chickadees ().

Passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags allow a range of individual-level data to be collected passively and have become a commonly used technology in many avian studies. Although the potential adverse effects of PIT tags have been evaluated in several species, explicit investigations of their impacts on small (<12 g) birds are limited. This is important, because it is reasonable to expect that smaller birds could be impacted more strongly by application of PIT tags.