Publications by authors named "P Capdevila"
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- The warming of waters is severely affecting zooxanthellate corals globally, causing high mortality rates and raising concerns, especially for Cladocora caespitosa, the only reef-building coral in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Monitoring efforts have been limited, making it difficult to understand past marine heatwaves (MHWs) and their long-term impacts on coral health.
- Through sclerochronology, researchers examined coral growth patterns and found a correlation between temperature and calcification, but a decline in growth and calcification rates in warmer waters suggests increasing physiological stress due to MHWs.
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- Carboplatin is an effective and safer alternative to cisplatin for treating stage I seminoma, minimizing risks like nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity.
- A case involved a 48-year-old man who experienced hematuria and acute kidney injury after receiving adjuvant carboplatin following surgery for testicular seminoma.
- The acute kidney injury resolved after conservative management and the removal of a blood clot during cystoscopy, with imaging indicating potential ureteral obstruction.
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- Climate change is significantly affecting marine ecosystems, with marine heatwaves leading to high mortality in species such as octocorals.
- The study focused on the resilience of the Mediterranean octocoral Paramuricea clavata, finding that populations exposed to marine heatwaves experienced reduced survivorship and recovery rates compared to unexposed populations.
- As marine heatwaves become more frequent and severe, the study predicts that the extinction risk for P. clavata increases, highlighting the urgency of understanding and mitigating these impacts on marine biodiversity.
Climate change is impacting ecosystems worldwide, and the Mediterranean Sea is no exception. Extreme climatic events, such as marine heat waves (MHWs), are increasing in frequency, extent and intensity during the last decades, which has been associated with an increase in mass mortality events for multiple species. Coralligenous assemblages, where the octocoral Paramuricea clavata lives, are strongly affected by MHWs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMammalian life history strategies can be characterised by a few axes of variation, conforming a space where species are positioned based on the life history strategies favoured in the environment they exploit. Yet, we still lack global descriptions of the diversity of realised mammalian life history and how this diversity is shaped by the environment. We used six life history traits to build a life history space covering worldwide mammalian adaptation, and we explored how environmental realms (land, air, water) influence mammalian life history strategies.
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