**Patterns in and predictors of stream and river macroinvertebrate genera and fish species richness across the conterminous USA**

https://www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kmae/full_html/2023/01/kmae230016/kmae230016.html

#macroinvertebrates #fish #USA #monitoring #biodiversity #hotspots

#Scinexx #Wissenschaft #Klimakatastrophe

Wo drohen folgenreiche Ausreißer-Hitzewellen?

Klimatische #Hotspots: In vielen Regionen wird das Risiko für extreme #Hitzewellen bisher unterschätzt – entsprechend unvorbereitet könnten Menschen und Infrastruktur von den #Hitzeextreme getroffen werden
https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/wo-drohen-folgenreiche-ausreisser-hitzewellen/

@EU_ScienceHub okI am an i nvestor and want to build new golf courses in Europe. HOW to find potential conflicts with EU biodiversity #hotspots or #protectedareas #PAs ?

"Plants and animals do not respect legal boundaries, oblivious to the policies that govern different jurisdictions. A new Stanford-led study highlights how policies in forestry, agriculture, and other sectors can fit together to govern biodiversity in a more coordinated and effective way".

#biodiversity #hotspots #forests
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/978572

Adding to this, the #downscaling method they use (I think cubic convolution) assumes a continuous underlying distribution of the data. This assumption is rarely satisfied over #urban areas, especially when detecting #hotspots.

This #paper has some good illustrations of this: https://doi.org/10.5721/EuJRS20164929

Horse mussels create reefs of high conservation importance in cold waters. Truly #hotspots of biodiversity but bottom trawling is a major threat having resulted in the dramatic decline of the habitat in places like Strangford Lough, in Northern Ireland. We need to restore them.

**Tracking circulating variants in 🔔New York🔔 (Bellweather state) #OMICRON XBB.1.5 is the dominant #SARSCoV2 lineage in NY. (#15DAYTrends):
XBB.1.5 (55.3%)👀
BQ.1.1 (12.5%)
BQ.1 (7.2%)
XBB.1 (4.0%)
BQ.1.1.4 (2.6%)*
Rise of highly immune evasive XBB* family of lineages especially XBB.1.5 (Key mutation: Spike F486P) in NY is concerning*** (@RajlabN, Assistant Dean of Research and Associate Professor, NYITCOM) https://fortune.com/well/2022/11/04/new-york-ny-emerging-hot-spot-xbb-omicron-covid-surge-variant-singapore-bq-becomes-dominant-us-cdc-gisaid-pandemic-epidemic-endemic-fall-winter-wave/
#Omicron 🔥 #Hotspots 🔥 #XBB_1_5 #usnewyorknewjersey 🧬

RT @WeingartenDE@twitter.com

Das exponentielle Wachstum 📈 der #XBB15-Variante und die ersten #Hotspots in #Europa, lassen sich mit GISAID- & NYITCOM-Daten gut nachvollziehen (Stand 10.1.2023)

Top Hotspots: (1) #England (2) #Dänemark

Aufstrebende Hotspots: #Österreich #Niederlande #Frankreich #Deutschland

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WeingartenDE/status/1613282028614569995

A new variant alert 😷 💨 🤬 **The XBB.1.5 variant is on a growth spurt in the United States** 🌊 XBB.1.5 🌍 WAVE: THIS WEEK 🔥 *New York in for a surge"

" . . . —too much of a coincidence to see such a striking rise of the variant along with New York’s data. But only time will tell in the weeks ahead in contiguous states with XBB dominance how this will play out." 💉 https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-new-variant-alert
xceptional-immune-evasion-properties.aspx 21DEC2022 🔥 #Hotspots #covid19🧬 Om🕉's 🌊 #XBB1_5 #BQ

🚨💉⚠️ALARMINGLY🚨💉⚠️: "Overall, vaccination with or without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and even booster shots of novel bivalent (WA1-BA.5) mRNA vaccines did not confer protection against any of the four Omicron XB and BQ subvariants" (Tom Andrews @0bj3ctivity, See the wood for the trees.)
https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20221216/SARS-CoV-2-Omicron-BQ-and-XBB-subvariants-show-exceptional-immune-evasion-properties.aspx 21DEC2022 🔥 #Hotspots #covid19newvariantsupdatesinfo 🧬 Om🕉's #usnewsupdatessitreps #usnewyorknewjersey 🧬 #omicronvariant #covid19virustransmission #usgovernmentupdates 🌊 #XBB1_5 #BQ

RecBCD enzyme and Chi #recombination #hotspots as determinants of self vs. non-self: Myths and mechanisms - #phage

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36334915/

#Hotspots Revisited: Earth's biologically richest and most #endangered terrestrial #ecoregions. By Thomas Brooks.

#Biodiversity #Hotspots with #ConservationPriority are defined as regions where a minimum of 1,500 species of #Endemic vascular plants are concentrated, equivalent to 0.5% of the total number of vascular plants in the world.

Los #Hotspot o “puntos calientes” de #Biodiversidad con #PrioridadConservación se definen como regiones donde se concentra un mínimo de 1.500 especies de #PlantasVascularesEndémicas equivalente al 0,5 % del total de plantas vasculares en el mundo.

Hotspot di Lampedusa: dal Tar Sicilia ulteriore conferma del principio di accessibilità della società civile ai luoghi di trattenimento https://www.asgi.it/notizie/hotspot-lampedusa-tar-sicilia-conferma-principio-di-accessibilita-della-societa-civile/ #Asilo/Protezioneinternazionale #Allontanamento/Espulsione #Giurisprudenza #Lampedusa #Hotspots #Notizie #hotspot

Evento: Landscapes of Border Control and Immigration Detention in Europe https://www.asgi.it/allontamento-espulsione/evento-landscapes-of-border-control-and-immigration-detention-in-europe/ #Allontanamento/Espulsione #detenzioneamministrativa #Unioneeuropea #Formazione #Hotspots #Notizie #Frontex #hotspot #CPR

#NRW macht #Lockerungen landesweit, auch in #Covid-#Hotspots, landesweite Inzidenz zählt. Zusätzlich sollen alle Schulen geöffnet werden. Machen das andere #Bundesländer auch so "intelligent"? #DritteWelle

Ähnlich sinnvoll wie in #Klimakrise neues #Kohle-Kraftwerk #Datteln

Trattenimento illegittimo nei centri hotspot: l’Italia non si è ancora adeguata a quanto stabilito dalla CEDU nella sentenza Khlaifia https://www.asgi.it/asilo-e-protezione-internazionale/trattenimento-illegittimo-centri-hotspot-litalia-sentenza-khlaifia/ #Asilo/Protezioneinternazionale #Allontanamento/Espulsione #ProgettoInlimine #DL103/2020 #Hotspots #hotspot #Slider #CPR