Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology’s oldest and most universal
laws – every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is related to many
biological traits, including abundance. The relationship between abundance and body size …

Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

… Funding: Neil Chue Hong was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC) Grant EP/H043160/1 for the UK Software Sustainability Institute …

Cancer cell growth requires fatty acids to replicate cellular membranes. The kinase Akt is
known to up-regulate fatty acid synthesis and desaturation, which is carried out by the oxygen-…

Power‐law frequency distributions characterize a wide array of natural phenomena. In ecology,
biology, and many physical and social sciences, the exponents of these power laws are …

Power‐law relationships are among the most well‐studied functional relationships in biology.
Recently the common practice of fitting power laws using linear regression (LR) on log‐…

Antibodies that target the immune checkpoint receptor programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)
have resulted in prolonged and beneficial responses toward a variety of human cancers. …

Aim An understanding of the relationship between forest biomass and climate is needed to
predict the impacts of climate change on carbon stores. Biomass patterns have been …

Sir, — We wish to report the isolation of two potent neurotoxins from herbage collected from
pastures on which the disease of livestock known as ldryegrass staggers rd (8)(11) occurred. …