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These data include population fitness measurements collected for Acartia hudsonica during multigenerational exposure to ocean warming (OW), ocean acidification (OA), and combined ocean warming and acidification (OWA) including a benign ambient condition temperature and CO2 control (AM).

Monthly and daily summary from the Fortuna Station (Centro de Investigaciones Jorge L. Arauz)Location: 8° 43.340'N, 82° 14.241'WParameters: air temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, solar radiation (pyranometer)Located in the highlands of the Chiriqui Province, in western Panama.There are three sensor locations: north clearing, south clearing, and a 15m tower.

This dataset contains the underlying data for the following publication: Doukas, H., Spiliotis, E., Jafari, M. A., Giarola, S. & Nikas, A. (2021). Low-cost emissions cuts in container shipping: Thinking inside the box. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 94, 102815, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102815.

Approximately 11,000 Veterans present to a VAMC annually with an acute ischemic stroke or TIA. The cornerstone of secondary stroke/TIA prevention includes delivering timely, guideline-concordant vascular risk factor management. Over the past decade, OSA has been recognized as a potent, underdiagnosed, and inadequately treated cerebrovascular risk factor. OSA is very common among patients with stroke/TIA with a prevalence of 70-80%. Despite being highly prevalent, 70-80% of patients with OSA are neither diagnosed nor treated. Untreated OSA has been associated with poor outcomes among patients with cerebrovascular disease including higher mortality and worse functional status. The mainstay of OSA therapy is positive airway pressure (PAP). PAP reduces recurrent vascular events, improves neurological symptoms and functional status among stroke/TIA patients with OSA. The evidence favoring neurological recovery is strongest when interventions are applied early post-stroke/TIA. Guidelines recommend diagnosing and treating OSA for stroke and TIA patients; however, within VHA, very few stroke or TIA patients receive OSA screening. This guideline recommendation was informed in part by clinical trials utilizing an acute OSA assessment protocol developed and implemented by the investigators' group. To address the observed gap in care, the investigators propose a Hybrid Type I, randomized, stepped-wedge trial at 6 VAMCs to increase the rate of timely, guideline-concordant diagnosis and treatment of OSA among Veterans with ischemic stroke/TIA and thereby reduce recurrent vascular events and hospital readmissions. The investigators will identify matched control sites for each ASAP implementation site to examine temporal trends in outcomes among non-intervention sites. For example, the investigators will use administrative data to examine the use of polysomnography across stroke/TIA patients in the VA system and compare changes in matched controls versus the intervention sites on the diagnostic rate. The same adjustment approach will be used for ASAP intervention sites and for control sites. Effectively identifying and treating risk factors for ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) is important to patients, their family members, and healthcare systems. While obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a known risk factor for stroke and TIA that is present in more than 70% of stroke/TIA survivors, testing for OSA is infrequently performed for patients and within healthcare systems. The Addressing Sleep Apnea Post-Stroke/TIA (ASAP) study intends to improve rates of guideline-recommended OSA testing and treatment through local quality improvement initiatives (QI) conducted within and across 6 VA Medical Centers. ASAP will also determine the impact of these local QI initiatives on rates of OSA diagnosis, OSA treatment, treatment adherence, recurrent vascular events, and hospital readmissions.

Input files for the ForClim model (version 4.0.1) used in the associated paper. They can be used to to reproduce results of the simulation study. The ForClim model, including the source code, executable and documentation, is freely available under an Open Access license from the website of the original developers at https://ites-fe.ethz.ch/openaccess/. The original climatic dataset used to generate the ForClim input climate files at each site in South Tyrol is freely available at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.924502 while the CHELSA climate data for future scenarios are available at https://www.chelsa-climate.org. If interested in using this dataset for a research study or a project, please contact Marco Mina ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hillebrand L, Marzini S, Crespi A, Hiltner U & Mina M (2023) Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1240235 ABSTRACT. Protection forests play a key role in protecting settlements, people, and infrastructures from gravitational hazards such as rockfalls and avalanches in mountain areas. Rapid climate change is challenging the role of protection forests by altering their dynamics, structure, and composition. Information on local- and regional-scale impacts of climate change on protection forests is critical for planning adaptations in forest management. We used a model of forest dynamics (ForClim) to assess the succession of mountain forests in the Eastern Alps and their protective effects under future climate change scenarios. We investigated eleven representative forest sites along an elevational gradient across multiple locations within an administrative region, covering wide differences in tree species structure, composition, altitude, and exposition. We evaluated protective performance against rockfall and avalanches using numerical indices (i.e., linker functions) quantifying the degree of protection from metrics of simulated forest structure and composition. Our findings reveal that climate warming has a contrasting impact on protective effects in mountain forests of the Eastern Alps. Climate change is likely to not affect negatively all protection forest stands but its impact depends on site and stand conditions. Impacts were highly contingent to the magnitude of climate warming, with increasing criticality under the most severe climate projections. Forests in lower-montane elevations and those located in dry continental valleys showed drastic changes in forest structure and composition due to drought-induced mortality while subalpine forests mostly profited from rising temperatures and a longer vegetation period. Overall, avalanche protection will likely be negatively affected by climate change, while the ability of forests to maintain rockfall protection depends on the severity of expected climate change and their vulnerability due to elevation and topography, with most subalpine forests less prone to loosing protective effects. Proactive measures in management should be taken in the near future to avoid losses of protective effects in the case of severe climate change in the Alps. Given the heterogeneous impact of climate warming, such adaptations can be aided by model-based projections and high local resolution studies to identify forest stand types that might require management priority for maintaining protective effects in the future.