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This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.OBJECTIVES While sarcopenia is prevalent after hip fracture in the acute postfracture period, little is known about the prevalence after discharge. This study assessed longitudinal trends in sarcopenia prevalence over 12 months after hip fracture using three different operational definitions. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Baltimore Hip Studies seventh cohort. PARTICIPANTS A total of 82 men and 78 women, aged 65 years and older, with surgical repair of a nonpathological hip fracture. MEASUREMENTS Baseline assessment included a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan and interview. Follow-up assessments, which additionally included performance measures, occurred 2, 6, and 12 months after admission. Using these measures, three sarcopenia definitions were assessed over the year following hip fracture European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older Persons (EWGSOP), International Working Group on Sarcopenia (IWGS), and Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). RESULTS EWGSOP and IWGS pter hip fracture, regardless of definition. Future research should examine the relationship between sarcopenia prevalence and functional recovery. Published 2020. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.in English, Spanish ANTECEDENTES Es esencial identificar los productos subóptimos referidos a las mallas para mejorar los resultados en la cirugía de la hernia. Este estudio analizó si un registro clínico nacional combinado con registros de bases de datos administrativos puede servir como herramienta para la evaluación post-comercialización de productos de mallas para cirugía de la hernia. MÉTODOS Se efectuó un estudio de emparejamiento por puntaje de propensión de una cohorte de casos y controles en el que se comparaban los resultados de la malla Physiomesh® frente a cualquier otra malla sintética en pacientes sometidos a una reparación laparoscópica de una eventración. Se combinaron los datos de los pacientes del registro danés de hernia entre 2010 y 2016 con los datos administrativos del registro nacional de pacientes de Dinamarca. La variable principal fue la reintervención por recidiva. Las variables secundarias fueron el reingreso a 30 días, la reoperación a 30 días por complicaciones (excluyendo la recde una eventración con la malla Physiomesh® se asociaba con un riesgo doble de recidiva y un aumento de la tasa de complicaciones a corto plazo.PREMISE Mountain ecosystems are particularly sensitive to climate change. However, only a very small number of studies exist so far using annually resolved records of alpine plant growth spanning the past century. Here we aimed to identify the effects of heat waves and drought, driven by global warming, on annual radial growth of Rhododendron ferrugineum. METHODS We constructed two century-long shrub ring-width chronologies from R. ferrugineum individuals on two adjacent, north- and west-facing slopes in the southern French Alps. We analyzed available meteorological data (temperature, precipitation and drought) over the period 1960-2016. Climate-growth relationships were evaluated using bootstrapped correlation functions and structural equation models to identify the effects of rising temperature on shrub growth. RESULTS Analysis of meteorological variables during 1960-2016 revealed a shift in the late 1980s when heat waves and drought increased in intensity and frequency. In response to these extreme climate events, shrubs have experienced significant changes in their main limiting factors. Between 1960 and 1988, radial growth on both slopes was strongly controlled by the sum of growing degree days during the snow free period. Between 1989 and 2016, August temperature and drought have emerged as the most important. CONCLUSIONS Increasing air temperatures have caused a shift in the growth response of shrubs to climate. this website The recently observed negative effect of high summer temperature and drought on shrub growth can, however, be buffered by topographic variability, supporting the macro- and microrefugia hypotheses. © 2020 Botanical Society of America.Pollen data are widely used to reconstruct past climate changes, using relationships between modern pollen abundance in surface samples and climate at the surface-sample sites as a calibration. Visualisation of modern pollen data in multi-dimensional climate space provides a way to establish that taxon abundances are well behaved before using them in climate reconstructions. Visualisation is also helpful for ecological interpretation of variations in pollen abundance in space and time. Here we present Generalized Additive Models for the distribution of 195 European pollen and pteridophyte spore taxa in a bioclimate space defined by seasonal temperatures (as mean temperature of the coldest month and annual growing degree days) and an annual moisture index. These models can be used to explore the realised climate niche of pollen taxa and to build statistical models for palaeoclimate reconstruction. The data set is released under a Creative Commons BY licence. When using the data set, we kindly request that you cite this article. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Jack Pettigrew spent much of his time and energy over the last decade after his retirement exploring the mysterious Bradshaw figures which are part of the rock art found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Seed dispersal and local filtering interactively govern community membership and scale up to shape regional vegetation patterns, but data revealing how and why particular species are excluded from specific communities in nature are scarce. This lack of data is a missing link between our theoretical understanding of how diversity patterns can form and how they actually form in nature, and it hampers our ability to predict community responses to climate change. Here, we compare seed, seedling, and adult plant communities at twelve grassland sites with different climates in southern Norway to examine how community membership is interactively shaped by seed dispersal and local filtering, and how this process varies with climate across sites. To do this, we divide species at each site into two groups "locally-transient" species, which occur as seeds but are rare or absent as adults (i.e., they arrive but are filtered out), and "locally-persistent" species, which occur consistently as adults in annual vegetation surveys.