Search Results - "Jacobs, Suzanne R."
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Land use affects total dissolved nitrogen and nitrate concentrations in tropical montane streams in Kenya
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-12-2017)“…African tropical montane forests are facing fast and dynamic changes in land use. However, the impacts of these changes on stream water quality are…”
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Agricultural land is the main source of stream sediments after conversion of an African montane forest
Published in Scientific reports (09-09-2020)“…In many parts of Africa, soil erosion is an important problem, which is evident from high sediment yields in tropical montane streams. Previous studies in…”
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Diurnal Patterns in Solute Concentrations Measured with In Situ UV-Vis Sensors: Natural Fluctuations or Artefacts?
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (06-02-2020)“…In situ spectrophotometers measuring in the UV-visible spectrum are increasingly used to collect high-resolution data on stream water quality. This provides…”
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The Role of Small Woody Landscape Features and Agroforestry Systems for National Carbon Budgeting in Germany
Published in Land (Basel) (01-10-2021)“…The intensification of food production systems has resulted in landscape simplification, with trees and hedges disappearing from agricultural land, principally…”
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The state of nitrogen in rivers and streams across sub-Saharan Africa
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-12-2024)“…The nutrient status of rivers and streams is less researched in sub-Saharan Africa than in many other inhabited regions of the world. Given the expected…”
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Tropical Montane Forest Conversion Is a Critical Driver for Sediment Supply in East African Catchments
Published in Water resources research (01-10-2020)“…Land use change is known to affect suspended sediment fluxes in headwater catchments. There is however limited empirical evidence of the magnitude of these…”
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Using High‐Resolution Data to Assess Land Use Impact on Nitrate Dynamics in East African Tropical Montane Catchments
Published in Water resources research (01-03-2018)“…Land use change alters nitrate (NO3‐N) dynamics in stream water by changing nitrogen cycling, nutrient inputs, uptake and hydrological flow paths. There is…”
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Assessment of hydrological pathways in East African montane catchments under different land use
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (27-09-2018)“…Conversion of natural forest (NF) to other land uses could lead to significant changes in catchment hydrology, but the nature of these changes has been…”
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Field-scale study of the influence of differing remediation strategies on trace metal geochemistry in metal mine tailings from the Irish Midlands
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-03-2016)“…Mine tailings represent a globally significant source of potentially harmful elements (PHEs) to the environment. The management of large volumes of mine…”
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Toward a common methodological framework for the sampling, extraction, and isotopic analysis of water in the Critical Zone to study vegetation water use
Published in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Water (01-07-2024)“…The analysis of the stable isotopic composition of hydrogen and oxygen in water samples from soils and plants can help to identify sources of vegetation water…”
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Monitoring of Suspended Sediments in a Tropical Forested Landscape With Citizen Science
Published in Frontiers in water (11-06-2021)“…Catchments are complex systems, which require regular monitoring of hydro-chemical parameters in space and time to provide comprehensive datasets. These are…”
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Particulate macronutrient exports from tropical African montane catchments point to the impoverishment of agricultural soils
Published in Soil (15-03-2021)“…Agricultural catchments in the tropics often generate high concentrations of suspended sediments following the conversion of natural ecosystems. The eroded…”
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Crowdsourced Water Level Monitoring in Kenya’s Sondu-Miriu Basin—Who Is “The Crowd”?
Published in Frontiers in earth science (Lausanne) (21-01-2021)“…Citizen science is gaining popularity as a way to engage people to participate in environmental projects. In addition to potential challenges regarding data…”
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Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Desaturation Is a Mechanism for Glycolytic NAD+ Recycling
Published in Cell metabolism (02-04-2019)“…The reactions catalyzed by the delta-5 and delta-6 desaturases (D5D/D6D), key enzymes responsible for highly unsaturated fatty acid (HUFA) synthesis,…”
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Sequence variants in SLC16A11 are a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes in Mexico
Published in Nature (London) (06-02-2014)“…A risk haplotype for type 2 diabetes is identified with four amino acid substitutions in SLC16A11, which is present at ∼50% frequency in Native American…”
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Type 2 Diabetes Variants Disrupt Function of SLC16A11 through Two Distinct Mechanisms
Published in Cell (29-06-2017)“…Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects Latinos at twice the rate seen in populations of European descent. We recently identified a risk haplotype spanning SLC16A11 that…”
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Nuclear Factor Y and Steroidogenic Factor 1 Physically and Functionally Interact to Contribute to Cell-Specific Expression of the Mouse Follicle-Stimulating Hormone-β Gene
Published in Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) (01-08-2003)“…FSH is a heterodimeric glycoprotein hormone secreted from the gonadotrope cell population of the anterior pituitary. Despite its crucial role in mammalian…”
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Association of a Low-Frequency Variant in HNF1A With Type 2 Diabetes in a Latino Population
Published in JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (11-06-2014)“…IMPORTANCE Latino populations have one of the highest prevalences of type 2 diabetes worldwide. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between rare…”
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A Loss-of-Function Splice Acceptor Variant in IGF2 Is Protective for Type 2 Diabetes
Published in Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) (01-11-2017)“…Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects more than 415 million people worldwide, and its costs to the health care system continue to rise. To identify common or rare…”
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Siva plays a critical role in mouse embryonic development
Published in Cell death and differentiation (01-01-2020)“…The Siva protein, named after the Hindu God of Destruction, plays important roles in apoptosis in various contexts, including downstream of death receptor…”
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