Jason Richardson

TL;DR: A cross-continental, cross-scale analysis of the influence of biotic and abiotic processes and human population density on the distribution of three emerging pathogens: the amphibian chytrid fungus implicated in worldwide amphibian declines and West Nile virus and the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which are responsible for ongoing human health crises.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined historic redlining in relation to current neighborhood lending discrimination and three key indicators of societal health (mental health, physical health, and infant mortality rate) and investigated sustained lending disinvestment as a determinant of current neighborhood health in one of the most hypersegregated metropolitan areas in the United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

TL;DR: Results reveal that the elastic-recoil mechanism liberates tongue projection from the effects of temperature on muscle contractile rates, and suggest that relative thermal independence is a general characteristic of elastic- recoil mechanisms and may promote the evolution of these mechanisms in ectothermic animals.

TL;DR: Gentrification is a powerful force for economic change in our cities, but it is often accompanied by extreme and unnecessary cultural displacement as mentioned in this paper, which prevents them from benefiting from the economic growth and greater availability of services that come with increased investment.

TL;DR: The effective biting mechanism of D. quadramaculatus is an emergent property of many of the distinguishing morphological features of desmognathine salamanders and likely plays an important role in their natural history given that desmagnathines use biting in feeding, defense and even courtship.