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Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
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Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., Kimoto, K., Hasegawa, S., Wagner, T., & Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells (2021)
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Harvey, H. J., Chubynsky, M. V., Sprittles, J. E., Shor, L. M., Mooney, S. J., Wildman, R. D., & Avery, S. V. (2022). Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20, 128-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.11.039

Environmental structure describes physical structure that can determine heterogenous spatial distribution of biotic and abiotic (nutrients, stressors etc.) components of a microorganism's microenvironment. This study investigated the impact of microm... Read More about Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells.

Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain (2021)
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Sargent, C., Ebanks, B., Hardy, I. C., Davies, T. G. E., Chakrabarti, L., & Stöger, R. (2021). Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain. Frontiers in Insect Science, 1, Article 765179. https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2021.765179

Mitochondria are intracellular organelles responsible for cellular respiration with one of their major roles in the production of energy in the form of ATP. Activities with increased energetic demand are especially dependent on efficient ATP producti... Read More about Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain.

Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years (2021)
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Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Schulz, C., Cadd, H., & Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00222-9

Lake sediments are important archives of past climate variability and lake responses to climate. In order to accurately infer past climates, it is necessary to understand, and account for, the ecological processes that affect the record of indicators... Read More about Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years.

Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops (2021)
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Scharff, L. B., Saltenis, V. L., Jensen, P. E., Baekelandt, A., Burgess, A. J., Burow, M., Ceriotti, A., Cohan, J. P., Geu-Flores, F., Halkier, B. A., Haslam, R. P., Inzé, D., Klein Lankhorst, R., Murchie, E. H., Napier, J. A., Nacry, P., Parry, M. A., Santino, A., Scarano, A., Sparvoli, F., …Pribil, M. (2022). Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops. Food and Energy Security, 11(1), Article e327. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.327

A growing world population as well as the need to enhance sustainability and health create challenges for crop breeding. To address these challenges, not only quantitative but also qualitative improvements are needed, especially regarding the macro-... Read More about Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops.

Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments (2021)
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Shetaya, W. H., Bailey, E. H., Young, S. D., Mohamed, E. F., Antoniadis, V., Rinklebe, J., Shaheen, S. M., & Marzouk, E. R. (2021). Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01097-5

The aim of this work was to assess the origins, mobility, bioavailability and potential health risks of V, Cr, Co, As, Se, Mo, Cd, Sn and Sb, which are not sufficiently studied in the terrestrial environment of Egypt. This has been carried out by emp... Read More about Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments.

Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey (2021)
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Jacobson, M. J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M. J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Tüysüz, O., & Fleitmann, D. (2021). Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), Article e2021GL094733. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733

Palaeoclimate variability must be constrained to predict the nature and impacts of future climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here, we present a late Holocene high-resolution multiproxy data set from Kocain Cave, the first of its kind from S... Read More about Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey.

Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time (2021)
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Ramkissoon, C., Degryse, F., Young, S., Bailey, E. H., & McLaughlin, M. J. (2021). Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 732409. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.732409

Foliar selenium (Se) fertilisation has been shown to be more efficient than soil-applied fertilisation, but the dynamics of absorption and translocation have not yet been explored. An experiment was undertaken to investigate time-dependent changes in... Read More about Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time.

Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes (2021)
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Wang, F., Zhang, X., Neal, A. L., Crawford, J. W., Mooney, S. J., & Bacq-Labreuil, A. (2022). Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes. Soil and Tillage Research, 215, Article 105226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2021.105226

Aggregates are functional units to describe the impact of soil structural changes on physical and biogeochemical processes in soil. Both incubation and field experiments have shown that changing agricultural practices could reshape the intra-aggregat... Read More about Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes.

Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review (2021)
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Cook, S., Abolfathi, S., & Gilbert, N. I. (2021). Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review. Freshwater Science, 40(4), 567-579. https://doi.org/10.1086/717227

The role of citizen science in environmental monitoring has received interest in the research community over the last decade, with citizen scientists playing a key role in engaging with and gathering scientific evidence to support natural resource ma... Read More about Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review.