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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species (2015)
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Slik, J. F., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Aiba, S.-I., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., & Field, R. (2015). An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(24), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423147112

The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting... Read More about An estimate of the number of tropical tree species.

The autonomous city: towards a critical geography of occupation (2015)
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Vasudevan, A. (2015). The autonomous city: towards a critical geography of occupation. Progress in Human Geography, 39(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514531470

This paper explores the recent resurgence of occupation-based practices across the globe, from the seizure of public space to the assembling of improvised protest camps. It re-examines the relationship between the figure of occupation and the affirma... Read More about The autonomous city: towards a critical geography of occupation.

The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting (2015)
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Vasudevan, A. (2015). The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting. Progress in Human Geography, 39(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514531471

This paper introduces a set of analytical frames that explore the possibilities of conceiving, researching and writing a global geography of squatting. The paper argues that it is possible to detect, in the most tenuous of urban settings, ways of thi... Read More about The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting.

Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations? (2015)
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Veenendaal, E. M., Torello-Raventos, M., Feldpausch, T. R., Domingues, T. F., Gerard, F., Schrodt, F., Saiz, G., Quesada, C. A., Djagbletey, G., Ford, A., Kemp, J., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Lenza, E., Ratter, J. A., Maracahipes, L., Sasaki, D., Sonké, B., Zapfack, L., Villarroel, D., …Lloyd, J. (2015). Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?. Biogeosciences, 12(10), 2927-2951. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2927-2015

Through interpretations of remote-sensing data and/or theoretical propositions, the idea that forest and savanna represent "alternative stable states" is gaining increasing acceptance. Filling an observational gap, we present detailed stratified flor... Read More about Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?.

The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon: 'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity (2015)
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Metcalfe, S. E., Barron, J., & Davies, S. (in press). The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon: 'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity. Quaternary Science Reviews, 120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.004

Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate models. Patterns of change at 12,000, 9000, 6000 and 4000 cal yr BP are pre... Read More about The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon: 'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity.

Time-geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy (2015)
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Howell, P., & Beckingham, D. (2015). Time-geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy. Social and Cultural Geography, 16(8), 931-949. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2015.1040059

This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of novels set in the publand of London’s West End in the interwar years, and through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronot... Read More about Time-geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy.

Seeing the landscape for the trees: metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments (2015)
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Johnson, M. F., & Wilby, R. L. (2015). Seeing the landscape for the trees: metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments. Water Resources Research, 51(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016802

Rising water temperature (Tw) due to anthropogenic climate change may have serious consequences for river ecosystems. Conservation and/or expansion of riparian shade could counter warming and buy time for ecosystems to adapt. However, sensitivity of... Read More about Seeing the landscape for the trees: metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments.

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling (2015)
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Fauset, S., Johnson, M. O., Gloor, M., Baker, T. R., Monteagudo M., A., Brienen, R. J., Feldpausch, T. R., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Malhi, Y., Ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C., Baraloto, C., Engel, J., Pétronelli, P., Andrade, A., Camargo, J. L. C., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Chave, J., Allie, E., …Phillips, O. L. (2015). Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7857

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few â € hyperdominantâ €™ species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian t... Read More about Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling.

Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas (2015)
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Feng, X., Foody, G., Aplin, P., & Gosling, S. (2015). Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas. Sustainable Cities and Society, 19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2015.04.007

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important environmental variable for urban studies such as those focused on the urban heat island (UHI). Though satellite-derived LST could be a useful complement to traditional LST data sources, the spatial resol... Read More about Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas.