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Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene (2020)
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Harding, P., Bezrukova, E. V., Kostrova, S. S., Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Meyer, H., …Mackay, A. W. (2020). Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene. Global and Planetary Change, 195, Article 103333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103333

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Southern Siberia is currently undergoing rapid warming, inducing changes in vegetation, loss of permafrost, and impacts on the hydrodynamics of lakes and rivers. Lake sediments are key archives of environmental change and contain... Read More about Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene.

Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes (2020)
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Botoman, L., Nalivata, P. C., Chimungu, J. G., Munthali, M. W., Bailey, E. H., Ander, E. L., …Broadley, M. R. (2020). Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes. Plant Direct, 4(10), Article e00277. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.277

The prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies including zinc (Zn) is widespread in Malawi, especially among poor and marginalized rural populations. This is due to low concentrations of Zn in most staple cereal crops and limited consumption of animal... Read More about Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes.

Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature (2020)
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Pieńkowski, G., Hesselbo, S. P., Barbacka, M., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature. Earth-Science Reviews, 210, Article 103383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103383

© 2020 The Authors New carbon-isotope data obtained from homogenous organic material (separated microfossil wood; δ13Cwood) from the upper Rhaetian and entire Lower Jurassic permit chemostratigraphic correlation of these marginal/non-marine deposits... Read More about Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature.

Factors affecting the reproduction and mass-rearing of sclerodermus brevicornis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), a natural enemy of exotic flat-faced longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) (2020)
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Jucker, C., Hardy, I. C., Malabusini, S., de Milato, S., Zen, G., Savoldelli, S., & Lupi, D. (2020). Factors affecting the reproduction and mass-rearing of sclerodermus brevicornis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), a natural enemy of exotic flat-faced longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). Insects, 11(10), Article 657. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11100657

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Many species of long-horned beetles are invasive pests causing significant economic damage in agro-forestry systems. They spend the majority of their life-cycle concealed inside natural wood o... Read More about Factors affecting the reproduction and mass-rearing of sclerodermus brevicornis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), a natural enemy of exotic flat-faced longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).

Review: Allelochemicals as multi-kingdom plant defence compounds: towards an integrated approach (2020)
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Hickman, D. T., Rasmussen, A., Ritz, K., Birkett, M. A., & Neve, P. (2021). Review: Allelochemicals as multi-kingdom plant defence compounds: towards an integrated approach. Pest Management Science, 77(3), 1121-1131. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.6076

© 2020 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry. The capability of synthetic pesticides to manage weeds, insect pests and pathogens in crops has diminished due to evolved resi... Read More about Review: Allelochemicals as multi-kingdom plant defence compounds: towards an integrated approach.

Enhanced Cellular Transduction of Nanoparticles Resistant to Rapidly Forming Plasma Protein Coronas (2020)
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Blokpoel Ferreras, L. A., Scott, D., Vazquez Reina, S., Roach, P., Torres, T. E., Goya, G. F., …Dixon, J. E. (2020). Enhanced Cellular Transduction of Nanoparticles Resistant to Rapidly Forming Plasma Protein Coronas. Advanced Biosystems, 4(10), Article 2000162. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202000162

© 2020 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH GmbH Nanoparticles (NPs) are increasingly being developed as biomedical platforms for drug/nucleic acid delivery and imaging. However, in biological fluids, NPs interact with a wide range of proteins that fo... Read More about Enhanced Cellular Transduction of Nanoparticles Resistant to Rapidly Forming Plasma Protein Coronas.

Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin (2020)
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Trinh, A. D., Do, T. N., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin. Hydrological Processes, 34(22), 4239-4250. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13878

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The young water fraction of streamflow (Fyw), an important hydrological variable, has been calculated for the first time, for a monsoon-fed coastal catchment in northern Vietnam. Oxygen stable isotopes (δ18O) from six r... Read More about Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin.

Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability (2020)
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Tucker, M. E., Carey, S. N., Sparks, R. S. J., Stinton, A., Leng, M., Robinson, L., …Cotton, L. (2020). Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability. Marine Geology, 429, Article 106320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106320

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Extensive carbonate crusts discovered forming on the slopes of seamounts in many parts of the world's oceans are providing extra stability to the volcanic edifices. These crusts are hardgrounds composed of mixtures of volcaniclas... Read More about Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability.

δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation (2020)
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Roberts, L. R., Holmes, J. A., Sloane, H. J., Arrowsmith, C., Leng, M. J., & Horne, D. J. (2022). δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation. Marine Micropaleontology, 160, Article 101907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101907

© 2020 Stable isotope analyses of ostracod shells are a commonly-used proxy for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Although the fundamental controls on isotope composition of ostracod shells are well understood and, in some instances, quantifiable,... Read More about δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation.

Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska (2020)
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Broadman, E., Kaufman, D. S., Henderson, A. C., Berg, E. E., Anderson, R. S., Leng, M. J., …Muñoz, S. E. (2020). Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241, Article 106420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106420

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The Holocene hydroclimate of south-central Alaska has been studied extensively, but conflicting interpretations between oxygen isotope paleoclimate datasets are seemingly as common as converging reconstructions, in part due to the... Read More about Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska.