Outputs (105)

Seasonality in Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana (2020)
Journal Article
Dongzagla, A., Jewitt, S., & O'Hara, S. (2021). Seasonality in Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 752, Article 141846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141846

This paper examines seasonal variations in faecal contamination of drinking water sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana. Data collection involved a survey of 568 households, testing of faecal coliform concentrations in dri... Read More about Seasonality in Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana.

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests (2020)
Journal Article
Philipson, C. D., Cutler, M. E. J., Brodrick, P. G., Asner, G. P., Boyd, D. S., Costa, P. M., Fiddes, J., Foody, G. M., Van Der Heijden, G. M., Ledo, A., Lincoln, P. R., Margrove, J. A., Martin, R. E., Milne, S., Pinard, M. A., Reynolds, G., Snoep, M., Tangki, H., Wai, Y. S., Wheeler, C. E., & Burslem, D. F. R. P. (2020). Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests. Science, 369(6505), 838-841. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay4490

More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity and carbon losses. Restoration could accelerate recovery of aboveground car... Read More about Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests.

Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services? (2020)
Journal Article
Tandarić, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2020). Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?. Journal of Urban Ecology, 6(1), Article juaa016. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa016

Despite being intangible, subjective and difficult to measure, cultural ecosystem services (CES) are more comprehensible and meaningful to people than many other services. They contribute greatly to the quality of urban life and achieving sustainabil... Read More about Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?.

A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: recommendations and insights (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Ka Shun Chan, F., He, J., Johnson, M., Gibbins, C., Kay, P., Stanton, T., Xu, Y., Li, G., Feng, M., Paramor, O., Yu, X., & Zhu, Y.-G. (2021). A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: recommendations and insights. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 51(22), 2637-2680. https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2020.1801308

Freshwater systems are vitally important, supporting diversity and providing a range of ecosystem services. In China, rapid urbanization (over 800 million urban population) has led to multiple anthropogenic pressures that threaten urban freshwater en... Read More about A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: recommendations and insights.

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism (2020)
Journal Article
Flantua, S. G. A., Payne, D., Borregaard, M. K., Beierkuhnlein, C., Steinbauer, M. J., Dullinger, S., Essl, F., Irl, S. D. H., Kienle, D., Kreft, H., Lenzner, B., Norder, S. J., Rijsdijk, K. F., Rumpf, S. B., Weigelt, P., & Field, R. (2020). Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), 1651-1673. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13155

© 2020 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true isl... Read More about Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism.

Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Searle, A., & Turnbull, J. (2020). Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 291-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620933859

Stories of nature’s resurgence during quarantine have been dangerously conflated with an alarming narrative contending ‘Earth is healing, we are the virus’. Deploying a more-than-human perspective, we show how this discourse arises from biocultural d... Read More about Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19.

Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England (2020)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Morris, C., & Raman, S. (2020). Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England. Journal of Rural Studies, 78, 447-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.07.008

The concept of antibiotic stewardship has recently gained prominence in UK and EU policy and practice as part of wider efforts to reduce antibiotic use in agriculture and respond to concerns about antimicrobial resistance. The purpose of the paper is... Read More about Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England.

Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants (2020)
Journal Article
Meireles, J. E., Cavender-Bares, J., Townsend, P. A., Ustin, S., Gamon, J. A., Schweiger, A. K., Schaepman, M. E., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Singh, A., Schrodt, F., Chlus, A., & O'Meara, B. C. (2020). Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants. New Phytologist, 228(2), 485-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16771

Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf traits affects the differentiation of spectra among species and li... Read More about Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants.

Using Recurrent Neural Network for Intelligent Prediction of Water Level in Reservoirs (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Weng, Y., Gosling, S., Yang, H., Yang, C., Li, W., & Ma, Q. (2020, January). Using Recurrent Neural Network for Intelligent Prediction of Water Level in Reservoirs. Presented at Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020, Madrid, Spain

© 2020 IEEE. Water resources management over long term has faced a great challenge due to the increasing demands on water from a growing number of population and a huge variance of water usage in different time and place. Therefore, a new time series... Read More about Using Recurrent Neural Network for Intelligent Prediction of Water Level in Reservoirs.

Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45 (2020)
Journal Article
Smallman-Raynor, M. R., & Cliff, A. D. (2020). Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45. Social Science History, 44(4), 615-639. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.23

The Nazi ghetto system was one of the principal vehicles for the persecution of Jewish and other peoples in German-occupied Europe in World War II. Transport and confinement – twin pillars of the ghetto system – were intrinsically geographical matter... Read More about Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45.