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Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes (2025)
Journal Article
Vanderstraeten, S., & Searle, A. (2025). Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes. Theory, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241304719

Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast majority of microbial life in environmental samples, some microbiologists and commentator... Read More about Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes.

Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering (2025)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2025). Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering. Remote Sensing, 17(1), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17010130

The location of a pixel in feature space is a function of its thematic composition. The latter is central to an image classification analysis, notably as an input (e.g., training data for a supervised classifier) and/or an output (e.g., predicted cla... Read More about Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering.

Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (2025)
Journal Article
Kuta, A. A., Grebby, S., & Boyd, D. S. (2025). Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Applied Sciences, 15(1), Article 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15010338

The widespread oil extraction in the Niger Delta and the impacts on different types of vegetation are poorly understood due to lack of ground access. This study aims to determine the impact of oil spills on vegetation in the Niger Delta using a Lands... Read More about Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.

Exploring soil erosion in the lake basins of Michoacán, Mexico: From sediment cores to conservation policies (2024)
Journal Article
Aguilera Lara, J., & Metcalfe, S. E. (2024). Exploring soil erosion in the lake basins of Michoacán, Mexico: From sediment cores to conservation policies. Journal of Quaternary Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3676

Understanding soil erosion, its history and links to potential drivers such as land use (particularly agriculture and deforestation), different cultural perspectives and climate change are crucial for the development of effective management and conse... Read More about Exploring soil erosion in the lake basins of Michoacán, Mexico: From sediment cores to conservation policies.

Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies? (2024)
Book Chapter
Searle, A., Giraud, E. H., Turnbull, J., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2024). Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies?. In J. Turnbull, A. Searle, H. Anderson-Elliott, & E. Haifa Giraud (Eds.), Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds (1-28). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170354.00007

Digital technologies increasingly mediate relations between humans and non-humans in a range of contexts including environmental governance, surveillance, and entertainment. Combining approaches from more-than-human and digital geographies as well as... Read More about Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies?.

Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities (2024)
Journal Article
Hähn, G. J. A., Damasceno, G., Alvarez-Davila, E., Aubin, I., Bauters, M., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, A. D., Bonari, G., Botta-Dukát, Z., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Ćušterevska, R., de Gasper, A. L., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., El-Sheikh, M. A., Finckh, M., …Bruelheide, H. (2024). Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02589-0

Plant communities are composed of species that differ both in functional traits and evolutionary histories. As species’ functional traits partly result from their individual evolutionary history, we expect the functional diversity of communities to i... Read More about Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities.

The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns (2024)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Sparks, J. D., Foody, G. M., Girindran, R., Gosling, S., Trodd, Z., Bhriain, L. H., & Rodriguez-Huerta, E. (2024). The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns. Sustainable Development, https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3272

The impacts of climate change-induced heat stress on workers are most prevalent in sectors with decent work deficits and this requires consideration for sustainable development. This paper focuses on the informal economy of brick kilns in India, a se... Read More about The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns.

Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020 (2024)
Journal Article
Do, N. T., Trinh, D. A., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., Runeckles, H., Henderson, A. C., Large, A. R., & Hackney, C. R. (2025). Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 213, Article 108021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108021

Nitrogen (N) is crucial for agricultural yield, but its overuse in fertilisation and presence in uncollected wastewater from urbanization causes eutrophication. The Red River Delta in Vietnam is facing rapidly increasing water quality issues. Here, M... Read More about Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020.

Heat stress and the labour force (2024)
Journal Article
Dasgupta, S., Robinson, E. J. Z., Shayegh, S., Bosello, F., Park, R. J., & Gosling, S. N. (2024). Heat stress and the labour force. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 5, 859-872. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00606-1

Heat stress affects the health of workers through physiological and behavioural responses, in turn, affecting the labour force through impacts on labour supply, labour productivity and labour capacity. In this Review, we explore the extent to which h... Read More about Heat stress and the labour force.