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‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments (2018)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Mitchell, C. A., Tillmann, S., & Gilliland, J. A. (2019). ‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11(5), 599-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2018.1561500

Physical activity in Canada mirrors the gender gap observed globally, with boys more likely than girls to meet recommended guidelines. While a growing body of research has examined the relationships between environmental factors and children’s physic... Read More about ‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments.

Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling (2018)
Journal Article
Kender, S., Ravelo, A. C., Worne, S., Swann, G. E. A., Leng, M. J., Asahi, H., …Hall, I. R. (2018). Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 5386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07828-0

The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) is characterised by cooling and lengthening glacial cycles from 600–1200 ka, thought to be driven by reductions in glacial CO2 in particular from ~900 ka onwards. Reduced high latitude upwelling, a process that re... Read More about Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling.

Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia (2018)
Journal Article
Roberts, S., Swann, G., McGowan, S., Panizzo, V., Vologina, E., Sturm, M., & Mackay, A. (2018). Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia. PLoS ONE, 13(12), Article e020876. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208765

Lake Baikal has been experiencing limnological changes from recent atmospheric warming since the 1950s, with rising lake water temperatures, reduced ice cover duration and reduced lake surface-water mixing due to stronger thermal stratification. This... Read More about Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia.

Sylva: 'To slowly trace the forest's shady scene' (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Watkins, C. Sylva: 'To slowly trace the forest's shady scene'. 14 December 2018 - 7 April 2019. (Unpublished)

The ways that people interact with trees and woods have varied dramatically through time and from place to place. Today many are concerned about the loss of woodland and might agree with Lord Byron’s Childe Harold in relishing the forest where ‘mort... Read More about Sylva: 'To slowly trace the forest's shady scene'.

Determination of geochronology and sedimentation rates of shallow lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches using 210 Pb, 137 Cs and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Qiao, Q., Mcgowan, S., Zeng, L., Stevenson, M. A., Xu, L., …Cao, Y. (2019). Determination of geochronology and sedimentation rates of shallow lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches using 210 Pb, 137 Cs and spheroidal carbonaceous particles. CATENA, 174, 546-556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.11.041

Accurate chronologies for recent sediments of shallow lakes in the Yangtze floodplain are critical to calibrate proxy records for reconstructing environmental changes during the past century. This study presents the results of detailed 210Pb analysis... Read More about Determination of geochronology and sedimentation rates of shallow lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches using 210 Pb, 137 Cs and spheroidal carbonaceous particles.

Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management (2018)
Journal Article
Miras, Y., Mariani, M., Ledger, P. M., Mayoral, A., Chassiot, L., & Lavrieux, M. (2018). Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica: Natural Sciences in Archaeology, IX (2018)(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2018.2.5

A multi-proxy palaeoecological investigation has been undertaken at high spatio-temporal resolution in the Lower Auvergne Mountains (France). It allows us to investigate the Holocene trajectories of landscape evolution arising from the interplay betw... Read More about Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management.

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities (2018)
Journal Article
Hölzel, N., Sporbert, M., Guerin, G. R., Jentsch, A., Neill, D. A., Korolyuk, A. Y., …Knollová, I. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(12), 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from t... Read More about Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities.

Reducing the impacts of intra-class spectral variability on the accuracy of soft classification and super-resolution mapping of shoreline (2018)
Journal Article
Doan, H. T., Foody, G. M., & Bui, D. T. (2019). Reducing the impacts of intra-class spectral variability on the accuracy of soft classification and super-resolution mapping of shoreline. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(9), 3384-3400. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1545099

The main objective of this research is to assess the impact of intra-class spectral variation on the accuracy of soft classification and super-resolution mapping. The accuracy of both analyses was negatively related to the degree of intra-class spect... Read More about Reducing the impacts of intra-class spectral variability on the accuracy of soft classification and super-resolution mapping of shoreline.

Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk (2018)
Journal Article
Mylan, J., Morris, C., Beech, E., & Geels, F. W. (2019). Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 31, 233-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2018.11.001

This paper engages with the debate on niche-regime interactions in sustainability transitions, using a study of plant-based milk and its struggles against the entrenched liquid dairy-milk regime, which has various sustainability problems. Plant-based... Read More about Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk.

Placing the state within geofinance (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2018). Placing the state within geofinance. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(3), 281-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618797747

© The Author(s) 2018. In this commentary, I examine how research into global financial networks can be used to develop understandings of how place and space shape global finance. Drawing on the growing regulatory interest in geofinance, I argue that... Read More about Placing the state within geofinance.

Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy) (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy). Landscape History, 39(2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2018.1534460

This paper explores the value of landscape and topographical art for understanding contemporary landscapes of the Val d’Aosta, NW Italy. The region became very popular with British tourists in the early nineteenth-century and several amateur and prof... Read More about Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy).

Historical geomorphological research of a Ligurian coastal floodplain (Italy) and its value for management of flood risk and environmental sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
Roccati, A., Luino, F., Turconi, L., Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Faccini, F. (2018). Historical geomorphological research of a Ligurian coastal floodplain (Italy) and its value for management of flood risk and environmental sustainability. Sustainability, 10(10), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103727

© 2018 by the authors. The alluvial plain of the Entella River (Eastern Liguria), historically affected by damaging flood events, has been heavily modified over the past 250 years by human activity and natural processes. A qualitative and quantitativ... Read More about Historical geomorphological research of a Ligurian coastal floodplain (Italy) and its value for management of flood risk and environmental sustainability.

Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk (2018)
Journal Article
Loakes, K. L., Ryves, D. B., Lamb, H. F., Schäbitz, F., Dee, M., Tyler, J. J., …McGowan, S. (2018). Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 166-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.005

Multi-proxy analyses of an 8 m sediment core from Lake Hayk, a closed, freshwater lake in the north-central highlands of Ethiopia, provide a record of changing lake level and inferred regional climatic change for the last 15.6 cal ka years. Between c... Read More about Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk.

Composing the social factory: an autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires (2018)
Journal Article
Clare, N. (2019). Composing the social factory: an autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(2), 255-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818805096

Through the creation of an original theoretical framework this paper demonstrates the value of a deeper engagement between autonomist Marxism and (urban) geography. By spatialising arguably the autonomists’ key theoretical contribution – class compos... Read More about Composing the social factory: an autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires.

A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, N., Leng, M., Osburn, C., Fritz, S., Law, A., & McGowan, S. (2018). A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.006

Arctic organic carbon (OC) stores are substantial and have accumulated over millennia as a function of changes in climate and terrestrial vegetation. Arctic lakes are also important components of the regional C-cycle as they are sites of OC productio... Read More about A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments.

Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling (2018)
Journal Article
Lacey, J. H., & Jones, M. D. (2018). Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.007

We investigate the modern hydrology of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) using a combined hydrological and isotope-based modelling approach and present a new evaluation of contemporary water balance and palaeoclimate estimates. The combined model is ab... Read More about Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling.