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Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication (2018)
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Panizzo, V., Roberts, S., Swann, G. E., McGowan, S., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., …Horstwood, M. S. (2018). Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(4), 1562-1578. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10792

Recent research has highlighted how Lake Baikal, Siberia, has responded to the direct and indirect effects of climate change (e.g., ice-cover duration), nutrient loading, and pollution, manifesting as changes in phytoplankton/zooplankton populations,... Read More about Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication.

Reconnecting with nature for sustainability (2018)
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Ives, C. D., Abson, D. J., Wehrden, H. V., Dorninger, C., Klaniecki, K., & Fischer, J. (2018). Reconnecting with nature for sustainability. Sustainability Science, 13(5), 1389-1397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0542-9

Calls for humanity to ‘reconnect to nature’ have grown increasingly louder from both scholars and civil society. Yet, there is relatively little coherence about what reconnecting to nature means, why it should happen and how it can be achieved. We pr... Read More about Reconnecting with nature for sustainability.

Increasing the accuracy of crowdsourced information on land cover via a voting procedure weighted by information inferred from the contributed data (2018)
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Foody, G., See, L., Fritz, S., Moorthy, I., Perger, C., Schill, C., & Boyd, D. (2018). Increasing the accuracy of crowdsourced information on land cover via a voting procedure weighted by information inferred from the contributed data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7030080

Simple consensus methods are often used in crowdsourcing studies to label cases when data are provided by multiple contributors. A basic majority vote rule is often used. This approach weights the contributions from each contributor equally but the c... Read More about Increasing the accuracy of crowdsourced information on land cover via a voting procedure weighted by information inferred from the contributed data.

‘Ground Zero’ of Brexit: London as an international financial centre (2018)
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Hall, S., & Wójcik, D. (2021). ‘Ground Zero’ of Brexit: London as an international financial centre. Geoforum, 125, 195-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.002

This critical reviews section explores the implications of Brexit from a financial geography perspective in a number of different geographical settings. These range from the epicentre of Brexit in London's financial district, to its implications for... Read More about ‘Ground Zero’ of Brexit: London as an international financial centre.

Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records (2018)
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Leng, M., Engels, S., Fong, L., Chen, Q., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., …Yang, H. (2018). Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records. Environmental Pollution, 235, 907-917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.007

Fossil fuel combustion leads to increased levels of air pollution, which negatively affects human health as well as the environment. Documented data for Southeast Asia (SEA) show a strong increase in fossil fuel consumption since 1980, but informatio... Read More about Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records.

Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years (2018)
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Fletcher, M., Benson, A., Bowman, D. M., Gadd, P. S., Heijnis, H., Mariani, M., …Zawadzki, A. (2018). Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years. Geology, 46(4), 363-366. https://doi.org/10.1130/G39661.1

Millennial-scale latitudinal shifts in the southern westerly winds (SWW) drive changes in Southern Ocean upwelling, leading to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels, thereby affecting the global climate and carbon cycle. Our aim here is to understand whe... Read More about Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years.

An analysis of inclusion gaps in sustainable development themes: Findings from a review of recent social work literature (2018)
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Bexell, S. M., Decker Sparks, J. L., Tejada, J., & Rechkemmer, A. (2019). An analysis of inclusion gaps in sustainable development themes: Findings from a review of recent social work literature. International Social Work, 62(2), 864-876. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872818755860

Recently, humans have negatively altered ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any other time in human history, contributing to gains in well-being and economic development for some, while threatening the security of most, particularly oppr... Read More about An analysis of inclusion gaps in sustainable development themes: Findings from a review of recent social work literature.

Analysing the Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates in on-line Precise Point Positioning (PPP) services and PPP software packages (2018)
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Mendez Astudillo, J., Lau, L., Tang, Y., & Moore, T. (2018). Analysing the Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates in on-line Precise Point Positioning (PPP) services and PPP software packages. Sensors, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/s18020000

As Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals travel through the troposphere, a tropospheric delay occurs due to a change in the refractive index of the medium. The Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technique can achieve centimeter/millimeter po... Read More about Analysing the Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates in on-line Precise Point Positioning (PPP) services and PPP software packages.

Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests (2018)
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Slik, J. F., Franklin, J., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Field, R., Aguilar, S., Aguirre, N., …Zang, R. (2018). Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(8), 1837-1842. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714977115

Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world’s tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific res... Read More about Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests.

Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity and distribution in northern Borneo (2018)
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Zieritz, A., Bogan, A. E., Rahim, K. A., Jainih, R. S. L., Harun, S., Abd Razak, N. F., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2018). Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity and distribution in northern Borneo. Biological Conservation, 219, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.01.012

Human activities are threatening Borneo's unique biodiversity, but little is known on the status of freshwater invertebrates. We assessed changes in diversity and distribution of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in northern Borneo, and identif... Read More about Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity and distribution in northern Borneo.

Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s (2018)
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Haggerty, S., & Seymour, S. (2018). Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s. Slavery and Abolition, 39(4), 642-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1429190

This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave-Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British... Read More about Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s.

A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements (2018)
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Sutton, J. N., André, L., Cardinal, D., Conley, D. J., de Souza, G. F., Dean, J. R., …Swann, G. E. (2018). A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00112

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and is an important nutrient in the ocean. The global Si cycle plays a critical role in regulating primary productivity and carbon cycling on the continents and in the oceans. Deve... Read More about A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements.

Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards (2018)
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Velasco, J. A., Villalobos, F., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Algar, A. C., Flores-Villela, O., Köhler, G., …Martínez-Meyer, E. (2018). Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123(3), 615-627. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx160

Understanding the climatic and historical factors shaping species richness is a major goal of ecology and biogeography. Consensus on how climate affects species richness is still lacking, but four potential and non-exclusive explanations have emerged... Read More about Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards.

Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study (2018)
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Hattermann, F., Vetter, T., Breuer, L., Su, B., Daggupati, P., Donnelly, C., …Krysanova, V. (2018). Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study. Environmental Research Letters, 13(1), Article 5006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9938

Climate change impacts on water availability and hydrological extremes are major concerns as regards the Sustainable Development Goals. Impacts on hydrology are normally investigated as part of a modelling chain, in which climate projections from mul... Read More about Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study.

Species distribution modelling: contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data (2018)
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Gomes, V. H., IJff, S. D., Raes, N., Amaral, I. L., Salomão, R. P., de Souza Coelho, L., …ter Steege, H. (in press). Species distribution modelling: contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) as occurrence data, given their huge numbers and accessibility. NHCs are often spatial... Read More about Species distribution modelling: contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data.

'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display (2018)
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Heffernan, M., & Thorpe, B. J. (2018). 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display. Journal of Historical Geography, 60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2017.11.010

This essay uses the personal archives of Clive Morrison-Bell (1871-1956), a campaigning Conservative politician who made extensive use of maps and cartographic models, to consider the entangled histories of cartography, economics and geopolitics in e... Read More about 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display.

Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture (2018)
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Rose, D. C., Morris, C., Lobley, M., Winter, M., Sutherland, W. J., & Dicks, L. V. (2018). Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture. Geoforum, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.12.006

The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools i... Read More about Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture.

"Live” (stained) benthic foraminiferal living depths, stable isotopes, and taxonomy offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean: implications for calcification depths (2018)
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Dejardin, R., Kender, S., Allen, C. S., Leng, M. J., Swann, G. E., & Peck, V. L. (2018). "Live” (stained) benthic foraminiferal living depths, stable isotopes, and taxonomy offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean: implications for calcification depths. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37(1), 25-71. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-25-2018

It is widely held that benthic foraminifera exhibit species-specific calcification depth preferences, with their tests recording sediment pore water chemistry at that depth (i.e. stable isotope and trace metal compositions). This assumed depth habita... Read More about "Live” (stained) benthic foraminiferal living depths, stable isotopes, and taxonomy offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean: implications for calcification depths.