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Making (remote) sense of lianas (2022)
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van der Heijden, G. M., Proctor, A. D., Calders, K., Chandler, C., Field, R., Foody, G. M., …Boyd, D. S. (2022). Making (remote) sense of lianas. Journal of Ecology, 110(3), 498-513. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13844

Lianas (woody vines) are abundant and diverse, particularly in tropical ecosystems. Lianas use trees for structural support to reach the forest canopy, often putting leaves above their host tree. Thus they are major parts of many forest canopies. Yet... Read More about Making (remote) sense of lianas.

Looking to the Skies: Realising the Combined Potential of Drones and Thermal Infrared Imagery to Advance Hydrological Process Understanding in Headwaters (2022)
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Dugdale, S. J., Klaus, J., & Hannah, D. M. (2022). Looking to the Skies: Realising the Combined Potential of Drones and Thermal Infrared Imagery to Advance Hydrological Process Understanding in Headwaters. Water Resources Research, 58(2), Article e2021WR031168. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021wr031168

In river systems, headwater networks contain the vast majority of the stream length. Thus, climate and land-use change in headwaters have disproportionate impacts on downstream ecosystems and societies that rely on them. Despite decades of hydrologic... Read More about Looking to the Skies: Realising the Combined Potential of Drones and Thermal Infrared Imagery to Advance Hydrological Process Understanding in Headwaters.

Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands (2022)
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de la Barreda-Bautista, B., Boyd, D. S., Ledger, M., Siewert, M. B., Chandler, C., Bradley, A. V., …Sjögersten, S. (2022). Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 444. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030444

Permafrost thaw resulting from climate warming is threatening to release carbon from high latitude peatlands. The aim of this research was to determine subsidence rates linked to permafrost thaw in sub-Arctic peatlands in Sweden using historical orth... Read More about Towards a Monitoring Approach for Understanding Permafrost Degradation and Linked Subsidence in Arctic Peatlands.

Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings (2022)
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Fell, H. G., Osborne, O. G., Jones, M. D., Atkinson, S., Tarr, S., Keddie, S. H., & Algar, A. C. (2022). Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(4), 672-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13453

Aim: The distribution of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that causes plague in humans, is reliant upon transmission between host species; however, the degree to which host species distributions dictate the distribution of Y.pestis, compared with limita... Read More about Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings.

Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology (2022)
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Walker, T. W. N., Alexander, J. M., Allard, P., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R. D., …Salguero‐Gómez, R. (2022). Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology. Journal of Ecology, 110(1), 4-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13826

A major aim of ecology is to upscale attributes of individuals to understand processes at population, community and ecosystem scales. Such attributes are typically described using functional traits, that is, standardised characteristics that impact f... Read More about Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology.

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022)
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Duncanson, L., Kellner, J. R., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Minor, D. M., Hancock, S., …Zgraggen, C. (2022). Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, Article 112845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112845

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass density (AGBD). This paper presents the development of t... Read More about Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission.

High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island (2022)
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Hanz, D. M., Beloiu, M., Wipfler, R., Beierkuhnlein, C., Field, R., Jentsch, A., …Irl, S. D. H. (2022). High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33(1), Article e13120. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13120

Questions: Both species turnover and intraspecific trait variation can affect plant assemblage dynamics along environmental gradients. Here, we asked how community assemblage patterns in relation to species turnover and intraspecific variation differ... Read More about High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island.

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests (2022)
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Sousa, T. R., Schietti, J., Ribeiro, I. O., Emílio, T., Fernández, R. H., ter Steege, H., …Morandi, P. S. (2022). Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13531

Aim: Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soi... Read More about Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests.

Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies (2021)
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von Essen, E., Turnbull, J., Searle, A., Jørgensen, F. A., Hofmeester, T. R., & van der Wal, R. (2023). Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(1), 679-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211061704

Digital surveillance technologies enable a range of publics to observe the private lives of wild animals. Publics can now encounter wildlife from their smartphones, home computers, and other digital devices. These technologies generate public-wildlif... Read More about Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies.

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation (2021)
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Joswig, J. S., Wirth, C., Schuman, M. C., Kattge, J., Reu, B., Wright, I. J., …Mahecha, M. D. (2021). Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01616-8

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still, we lack a global understanding of how land and climate affect plant t... Read More about Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation.

Effects of seasonality on access to improved water in Benue State, Nigeria (2021)
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Aondoakaa, S. C., & Jewitt, S. (2022). Effects of seasonality on access to improved water in Benue State, Nigeria. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 194(1), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09454-8

Many people switch sources of drinking water and sanitation between seasons, yet such shifts are not reflected in the reporting of access to improved water and sanitation services by the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). Drawing on quantitative and q... Read More about Effects of seasonality on access to improved water in Benue State, Nigeria.

TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access (2021)
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Robinson, B., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2022). TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access. Energy Research and Social Science, 86, Article 102453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102453

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7-universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services by 2030-represents a considerable challenge. Currently, 40% of the global population do not have access to sustainable energy sources, and in... Read More about TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access.

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure (2021)
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Cervellini, M., Di Musciano, M., Zannini, P., Fattorini, S., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B., Agrillo, E., …Chiarucci, A. (2021). Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure. Ecology and Evolution, 11(24), 18111-18124. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8409

Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for... Read More about Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure.

Reimagining geographies of public finance (2021)
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August, M., Cohen, D., Danyluk, M., Kass, A., Ponder, C. S., & Rosenman, E. (2022). Reimagining geographies of public finance. Progress in Human Geography, 46(2), 527-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211054963

The study of public finance—the role of government in the economy—has faded in geography as attention to private finance has grown. Disrupting the tendency to fetishize private financial power, this article proposes an expanded conception of public f... Read More about Reimagining geographies of public finance.

Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration (2021)
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England, J., Angelopoulos, N., Cooksley, S., Dodd, J., Gill, A., Gilvear, D., …Wilkes, M. A. (2021). Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration. Water, 13(23), Article 3352. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233352

Nature-based solutions are widely advocated for freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration. As increasing amounts of river restoration are undertaken, the need to understand the ecological response to different measures and where measures are... Read More about Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration.

Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma (2021)
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Weiser, F., Sauer, A., Gettueva, D., Field, R., Irl, S. D., Vetaas, O., …Beierkuhnlein, C. (2021). Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma. Forests, 12(12), Article 1638. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12121638

Forest fires are drivers of spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of vegetation and biodiversity. On the Canary Islands, large areas of pine forest exist, dominated by the endemic Canary Island pine, Pinus canariensis C. Sm. These mostly natural for... Read More about Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma.

Cooking for communities, children and cows: Lessons learned from institutional cookstoves in Nepal (2021)
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Robinson, B. L., Clifford, M. J., Hewitt, J., & Jewitt, S. (2022). Cooking for communities, children and cows: Lessons learned from institutional cookstoves in Nepal. Energy for Sustainable Development, 66, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2021.10.012

Despite a long history of Improved Cookstove (ICS) interventions by Non-Governmental Organizations, International Development partners and the Government of Nepal, the majority of rural Nepalese people cook on a traditional open fire for their large-... Read More about Cooking for communities, children and cows: Lessons learned from institutional cookstoves in Nepal.

Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications (2021)
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Torgersen, C. E., Le Pichon, C., Fullerton, A. H., Dugdale, S. J., Duda, J. J., Giovannini, F., …Baxter, C. V. (2022). Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications. Biological Reviews, 97(2), 481-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12810

Landscape perspectives in riverine ecology have been undertaken increasingly in the last 30 years, leading aquatic ecologists to develop a diverse set of approaches for conceptualizing, mapping and understanding ‘riverscapes’. Spatiotemporally explic... Read More about Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications.