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Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation (2018)
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Moat, J., Bachman, S. P., Field, R., & Boyd, D. S. (2018). Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation. Conservation Biology, 32(6), 1278-1289. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13139

© 2018 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. The modifiable areal unit problem is prevalent across many aspects of spatial analysis within ecology and conservation. The p... Read More about Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation.

Towards evaluation criteria in participatory flood risk management (2018)
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Maskrey, S. A., Priest, S., & Mount, N. J. (2019). Towards evaluation criteria in participatory flood risk management. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12(2), Article e12462. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12462

Flood risk consists of complex and dynamic problems, whose management calls for innovative ways of engaging with a wide range of local stakeholders, many of whom lack the technical expertise to engage with traditional flood risk management practices.... Read More about Towards evaluation criteria in participatory flood risk management.

Spatial-temporal fraction map fusion with multi-scale remotely sensed images (2018)
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Zhang, Y., Foody, G. M., Ling, F., Li, X., Ge, Y., Du, Y., & Atkinson, P. M. (2018). Spatial-temporal fraction map fusion with multi-scale remotely sensed images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 213, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.010

Given the common trade-off between the spatial and temporal resolutions of current satellite sensors, spatial-temporal data fusion methods could be applied to produce fused remotely sensed data with synthetic fine spatial resolution (FR) and high rep... Read More about Spatial-temporal fraction map fusion with multi-scale remotely sensed images.

Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts (2018)
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Zaherpour, J., Gosling, S. N., Mount, N. J., Müller Schmied, H., Veldkamp, T., Dankers, R., …Wada, Y. (2018). Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts. Environmental Research Letters, 13(6), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac547

Global-scale hydrological models are routinely used to assess water scarcity, flood hazards and droughts worldwide. Recent efforts to incorporate anthropogenic activities in these models have enabled more realistic comparisons with observations. Here... Read More about Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts.

Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere (2018)
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Mariani, M., Holz, A., Veblen, T. T., Williamson, G., Fletcher, M., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2018). Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(10), 5071-5081. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078294

©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Recent changes in trend and variability of the main Southern Hemisphere climate modes are driven by a variety of factors, including increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, changes in tropical s... Read More about Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere.

Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district (2018)
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Hall, S. (2019). Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district. Urban Geography, 40(5), 699-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1472442

In this paper, I use the case of elite Chinese financial mobility to London’s financial district to argue that comparatively neglected forms of elite financial migration from beyond the Global North provide important insights into the changing geogra... Read More about Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district.

Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania (2018)
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Brockington, D., Howland, O., Loiske, V., Mnzava, M., & Noe, C. (2018). Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(2), 217-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x18000186

Measures of poverty based on consumption suggest that recent economic growth in many African countries has not been inclusive, particularly in rural areas. We argue that measures of poverty using assets may provide a different picture. We present dat... Read More about Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania.

Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal (2018)
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Panizzo, V., Swann, G., Mackay, A., Pashley, V., & Horstwood, M. (2018). Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.006

Limnological reconstructions of primary productivity have demonstrated its response over Quaternary timescales to drivers such as climate change, landscape evolution and lake ontogeny. In particular, sediments from Lake Baikal, Siberia, provide a val... Read More about Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal.

Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes (2018)
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McGowan, S., Anderson, N. J., Edwards, M. E., Hopla, E., Jones, V., Langdon, P. G., …Wiik, E. (in press). Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10086

“Arctic greening” will alter vegetation quantity and quality in northern watersheds, with possible consequences for lake metabolic balance. We used paleolimnology from six Arctic lakes in Greenland, Norway, and Alaska to develop a conceptual model de... Read More about Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes.

Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China (2018)
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Chen, X., McGowan, S., Xiao, X., Stevenson, M. A., Yang, X., Li, Y., & Zhang, E. (2018). Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.027

Sedimentary records of inorganic elements and pigments over the last 12,000 years are used to assess major changes in limnological conditions of Tiancai Lake (a small treeline lake, SW China), in response to Holocene climate variations. Algal communi... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China.

A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure (2018)
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Thompson, D., Johnson, D., Wood, R., Darch, G., Chapman, L., Hughes, P., …Hall, J. (2018). A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2121), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0298

Extreme weather causes substantial adverse socio-economic impacts by damaging and disrupting the infrastructure services that underpin modern society. Globally, $2.5tn a year is spent on infrastructure which is typically designed to last decades, ove... Read More about A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., …Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.

How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research (2018)
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Friedman, R. S., Law, E. A., Bennett, N. J., Ives, C. D., Thorn, J. P., & Wilson, K. A. (2018). How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research. Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabcde

Background: Conservation decisions not only impact wildlife, habitat, and environmental health, but also human wellbeing and social justice. The inclusion of safeguards and equity considerations in the conservation field has increasingly garnered att... Read More about How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research.

Late Pliocene marine pCO2 reconstructions from the Subarctic Pacific Ocean (2018)
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Swann, G., Kendrick, C., Dickson, A., & Worne, S. (in press). Late Pliocene marine pCO2 reconstructions from the Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017PA003296

The development of large ice-sheets across the Northern Hemisphere during the late Pliocene and the emergence of the glacial-interglacial cycles that punctuate the Quaternary mark a significant threshold in Earth's climate history. Although a number... Read More about Late Pliocene marine pCO2 reconstructions from the Subarctic Pacific Ocean.

Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in design-based statistical inference for area estimation and accuracy assessment of land cover (2018)
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Stehman, S. V., Fonte, C. C., Foody, G. M., & See, L. (2018). Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in design-based statistical inference for area estimation and accuracy assessment of land cover. Remote Sensing of Environment, 212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.014

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) offers a potentially inexpensive source of reference data for estimating area and assessing map accuracy in the context of remote-sensing based land-cover monitoring. The quality of observations from VGI and t... Read More about Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in design-based statistical inference for area estimation and accuracy assessment of land cover.

Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning (2018)
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Brown, C., Boyd, D., Sjögersten, S., Clewley, D., Evers, S., & Aplin, P. (2018). Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning. Remote Sensing, 10(5), Article 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050671

Accurate estimation of above ground biomass (AGB) is required to better understand the variability and dynamics of tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) ecosystem function and resilience to disturbance events. The objective of this work is to examine the... Read More about Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning.

Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union (2018)
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Hoffmann, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Field, R., Provenzale, A., & Chiarucci, A. (2018). Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 6445. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24390-3

Protected areas (PAs) constitute major tools in nature conservation. In the European Union (EU), the Birds and Habitats Directives are the most important policies for conservation strategy, legally preserving Europe’s characteristic, rare, endemic an... Read More about Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union.

Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign (2018)
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Tang, Y., Chan, F. K. S., O'Donnell, E. C., Griffiths, J., Lau, L., Higgitt, D., & Thorne, C. R. (2018). Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 11(4), Article e12451. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12451

Modern urban flood and water management emphasises holistic strategies that reduce flood risk while providing co- benefits to urban economies, societies and environments. The ‘Blue‐Green City’ concept provides a viable framework for putting this into... Read More about Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign.

Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth (2018)
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Ansary, M. W. R., Prince, M. F. R. K., Haque, E., Sultana, F., West, H. M., Rahman, M. M., …Islam, M. T. (2018). Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung C, 73(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-2018-0002

Plant growth promoting bacteria that are also capable of suppressing plant pathogenic fungi play an important role in sustainable agriculture. There is a critical need of conducting research to discover, characterize and evaluate efficacy of new stra... Read More about Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth.