All Outputs (66)

Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles (2015)
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Understanding the modern day relationship between climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation (δ18OP) is crucial for obtaining rigorous palaeoclimate reconstructions from a variety of archives. To date, the majority of empirical stud... Read More about Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles.

Response to Verbeeck and Kearsley: addressing the challenges of including lianas in global vegetation models (2015)
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The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV (2015)
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The archaeological site of Kharaneh IV in Jordan’s Azraq Basin, and its relatively near neighbour Jilat 6 show evidence of sustained occupation of substantial size through the Early to Middle Epipalaeolithic (c. 24,000 – 15,000 cal BP). Here we revie... Read More about The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV.

An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios (2015)
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Rationale: Current studies which use the oxygen isotope composition from diatom silica (δ18Odiatom) as a palaeoclimate proxy assume that the δ18Odiatom value reflects the isotopic composition of the water in which the diatom formed. However, diatoms... Read More about An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios.

Water isotope systematics: Improving our palaeoclimate interpretations (2015)
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The ethics of offsetting nature (2015)
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Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data (2015)
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Spatial records of species are commonly misidentified, which can change the predicted distribution of a species obtained from a species distribution model (SDM). Experiments were undertaken to predict the distribution of real and simulated species us... Read More about Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data.

Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling (2015)
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The Incidence Function Model (IFM) has been put forward as a tool for assessing conservation plans. A key benefit of the IFM is low data requirements: widely available species occurrence data and information about land cover. Citizen science is a pro... Read More about Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling.

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species (2015)
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Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at... Read More about Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.

Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness (2015)
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Aim: Site-level species richness is thought to result from both local conditions and species’ evolutionary history, but the nature of the evolutionary effect, and how much it underlies the correlation with current environment, are debated. Although t... Read More about Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness.

Overcoming uncertainty and barriers to adoption of Blue-Green Infrastructure for urban flood risk management: Uncertainties and barriers to adoption of BGI (2015)
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Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are increasingly recognised as vital components of urban flood risk management. However, uncertainty regarding their hydrologic performance and lack of confidence concerning thei... Read More about Overcoming uncertainty and barriers to adoption of Blue-Green Infrastructure for urban flood risk management: Uncertainties and barriers to adoption of BGI.

Sex-specific responses of phenotypic diversity to environmental variation (2015)
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Identifying the factors generating ecomorphological diversity within species can provide a window into the nascent stages of ecological radiation. Sexual dimorphism is an obvious axis of intraspecific morphological diversity that could affect how env... Read More about Sex-specific responses of phenotypic diversity to environmental variation.

Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality (2015)
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Crowdsourcing is a popular means of acquiring data, but the use of such data is limited by concerns with its quality. This is evident within cartography and geographical sciences more generally, with the quality of volunteered geographic information... Read More about Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality.

Insuring biofinance: alcohol, risk and the limits of life (2015)
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The mineralogy and fabric of 'Brickearths' in Kent, UK and their relationship to engineering behaviour (2015)
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Mineralogical and petrographical investigation of two loessic brickearth profiles from Ospringe and Pegwell Bay in north Kent, UK have differentiated two types of brickearth fabric that can be correlated with different engineering behaviour. Both seq... Read More about The mineralogy and fabric of 'Brickearths' in Kent, UK and their relationship to engineering behaviour.

Dreaming Other Worlds: Commodity Culture, Mass Desire, and the Ideology of Inception (2015)
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This essay provides a critical reading of the 2010 science fiction film Inception, advancing two theses about contemporary mass culture. First, mainstream cultural products contain certain utopian moments. Yet while they may offer glimpses of a world... Read More about Dreaming Other Worlds: Commodity Culture, Mass Desire, and the Ideology of Inception.

Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests (2015)
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Tropical forests store vast quantities of carbon, account for a third of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis, and are a major sink in the global carbon cycle. Recent evidence suggests that competition between lianas (woody vines) and trees may reduce... Read More about Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests.

Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 (2015)
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This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges a... Read More about Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950.

Comparisons of observed and modelled lake ?18O variability (2015)
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With the substantial number of lake sediment ?18O records published in recent decades, a quantitative, process-based understanding of these systems can increase our understanding of past climate change. We test mass balance models of lake water ?18O... Read More about Comparisons of observed and modelled lake ?18O variability.

Climatic niche attributes and diversification in Anolis lizards (2015)
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Aim The aim of this study was to test the link between climatic niche dynamics and species diversification in Anolis on islands and on the mainland. We tested the hypotheses that lineages in warmer climates and with narrow climate niches diversifi... Read More about Climatic niche attributes and diversification in Anolis lizards.