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The importance of biotic entrainment for base flow fluvial sediment transport (2016)
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Sediment transport is regarded as an abiotic process driven by geophysical energy, but zoogeomorphological activity indicates that biological energy can also fuel sediment movements. It is therefore prudent to measure the contribution that biota make... Read More about The importance of biotic entrainment for base flow fluvial sediment transport.

Improving super-resolution mapping through combining multiple super-resolution land-cover maps (2016)
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Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is an ill-posed problem, and different SRM algorithms may generate non-identical fine spatial resolution land-cover maps (sub-pixel maps) from the same input coarse spatial resolution image. The output sub-pixels maps m... Read More about Improving super-resolution mapping through combining multiple super-resolution land-cover maps.

Dyarchy: democracy, autocracy and the scalar sovereignty of interwar India (2016)
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The 1919 Government of India Act instituted sweeping constitutional reforms that were inspired by the concept of “dyarchy”. This innovation in constitutional history devolved powers to the provinces and then divided these roles of government into res... Read More about Dyarchy: democracy, autocracy and the scalar sovereignty of interwar India.

Early- Mid Pleistocene environments in the Valsequillo Basin, Central Mexico: a reassessment (2016)
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The Valsequillo Basin in Central Mexico has been of interest due to the presence of megafauna and evidence for early human occupation, but research has been controversial. It has been suggested that extensive and deep lakes characterised the Early Pl... Read More about Early- Mid Pleistocene environments in the Valsequillo Basin, Central Mexico: a reassessment.

A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey (2016)
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Individual palaeoenvironmental records represent a combination of regional-scale (e.g. climatic) and site-specific local factors. Here we compare multiple climate proxies from two nearby maar lake records, assuming that common signals are due to regi... Read More about A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey.

Interpretation and application of carbon isotope ratios in freshwater diatom silica (2016)
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Carbon incorporated into diatom frustule walls is protected from degradation enabling analysis for carbon isotope composition (?13Cdiatom). This presents potential for tracing carbon cycles via a single photosynthetic host with well-constrained ecoph... Read More about Interpretation and application of carbon isotope ratios in freshwater diatom silica.

Low-latitude Holocene hydroclimate derived from lake sediment flux and geochemistry (2016)
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This study investigates hydrological responses to climatic shifts using sediment flux data derived from two dated palaeolake records in south-east Arabia. Flux values are generally low during the early Holocene humid period (EHHP) (∼9.0–6.4k cal a BP... Read More about Low-latitude Holocene hydroclimate derived from lake sediment flux and geochemistry.

Introduction: Constitutionalism and the Evolution of Democracy in India (2016)
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© 2016 by Duke University Press. The essays in this special section make a significant intervention into debates about the evolution of democracy in South Asia by prompting us to rethink the role of constitutionalism in this process. They focus on th... Read More about Introduction: Constitutionalism and the Evolution of Democracy in India.

Crowdsourcing, citizen science or volunteered geographic information? The current state of crowdsourced geographic information (2016)
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Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative agencies. This activity has a very diverse character as it can, amongst oth... Read More about Crowdsourcing, citizen science or volunteered geographic information? The current state of crowdsourced geographic information.

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics (2016)
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Within the tropics, the species richness of tree communities is strongly and positively associated with precipitation. Previous research has suggested that this macroecological pattern is driven by the negative effect of water-stress on the physiolog... Read More about Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics.

North Atlantic forcing of moisture delivery to Europe throughout the Holocene (2016)
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Century-to-millennial scale fluctuations in precipitation and temperature are an established feature of European Holocene climates. Changes in moisture delivery are driven by complex interactions between ocean moisture sources and atmospheric circula... Read More about North Atlantic forcing of moisture delivery to Europe throughout the Holocene.

Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall (2016)
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Quantitative reconstructions of terrestrial climate are highly sought after but rare, particularly in Australia. Carbon isotope discrimination in plant leaves (?leaf) is an established indicator of past hydroclimate because the fractionation of carbo... Read More about Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall.

Perspectives on the Synoptic Climate Classification and its Role in Interdisciplinary Research (2016)
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Synoptic climatology has a long history of research where weather data are aggregated and composited to gain a better understanding of atmospheric effects on non-atmospheric variables. This has resulted in an applied s... Read More about Perspectives on the Synoptic Climate Classification and its Role in Interdisciplinary Research.

Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia) (2016)
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Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) is an ancient lake with unique biodiversity and a site of global significance for investigating the influence of climate, geological, and tectonic events on the generation of endemic populations. Here, we present oxygen... Read More about Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia).

Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow (2016)
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This article examines the decision of Glasgow’s magistrates at the beginning of the twentieth century to prohibit the employment of barmaids in the city's public houses, tracing the origins and advocates of the ban as well its effects on the licensed... Read More about Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow.

Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press (2016)
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Despite links to animal disease governance, food and biosecurity, rural studies has neglected consideration of how actors make sense of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the implications for animal and human health. As antimicrobial re... Read More about Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press.

‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong (2016)
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This paper evaluates how economic restructuring in Guangdong is entwined with the politicization of state rescaling during and after the global financial crisis of 2008. It shows how a key industrial policy known as ‘double relocation’ generated tens... Read More about ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong.

Learning-Based Superresolution Land Cover Mapping (2016)
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Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is a technique for generating a fine spatial resolution land cover map from coarse spatial resolution fraction images estimated by soft classification. The prior model used to describe the fine spatial resolution land c... Read More about Learning-Based Superresolution Land Cover Mapping.

A Superresolution Land-Cover Change Detection Method Using Remotely Sensed Images With Different Spatial Resolutions (2016)
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The development of remote sensing has enabled the acquisition of information on land-cover change at different spatial scales. However, a trade-off between spatial and temporal resolutions normally exists. Fine-spatial-resolution images have low temp... Read More about A Superresolution Land-Cover Change Detection Method Using Remotely Sensed Images With Different Spatial Resolutions.

‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39 (2016)
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Otter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late ninetee... Read More about ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39.