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Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis (2020)
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Nürk, N. M., Linder, H. P., Onstein, R. E., Larcombe, M. J., Hughes, C. E., Piñeiro Fernández, L., …Pirie, M. D. (2020). Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis. Ecology and Evolution, 10(12), 6163-6182. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6313

© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a key issue in evolutionary biology, ecology, and biogeography. Evolutionary rates are the net res... Read More about Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis.

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts (2020)
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Fraser, A., Pelling, M., Scolobig, A., & Mavrogenis, S. (2020). Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts. Global Environmental Change, 63, Article 102102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102102

The continued rise of global disaster losses pushes our attention yet further to the causal factors that drive risks, beyond the frame of standardised risk assessment models. A key gap in our understanding of the causality of disasters remains establ... Read More about Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts.

Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years (2020)
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Briddon, C. L., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S. E., Panizzo, V., Lacey, J., Engels, S., …Idris, M. (2020). Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years. Geo: Geography and Environment, 7(1), Article e00090. https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.90

Rapid development and climate change in southeast Asia is placing unprecedented pressures on freshwater ecosystems, but long term records of the ecological consequences are rare. Here we examine one basin of Tasik Chini (Malaysia), a UNESCO‐designate... Read More about Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years.

Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932 (2020)
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Legg, S. (2020). Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932. Humanity, 11(1), 32-53. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2020.0006

This paper argues that we can view the Round Table Conference (three sittings between 1930-32) as an international organisation that re-assembled the technology of the colonial Indian state. The conference is traditionally associated with colonial an... Read More about Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932.

The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia (2020)
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Beck, K., Mariani, M., Fletcher, M.-S., Schneider, L., Aquino-Lopez, M., Gadd, P., …Zawadzki, A. (2020). The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia. Environmental Pollution, 265, Article 114695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114695

Mining causes extensive damage to aquatic ecosystems via acidification, heavy metal pollution, sediment loading, and Ca decline. Yet little is known about the effects of mining on freshwater systems in the Southern Hemisphere. A case in point is the... Read More about The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia.

Anabiosis and the liminal geographies of de/extinction (2020)
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Searle, A. (2020). Anabiosis and the liminal geographies of de/extinction. Environmental Humanities, 12(1), 321-345. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142385

The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This artic... Read More about Anabiosis and the liminal geographies of de/extinction.

Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores? (2020)
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Holloway, P., & Field, R. (2020). Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores?. Land, 9(5), Article 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/LAND9050131

© 2020 by the authors. Despite the global implementation of rock-rubble groyne structures, there is limited research investigating their ecology, much less than for other artificial coastal structures. Here we compare the intertidal ecology of urban... Read More about Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores?.

Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales (2020)
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Donihue, C. M., Kowaleski, A. M., Losos, J. B., Algar, A. C., Baeckens, S., Buchkowski, R. W., …Herrel, A. (2020). Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(19), 10429-10434. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000801117

Extreme climate events such as droughts, cold snaps, and hurricanes can be powerful agents of natural selection, producing acute selective pressures very different from the everyday pressures acting on organisms. However, it remains unknown whether t... Read More about Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales.

Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia (2020)
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Lewis, J. P., Ryves, D. B., Rasmussen, P., Olsen, J., van der Sluis, L. G., Reimer, P. J., …Juggins, S. (2020). Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia. Nature Communications, 11, Article 2006. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15621-1

How climate and ecology affect key cultural transformations remains debated in the context of long-term socio-cultural development because of spatially and temporally disjunct climate and archaeological records. The introduction of agriculture trigge... Read More about Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia.

‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender (2020)
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Coen, S. E., Davidson, J., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2021). ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(4), 537-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2020.1748897

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper develops a visceral feminist geography of the gym to expand our understanding of how everyday physical activity environments are implicated in the gendered context of physical... Read More about ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender.

Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta (2020)
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Zieritz, A., Taha, H., Lopes-Lima, M., Pfeiffer, J., Sing, K. W., Sulaiman, Z., …Rahim, K. A. (2020). Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29(7), 2235–2253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-01971-1

The freshwater mussel fauna of Borneo is highly endemic, with at least 11 species being unique to that island. Most of these species have not been recorded for at least 50 years owing to a lack of sampling effort and large-scale habitat destruction a... Read More about Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta.

Use of automated change detection and VGI sources for identifying and validating urban land use change (2020)
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Olteanu-Raimond, A. M., See, L., Schultz, M., Foody, G., Riffler, M., Gasber, T., …Gombert, M. (2020). Use of automated change detection and VGI sources for identifying and validating urban land use change. Remote Sensing, 12(7), Article 1186. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071186

© 2020, by the authors. Land use and land cover (LULC) mapping is often undertaken by national mapping agencies, where these LULC products are used for different types of monitoring and reporting applications. Updating of LULC databases is often done... Read More about Use of automated change detection and VGI sources for identifying and validating urban land use change.

Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time (2020)
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Stanton, T., Johnson, M., Nathanail, P., MacNaughtan, W., & Gomes, R. L. (2020). Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time. Environmental Pollution, 263, Article 114481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114481

Plastic pollution represents one of the most salient indicators of society’s impact on the environment. The microplastic component of this is ubiquitous, however, microplastic studies are seldom representative of the locations they sample. Over 12 mo... Read More about Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time.

Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude - evidence from a model-observation investigation (2020)
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Xuan Do, H., Zhao, F., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., Eric Stanislas Boulange, J., …Wada, Y. (2020). Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude - evidence from a model-observation investigation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(3), 1543-1564. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1543-2020

© Author(s) 2020. To improve the understanding of trends in extreme flows related to flood events at the global scale, historical and future changes of annual maxima of 7 d streamflow are investigated, using a comprehensive streamflow archive and six... Read More about Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude - evidence from a model-observation investigation.

Conservation status assessment and a new method for establishing conservation priorities for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage (2020)
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Yang, X., Liu, X., Ouyang, S., Zanatta, D. T., Lopes‐Lima, M., Bogan, A. E., …Wu, X. (2020). Conservation status assessment and a new method for establishing conservation priorities for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30(5), 1000-1011. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3298

1. The freshwater mussel (Unionida) fauna of the Yangtze River is among the most diverse on Earth. In recent decades, human activities have caused habitat degradation in the river, and previous studies estimated that up to 80% of the mussel specie... Read More about Conservation status assessment and a new method for establishing conservation priorities for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage.

Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management (2020)
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Maskrey, S., Vilcan, T., O’Donnell, E., & Lamond, J. (2020). Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management. Environmental Science and Policy, 107, 198-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.02.012

Learning and Action Alliances (LAAs) are becoming an increasingly popular method for overcoming the challenges associated with participatory forms of governance, where decision making requires collaboration between stakeholders. In flood risk managem... Read More about Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management.

Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests (2020)
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Hubau, W., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Beeckman, H., Cuní-Sanchez, A., …Zemagho, L. (2020). Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests. Nature, 579(7797), 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic... Read More about Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests.

Characterising the geomorphological and physicochemical effects of water injection dredging on estuarine systems (2020)
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Pledger, A., Johnson, M., Brewin, P., Phillips, J., Martin, S., & Yu, D. (2020). Characterising the geomorphological and physicochemical effects of water injection dredging on estuarine systems. Journal of Environmental Management, 261, Article 110259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110259

Dredging is a globally important aquatic system management activity, used for navigation improvement, contamination removal, aggregate production and/or flood risk mitigation. Despite widespread application, understanding of the environmental effects... Read More about Characterising the geomorphological and physicochemical effects of water injection dredging on estuarine systems.