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Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance (2014)
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Espírito-Santo, F. D., Gloor, M., Keller, M., Malhi, Y., Saatchi, S., Nelson, B., …Phillips, O. L. (2014). Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance. Nature Communications, 5, Article e3434. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4434

Forest inventory studies in the Amazon indicate a large terrestrial carbon sink. However, field plots may fail to represent forest mortality processes at landscape-scales of tropical forests. Here we characterize the frequency distribution of disturb... Read More about Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance.

Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards (2014)
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Muñoz, M. M., Stimola, M. A., Algar, A. C., Cosover, A., Rodriguez, A. J., Landestoy, M. A., …Losos, J. B. (2014). Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1778), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2433

Understanding how quickly physiological traits evolve is a topic of great interest, particularly in the context of how organisms can adapt in response to climate warming. Adjustment to novel thermal habitats may occur either through behavioural adjus... Read More about Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards.

The impacts of climate change on river flood risk at the global scale (2014)
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Arnell, N., & Gosling, S. N. (2016). The impacts of climate change on river flood risk at the global scale. Climatic Change, 134(3), 387-401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1084-5

This paper presents an assessment of the implications of climate change for global river flood risk. It is based on the estimation of flood frequency relationships at a grid resolution of 0.5×0.5°, using a global hydrological model with climate scena... Read More about The impacts of climate change on river flood risk at the global scale.

First look at changes in flood hazard in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project ensemble (2014)
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Dankers, R., Arnell, N. W., Clark, D. B., Falloon, P. D., Fekete, B. M., Gosling, S. N., …Wisser, D. (2014). First look at changes in flood hazard in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project ensemble. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(9), 3257-3261. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302078110

Climate change due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of precipitation events, which is likely to affect the probability of flooding into the future. In this paper we use river flow simulatio... Read More about First look at changes in flood hazard in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project ensemble.

Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment (2014)
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Prudhomme, C., Giuntoli, I., Robinson, E. L., Clark, D. B., Arnell, N. W., Dankers, R., …Wisser, D. (2014). Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(9), 3262-3267. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1222473110

Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are expected to modify the global water cycle with significant consequences for terrestrial hydrology. We assess the impact of climate change on hydrological droughts in a multimodel exp... Read More about Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment.

Animal perception in gravel-bed rivers: scales of sensing and environmental controls on sensory information (2014)
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Johnson, M. F., & Rice, S. P. (2014). Animal perception in gravel-bed rivers: scales of sensing and environmental controls on sensory information. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 71(6), 945-957. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0474

Animals make decisions based on the sensory information that they obtain from the environment and other organisms within that environment. In a river, this information is transported, transmitted, masked, and filtered by fluvial factors and processes... Read More about Animal perception in gravel-bed rivers: scales of sensing and environmental controls on sensory information.

A glossary for biometeorology (2014)
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Gosling, S. N., Bryce, E. K., Dixon, P. G., Gabriel, K. M., Gosling, E. Y., Hanes, J. M., …Wanka, E. R. (2014). A glossary for biometeorology. International Journal of Biometeorology, 58(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-013-0729-9

Here we present, for the first time, a glossary of biometeorological terms. The glossary aims to address the need for a reliable source of biometeorological definitions, thereby facilitating communication and mutual understanding in this rapidly expa... Read More about A glossary for biometeorology.

Including spatial distribution in a data-driven rainfall-runoff model to improve reservoir inflow forecasting in Taiwan (2014)
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Meng-Jung, T., Abrahart, R., Mount, N. J., & Chang, F.-J. (2014). Including spatial distribution in a data-driven rainfall-runoff model to improve reservoir inflow forecasting in Taiwan. Hydrological Processes, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9559

Multi-step ahead inflow forecasting has a critical role to play in reservoir operation and management in Taiwan during typhoons as statutory legislation requires a minimum of 3-hours warning to be issued before any reservoir releases are made. Howeve... Read More about Including spatial distribution in a data-driven rainfall-runoff model to improve reservoir inflow forecasting in Taiwan.

Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact (2014)
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Arnell, N., Brown, S., Gosling, S. N., Hinkel, J., Huntingford, C., Lloyd-Hughes, B., …Zelazowski, P. (2016). Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact. Climatic Change, 134(3), 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-013-1034-7

Although there is a strong policy interest in the impacts of climate change corresponding to different degrees of climate change, there is so far little consistent empirical evidence of the relationship between climate forcing and impact. This is bec... Read More about Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact.

An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies (2014)
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Legg, S. (2014). An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies. Journal of Historical Geography, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.03.002

This paper examines India's experiences as the only non-self-governing member of the League of Nations as a means of addressing the broader question: where was the international? As the only non-self-governing member of the League, India's new intern... Read More about An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies.

Sensitivity analysis for comparison, validation and physical-legitimacy of neural network-based hydrological models (2014)
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Dawson, C., Mount, N. J., Abrahart, R., & Louis, J. (2014). Sensitivity analysis for comparison, validation and physical-legitimacy of neural network-based hydrological models. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 16(2), https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2013.222

This paper addresses the difficult question of how to perform meaningful comparisons between neural network-based hydrological models and alternative modelling approaches. Standard, goodness-of-fit metric approaches are limited since they only assess... Read More about Sensitivity analysis for comparison, validation and physical-legitimacy of neural network-based hydrological models.

Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites (2014)
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Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2014). Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites. Environment and Planning A, 46(7), https://doi.org/10.1068/a45392

In this paper we argue that postgraduate education forms an important, but hitherto neglected, element in the distinctive institutional landscape of the City of London.
In particular, and drawing on research into early-career financial and legal eli... Read More about Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites.

The ecosystem approach as a framework for understanding knowledge utilisation (2014)
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Haines-Young, R., & Potschin, M. (2014). The ecosystem approach as a framework for understanding knowledge utilisation. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1068/c1329j

The Ecosystem Approach is used to analyse four case studies from England to determine what kind of ecosystem knowledge was used by people, and how it shaped their arguments. The results are reported across decisions making venues concerned with: inno... Read More about The ecosystem approach as a framework for understanding knowledge utilisation.

Current energy resources in Kazakhstan and the future potential of renewables: a review (2014)
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Karatayev, M., & Clarke, M. L. (2014). Current energy resources in Kazakhstan and the future potential of renewables: a review. Energy Procedia, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.10.354

Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium and has significant renewable potential from wind, solar, hydro and biomass. In spite of this, the country is currently dependent upon fossil fuels for power generat... Read More about Current energy resources in Kazakhstan and the future potential of renewables: a review.

Pliocene diatom and sponge spicule oxygen isotope ratios from the Bering Sea: isotopic offsets and future directions (2014)
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Snelling, A. M., Swann, G., Pike, J., & Leng, M. J. (2014). Pliocene diatom and sponge spicule oxygen isotope ratios from the Bering Sea: isotopic offsets and future directions. Climate of the Past, 10, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1837-2014

Oxygen isotope analyses of different size fractions of Pliocene diatoms (δ18Odiatom) from the Bering Sea show no evidence of an isotope offset and support the use of bulk diatom species samples for palaeoceanographic reconstructions. Additional sampl... Read More about Pliocene diatom and sponge spicule oxygen isotope ratios from the Bering Sea: isotopic offsets and future directions.

Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests (2014)
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Hawkins, B. A., Rueda, M., Rangel, T. F., Field, R., & Diniz-Filho, J. A. F. (2014). Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests. Journal of Biogeography, 41(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12171

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The fossil record has led to a historical explanation for forest diversity gradients within the cool parts of the Northern Hemisphere, founded on a limited ability of woody angiosperm clades to adapt to mid-Tertiary cooling. We tested four pre... Read More about Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests.

The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship (2014)
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Veale, L. (2014). The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1),

The Landscape and Environment programme was one of the first strategic research programmes to be launched by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) soon after it acquired its royal charter in 2005. In 2010, programme Director Stephen Daniels... Read More about The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship.