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Plant responses to elevated CO 2 levels in soils: Distinct CO 2 and O 2 -depletion effects (2016)
Journal Article
Lake, J. A., Steven, M. D., Smith, K. L., & Lomax, B. H. (2017). Plant responses to elevated CO 2 levels in soils: Distinct CO 2 and O 2 -depletion effects. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 64, 333-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.07.042

To investigate potential environmental effects in the context of carbon dioxide (CO2) leakage from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes, the University of Nottingham ASGARD (Artificial Soil Gassing And Response Detection) facility, was used to in... Read More about Plant responses to elevated CO 2 levels in soils: Distinct CO 2 and O 2 -depletion effects.

Assessing a temporal change strategy for sub-pixel land cover change mapping from multi-scale remote sensing imagery (2016)
Journal Article
Ling, F., Foody, G., Li, X., Zhang, Y., & Du, Y. (in press). Assessing a temporal change strategy for sub-pixel land cover change mapping from multi-scale remote sensing imagery. Remote Sensing, 8(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8080642

Remotely sensed imagery is an attractive source of information for mapping and monitoring land cover. Fine spatial resolution imagery is typically acquired infrequently, but fine temporal resolution systems commonly provide coarse spatial resolution... Read More about Assessing a temporal change strategy for sub-pixel land cover change mapping from multi-scale remote sensing imagery.

Understanding travel behaviour change during mega-events: lessons from the London 2012 Games (2016)
Journal Article
Parkes, S. D., Jopson, A., & Marsden, G. (2016). Understanding travel behaviour change during mega-events: lessons from the London 2012 Games. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.07.006

This paper presents results from a longitudinal study of the travel behaviour change associated with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (the ‘Games’). The research examines commuter travel behaviour through a panel approach enabling an unde... Read More about Understanding travel behaviour change during mega-events: lessons from the London 2012 Games.

Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change (2016)
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Percival, L. M., Cohen, A., Davies, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Jenkyns, H., Leng, M. J., …Xu, W. (2016). Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change. Geology, 44(9), 759-762. https://doi.org/10.1130/G37997.1

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are proposed to have caused a number of episodes of abrupt environmental change by increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, which were subsequently alleviated by drawdown of CO2 via enhanced continental weathering and burial... Read More about Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change.

Picturing the future-conditional: montage and the global geographies of climate change (2016)
Journal Article
Mahony, M. (2016). Picturing the future-conditional: montage and the global geographies of climate change. Geo: Geography and Environment, 3(2), Article e00019. https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.19

A growing body of work has explored the effects of visual imagery on shifting forms of environmental consciousness and politics. Circulating images of, for example, the ‘whole Earth’ have been ascribed agency in the emergence of new forms of planetar... Read More about Picturing the future-conditional: montage and the global geographies of climate change.

Sex and the city: branding, gender and the commodification of sex consumption in contemporary retailing (2016)
Journal Article
Martin, A., & Crewe, L. (in press). Sex and the city: branding, gender and the commodification of sex consumption in contemporary retailing. Urban Studies, 54(3), 582-599. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016659615

This paper explores the changing spatiality of the sex retail industry in England and Wales, from highly regulated male orientated sex shops, pushed to the legislative margins of the city and social respectability, towards the emergence of unregulate... Read More about Sex and the city: branding, gender and the commodification of sex consumption in contemporary retailing.

What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette? (2016)
Book Chapter
Coen, S. (2016). What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette?. In N. E. Fenton, & J. Baxter (Eds.), Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies (131-152). Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge

Deploying participant-generated drawing as a research method presented me with two new challenges. The first is rather personal. Although I am convinced that drawing is a valuable method and stand by what I have written in this chapter, I wrestled wi... Read More about What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette?.

Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article
Stedman, R. C., Evensen, D., O'Hara, S., & Humphrey, M. (2016). Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.06.017

Our work examines the relationship between knowledge/familiarity with shale gas development in a comparative context. The United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) represent very different cases of shale gas development, with development relatively... Read More about Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Modelling and the nation: institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988–92 (2016)
Journal Article
Mahony, M., & Hulme, M. (in press). Modelling and the nation: institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988–92. Minerva, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-016-9302-0

How climate models came to gain and exercise epistemic authority has been a key concern of recent climate change historiography. Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we reconstruct negotiations be... Read More about Modelling and the nation: institutionalising climate prediction in the UK, 1988–92.

Identification and analysis of low molecular weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography (2016)
Journal Article
Lawson, E. C., Wadham, J. L., Lis, G. P., Tranter, M., Pickard, A. E., Stibal, M., …Fitzsimons, S. (2016). Identification and analysis of low molecular weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography. Biogeosciences Discussions, 12(16), 14139-14174. https://doi.org/10.5194/bgd-12-14139-2015

© Author(s) 2015. Glacial runoff is an important source of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) for downstream heterotrophic activity, despite the low overall DOC concentrations. This is because of the abundance of bioavailable, low molecular weight (LMW)... Read More about Identification and analysis of low molecular weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography.

Identification and analysis of low-molecular-weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography (2016)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, E. C., Wadham, J. L., Lis, G. P., Tranter, M., Pickard, A. E., Stibal, M., …Fitzsimons, S. (2016). Identification and analysis of low-molecular-weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography. Biogeosciences, 13, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3833-2016

Determining the concentration and composition of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in glacial ecosystems is important for assessments of in situ microbial activity and contributions to wider biogeochemical cycles. Nonetheless, there is limited knowledge... Read More about Identification and analysis of low-molecular-weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography.

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts (2016)
Journal Article
Feldpausch, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J., Gloor, E., Lloyd, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., …Vos, V. A. (2016). Amazon forest response to repeated droughts. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(7), 964-982. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005133

©2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. The Amazon Basin has experienced more variable climate over the last decade, with a severe and widespread drought in 2005 causing large basin-wide losses of biomass. A drought of similar climato... Read More about Amazon forest response to repeated droughts.

Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis (2016)
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Fraser, A., Paterson, S., & Pelling, M. (2016). Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis. Journal of Extreme Events, 03(02), Article 1650008. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2345737616500081

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 calls for science to support policy move toward more holistic solutions to disaster risk. This paper outlines an original framework to promote inter-disciplinary research into disaster causat... Read More about Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis.

Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (2016)
Journal Article
Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., Grytnes, J. A., Trigas, P., Ah-Peng, C., Attore, F., …De Sanctis, M. (2016). Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(9), 1097-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12469

Aim: Higher-elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to test the generality of the predicted pattern. We also compare it emp... Read More about Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation.

Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution (2016)
Journal Article
Kender, S., McClymont, E. L., Elmore, A. C., Emanuele, D., Leng, M. J., & Elderfield, H. (2016). Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution. Nature Communications, 7(1), Article 11970. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11970

Understanding the interaction between climate and biotic evolution is crucial for deciphering the sensitivity of life. An enigmatic mass extinction occurred in the deep oceans during the Mid Pleistocene, with a loss of over 100 species (20%) of sea f... Read More about Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution.

New directions in island biogeography (2016)
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Santos, A. M., Field, R., & Ricklefs, R. E. (in press). New directions in island biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12477

Aim: Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and phylogenetic relationships and new analytical approaches to understanding the pr... Read More about New directions in island biogeography.

EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK (2016)
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Jan-Peter, M., Yu, T., Panagiotis, S., Klaus, G., Konrad, W., Lida, F., …Bamford, S. (2016). EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B4, 453-458. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b4-453-2016

Understanding planetary atmosphere-surface exchange and extra-terrestrial-surface formation processes within our Solar System is one of the fundamental goals of planetary science research. There has been a revolution in planetary surface observations... Read More about EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK.

Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the Southwest Pacific (2016)
Journal Article
McClymont, E. L., Elmore, A. C., Kender, S., Leng, M. J., Greaves, M., & Elderfield, H. (in press). Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the Southwest Pacific. Paleoceanography, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016PA002954

Over the last 5 million years, the global climate system has evolved toward a colder mean state, marked by large amplitude oscillations in continental ice volume. Equatorward expansion of polar waters and strengthening temperature gradients have been... Read More about Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the Southwest Pacific.

A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders (2016)
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Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2017). A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders. Mobilities, 12(5), 646-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1176775

This paper uses the concept of viscosity to highlight how structural impediments to movement affect not only populations and individuals characterised by low (or no) mobility but also highly mobile groups. Using the ‘cyclo’ riding paratransit workers... Read More about A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders.