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TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access (2019)
Journal Article
Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., …The Nutrient Network. (2020). TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26(1), 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904

© 2019 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, af... Read More about TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access.

The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands (2019)
Journal Article
Cutts, V., Katal, N., Löwer, C., Algar, A. C., Steinbauer, M. J., Irl, S. D., …Field, R. (2019). The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands. Frontiers of Biogeography, 11(4), Article e43737. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG43737

Topography influences evolutionary and ecological processes by isolating populations and by enhancing habitat diversity. While the effects of large-scale topography on patterns of species richness and endemism are increasingly well documented, the di... Read More about The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands.

Use of Surface Motion Characteristics Determined by InSAR to Assess Peatland Condition (2019)
Journal Article
Alshammari, L., Boyd, D. S., Sowter, A., Marshall, C., Andersen, R., Gilbert, P., …Large, D. J. (2020). Use of Surface Motion Characteristics Determined by InSAR to Assess Peatland Condition. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(1), Article e2018JG004953. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004953

Peatland surface motion is a key property of peatland that relates to condition. However, field‐based techniques to measure surface motion are not cost‐effective over large areas and long time periods. An alternative method that can quantify peatland... Read More about Use of Surface Motion Characteristics Determined by InSAR to Assess Peatland Condition.

Historical Everyday Geopolitics on the Chile-Peru Border (2019)
Journal Article
Freeman, C. (2020). Historical Everyday Geopolitics on the Chile-Peru Border. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 39(4), 439-452. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13067

Geopolitics is increasingly seen by scholars as occurring in everyday spaces and performed by ordinary people. This paper extends this idea to historical work to examine how citizens themselves (re)produce geopolitics at the time of historical events... Read More about Historical Everyday Geopolitics on the Chile-Peru Border.

An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change (2019)
Journal Article
Byskov, M. F., Hyams, K., Satyal, P., Anguelovski, I., Benjamin, L., Blackburn, S., …Venn, A. (2019). An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change. Climate and Development, 13(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1700774

As experts predict that at least some irreversible climate change will occur with potentially disastrous effects on the lives and well-being of vulnerable communities around the world, it is paramount to ensure that these communities are resilient an... Read More about An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change.

Filming female desire: queering the gaze of pop music videos (2019)
Journal Article
Freeman, C. (2020). Filming female desire: queering the gaze of pop music videos. Cultural Studies, 34(6), 1007-1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1704039

This paper examines the queer gaze within pop music videos. It contends that the contemporary US musician Hayley Kiyoko can be seen as a queer music video auteur who has transformed what the ‘gaze’ can mean in mainstream pop music through directing h... Read More about Filming female desire: queering the gaze of pop music videos.

Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia (2019)
Journal Article
Roberts, S., Adams, J. K., Mackay, A. W., Swann, G. E. A., McGowan, S., Rose, N. L., …Shchetnikov, A. A. (2020). Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia. Environmental Pollution, 259, Article 113814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113814

Mercury (Hg) loading in Lake Baikal, a UNESCO world heritage site, is growing and poses a serious health concern to the lake’s ecosystem due to the ability of Hg to transform into a toxic form, known as methylmercury (MeHg). Monitoring of Hg into Lak... Read More about Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia.

Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market (2019)
Journal Article
Coslor, E., Crawford, B., & Leyshon, A. (2020). Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market. Organization Studies, 41(7), 945-967. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619883371

This research examines gatekeepers' categorization work to assess and sort audience members. Using a multi-sited ethnography and interpretivist qualitative lens, we explore how high-value art gallerists sort buyers via categories, but also encourage... Read More about Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market.

Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England (2019)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Seymour, S., & Wilson, P. (2020). Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England. Energy Research and Social Science, 63, Article 101387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101387

Outside of Denmark, straw-based bioenergy has seen uneven success across Europe. In the UK, straw-based bioenergy has been positioned as making a potentially important contribution to the UK government's energy and environmental objectives. However,... Read More about Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England.

Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata (2019)
Journal Article
Riccardi, N., Froufe, E., Bogan, A. E., Zieritz, A., Teixeira, A., Vanetti, I., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2020). Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 189(3), 745–761. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz136

Freshwater bivalves are highly threatened and globally declining due to multiple anthropogenic impacts, making them important conservation targets. Because conservation policies and actions generally occur at the species level, accurate species ident... Read More about Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata.

The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning (2019)
Journal Article
Pan, F., Hall, S., & Zhang, H. (2020). The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning. Urban Geography, 41(6), 849-864. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1700071

Beijing is widely recognized as the leading political, cultural, education and innovation center in China. However, its role as a financial center in national and international financial landscapes is less well understood. In response, this paper spe... Read More about The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning.

Rediscovering the Power of Physical Relief Models: Mayson’s Ordnance Model of the Lake District (2019)
Journal Article
Priestnall, G. (2019). Rediscovering the Power of Physical Relief Models: Mayson’s Ordnance Model of the Lake District. Cartographica, 54(4), 261-277. https://doi.org/10.3138/cart.54.4.2018-0003

Mayson’s Ordnance model of the Lake District, commissioned by Henry and Thomas Mayson from the sculptor Raffaelle Monti in 1875, was based upon early maps from Ordnance Survey, the government mapping agency for Great Britain. It was displayed in the... Read More about Rediscovering the Power of Physical Relief Models: Mayson’s Ordnance Model of the Lake District.

Feminism/feminist geography (2019)
Book Chapter
Calkin, S., & Freeman, C. (2019). Feminism/feminist geography. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. (2). Elsevier

The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience (2019)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, E., Thorne, C., Ahilan, S., Arthur, S., Birkinshaw, S., Butler, D., …Wright, N. (2019). The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience. Blue-Green Systems, 1(1), 172-189. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2019.199

Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design and implementation of urban water systems. Flood risk, wastewater and stormwater management should be re-envisaged and transf... Read More about The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience.

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges (2019)
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van der Sande, M. T., Bruelheide, H., Dawson, W., Dengler, J., Essl, F., Field, R., …Knight, T. M. (2020). Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), 281-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13027

© 2019 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Alien plant species can cause severe ecological and economic problems, and therefore attract a lot of research interest in biogeography and related fields.... Read More about Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges.

SFSDAF: an enhanced FSDAF that incorporates sub-pixel class fraction change information for spatio-temporal image fusion (2019)
Journal Article
Li, X., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Ge, Y., Zhang, Y., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2020). SFSDAF: an enhanced FSDAF that incorporates sub-pixel class fraction change information for spatio-temporal image fusion. Remote Sensing of Environment, 237, Article 111537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111537

Spatio-temporal image fusion methods have become a popular means to produce remotely sensed data sets that have both fine spatial and temporal resolution. Accurate prediction of reflectance change is difficult, especially when the change is caused by... Read More about SFSDAF: an enhanced FSDAF that incorporates sub-pixel class fraction change information for spatio-temporal image fusion.

How do you Build Back Better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post‐Hurricane Irma (2019)
Journal Article
Collodi, J., Pelling, M., Fraser, A., Borie, M., & Di Vicenz, S. (2021). How do you Build Back Better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post‐Hurricane Irma. Disasters, 45(1), 202-223. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12423

The Sendai Framework and Sustainable Development Goals call for action to build back better in ways that leave no one behind. At the same time, ensuring local voice is increasingly central to humanitarian action. These ambitions contrast with limited... Read More about How do you Build Back Better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post‐Hurricane Irma.

“We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria (2019)
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Jewitt, S., Atagher, P., & Clifford, M. (2020). “We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria. Energy Research and Social Science, 61, Article 101340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101340

Drawing on qualitative data from three contrasting sites in Benue state, Nigeria, this paper explores how and why cooking system use and priorities vary over time and space as well as the influence of household air pollution (HAP)-related health risk... Read More about “We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria.

Intensifying Political Geographies of Authoritarianism: Toward an Anti-geopolitics of Garment Worker Struggles in Neoliberal Cambodia (2019)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S. (2020). Intensifying Political Geographies of Authoritarianism: Toward an Anti-geopolitics of Garment Worker Struggles in Neoliberal Cambodia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(4), 1174-1191. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1670040

Cambodia’s recent crackdown on freedoms of expression, association, and assembly coincides with the wider geopolitical ascent of illiberal democracy. Scholarly and public discourse suggests that we are now witnessing a global authoritarian turn, poss... Read More about Intensifying Political Geographies of Authoritarianism: Toward an Anti-geopolitics of Garment Worker Struggles in Neoliberal Cambodia.