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Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia) (2020)
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The Unionidae represent an excellent model taxon for unravelling the drivers of freshwater diversity, but, phylogeographic studies on Southeast Asian taxa are hampered by lack of a comprehensive phylogeny and mutation rates for this fauna. We present... Read More about Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia).

The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK? (2020)
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© The Author(s) 2020. The United Kingdom’s (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) will reshape the geography of European finance. From January 2021, the UK will no longer be able to sell financial services cross-border into the EU’s Single Mark... Read More about The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK?.

Object-Based Area-to-Point Regression Kriging for Pansharpening (2020)
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IEEE Optical earth observation satellite sensors often provide a coarse spatial resolution (CR) multispectral (MS) image together with a fine spatial resolution (FR) panchromatic (PAN) image. Pansharpening is a technique applied to such satellite sen... Read More about Object-Based Area-to-Point Regression Kriging for Pansharpening.

Long-term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems (2020)
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© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Knowledge of the drivers of ecosystem changes in the past is key to understanding present ecosystem responses to changes in climate, fire regimes and anthropogenic impacts. Northern Hemisphere-focussed studies sugg... Read More about Long-term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems.

Anthropogenic litter is a novel habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban rivers (2020)
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1. Anthropogenic litter (solid manufactured waste) is an understudied but pervasive element of river systems worldwide. Its physical structure generally differs from natural substrates, such as gravel and cobbles (hereafter rocks). Consequently, anth... Read More about Anthropogenic litter is a novel habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban rivers.

Assessing the potential replacement of laurel forest by a novel ecosystem in the steep terrain of an Oceanic Island (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. T. Biological invasions are a major global threat to biodiversity and often affect ecosystem services negatively. They are particularly problematic on oceanic islands where there are many narr... Read More about Assessing the potential replacement of laurel forest by a novel ecosystem in the steep terrain of an Oceanic Island.

High rates of biodeposition and N-excretion indicate strong functional effects of mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in certain anthropogenic tropical freshwater habitats (2020)
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The functional roles of freshwater mussels (Unionida) in tropical systems are poorly understood. We quantified the effects of mussel filtration, excretion and deposition in three anthropogenic tropical systems, i.e. a man-made lake, abandoned mining... Read More about High rates of biodeposition and N-excretion indicate strong functional effects of mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in certain anthropogenic tropical freshwater habitats.

Let your maps be fuzzy!—Class probabilities and floristic gradients as alternatives to crisp mapping for remote sensing of vegetation (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Zoological Society of London. Mapping vegetation as hard classes based on remote sensing data is a frequently applied approach, even thou... Read More about Let your maps be fuzzy!—Class probabilities and floristic gradients as alternatives to crisp mapping for remote sensing of vegetation.

Climate variability and implications for keeping rivers cool in England (2020)
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Water temperature (Tw) is a primary determinant of river ecosystem health and function that is strongly controlled by climate variability and change but mediated by catchment properties. We apply a nested analysis to: (1) evaluate how annual and seas... Read More about Climate variability and implications for keeping rivers cool in England.

The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (2020)
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Aim: Long-term ecological data provide a stepped frame of island ecosystem transformation after successive waves of human colonization, essential to determine conservation and management baselines. However, the timing and ecological impact of initial... Read More about The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.

Cloud detection in Landsat-8 imagery in Google Earth Engine based on a deep convolutional neural network (2020)
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© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Google Earth Engine (GEE) provides a convenient platform for applications based on optical satellite imagery of large areas. With such data sets, the detection of cloud is often a necess... Read More about Cloud detection in Landsat-8 imagery in Google Earth Engine based on a deep convolutional neural network.

Colonialism and the environment: The pollution legacy of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest copper mine in the 20th century (2020)
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Mining has been a major contributor to economic development in Australia since British arrival in the late 1700s, with little to no thought about the long-term environmental consequences. This study assesses the metal pollution legacy caused by diffe... Read More about Colonialism and the environment: The pollution legacy of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest copper mine in the 20th century.

Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces (2020)
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The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at local, regional, and global scales is not only necessary to conserve geod... Read More about Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces.

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (2020)
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The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120... Read More about Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests.

Fakes and chemicals: indigenous medicine in contemporary Kenya and implications for health equity (2020)
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Background Access to effective biomedical treatments for humans and livestock in Kenya is far from universal. Indigenous healing has a significant role to play in contemporary society in Kenya, yet access is not the only reason for this. Beliefs sur... Read More about Fakes and chemicals: indigenous medicine in contemporary Kenya and implications for health equity.

The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentieth-century internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers. We show h... Read More about The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race.

Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area (2020)
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Understanding the significance of pollen diversity is key to reconstructing plant diversity over long timescales. Here we present quantitative pollen–plant diversity comparisons for a mountainous area of the Western Mediterranean region. Samples wer... Read More about Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area.

Background concentrations of mercury in Australian freshwater sediments: The effect of catchment characteristics on mercury deposition (2020)
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Waterways in the Australian continent are facing increasing levels of mercury contamination due to industrialisation, agricultural intensification, energy production, urbanisation and mining. Mercury contamination undermines the use of waterways as a... Read More about Background concentrations of mercury in Australian freshwater sediments: The effect of catchment characteristics on mercury deposition.

Can ?18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co (2020)
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© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. Glacier-fed lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have undergone rapid expansions since the late 1990s, concurrent with the changing climate. However, the dominant cause(s) of lake area increases is still debated. To identify... Read More about Can ?18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co.

Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California (2020)
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Projections of future climate change impacts suggest an increase of wildfire activity in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as southern California. This region is a wildfire hotspot and fire managers are under increasingly high pressures to minimize soci... Read More about Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California.