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Changing nutrient cycling in Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest lake (2020)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E. A., Panizzo, V. N., Piccolroaz, S., Pashley, V., Horstwood, M., Roberts, S., …Mackay, A. W. (2020). Changing nutrient cycling in Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest lake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(44), 27211-27217. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013181117

Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. Lake Baikal, lying in a rift zone in southeastern Siberia, is the world's oldest, deepest, and most voluminous lake that began to form over 30 million years ago. Cited as the "most outstanding exampl... Read More about Changing nutrient cycling in Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest lake.

A Tale of Maize, Palm, and Pine: Changing Socio-Ecological Interactions from Pre-Classic Maya to the Present Day in Belize (2020)
Journal Article
Rushton, E. A. C., Whitney, B. S., & Metcalfe, S. E. (2020). A Tale of Maize, Palm, and Pine: Changing Socio-Ecological Interactions from Pre-Classic Maya to the Present Day in Belize. Quaternary, 3(4), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3040030

The environmental impact of the ancient Maya, and subsequent ecological recovery following the Terminal Classic decline, have been the key foci of research into socio-ecological interactions in the Yucatán peninsula. These foci, however, belie the co... Read More about A Tale of Maize, Palm, and Pine: Changing Socio-Ecological Interactions from Pre-Classic Maya to the Present Day in Belize.

Assessing the forced labor risk of US fruit and vegetable commodities (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Tichenor Blackstone, N., Benoit Norris, C., Robbins, T., Jackson, B., & Sparks, J. L. D. (2020). Assessing the forced labor risk of US fruit and vegetable commodities. In U. Eberle, S. Smetana, & U. Bos (Eds.), Proceedings 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food LCAFood2020: 13-16 October 2020, Berlin Virtually, German (315-320)

Studies on sustainable food consumption to date have largely focused on promoting human health within ecological limits. Much less attention has been paid to social sustainability, in part because of limited data and models. The aim of this research... Read More about Assessing the forced labor risk of US fruit and vegetable commodities.

How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change (2020)
Journal Article
Krysanova, V., Zaherpour, J., Didovets, I., Gosling, S. N., Gerten, D., Hanasaki, N., …Wada, Y. (2020). How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change. Climatic Change, 163, 1353–1377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02840-0

© 2020, The Author(s). Importance of evaluation of global hydrological models (gHMs) before doing climate impact assessment was underlined in several studies. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of six gHMs in simulating o... Read More about How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change.

Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters (2020)
Journal Article
Rodríguez Valido, C. A., Johnson, M. F., Dugdale, S. J., Cutts, V., Fell, H. G., Higgins, E. A., …Algar, A. C. (2021). Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters. Ecohydrology, 14(1), Article e2258. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2258

Climate change and invasive species are among the biggest threats to global biodiversity and ecosystem function. Although the individual impacts of climate change and invasive species are commonly assessed, we know far less about how a changing clima... Read More about Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters.

A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Schulze, C., Demetriou, Y., Emmerling, S., Schlund, A., Phillips, S. P., Puil, L., …Reimers, A. K. (2020). A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review. BMC Pediatrics, 20(1), Article 473. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02370-9

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: To evaluate the effects of interventions on children's and adolescents' overall physical activity (PA) for boys and girls separately and to appraise the extent to which the studies haven taken sex/gender into account... Read More about A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review.

Rapidly rising transboundary atmospheric pollution from industrial and urban sources in Southeast Asia and its implications for regional sustainable development (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, Q., McGowan, S., Gouramanis, C., Fong, L., Balasubramanian, R., & Taylor, D. (2020). Rapidly rising transboundary atmospheric pollution from industrial and urban sources in Southeast Asia and its implications for regional sustainable development. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), Article 1040a5. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb5ce

Transboundary atmospheric pollution is a major concern throughout much of Southeast Asia (SEA), although most attention has, to date, focused on episodic haze events associated with biomass burning in the region. Here, we reconstruct long-term variat... Read More about Rapidly rising transboundary atmospheric pollution from industrial and urban sources in Southeast Asia and its implications for regional sustainable development.

Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there (2020)
Journal Article
Fazey, I., Schäpke, N., Caniglia, G., Hodgson, A., Kendrick, I., Lyon, C., …Ives, C. D. (2020). Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there. Energy Research and Social Science, 70, Article 101724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimul... Read More about Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there.

Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification (2020)
Journal Article
Carbonneau, P. E., Dugdale, S. J., Breckon, T. P., Dietrich, J. T., Fonstad, M. A., Miyamoto, H., & Woodget, A. S. (2020). Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, Article 112107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112107

Rivers are among the world's most threatened ecosystems. Enabled by the rapid development of drone technology, hyperspatial resolution ([less than]10 cm) images of fluvial environments are now a common data source used to better understand these sens... Read More about Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification.

Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, B., Boyd, D. S., Ives, C. D., Decker Sparks, J. L., Foody, G. M., Marsh, S., & Bales, K. (2020). Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe. Maritime Studies, 19(4), 429–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-020-00199-7

© 2020, The Author(s). Land-based fish-processing activities in coastal fringe areas and their social-ecological impacts have often been overlooked by marine scientists and antislavery groups. Using remote sensing methods, the location and impacts of... Read More about Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe.

The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system (2020)
Journal Article
Fletcher, M., Cadd, H. R., Mariani, M., Hall, T. L., & Wood, S. W. (2020). The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system. Landscape Ecology, 35(10), 2275–2285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01110-9

Context: Forest systems are dynamic and can alternate between alternative stable states in response to climate, disturbance and internal abiotic and biotic conditions. Switching between states depends on the crossing of critical thresholds and the es... Read More about The role of species composition in the emergence of alternate vegetation states in a temperate rainforest system.

Superresolution Land Cover Mapping Using a Generative Adversarial Network (2020)
Journal Article
Shang, C., Li, X., Foody, G. M., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2022). Superresolution Land Cover Mapping Using a Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 19, Article 6000105. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.3020395

Superresolution mapping (SRM) is a commonly used method to cope with the problem of mixed pixels when predicting the spatial distribution within low-resolution pixels. Central to the popular SRM method is the spatial pattern model, which is utilized... Read More about Superresolution Land Cover Mapping Using a Generative Adversarial Network.

Glacial discharge into the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean during the last glacial (2020)
Journal Article
Swann, G. (2020). Glacial discharge into the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean during the last glacial. Global and Planetary Change, 194, Article 103301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103301

Understanding the response of the climate to abrupt changes in the Earth system represents a key objective in paleoclimatology. Heinrich events in the last glacial, during which significant amounts of glacial discharge entered the North Atlantic Ocea... Read More about Glacial discharge into the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean during the last glacial.

Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia (2020)
Journal Article
Reis, S. M., Marimon, B. S., Morandi, P. S., Elias, F., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Marimon Junior, B. H., …Phillips, O. L. (2020). Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia. Journal of Ecology, 108(6), 2184-2197. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13470

© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society Lianas, a key component of tropical forests, can limit growth of trees, impacting both the structure and functioning of forests, and a... Read More about Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia.

Lessons from a high-CO2 world: an ocean view from  ∼ 3 million years ago (2020)
Journal Article
McClymont, E. L., Ford, H. L., Ho, S. L., Tindall, J. C., Haywood, A. M., Alonso-Garcia, M., …Zhang, Z. (2020). Lessons from a high-CO2 world: an ocean view from  ∼ 3 million years ago. Climate of the Past, 16(4), 1599-1615. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1599-2020

A range of future climate scenarios are projected for high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, given uncertainties over future human actions as well as potential environmental and climatic feedbacks. The geological record offers an opportunity to underst... Read More about Lessons from a high-CO2 world: an ocean view from  ∼ 3 million years ago.

Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin (2020)
Journal Article
Trinh, A. D., Do, T. N., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin. Hydrological Processes, 34(22), 4239-4250. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13878

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The young water fraction of streamflow (Fyw), an important hydrological variable, has been calculated for the first time, for a monsoon-fed coastal catchment in northern Vietnam. Oxygen stable isotopes (δ18O) from six r... Read More about Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin.

Long-Term Changes in Endemic Threshold Populations for Pertussis in England and Wales: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69 (2020)
Journal Article
Munro, A. D., Smallman-Raynor, M., & Algar, A. C. (2021). Long-Term Changes in Endemic Threshold Populations for Pertussis in England and Wales: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69. Social Science and Medicine, 288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113295

Metapopulation dynamics play a critical role in driving endemic persistence and transmission of childhood infections. The endemic threshold concept, also referred to as critical community size (CCS), is a key example and is defined as the minimumpopu... Read More about Long-Term Changes in Endemic Threshold Populations for Pertussis in England and Wales: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69.

Monitoring surface water area variations of reservoirs using daily MODIS images by exploring sub-pixel information (2020)
Journal Article
Ling, F., Li, X., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D., Ge, Y., Li, X., & Du, Y. (2020). Monitoring surface water area variations of reservoirs using daily MODIS images by exploring sub-pixel information. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 168, 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.08.008

© 2020 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS) Information on the temporal variation of surface water area of reservoirs is fundamental for water resource management and is often monitored by satellite remote sensing... Read More about Monitoring surface water area variations of reservoirs using daily MODIS images by exploring sub-pixel information.

Seasonality in Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana (2020)
Journal Article
Dongzagla, A., Jewitt, S., & O'Hara, S. (2021). Seasonality in Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 752, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141846

This paper examines seasonal variations in faecal contamination of drinking water sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana. Data collection involved a survey of 568 households, testing of faecal coliform concentrations in dri... Read More about Seasonality in Faecal Contamination of Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana.

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests (2020)
Journal Article
Philipson, C. D., Cutler, M. E. J., Brodrick, P. G., Asner, G. P., Boyd, D. S., Costa, P. M., …Burslem, D. F. R. P. (2020). Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests. Science, 369(6505), 838-841. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay4490

More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity and carbon losses. Restoration could accelerate recovery of aboveground car... Read More about Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests.