All Outputs (101)

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.

Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services? (2020)
Journal Article
Tandarić, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2020). Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?. Journal of Urban Ecology, 6(1), Article juaa016. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa016

Despite being intangible, subjective and difficult to measure, cultural ecosystem services (CES) are more comprehensible and meaningful to people than many other services. They contribute greatly to the quality of urban life and achieving sustainabil... Read More about Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?.

A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: recommendations and insights (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Ka Shun Chan, F., He, J., Johnson, M., Gibbins, C., Kay, P., …Zhu, Y.-G. (2021). A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: recommendations and insights. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 51(22), 2637-2680. https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2020.1801308

Freshwater systems are vitally important, supporting diversity and providing a range of ecosystem services. In China, rapid urbanization (over 800 million urban population) has led to multiple anthropogenic pressures that threaten urban freshwater en... Read More about A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: recommendations and insights.

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism (2020)
Journal Article
Flantua, S. G. A., Payne, D., Borregaard, M. K., Beierkuhnlein, C., Steinbauer, M. J., Dullinger, S., …Field, R. (2020). Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), 1651-1673. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13155

© 2020 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true isl... Read More about Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism.

Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Searle, A., & Turnbull, J. (2020). Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 291-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620933859

Stories of nature’s resurgence during quarantine have been dangerously conflated with an alarming narrative contending ‘Earth is healing, we are the virus’. Deploying a more-than-human perspective, we show how this discourse arises from biocultural d... Read More about Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19.

Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England (2020)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Morris, C., & Raman, S. (2020). Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England. Journal of Rural Studies, 78, 447-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.07.008

The concept of antibiotic stewardship has recently gained prominence in UK and EU policy and practice as part of wider efforts to reduce antibiotic use in agriculture and respond to concerns about antimicrobial resistance. The purpose of the paper is... Read More about Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England.

Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants (2020)
Journal Article
Meireles, J. E., Cavender-Bares, J., Townsend, P. A., Ustin, S., Gamon, J. A., Schweiger, A. K., …O'Meara, B. C. (2020). Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants. New Phytologist, 228(2), 485-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16771

Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf traits affects the differentiation of spectra among species and li... Read More about Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants.

Using Recurrent Neural Network for Intelligent Prediction of Water Level in Reservoirs (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Weng, Y., Gosling, S., Yang, H., Yang, C., …Ma, Q. (2020). Using Recurrent Neural Network for Intelligent Prediction of Water Level in Reservoirs. . https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-108

© 2020 IEEE. Water resources management over long term has faced a great challenge due to the increasing demands on water from a growing number of population and a huge variance of water usage in different time and place. Therefore, a new time series... Read More about Using Recurrent Neural Network for Intelligent Prediction of Water Level in Reservoirs.

Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45 (2020)
Journal Article
Smallman-Raynor, M. R., & Cliff, A. D. (2020). Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45. Social Science History, 44(4), 615-639. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.23

The Nazi ghetto system was one of the principal vehicles for the persecution of Jewish and other peoples in German-occupied Europe in World War II. Transport and confinement – twin pillars of the ghetto system – were intrinsically geographical matter... Read More about Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45.

A grid-based map for the biogeographical regions of Europe (2020)
Journal Article
Cervellini, M., Zannini, P., Di Musciano, M., Fattorini, S., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Rocchini, D., …Chiarucci, A. (2020). A grid-based map for the biogeographical regions of Europe. Biodiversity Data Journal, 8, Article e53720. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e53720

© Pensoft Publishers. Background Biogeographical units are widely adopted in ecological research and nature conservation management, even though biogeographical regionalisation is still under scientific debate. The European Environment Agency provide... Read More about A grid-based map for the biogeographical regions of Europe.

Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania (2020)
Journal Article
Howland, O., Brockington, D., & Noe, C. (2020). Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 9(2), 171-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976020925318

The transformations of the coffee sector have posed major challenges to rural farmers who have lost an important source of income. However, the way in which such shocks are experienced by families hinges on the gender relations governing families’ pr... Read More about Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania.

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora (2020)
Journal Article
Feitosa, Y. O., Zartman, C. E., Killeen, T. J., Fine, P. V. A., Guedes, M. C., Barlow, J., …van der Heijden, G. (2020). Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 10130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66686-3

© 2020, The Author(s). Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spatial aggregation to... Read More about Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales (2020)
Book Chapter
Schrodt, F., De La Barreda Bautista, B., Williams, C., Boyd, D. S., Schaepman-Strub, G., & Santos, M. J. (2020). Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales. In Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity (449-484). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33157-3_17

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020. Assessing patterns and processes of plant functional, taxonomic, genetic, and structural biodiversity at large scales is essential across many disciplines, including ecosystem management, agricu... Read More about Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales.

Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a post-truth age (2020)
Book
Davies, T., & Mah, A. (Eds.). (2020). Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a post-truth age. Manchester University Press

In an age of post-truth politics, where official science is increasingly under attack, what is the role for grassroots citizen science in environmental justice campaigns? The environmental justice movement has traditionally rallied against the misuse... Read More about Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a post-truth age.

Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography (2020)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S. (2020). Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934927

The economic fallout from COVID-19 has precipitated a crisis in global supply chains. The lockdown of consumers worldwide has triggered a fall in demand that has so far led to the dismissal of up to one-third of Cambodia’s garment sector workforce. T... Read More about Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography.

Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Zawawi, A. A., Porter, N., & Ives, C. D. (2020). Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems. In R. M. Doheim, A. A. Farag, & E. Kamel (Eds.), Humanizing cities through car-free city development and transformation (32-71). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3507-3.ch002

This chapter describes how greenways can be a constituent of sustainable urban mobility (SUM) systems that reduce automobile dependence while simultaneously having positive environmental and social co-benefits. It begins by providing a brief backgrou... Read More about Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems.

Spatiotemporal Fusion of Land Surface Temperature Based on a Convolutional Neural Network (2020)
Journal Article
Yin, Z., Wu, P., Foody, G. M., Wu, Y., Liu, Z., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2021). Spatiotemporal Fusion of Land Surface Temperature Based on a Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(2), 1808-1822. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2999943

© 1980-2012 IEEE. Due to the tradeoff between spatial and temporal resolutions commonly encountered in remote sensing, no single satellite sensor can provide fine spatial resolution land surface temperature (LST) products with frequent coverage. This... Read More about Spatiotemporal Fusion of Land Surface Temperature Based on a Convolutional Neural Network.

Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (2020)
Journal Article
Worne, S., Kender, S., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Ravelo, A. C. (2020). Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 555, Article 109845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109845

© 2020 Reduction in atmospheric pCO2 has been hypothesised as a causal mechanism for the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), which saw global cooling and increased duration of glacials between 0.6 and 1.2 Ma. Sea ice-modulated high latitude upwelling a... Read More about Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

Ending slavery by decarbonisation? Exploring the nexus of modern slavery, deforestation, and climate change action via REDD+ (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, B., & Decker Sparks, J. L. (2020). Ending slavery by decarbonisation? Exploring the nexus of modern slavery, deforestation, and climate change action via REDD+. Energy Research and Social Science, 69, Article 101610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101610

Activities involving the deforestation are high-risk for modern slavery, and is an issue which has global consequences for forest environments and communities. Despite this, little work is being done to eradicate modern slavery from these sectors. An... Read More about Ending slavery by decarbonisation? Exploring the nexus of modern slavery, deforestation, and climate change action via REDD+.

Iterative Training Sample Expansion to Increase and Balance the Accuracy of Land Classification from VHR Imagery (2020)
Journal Article
Lv, Z., Li, G., Jin, Z., Benediktsson, J. A., & Foody, G. M. (2021). Iterative Training Sample Expansion to Increase and Balance the Accuracy of Land Classification from VHR Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(1), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2996064

© 1980-2012 IEEE. Imbalanced training sets are known to produce suboptimal maps for supervised classification. Therefore, one challenge in mapping land cover is acquiring training data that will allow classification with high overall accuracy (OA) in... Read More about Iterative Training Sample Expansion to Increase and Balance the Accuracy of Land Classification from VHR Imagery.