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Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life (2020)
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Turnbull, J., Searle, A., & Adams, W. M. (2020). Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(Supplement 1), 6.1-6.10. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00027_1

Quarantine conditions led to the proliferation of digital encounters with nonhuman animals. Here, we explore three prominent forms: creaturely cameos, avatar acquaintances and background birding. These virtual encounters afforded during lockdown life... Read More about Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life.

The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (Thalassiosira weissflogii) (2020)
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Donald, H. K., Foster, G. L., Fröhberg, N., Swann, G. E. A., Poulton, A. J., Moore, C. M., & Humphreys, M. P. (2020). The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (Thalassiosira weissflogii). Biogeosciences, 17(10), 2825-2837. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2825-2020

The high-latitude oceans are key areas of carbon and heat exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean. As such, they are a focus of both modern oceanographic and palaeoclimate research. However, most palaeoclimate proxies that could provide a long-... Read More about The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (Thalassiosira weissflogii).

River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems (2020)
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Ouellet, V., St-Hilaire, A., Dugdale, S. J., Hannah, D. M., Krause, S., & Proulx-Ouellet, S. (2020). River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment, 736, Article 139679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139679

There is growing evidence that river temperatures are increasing under climate change, which is expected to be exacerbated by increased abstractions to satisfy human water demands. Water temperature research has experienced crucial advances, both in... Read More about River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems.

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests (2020)
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Erwin, T., Arets, E. J., Costa, F., Sullivan, M. J. P., Lewis, S. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., …Phillips, O. L. (2020). Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. Science, 368(6493), 869-874. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7578

Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predi... Read More about Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests.

The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation (2020)
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Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2021). The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation. New Political Economy, 26(3), 376-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1766432

‘FinTech’ is the digital sector of retail money and finance widely proclaimed to be transforming banking in the global North and ‘banking the unbanked’ in the global South. This paper develops a perspective for critically understanding FinTech as a p... Read More about The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation.

Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis (2020)
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Nürk, N. M., Linder, H. P., Onstein, R. E., Larcombe, M. J., Hughes, C. E., Piñeiro Fernández, L., …Pirie, M. D. (2020). Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis. Ecology and Evolution, 10(12), 6163-6182. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6313

© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a key issue in evolutionary biology, ecology, and biogeography. Evolutionary rates are the net res... Read More about Diversification in evolutionary arenas - Assessment and synthesis.

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts (2020)
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Fraser, A., Pelling, M., Scolobig, A., & Mavrogenis, S. (2020). Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts. Global Environmental Change, 63, Article 102102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102102

The continued rise of global disaster losses pushes our attention yet further to the causal factors that drive risks, beyond the frame of standardised risk assessment models. A key gap in our understanding of the causality of disasters remains establ... Read More about Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts.

Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years (2020)
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Briddon, C. L., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S. E., Panizzo, V., Lacey, J., Engels, S., …Idris, M. (2020). Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years. Geo: Geography and Environment, 7(1), Article e00090. https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.90

Rapid development and climate change in southeast Asia is placing unprecedented pressures on freshwater ecosystems, but long term records of the ecological consequences are rare. Here we examine one basin of Tasik Chini (Malaysia), a UNESCO‐designate... Read More about Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years.

Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932 (2020)
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Legg, S. (2020). Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932. Humanity, 11(1), 32-53. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2020.0006

This paper argues that we can view the Round Table Conference (three sittings between 1930-32) as an international organisation that re-assembled the technology of the colonial Indian state. The conference is traditionally associated with colonial an... Read More about Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932.

The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia (2020)
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Beck, K., Mariani, M., Fletcher, M.-S., Schneider, L., Aquino-Lopez, M., Gadd, P., …Zawadzki, A. (2020). The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia. Environmental Pollution, 265, Article 114695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114695

Mining causes extensive damage to aquatic ecosystems via acidification, heavy metal pollution, sediment loading, and Ca decline. Yet little is known about the effects of mining on freshwater systems in the Southern Hemisphere. A case in point is the... Read More about The impacts of intensive mining on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A case of sediment pollution and calcium decline in cool temperate Tasmania, Australia.

Anabiosis and the liminal geographies of de/extinction (2020)
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Searle, A. (2020). Anabiosis and the liminal geographies of de/extinction. Environmental Humanities, 12(1), 321-345. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142385

The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This artic... Read More about Anabiosis and the liminal geographies of de/extinction.

Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores? (2020)
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Holloway, P., & Field, R. (2020). Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores?. Land, 9(5), Article 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/LAND9050131

© 2020 by the authors. Despite the global implementation of rock-rubble groyne structures, there is limited research investigating their ecology, much less than for other artificial coastal structures. Here we compare the intertidal ecology of urban... Read More about Can rock-rubble groynes support similar intertidal ecological communities to natural rocky shores?.

Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales (2020)
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Donihue, C. M., Kowaleski, A. M., Losos, J. B., Algar, A. C., Baeckens, S., Buchkowski, R. W., …Herrel, A. (2020). Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(19), 10429-10434. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000801117

Extreme climate events such as droughts, cold snaps, and hurricanes can be powerful agents of natural selection, producing acute selective pressures very different from the everyday pressures acting on organisms. However, it remains unknown whether t... Read More about Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales.

Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia (2020)
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Lewis, J. P., Ryves, D. B., Rasmussen, P., Olsen, J., van der Sluis, L. G., Reimer, P. J., …Juggins, S. (2020). Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia. Nature Communications, 11, Article 2006. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15621-1

How climate and ecology affect key cultural transformations remains debated in the context of long-term socio-cultural development because of spatially and temporally disjunct climate and archaeological records. The introduction of agriculture trigge... Read More about Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia.

‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender (2020)
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Coen, S. E., Davidson, J., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2021). ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(4), 537-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2020.1748897

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper develops a visceral feminist geography of the gym to expand our understanding of how everyday physical activity environments are implicated in the gendered context of physical... Read More about ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender.

Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta (2020)
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Zieritz, A., Taha, H., Lopes-Lima, M., Pfeiffer, J., Sing, K. W., Sulaiman, Z., …Rahim, K. A. (2020). Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29(7), 2235–2253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-01971-1

The freshwater mussel fauna of Borneo is highly endemic, with at least 11 species being unique to that island. Most of these species have not been recorded for at least 50 years owing to a lack of sampling effort and large-scale habitat destruction a... Read More about Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta.

Use of automated change detection and VGI sources for identifying and validating urban land use change (2020)
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Olteanu-Raimond, A. M., See, L., Schultz, M., Foody, G., Riffler, M., Gasber, T., …Gombert, M. (2020). Use of automated change detection and VGI sources for identifying and validating urban land use change. Remote Sensing, 12(7), Article 1186. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071186

© 2020, by the authors. Land use and land cover (LULC) mapping is often undertaken by national mapping agencies, where these LULC products are used for different types of monitoring and reporting applications. Updating of LULC databases is often done... Read More about Use of automated change detection and VGI sources for identifying and validating urban land use change.

Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time (2020)
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Stanton, T., Johnson, M., Nathanail, P., MacNaughtan, W., & Gomes, R. L. (2020). Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time. Environmental Pollution, 263, Article 114481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114481

Plastic pollution represents one of the most salient indicators of society’s impact on the environment. The microplastic component of this is ubiquitous, however, microplastic studies are seldom representative of the locations they sample. Over 12 mo... Read More about Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time.