All Outputs (119)

No-till alley cropping using leguminous trees biomass: a farmer- and eco-friendly sustainable alternative to shifting cultivation in the Amazonian periphery? (2021)
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de Moura, E. G., Mooney, S. J., Campos, L. S., Bastos, K. D. O., Aguiar, A. C., & Jewitt, S. (2022). No-till alley cropping using leguminous trees biomass: a farmer- and eco-friendly sustainable alternative to shifting cultivation in the Amazonian periphery?. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 24(5), 7195-7212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01744-y

Agricultural growth is essential for both alleviating poverty and feeding the population of the Brazilian Amazonian periphery, where slash-and-burn agriculture continues to support the livelihoods of between 3.5 and 4 million people. We developed a n... Read More about No-till alley cropping using leguminous trees biomass: a farmer- and eco-friendly sustainable alternative to shifting cultivation in the Amazonian periphery?.

Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply (2021)
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Blackstone, N. T., Norris, C. B., Robbins, T., Jackson, B., & Decker Sparks, J. L. (2021). Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply. Nature Food, 2(9), 692-699. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00339-0

Sustainable food consumption studies have largely focused on promoting human health within ecological limits. Less attention has been paid to social sustainability, in part because of limited data and models. Globally, agriculture has one of the high... Read More about Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply.

A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience (2021)
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Pelling, M., Chow, W. T., Chu, E., Dawson, R., Dodman, D., Fraser, A., …Ziervogel, G. (2021). A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development, 14(7), 617-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1956411

Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three... Read More about A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience.

Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics (2021)
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Smith, I. L., Stanton, T., & Law, A. (2021). Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2, Article 100038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2021.100038

Plastic pollution is abundant in aquatic environments worldwide and many of its detrimental impacts are well documented, but it also represents a novel substrate available to a diversity of organisms. Biofilms – assemblages of bacteria, algae, and fu... Read More about Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics.

Cosmopolitanism, the global middle class and education: the case of universities in London (2021)
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Beardsmore, J. (2022). Cosmopolitanism, the global middle class and education: the case of universities in London. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20(4), 542-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1954496

In this paper, I develop the idea of cosmopolitan stances–one ‘intellectual’ and the other ‘aesthetic’–to examine conceptions of cosmopolitanism within a range of university strategies. Recent research into cosmopolitanism has adopted a Bourdieusian... Read More about Cosmopolitanism, the global middle class and education: the case of universities in London.

Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration (2021)
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Turnbull, J., & Searle, A. (2022). Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration. cultural geographies, 29(3), 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211035471

After being captured from the streets of Moscow, Laika was the first living creature to be sent into Earth’s orbit by the USSR in 1957. The 2019 film, Space Dogs, tells the story of Laika’s spectral return to Moscow, and searches for her ghosts in th... Read More about Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration.

Disentangling controls on animal abundance: Prey availability, thermal habitat, and microhabitat structure (2021)
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Higgins, E. A., Boyd, D. S., Brown, T. W., Owen, S. C., & Algar, A. C. (2021). Disentangling controls on animal abundance: Prey availability, thermal habitat, and microhabitat structure. Ecology and Evolution, 11(16), 11414-11424. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7930

The question of what controls animal abundance has always been fundamental to ecology, but given rapid environmental change, understanding the drivers and mechanisms governing abundance is more important than ever. Here, we determine how multidimensi... Read More about Disentangling controls on animal abundance: Prey availability, thermal habitat, and microhabitat structure.

Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees (2021)
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Searle, A. (2022). Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(1), 167-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12478

How is extinction problematised through biotechnological and ecological interventions, and how might such mediations elucidate different understandings of biotic loss and recovery? The bucardo – an endemic ibex from the Pyrenees – is the only extinct... Read More about Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees.

“Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities (2021)
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Coen, S. E. (2021). “Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities. Area, 53(4), 699-707. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12744

This paper is a provocation and reflection on some of the methodological tensions and opportunities I encountered in trying to “get at” gender in my research on the everday gendered geographies of physical activity. Situated in a feminist methodology... Read More about “Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities.

Habitat heterogeneity enables spatial and temporal coexistence of native and invasive macrophytes in shallow lake landscapes (2021)
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Salgado, J., Sayer, C. D., Willby, N., Baker, A. G., Goldsmith, B., McGowan, S., …Okamura, B. (2022). Habitat heterogeneity enables spatial and temporal coexistence of native and invasive macrophytes in shallow lake landscapes. River Research and Applications, 38(8), 1387-1399. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3839

Macrophyte invasive alien species (IAS) fitness is often hypothesised to be associated with beneficial environmental conditions (environmental matching) or species-poor communities. However, positive correlations between macrophyte IAS abundance and... Read More about Habitat heterogeneity enables spatial and temporal coexistence of native and invasive macrophytes in shallow lake landscapes.

Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery (2021)
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Chandler, C. J., van der Heijden, G. M., Boyd, D. S., & Foody, G. M. (2021). Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery. Remote Sensing, 13(14), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142774

Lianas (woody vines) play a key role in tropical forest dynamics because of their strong influence on tree growth, mortality and regeneration. Assessing liana infestation over large areas is critical to understand the factors that drive their spatial... Read More about Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery.

‘Sacred groves’- an insight into Dalmatian forest history (2021)
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Tekic, I., & Watkins, C. (2021). ‘Sacred groves’- an insight into Dalmatian forest history. Sumarski List, 145(7-8), 337-346. https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.145.7-8.3

The French administration in Dalmatia (1805-1813) was short but is often praised by foresters as advanced in terms of woodland management because of their establishment of so-called sacred groves or sacri boschi. Based on archival sources and 19th ce... Read More about ‘Sacred groves’- an insight into Dalmatian forest history.

The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an) (2021)
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Jones, M. D., Richter, T., Rollefson, G., Rowan, Y., Roe, J., Toms, P., …Esaid, W. (2021). The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.023

This paper presents a summary of work undertaken by the authors and their teams on a series of Qe'an (plural of Qa’), in the Badia of eastern Jordan. These basins are foci for settlement in the region, with the sites described here (Shubayqa, Wisad a... Read More about The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an).

'A war of houses and a war of land': Gentrification, post-politics, and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia (2021)
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Lawreniuk, S. (2021). 'A war of houses and a war of land': Gentrification, post-politics, and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(4), 645-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211025536

Postwar property reforms in transitional Cambodia plunged the country into new conflict: a war of land. Under the guise of 'beautification', 11% of the capital's residents have been displaced in under two decades in a wave of violent gentrification,... Read More about 'A war of houses and a war of land': Gentrification, post-politics, and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia.

Understanding each other’s models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication (2021)
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Telteu, C. E., Müller Schmied, H., Thiery, W., Leng, G., Burek, P., Liu, X., …Herz, F. (2021). Understanding each other’s models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication. Geoscientific Model Development, 14(6), 3843-3878. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3843-2021

Global water models (GWMs) simulate the terrestrial water cycle on the global scale and are used to assess the impacts of climate change on freshwater systems. GWMs are developed within different modelling frameworks and consider different underlying... Read More about Understanding each other’s models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication.

The Importance of Including Water Temperature Simulations in a 2D Fish Habitat Model for the St. Lawrence River (2021)
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Ouellet, V., St-Hilaire, A., Secretan, Y., Mingelbier, M., Morin, J., & Dugdale, S. (2021). The Importance of Including Water Temperature Simulations in a 2D Fish Habitat Model for the St. Lawrence River. Water, 13(13), Article 1736. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131736

Extreme climatic conditions likely caused a massive fish mortality during the summer of 2001 in the St. Lawrence River. To corroborate this hypothesis, we used a physical habitat simulation approach incorporating hydraulic and water temperature model... Read More about The Importance of Including Water Temperature Simulations in a 2D Fish Habitat Model for the St. Lawrence River.

Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the reframing of dietary biopower (2021)
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Morris, C., Kaljonen, M., & Hadley Kershaw, E. (2021). Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the reframing of dietary biopower. Geographical Journal, 188(3), Article 358-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12388

Recent years have seen an increase in actions to address a key feature of food in the Anthropocene: the over-production and consumption of animal-based foods or “animalisation” of diets. However, it is unclear whether such efforts can be understood a... Read More about Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the reframing of dietary biopower.

Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700-34) (2021)
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Law, S., Seymour, S., & Watkins, C. (2022). Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700-34). Rural History, 33(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793321000133

There is a rich and increasing body of research pointing to the significant role elite women played in property management during the eighteenth century. In this paper we examine the contribution of an elite widow, Barbara Savile, to the management o... Read More about Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700-34).

Lianas Significantly Reduce Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Storage: A Virtual Removal Experiment (2021)
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Meunier, F., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Schnitzer, S. A., De Deurwaerder, H. P., & Verbeeck, H. (2021). Lianas Significantly Reduce Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Storage: A Virtual Removal Experiment. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, Article 663291. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.663291

Lianas are structural parasites of trees that cause a reduction in tree growth and an increase in tree mortality. Thereby, lianas negatively impact forest carbon storage as evidenced by liana removal experiments. In this proof-of-concept study, we ca... Read More about Lianas Significantly Reduce Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Storage: A Virtual Removal Experiment.

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021)
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Sabatini, F. M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E. A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1740-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

Motivation: Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species c... Read More about sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots.