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Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments (2023)
Journal Article

Increasing prevalence of vaping (e-cigarette use) among youth in Canada and elsewhere has become a serious public health concern. The Teens Talk Vaping project sought to co-produce research about teen vaping with teens to generate in-depth qualitativ... Read More about Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments.

Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia (2023)
Journal Article

The response of the global water cycle to changes in global surface temperature remains an outstanding question in future climate projections and in past climate reconstructions. The stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions of precipitation (δ... Read More about Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia.

Elementary effects for models with dimensional inputs of arbitrary type and range: Scaling and trajectory generation (2023)
Journal Article

The Elementary Effects method is a global sensitivity analysis approach for identifying (un)important parameters in a model. However, it has almost exclusively been used where inputs are dimensionless and take values on [0, 1]. Here, we consider mode... Read More about Elementary effects for models with dimensional inputs of arbitrary type and range: Scaling and trajectory generation.

Combining Landsat TIR ‐imagery data and ERA5 reanalysis information with different calibration strategies to improve simulations of streamflow and river temperature in the Canadian Subarctic (2023)
Journal Article

Arctic and Subarctic environments are among the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Increases in liquid precipitation and changes in snowmelt onset are cited as the main drivers of change in streamflow and water temperature patterns in some of... Read More about Combining Landsat TIR ‐imagery data and ERA5 reanalysis information with different calibration strategies to improve simulations of streamflow and river temperature in the Canadian Subarctic.

Drought impacts on river water temperature: A process‐based understanding from temperate climates (2023)
Journal Article

High river water temperature (Tw) extremes have been widely reported during drought conditions as extreme low-flows often coincide with high atmospheric energy inputs. This has significant implications for freshwater ecosystem health and sustainable... Read More about Drought impacts on river water temperature: A process‐based understanding from temperate climates.

Optical and radar Earth observation data for upscaling methane emissions linked to permafrost degradation in sub-Arctic peatlands in northern Sweden (2023)
Journal Article

Permafrost thaw in Arctic regions is increasing methane (CH4) emissions into the atmosphere, but quantification of such emissions is difficult given the large and remote areas impacted. Hence, Earth observation (EO) data are critical for assessing pe... Read More about Optical and radar Earth observation data for upscaling methane emissions linked to permafrost degradation in sub-Arctic peatlands in northern Sweden.

Climate and atmospheric circulation during the Early and Mid‐Holocene inferred from lake‐carbonate oxygen‐isotope records from western Ireland (2023)
Journal Article

The Early to Mid‐Holocene experienced marked climate change over the northern hemisphere mid‐latitudes in response to changing insolation and declining ice volume. Oxygen isotopes from lake sediments provide a valuable climate proxy, encoding informa... Read More about Climate and atmospheric circulation during the Early and Mid‐Holocene inferred from lake‐carbonate oxygen‐isotope records from western Ireland.

Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas (2023)
Journal Article

Tropical river deltas, and the social-ecological systems they sustain, are changing rapidly due to anthropogenic activity and climatic change. Baseline data to inform sustainable management options for resilient deltas is urgently needed and palaeoli... Read More about Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas.

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia (2023)
Journal Article

Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from... Read More about More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.

Characterisation of former manufactured gas plant soils using parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Rock-Eval(6) pyrolysis (2023)
Journal Article

Soils sampled from 10 former manufactured gas plants (MGP) in the UK were investigated using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) and Rock-Eval(6) Pyrolysis (RE). RE is a screening tool used to characterise bulk organic matter in soils via... Read More about Characterisation of former manufactured gas plant soils using parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Rock-Eval(6) pyrolysis.

Remote sensing in landscape ecology (2023)
Journal Article

Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth (2023)
Journal Article

Evolutionary radiations of woody taxa within arid environments were made possible by multiple trait innovations including deep roots and embolism-resistant xylem, but little is known about how these traits have coevolved across the phylogeny of woody... Read More about Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth.

Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) (2023)
Report

Submission to the UK Government call for evidence (led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) International Development White Paper, September 2023. Response to questions submitted by the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. Responses... Read More about Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).

Postdigital Nature 2.0 (2023)
Book Chapter

Postdigital nature is the consumption and prosumption of nature through postdigital technologies. Individuals are increasingly co-creating with nature as postdigital technologies become more prevalent. Where interactions with nature used to be betwee... Read More about Postdigital Nature 2.0.

Kenya: Ongata Rongai boom town destroyed two vital rivers - new study flags major health risk (2023)
Other

Use of satellite remote sensing to validate reservoir operations in global hydrological models: a case study from the CONUS (2023)
Journal Article

Although river discharge simulations from global hydrological models have undergone extensive validation, there has been less validation of reservoir operations, primarily because of limited observational data. However, recent advancements in satelli... Read More about Use of satellite remote sensing to validate reservoir operations in global hydrological models: a case study from the CONUS.

Best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research: systematic review and evidence synthesis (2023)
Journal Article

Partnering with people most affected by mental health problems can transform mental health outcomes. Citizen science as a research approach enables partnering with the public at a substantial scale, but there is scarce guidance on its use in mental h... Read More about Best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research: systematic review and evidence synthesis.

Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages (2023)
Journal Article

Biotic responses to global change include directional shifts in organismal traits. Body size, an integrative trait that determines demographic rates and ecosystem functions, is thought to be shrinking in the Anthropocene. Here, we assessed the preval... Read More about Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages.

Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly (2023)
Journal Article

The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline conditions may be protected by prior adaptation, or more vulnerable be... Read More about Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly.

Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function (2023)
Journal Article

The metabolome is the biochemical basis of plant form and function, but we know little about its macroecological variation across the plant kingdom. Here, we used the plant functional trait concept to interpret leaf metabolome variation among 457 tro... Read More about Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function.