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Detecting tropical peatland degradation: Combining remote sensing and organic geochemistry (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Boyd, D. S., Sjögersten, S., & Vane, C. H. (2023). Detecting tropical peatland degradation: Combining remote sensing and organic geochemistry. PLoS ONE, 18(3), Article e0280187. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280187

Tropical peatlands are important carbon stores that are vulnerable to drainage and conversion to agriculture. Protection and restoration of peatlands are increasingly recognised as key nature based solutions that can be implemented as part of climate... Read More about Detecting tropical peatland degradation: Combining remote sensing and organic geochemistry.

Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmaking (2023)
Journal Article
Price, C., & Chao, S. (2023). Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmaking. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 10(2), 177-193. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.1166

Life on Earth is sustained by interconnected more-than-human entanglements. In the era of the Anthropocene, many of these webs are unravelling due to climate change, biodiversity loss, toxicity and pollution, natural resource extraction, and water an... Read More about Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmaking.

Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene? (2023)
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Price, C. (2023). Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 10(2), 50-73. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.966

The era we now live in is termed the Anthropocene. Climate change, land use change, pesticide and insecticide use, and pollution are all contributing to pollinator loss. To ensure food crops continue to be pollinated, artificial pollinator technologi... Read More about Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?.

Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom (2023)
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Hall, S., & Heneghan, M. (2023). Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom. Contemporary Social Science, 18(2), 235-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2189294

In this paper, we examine the impact of Brexit on financial services employment in the UK. Initial estimates suggested that around 10,000 jobs could relocate from London to other EU financial centres as a result of Brexit. Official statistics show th... Read More about Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom.

Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings (2023)
Journal Article
Evans, D. J., Ewertowski, M. W., Tomczyk, A., & Chandler, B. M. (2023). Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(8), 1573-1598. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5569

The response of temperate glaciers to rapid climate warming is reflected in the geomorphology (landsystem) resulting from snout recession. This paper develops a locally diverse process-form model of active temperate glaciers through mapping and quant... Read More about Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings.

The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures (2023)
Journal Article
Hall, S., Leaver, A., Seabrooke, L., & Tischer, D. (2023). The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures. Environment and Planning A, 55(4), 923-930. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X231159396

The spatial arrangements of global finance have changed significantly over the last 30 years, entangling new actors, relations and sites. Infrastructures have developed to stabilize change and complexity. The collection advocates for a broader unders... Read More about The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures.

Scenario set-up and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a) (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Frieler, K., Volkholz, J., Lange, S., Schewe, J., Mengel, M., Rivas López, M. D. R., …Bechtold, M. Scenario set-up and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a)

This paper describes the rationale and the protocol of the first component of the third simulation round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a, www.isimip.org) and the associated set of climate-related and direct human... Read More about Scenario set-up and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a).

Scientific maps should reach everyone: The cblindplot R package to let colour blind people visualise spatial patterns (2023)
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Rocchini, D., Nowosad, J., D'Introno, R., Chieffallo, L., Bacaro, G., Gatti, R. C., …Thouverai, E. (2023). Scientific maps should reach everyone: The cblindplot R package to let colour blind people visualise spatial patterns. Ecological Informatics, 76, Article 102045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102045

Maps represent powerful tools to show the spatial variation of a variable in a straightforward manner. A crucial aspect in map rendering for its interpretation by users is the gamut of colours used for displaying data. One part of this problem is lin... Read More about Scientific maps should reach everyone: The cblindplot R package to let colour blind people visualise spatial patterns.

Analysis of Large-Scale Groundwater-Driven Cooling Zones in Rivers Using Thermal Infrared Imagery and Radon Measurements (2023)
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Fakhari, M., Raymond, J., Martel, R., Drolet, J. P., Dugdale, S. J., & Bergeron, N. (2023). Analysis of Large-Scale Groundwater-Driven Cooling Zones in Rivers Using Thermal Infrared Imagery and Radon Measurements. Water, 15(5), Article 873. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15050873

The role of groundwater (GW) discharge on surface water (SW) quantity, quality and temperature is known to be important. Moreover, the effect of GW contributions to river thermal budgets is critical in natural rivers considering that water temperatur... Read More about Analysis of Large-Scale Groundwater-Driven Cooling Zones in Rivers Using Thermal Infrared Imagery and Radon Measurements.

Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally (2023)
Journal Article
Engel, T., Bruelheide, H., Hoss, D., Sabatini, F. M., Altman, J., Arfin-Khan, M. A., …Pillar, V. (2023). Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 695-706. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13644

Aim: Theoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non-exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (... Read More about Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally.

Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism (2023)
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Morris, C., Kelsey, S., & Harper, L.-R. (2023). Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism. Food, Culture and Society, Article 2175993. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2023.2175993

The paper builds on recent flexitarianism scholarship by approaching this heterogeneous dietary category as a socio-cultural and political economic, rather than just a psychological phenomenon. It does this by drawing on Edmund Harris’s conceptualiza... Read More about Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism.

Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology (2023)
Journal Article
Pos, E., de Souza Coelho, L., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., Salomão, R. P., Amaral, I. L., de Almeida Matos, F. D., …ter Steege, H. (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 2859. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y

In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained maximization of information entropy provides a frame... Read More about Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.

Isotope sample preparation of diatoms for paleoenvironmental research (2023)
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Swann, G. E., & Snelling, A. (2023). Isotope sample preparation of diatoms for paleoenvironmental research. PLoS ONE, 18(2), Article e0281511. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281511

Isotopes in diatoms are increasingly used in palaeoenvironmental studies in both lacustrine and marine settings, enabling the reconstruction of a range of variables including temperature, precipitation, salinity, glacial discharge, carbon dynamics an... Read More about Isotope sample preparation of diatoms for paleoenvironmental research.

Developing a “Sponge Catchment Management Plan (SCMP)” framework at the catchment scale: The case of Guiyang, SW China (2023)
Journal Article
Qi, Y., Chan, F. K. S., Feng, M., Griffiths, J., Hutchins, M., O'Donnell, E., …Li, X. (2023). Developing a “Sponge Catchment Management Plan (SCMP)” framework at the catchment scale: The case of Guiyang, SW China. River, 2(1), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.1002/rvr2.33

Catchment floods are more challenging due to intensive urbanization and climate change. Enlightened by the Low Impact Development (LID), China initiated the Sponge City Program (SCP) to transform Urban Flood Management (UFM) to be more environmentall... Read More about Developing a “Sponge Catchment Management Plan (SCMP)” framework at the catchment scale: The case of Guiyang, SW China.

Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Sayedi, S. S., Abbott, B., Vanniere, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Gil-Romera, G., …Daniau, A. Assessing changes in global fire regimes

Human activity has fundamentally altered wildfire on Earth, creating serious consequences for human health, global biodiversity, and climate change. However, it remains difficult to predict fire interactions with land use, management, and climate cha... Read More about Assessing changes in global fire regimes.

Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics (2023)
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Cutts, V., Hanz, D. M., Barajas-Barbosa, M. P., Schrodt, F., Steinbauer, M. J., Beierkuhnlein, C., …Algar, A. C. (2023). Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics. Ecology Letters, 26(4), 504-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14169

Current models of island biogeography treat endemic and non-endemic species as if they were functionally equivalent, focussing primarily on species richness. Thus, the functional composition of island biotas in relation to island biogeographical vari... Read More about Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics.

Communal Geographies: An Introduction (2023)
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Gupta, C., & Legg, S. (2023). Communal Geographies: An Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 46(6), 1168-1183. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2303215

This paper introduces a special section comprising eight papers that delve into complex geographies of communal identities in modern South Asia. It situates these papers at a significant intersection of spatial histories and historical geographies of... Read More about Communal Geographies: An Introduction.

Editorial: Lianas, ecosystems, and global change (2023)
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van der Heijden, G. M., Schnitzer, S. A., & Meunier, F. (2023). Editorial: Lianas, ecosystems, and global change. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, Article 1079620. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1079620

Lianas (woody vines) are an abundant and diverse plant group in tropical ecosystems (Gentry, 1991; Dewalt et al., 2014). While they enhance forest canopy connectivity and provide food and shelter for tropical fauna (Yanoviak and Schnitzer, 2013; Schn... Read More about Editorial: Lianas, ecosystems, and global change.

Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2023). Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure. Environment and Planning A, 55(4), 931-948. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221140413

This paper examines Sino-UK financial relations in the fintech sector. Through an empirical focus on fintech payments systems, the analysis locates fintech within broader research on the internationalisation of Chinese finance. Conceptually, the pape... Read More about Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure.