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Seeing the landscape for the trees: metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments (2015)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. F., & Wilby, R. L. (2015). Seeing the landscape for the trees: metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments. Water Resources Research, 51(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016802

Rising water temperature (Tw) due to anthropogenic climate change may have serious consequences for river ecosystems. Conservation and/or expansion of riparian shade could counter warming and buy time for ecosystems to adapt. However, sensitivity of... Read More about Seeing the landscape for the trees: metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments.

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling (2015)
Journal Article
Fauset, S., Johnson, M. O., Gloor, M., Baker, T. R., Monteagudo M., A., Brienen, R. J., …Phillips, O. L. (2015). Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7857

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few â € hyperdominantâ €™ species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian t... Read More about Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling.

Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas (2015)
Journal Article
Feng, X., Foody, G., Aplin, P., & Gosling, S. (2015). Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas. Sustainable Cities and Society, 19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2015.04.007

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important environmental variable for urban studies such as those focused on the urban heat island (UHI). Though satellite-derived LST could be a useful complement to traditional LST data sources, the spatial resol... Read More about Enhancing the spatial resolution of satellite-derived land surface temperature mapping for urban areas.

Historical chestnut cultures, climate, and rural landscapes in the Apennines (2015)
Book Chapter
Cevasco, R., Moreno, D., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2015). Historical chestnut cultures, climate, and rural landscapes in the Apennines. In D. Harvey, & J. Perry (Eds.), The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (130-148). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724164

Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949 (2015)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2015). Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949. Political Geography, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.03.002

This paper considers how the act of conferencing was central to imagining, negotiating and contesting post-war pacifism as an internationalist project. The paper contends that internationalism and the international conference are inexorably entwined.... Read More about Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949.

Innovative technologies for terrestrial remote sensing (2015)
Journal Article
Aplin, P., & Boyd, D. S. (2015). Innovative technologies for terrestrial remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70404968

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Characterizing and monitoring terrestrial, or land, surface features, such as forests, deserts, and cities, are fundamental and continuing goals of Earth Observation (EO). EO imagery and related technol... Read More about Innovative technologies for terrestrial remote sensing.

Main stem movement of Atlantic salmon parr in response to high river temperature (2015)
Journal Article
Dugdale, S. J., Franssen, J., Corey, E., Bergeron, N. E., Lapointe, M., & Cunjak, R. A. (2016). Main stem movement of Atlantic salmon parr in response to high river temperature. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 25(3), 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12224

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink (2015)
Journal Article
Brienen, R. J., Phillips, O. L., Feldpausch, T. R., Gloor, E., Baker, T. R., Lloyd, J., …Zagt, R. J. (in press). Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. Nature, 519(7543), https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14283

Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps (2015)
Journal Article
Fonte, C., Bastin, L., See, L., Foody, G. M., & Lupia, F. (2015). Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2015.1018266

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) represents a growing source of potentially valuable data for many applications, including land cover map validation. It is still an emerging field and many different approaches can be used to take value from V... Read More about Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps.

Thermal shockwaves in an upland river (2015)
Journal Article
Wilby, R. L., Johnson, M. F., & Toone, J. A. (2015). Thermal shockwaves in an upland river. Weather, 70(3), 92-100. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.2435

This is not a pipeline (2015)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2015). This is not a pipeline. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614562669

Review of: Andrew Barry (2013) Material politics: disputes along the pipeline. Wiley-Blackwell: London

Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene (2015)
Journal Article
Taranu, Z. E., Gregory-Eaves, I., Leavitt, P. R., Bunting, L., Buchaca, T., Catalan, J., …Vinebrooke, R. D. (2015). Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene. Ecology Letters, 18(4), 375-384. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12420

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS. Increases in atmospheric temperature and nutrients from land are thought to be promoting the expansion of harmful cyanobacteria in lakes worldwide, yet to date there has been no quantitative synthesis of long-term... Read More about Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene.

Operation Pied Piper: a geographical reappraisal of the impact of wartime evacuation on scarlet fever and diphtheria rates in England and Wales, 1939–1945 (2015)
Journal Article
Smallman-Raynor, M., & Cliff, A. (2015). Operation Pied Piper: a geographical reappraisal of the impact of wartime evacuation on scarlet fever and diphtheria rates in England and Wales, 1939–1945. Epidemiology and Infection, 143(14), 2923-2938. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268815000175

This paper examines the geographical impact of the British Government’s wartime evacuation scheme on notified rates of two common acute childhood diseases (scarlet fever and diphtheria) in the 1470 local government districts of England and Wales, 193... Read More about Operation Pied Piper: a geographical reappraisal of the impact of wartime evacuation on scarlet fever and diphtheria rates in England and Wales, 1939–1945.

Spatial distribution of thermal refuges analysed in relation to riverscape hydromorphology using airborne thermal infrared imagery (2015)
Journal Article
Dugdale, S. J., Bergeron, N. E., & St-Hilaire, A. (2015). Spatial distribution of thermal refuges analysed in relation to riverscape hydromorphology using airborne thermal infrared imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 160, 43-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.021

Desert Journeys: From exploration to covert operations (2015)
Journal Article

This paper explores the entangled relationship between geographical knowledge and covert warfare through a study of soldier and desert explorer Ralph Bagnold. On Italy's declaration of war in 1940 the British military became engaged in a process of t... Read More about Desert Journeys: From exploration to covert operations.

Airborne LiDAR for the detection of archaeological vegetation marks using biomass as a proxy (2015)
Journal Article
Stott, D., Boyd, D. S., Beck, A., & Cohn, A. (2015). Airborne LiDAR for the detection of archaeological vegetation marks using biomass as a proxy. Remote Sensing, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70201594

In arable landscapes, the airborne detection of archaeological features is often reliant on using the properties of the vegetation cover as a proxy for sub-surface features in the soil. Under the right conditions, the formation of vegetation marks al... Read More about Airborne LiDAR for the detection of archaeological vegetation marks using biomass as a proxy.

What else do managers need to know about warming rivers? A United Kingdom perspective: Managing warming rivers (2015)
Journal Article
Orr, H. G., Johnson, M. F., Wilby, R. L., Hatton-Ellis, T., & Broadmeadow, S. (2015). What else do managers need to know about warming rivers? A United Kingdom perspective: Managing warming rivers. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2(2), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1062

River flow and water temperature are fundamental controls of freshwater ecosystems. Hence, future warming could impact valued habitats and species, particularly those with cold water preferences (such as salmonids). Warming could also exacerbate exis... Read More about What else do managers need to know about warming rivers? A United Kingdom perspective: Managing warming rivers.

Valuing map validation: the need for rigorous land cover map accuracy assessment in economic valuations of ecosystem services (2015)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2015). Valuing map validation: the need for rigorous land cover map accuracy assessment in economic valuations of ecosystem services. Ecological Economics, 111(March), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.003

Valuations of ecosystem services often use data on land cover class areal extent. Area estimates from land cover maps may be biased by misclassification error resulting in flawed assessments and inaccurate valuations. Adjustment for misclassification... Read More about Valuing map validation: the need for rigorous land cover map accuracy assessment in economic valuations of ecosystem services.

Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: a review of his life and work (2015)
Journal Article
Endfield, G. H., Veale, L., & Hall, A. (2015). Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: a review of his life and work. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.334

British climatologist and geographer, Gordon Manley (1902–1980), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on climate variability in the UK, for establishing the Central England Temperature series and, for his pivotal role in demonstrating the po... Read More about Gordon Valentine Manley and his contribution to the study of climate change: a review of his life and work.

Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e (2015)
Journal Article
Swann, G., & Snelling, A. M. (2015). Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e. Climate of the Past, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-15-2015

In comparison to other sectors of the marine system, the palaeoceanography of the subarctic North Pacific Ocean is poorly constrained. New diatom isotope records of δ13C, δ18O δ30Si (δ13Cdiatom, δ18Odiatom and δ30Sidiatom) are presented alongside exi... Read More about Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e.