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Checking the Sea: Geographies of Authority on the East Norfolk Coast, 1790-1932 (2019)
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Matless, D. (2019). Checking the Sea: Geographies of Authority on the East Norfolk Coast, 1790-1932. Rural History, 30(2), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793319000207

This paper examines coastal defence in east Norfolk between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. From 1802 until 1932 sea defence between Happisburgh and Winterton was the responsibility of the Commissioners of Sewers for the Eastern Hu... Read More about Checking the Sea: Geographies of Authority on the East Norfolk Coast, 1790-1932.

PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data (2019)
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Khider, D., Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N. P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., …Zhou, Y. (2019). PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(10), 1570-1596. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003632

The progress of science is tied to the standardization of measurements, instruments, and data. This is especially true in the Big Data age, where analyzing large data volumes critically hinges on the data being standardized. Accordingly, the lack of... Read More about PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data.

Assessment of Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana (2019)
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Dongzagla, A., Jewitt, S., & O'Hara, S. (2019). Assessment of Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 9, Article 100272

Fluoride is an important chemical for human health. However, its deficiency or excess in the human body poses health problems. In Ghana, the geological formation in the Upper Regions exposes groundwater, the main source of drinking water to risk of e... Read More about Assessment of Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana.

Biomic river restoration: A new focus for river management (2019)
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Johnson, M. F., Thorne, C. R., Castro, J. M., Mathias Kondolf, G., Mazzacano, C. S., Rood, S. B., & Westbrook, C. (2020). Biomic river restoration: A new focus for river management. River Research and Applications, 36(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3529

River management based solely on physical science has proven to be unsustainable and unsuccessful, evidenced by the fact that the problems this approach intended to solve (e.g., flood hazards, water scarcity, and channel instability) have not been so... Read More about Biomic river restoration: A new focus for river management.

“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932 (2019)
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Legg, S. (2019). “Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(3), 774-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1630247

Between 1930-1932 the three sessions of the Round Table Conference in London drew over 70 Indian delegates to the city, for up to three months, to debate India's constitutional future within the British Empire. This paper argues that the "atmosphere"... Read More about “Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932.

Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment (2019)
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Piana, P., Faccini, F., Luino, F., Paliaga, G., Sacchini, A., & Watkins, C. (2019). Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment. Sustainability, 11(17), Article 4594. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11174594

Since the nineteenth century, most urban catchments in Europe have been subject to significant landscape variations. These modifications have been caused by population change and the transition through rural, industrial and post-industrial economies.... Read More about Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment.

Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers (2019)
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Everall, N., Johnson, M., Wood, P., Paisley, M., Trigg, D., & Farmer, A. (2019). Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers. Ecological Indicators, 107, Article 105619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105619

Nutrient enrichment represents one of the most important causes of detriment to river ecosystem health globally. Monitoring nutrient inputs can be particularly challenging given the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of nitrogen and phosphorus concen... Read More about Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers.

A major hydrobiological change in Dasht-e Arjan Wetland (SW Iran) during the late glacial-early Holocene transition revealed by subfossil chironomids (2019)
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Aubert, C., Djamali, M., Jones, M., Lahijani, H., Marriner, N., Naderi-Beni, A., …Gandouin, E. (2019). A major hydrobiological change in Dasht-e Arjan Wetland (SW Iran) during the late glacial-early Holocene transition revealed by subfossil chironomids. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56(8), 848-856. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0256

The late glacial-early Holocene transition is a key period in the Earth’s history. However, although this transition is well studied in Europe, it is not well constrained in the Middle East and palaeohydrological records with robust chronologies rema... Read More about A major hydrobiological change in Dasht-e Arjan Wetland (SW Iran) during the late glacial-early Holocene transition revealed by subfossil chironomids.

The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape (2019)
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Cadd, H., Fletcher, M., Mariani, M., Heijnis, H., & Gadd, P. S. (2019). The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape. Journal of Quaternary Science, 34(7), 491-498. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3114

Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Tasmania's montane temperate rainforests contain some of Australia's most ancient and endemic flora. Recent landscape-scale fires have impacted a significant portion of these rainforest ecosystems. The compl... Read More about The influence of fine-scale topography on the impacts of Holocene fire in a Tasmanian montane landscape.

Admixture between ancient lineages, selection, and the formation of sympatric stickleback species-pairs (2019)
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Dean, L. L., Magalhaes, I. S., Foote, A., D’Agostino, D., McGowan, S., & MacColl, A. D. (2019). Admixture between ancient lineages, selection, and the formation of sympatric stickleback species-pairs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(11), 2481-2497. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz161

Ecological speciation has become a popular model for the development and maintenance of reproductive isolation in closely related sympatric pairs of species or ecotypes. An implicit assumption has been that such pairs originate (possibly with gene fl... Read More about Admixture between ancient lineages, selection, and the formation of sympatric stickleback species-pairs.

Transitions in diatom assemblages and pigments through dry and wet season conditions in the Red River, Hanoi (Vietnam) (2019)
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Thi, T. D., Nguyen, H. Y., Le, T. P. Q., Kien, N. T., Tran, T. T. H., Le, . N. D., …Mcgowan, S. (2019). Transitions in diatom assemblages and pigments through dry and wet season conditions in the Red River, Hanoi (Vietnam). Plant Ecology and Evolution, 152(2), 163-177. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2019.1627

Background and aims – Biomonitoring is an important tool for assessing river water quality, but is not routinely applied in tropical rivers. Marked hydrological changes can occur between wet and dry season conditions in the tropics. Thus, a prerequis... Read More about Transitions in diatom assemblages and pigments through dry and wet season conditions in the Red River, Hanoi (Vietnam).

Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years (2019)
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Worne, S., Kender, S., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Ravelo, A. C. (2019). Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.028

High latitude deep water upwelling has the potential to control global climate over glacial timescales through the biological pump and ocean-atmosphere CO2 exchange. However, there is currently a lack of continuous long nutrient upwelling records wit... Read More about Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years.

The impact of biological bedforms on near-bed and subsurface flow: a laboratory evaluated numerical study of flow in the vicinity of pits and mounds (2019)
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Han, X., Fang, H., Johnson, M., & Rice, S. (2019). The impact of biological bedforms on near-bed and subsurface flow: a laboratory evaluated numerical study of flow in the vicinity of pits and mounds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(7), 1939-1957. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005000

The complex surface topography of river substrates controls near-bed hydraulics and drives the exchange of subsurface and surface flow. In rivers, the topographic structures that are studied are usually formed by the flow but, it is known that many a... Read More about The impact of biological bedforms on near-bed and subsurface flow: a laboratory evaluated numerical study of flow in the vicinity of pits and mounds.

Measuring River Wetted Width from Remotely Sensed Imagery at the Subpixel Scale with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2019)
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Ling, F., Boyd, D., Ge, Y., Foody, G. M., Li, X., Wang, L., …Du, Y. (2019). Measuring River Wetted Width from Remotely Sensed Imagery at the Subpixel Scale with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Water Resources Research, 55(7), 5631-5649. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018wr024136

River wetted width (RWW) is an important variable in the study of river hydrological and biogeochemical processes. Presently, RWW is often measured from remotely sensed imagery and the accuracy of RWW estimation is typically low when coarse spatial r... Read More about Measuring River Wetted Width from Remotely Sensed Imagery at the Subpixel Scale with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios (2019)
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Mencuccini, M., Rosas, T., Rowland, L., Choat, B., Cornelissen, H., Jansen, S., …Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2019). Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios. New Phytologist, 224(4), 1544-1556. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15998

Biomass and area ratios between leaves, stems and roots regulate many physiological and ecological processes. The Huber value Hv (sapwood area/leaf area ratio) is central to plant water balance and drought responses. However, its coordination with ke... Read More about Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios.

Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt? (2019)
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Schrodt, F., Santos, M. J., Bailey, J. J., & Field, R. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?. Journal of Biogeography, 46(8), 1631-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13616

Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most influential scientist of his day. Although his fame has since lessened relative to some of his contemporaries, we argue that his influence remains strong-mainly because his approach to science inspired oth... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?.

The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions (2019)
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Shenkin, A., Chandler, C. J., Boyd, D. S., Jackson, T., Disney, M., Majalap, N., …Malhi, Y. (2019). The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00032

Here we report the recent discovery of the world's tallest tropical tree (Shorea faguetiana), possibly the world's tallest angiosperm (flowering plant), located in the rainforests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In addition, we provide a novel three-dime... Read More about The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions.

Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution (2019)
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Froufe, E., Bolotov, I., Aldridge, D. C., Bogan, A. E., Breton, S., Gan, H. M., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2020). Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution. Heredity, 124, 182–196. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-019-0242-y

© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to The Genetics Society. Using a new fossil-calibrated mitogenome-based approach, we identified macroevolutionary shifts in mitochondrial gene order among the freshwater mussels (Unionoidea). We show tha... Read More about Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution.

NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing (2019)
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Helliwell, R., Hartley, S., & Pearce, W. (2019). NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing. Agriculture and Human Values, 36(4), 779–791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09956-9

Plant genome editing has the potential to become another chapter in the intractable debate that has dogged agricultural biotechnology. In 2016, 107 Nobel Laureates accused Greenpeace of emotional and dogmatic campaigning against agricultural biotechn... Read More about NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing.