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Discovery Of A Bone In Chimpanzee Hearts (2022)
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Sturrock, C. J., Stanford, K., Moittie, S., Baiker, K., Redrobe, S., & Rutland, C. S. (2022). Discovery Of A Bone In Chimpanzee Hearts. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9, Article 592105. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2021.592105

The os cordis (heart bone) is a rare bone found only in a few animals in the world. We discovered an os cordis in some chimpanzees. The os cordis was found in males and females, and in young and old animals. It was not present in chimps with healthy... Read More about Discovery Of A Bone In Chimpanzee Hearts.

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
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Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., …Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells (2021)
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Harvey, H. J., Chubynsky, M. V., Sprittles, J. E., Shor, L. M., Mooney, S. J., Wildman, R. D., & Avery, S. V. (2022). Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20, 128-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.11.039

Environmental structure describes physical structure that can determine heterogenous spatial distribution of biotic and abiotic (nutrients, stressors etc.) components of a microorganism's microenvironment. This study investigated the impact of microm... Read More about Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells.

Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain (2021)
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Sargent, C., Ebanks, B., Hardy, I. C., Davies, T. G. E., Chakrabarti, L., & Stöger, R. (2021). Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain. Frontiers in Insect Science, 1, Article 765179. https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2021.765179

Mitochondria are intracellular organelles responsible for cellular respiration with one of their major roles in the production of energy in the form of ATP. Activities with increased energetic demand are especially dependent on efficient ATP producti... Read More about Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain.

Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops (2021)
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Scharff, L. B., Saltenis, V. L., Jensen, P. E., Baekelandt, A., Burgess, A. J., Burow, M., …Pribil, M. (2022). Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops. Food and Energy Security, 11(1), Article e327. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.327

A growing world population as well as the need to enhance sustainability and health create challenges for crop breeding. To address these challenges, not only quantitative but also qualitative improvements are needed, especially regarding the macro-... Read More about Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops.

Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years (2021)
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Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., …Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00222-9

Lake sediments are important archives of past climate variability and lake responses to climate. In order to accurately infer past climates, it is necessary to understand, and account for, the ecological processes that affect the record of indicators... Read More about Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years.

Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments (2021)
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Shetaya, W. H., Bailey, E. H., Young, S. D., Mohamed, E. F., Antoniadis, V., Rinklebe, J., …Marzouk, E. R. (2021). Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01097-5

The aim of this work was to assess the origins, mobility, bioavailability and potential health risks of V, Cr, Co, As, Se, Mo, Cd, Sn and Sb, which are not sufficiently studied in the terrestrial environment of Egypt. This has been carried out by emp... Read More about Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments.

Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey (2021)
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Jacobson, M. J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M. J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., …Fleitmann, D. (2021). Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), Article e2021GL094733. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733

Palaeoclimate variability must be constrained to predict the nature and impacts of future climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here, we present a late Holocene high-resolution multiproxy data set from Kocain Cave, the first of its kind from S... Read More about Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey.

Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time (2021)
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Ramkissoon, C., Degryse, F., Young, S., Bailey, E. H., & McLaughlin, M. J. (2021). Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 732409. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.732409

Foliar selenium (Se) fertilisation has been shown to be more efficient than soil-applied fertilisation, but the dynamics of absorption and translocation have not yet been explored. An experiment was undertaken to investigate time-dependent changes in... Read More about Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time.

Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes (2021)
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Wang, F., Zhang, X., Neal, A. L., Crawford, J. W., Mooney, S. J., & Bacq-Labreuil, A. (2022). Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes. Soil and Tillage Research, 215, Article 105226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2021.105226

Aggregates are functional units to describe the impact of soil structural changes on physical and biogeochemical processes in soil. Both incubation and field experiments have shown that changing agricultural practices could reshape the intra-aggregat... Read More about Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes.

Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review (2021)
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Cook, S., Abolfathi, S., & Gilbert, N. I. (2021). Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review. Freshwater Science, 40(4), 567-579. https://doi.org/10.1086/717227

The role of citizen science in environmental monitoring has received interest in the research community over the last decade, with citizen scientists playing a key role in engaging with and gathering scientific evidence to support natural resource ma... Read More about Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review.

Temporal changes in litterfall and potential nutrient return in cocoa agroforestry systems under organic and conventional management, Ghana (2021)
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Asigbaase, M., Dawoe, E., Lomax, B. H., & Sjogersten, S. (2021). Temporal changes in litterfall and potential nutrient return in cocoa agroforestry systems under organic and conventional management, Ghana. Heliyon, 7(10), Article e08051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08051

Litterfall is a critical link between vegetation and soils by which nutrients are returned to the soils, thus the amount and pattern of litterfall regulates nutrient cycling, soil fertility and primary productivity for most terrestrial ecosystems. We... Read More about Temporal changes in litterfall and potential nutrient return in cocoa agroforestry systems under organic and conventional management, Ghana.

The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise (2021)
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Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Hochman, Z., Gourdain, E., Andrianasolo, F., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise. Environmental Modelling and Software, 145, Article 105206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105206

Calibration, the estimation of model parameters based on fitting the model to experimental data, is among the first steps in many applications of process-based models and has an important impact on simulated values. We propose a novel method of devel... Read More about The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise.

Shifts in Soil Structure, Biological, and Functional Diversity Under Long-Term Carbon Deprivation (2021)
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George, P. B., Fidler, D. B., Van Nostrand, J. D., Atkinson, J. A., Mooney, S. J., Creer, S., …Jones, D. L. (2021). Shifts in Soil Structure, Biological, and Functional Diversity Under Long-Term Carbon Deprivation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.735022

Soil organic matter is composed of a variety of carbon (C) forms. However, not all forms are equally accessible to soil microorganisms. Deprivation of C inputs will cause changes in the physical and microbial community structures of soils; yet the tr... Read More about Shifts in Soil Structure, Biological, and Functional Diversity Under Long-Term Carbon Deprivation.

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments (2021)
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Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Marshall, J., Kent, M., Tyler, J., Barr, C., …Lomax, B. H. (2021). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, Article 110622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110622

The source of sedimentary organic matter in lakes can help to elucidate climate and catchment variation and processes that reflect lake development. Common techniques for tracing sediment organic matter sources, such as the stable isotopes and elemen... Read More about Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments.

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?.

The effect of canopy architecture on the patterning of “windflecks” within a wheat canopy (2021)
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Burgess, A. J., Durand, M., Retkute, R., Gibbs, J. A., Robson, T. M., & Murchie, E. H. (2021). The effect of canopy architecture on the patterning of “windflecks” within a wheat canopy. Plant, Cell and Environment, 44(11), 3524-3537. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14168

Under field conditions, plants are subject to wind-induced movement which creates fluctuations of light intensity and spectral quality reaching the leaves, defined here as windflecks. Within this study, irradiance within two contrasting wheat (Tritic... Read More about The effect of canopy architecture on the patterning of “windflecks” within a wheat canopy.

Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden (2021)
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Monz, M. E., Hudleston, P. J., Cook, S. J., Zimmerman, T., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden. Boreas, 51(1), 78-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12549

Thrust faulting has been suggested as a viable mechanism of debris transport at many glaciers, often inferred from the presence of up-glacier dipping bands of debris that emerge at the ice surface to form ridges of basally derived material. However,... Read More about Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden.

PM1 composition and source apportionment at two sites in Delhi, India, across multiple seasons (2021)
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Reyes-Villegas, E., Panda, U., Darbyshire, E., Cash, J. M., Joshi, R., Langford, B., …Allan, J. D. (2021). PM1 composition and source apportionment at two sites in Delhi, India, across multiple seasons. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(15), 11655–11667. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11655-2021

Air pollution in urban environments has been shown to have a negative impact on air quality and human health, particularly in megacities. Over recent decades, Delhi, India, has suffered high atmospheric pollution, with significant particulate matter... Read More about PM1 composition and source apportionment at two sites in Delhi, India, across multiple seasons.

Relationship between soil carbon sequestration and the ability of soil aggregates to transport dissolved oxygen (2021)
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Zhang, X., Gregory, A. S., Whalley, W. R., Coleman, K., Neal, A. L., Bacq-Labreuil, A., …Illangasekare, T. H. (2021). Relationship between soil carbon sequestration and the ability of soil aggregates to transport dissolved oxygen. Geoderma, 403, Article 115370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115370

A key finding in soil carbon studies over the past decade is that soil organic carbon (SOC) stabilization is not controlled by its molecular complexity or adsorption to clay, but by its physicochemical protection including occlusion in aggregates an... Read More about Relationship between soil carbon sequestration and the ability of soil aggregates to transport dissolved oxygen.