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Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases (2024)
Journal Article
Marchetto, E., Livornese, M., Sabatini, F. M., Tordoni, E., Da Re, D., Lenoir, J., Testolin, R., Bacaro, G., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Chiarucci, A., Foody, G. M., Gábor, L., Groom, Q., Iaria, J., Malavasi, M., Moudrý, V., Santovito, D., Šímová, P., Zannini, P., & Rocchini, D. (2024). Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases. Biodiversity Informatics, 18, https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v18i.21810

The availability of biodiversity databases is expanding at unprecedented rates. Nevertheless, species occurrence data can be intrinsically biased and contain uncertainties that impact the accuracy and reliability of biodiversity estimates. In this st... Read More about Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases.

Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries (2024)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Smallman-Raynor, M. (2024). Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries. Geography Review, 38(1),

Countries experience a transition in the major causes of illness and death as they develop economically. This article considers some frameworks for exploring these transitions, with a particular focus on recent rapid transitions in some countries of... Read More about Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries.

Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach (2024)
Journal Article
Price, C. (2024). Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach. Visual Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2398076

The aim of this article is to reveal some of the different points of view, priorities and visions for the future of food systems which were on display in FOOD: Bigger than the Plate, a temporary exhibition which ran in the Victoria and Albert (V & A)... Read More about Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach.

Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand? (2024)
Journal Article
Frings, P. J., Panizzo, V. N., Sutton, J. N., & Ehlert, C. (2024). Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, Article 108966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108966

Silicon stable isotope ratios (expressed as δ30Si) in biogenic silica have been widely used as a proxy for past and present biogeochemical cycling in both marine and lacustrine settings, in particular for nutrient utilization reconstructions. Yet an... Read More about Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand?.

Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money (2024)
Book
Wojcik, D., Iliopoulos, P., Ioannou, S., Keenan, L., Migozzi, J., Monteath, T., Pazitka, V., Torrance, M., Urban, M., Cheshire, J., & Uberti, O. (2024). Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18427134

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. This atlas uses graphics and maps to bring the c... Read More about Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money.

Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (2024)
Journal Article
Ioannou, S., Keenan, L., & Wójcik, D. (2024). Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Eurasian Geography and Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2024.2393626

How do credit rating agencies (CRAs) view China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? Our analysis of 132 countries in 2000–17 demonstrates that Chinese foreign investment adversely affects sovereign ratings of recipient countries when these countries pa... Read More about Credit rating agencies’ views on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Vernham, G., Bailey, J., Field, R., & Schrodt, F. (2024). What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(11), Article e13904. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13904

Aim
Heterogeneity of the Earth's abiotic surface and subsurface (geodiversity) is increasingly recognised as an important driver of biodiversity. Theoretically, species' traits should match to abiotic conditions in the local environment. Here, we te... Read More about What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis.

Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Li, D., Chen, H., Wang, H., Wada, Y., Gosling, S. N., Yang, H., Pokhrel, Y., & Ciais, P. (2024). Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity. Nature Communications, 15, Article 7129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51302-z

Alleviating water scarcity is at the core of Sustainable Development Goal 6. Yet the timing of water scarcity in its onset and possible relief in different regions of the world due to climate change and changing human population dynamics remains poor... Read More about Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity.

Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs' (2024)
Journal Article
Rocchini, D., Chieffallo, L., Thouverai, E., D'Introno, R., Dagostin, F., Donini, E., Foody, G., Garnier, S., Mazzochini, G. G., Moudry, V., Rudis, B., Simova, P., Torresani, M., & Nowosad, J. (2024). Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'. Environmetrics, 35(6), Article e2877. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877

Colorblindness is a genetic condition that affects a person's ability to accurately perceive colors. Several papers still exist making use of rainbow colors palette to show output. In such cases, for colorblind people such graphs are meaningless. In... Read More about Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'.

Exploring community-based participatory research for household and ambient air pollution projects: insights from key informants (2024)
Journal Article
Phillip, E., Walsh, A., Jewitt, S., Elnakoury, F., Simon, J., Conroy, R. M., & Stanistreet, D. (2024). Exploring community-based participatory research for household and ambient air pollution projects: insights from key informants. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 2233. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19614-3

Background: Despite the extensive use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) in health-related projects, there is limited work on how CBPR processes result in outcomes, especially in household and ambient air pollution (HAAP) research. This... Read More about Exploring community-based participatory research for household and ambient air pollution projects: insights from key informants.

Mapping, geography (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2025). Mapping, geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50(1), Article e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12707

This Themed Intervention consists of short papers written by nine plenary speakers at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers plus a paper by the Society's Cartographic Collections Manage... Read More about Mapping, geography.

Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Trinh, D. A., Do, N. T., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., Salgado, J., Large, A. R., Henderson, A. C., & Vu, T. T. (2024). Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 12, Article 100183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2024.100183

The Red River originating from Yunnan province, China is the second largest river in Vietnam in terms of length and discharge. Combination of water chemistry monitoring data of 4 years (2018–2022) from different sub-basins of the Red River (the Da, L... Read More about Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia.

Digital ecologies in practice (2024)
Journal Article
Hartman Davies, O., Turnbull, J., & Searle, A. (2024). Digital ecologies in practice. cultural geographies, 31(4), 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241269172

Digital mediation profoundly shapes how cultural geographers understand and encounter nature. Practice-based engagements with digitally mediated natures pose methodological, aesthetic and ethical questions for cultural geographers. Reflecting on a co... Read More about Digital ecologies in practice.

‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, P. R. (2024). ‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse. cultural geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241269142

This article seeks to advance recent literatures exploring the important role of poetry in the production and circulation of geographical knowledge. It does this by critically analysing a poem that was written by the traveller and scholar Wiliam Heal... Read More about ‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse.

Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain (2024)
Journal Article
Zeng, L., Engels, S., Swann, G. E., Chen, X., Huang, X., Cao, Y., & McGowan, S. (2024). Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain. Journal of Hydrology, 641, Article 131839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131839

Dam construction for social-economic benefits has raised substantial biological and ecological concerns. However, contrasting findings have been reported regarding the role of hydrological modification in floodplain lake ecosystems. Here, we evaluate... Read More about Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain.

Radical Legal Geographies of the Food Desert Spatial Imaginary (2024)
Book Chapter
Zurawski, E., & Higgins, A. K. (2024). Radical Legal Geographies of the Food Desert Spatial Imaginary. In C. Hammelman, C. Z. Levkoe, & K. Reynolds (Eds.), Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge and Resistance (120-135). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529233445.ch007

Sitting at the intersection of food systems scholarship and radical geographies, a radical food geographies (RFG) praxis tackles questions of power and assemblies of oppression to work towards direct action for social change (Levkoe et al, Chapter 1;... Read More about Radical Legal Geographies of the Food Desert Spatial Imaginary.

Resolving data gaps in global surface water monthly records through a self-supervised deep learning strategy (2024)
Journal Article
Hao, Z., Cai, X., Ge, Y., Foody, G., Li, X., Yin, Z., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2024). Resolving data gaps in global surface water monthly records through a self-supervised deep learning strategy. Journal of Hydrology, 640, Article 131673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131673

The distribution of land surface water bodies is constantly changing. Monitoring these changes is critical for both humanity and the ecological system. The Joint Research Centre Global Surface Water (GSW) dataset is crucial in monitoring global water... Read More about Resolving data gaps in global surface water monthly records through a self-supervised deep learning strategy.