All Outputs (6)

An experimental evaluation of the use of ?13C as a proxy for palaeoatmospheric CO2 (2018)
Journal Article
Lomax, B. H., Lake, J. A., Leng, M. J., & Jardine, P. E. (2019). An experimental evaluation of the use of ?13C as a proxy for palaeoatmospheric CO2. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 247, 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.12.026

Understanding changes in atmospheric CO2 over geological time via the development of well constrained and tested proxies is of increasing importance within the Earth sciences. Recently a new proxy (identified as the C3 proxy) has been proposed that i... Read More about An experimental evaluation of the use of ?13C as a proxy for palaeoatmospheric CO2.

Variability in modern pollen rain from moist and wet tropical forest plots in Ghana, West Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Julier, A. C. M., Jardine, P. E., Adu-Bredu, S., Coe, A. L., Fraser, W. T., Lomax, B. H., …Gosling, W. D. (2019). Variability in modern pollen rain from moist and wet tropical forest plots in Ghana, West Africa. Grana, 58(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2018.1510027

How pollen moves within and between ecosystems affects factors such as the genetic structure of populations, how resilient they are to environmental change, and the amount and nature of pollen preserved in the sedimentary record. We set arti fi... Read More about Variability in modern pollen rain from moist and wet tropical forest plots in Ghana, West Africa.

Diets of giants: the nutritional value of sauropod diet during the Mesozoic (2018)
Journal Article
Gill, F. L., Hummel, J., Sharifi, A. R., Lee, A. P., & Lomax, B. H. (2018). Diets of giants: the nutritional value of sauropod diet during the Mesozoic. Palaeontology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12385

A major uncertainty in estimating energy budgets and population densities of extinct animals is the carrying capacity of their ecosystems, constrained by net primary productivity (NPP) and its digestible energy content. The hypothesis that increases... Read More about Diets of giants: the nutritional value of sauropod diet during the Mesozoic.

Plant responses to simulated carbon capture and transport leakage: the effect of impurities in the CO2 gas stream (2018)
Journal Article
Lake, J. A., & Lomax, B. H. (2018). Plant responses to simulated carbon capture and transport leakage: the effect of impurities in the CO2 gas stream. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 72, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.01.013

To deliver an effective transition from a carbon-based 24 to a carbon-free energy market, bridging technologies are required. One such possibility is the use of carbon capture and storage, (CCS). However, before such innovations can be rolled out a k... Read More about Plant responses to simulated carbon capture and transport leakage: the effect of impurities in the CO2 gas stream.

Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations (2018)
Journal Article
Richey, J. D., Upchurch, G., Montañez, I. P., Lomax, B. H., Suarez, M. B., Crout, N. M., …Smith, J. J. (2018). Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.035

Past greenhouse intervals of the Mesozoic were repeatedly punctuated by Ocean Anoxic Events (OAEs), major perturbations to the global carbon cycle and abrupt climate changes that may serve as relevant analogs for Earth’s greenhouse gas-forced climate... Read More about Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations.

Nutrient limitation or home field advantage: does microbial community adaptation overcome nutrient limitation of litter decomposition in a tropical peatland? (2018)
Journal Article
Hoyos-Santillan, J., Lomax, B. H., Turner, B. L., & Sjögersten, S. (in press). Nutrient limitation or home field advantage: does microbial community adaptation overcome nutrient limitation of litter decomposition in a tropical peatland?. Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12923

Litter decomposition is an important control on carbon accumulation in tropical peatlands. Stoichiometric theory suggests that decomposition is regulated by elemental ratios in litter while the home field advantage (HFA) hypothesis predicts that deco... Read More about Nutrient limitation or home field advantage: does microbial community adaptation overcome nutrient limitation of litter decomposition in a tropical peatland?.