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Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling (2018)
Journal Article
Lacey, J. H., & Jones, M. D. (2018). Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.007

We investigate the modern hydrology of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) using a combined hydrological and isotope-based modelling approach and present a new evaluation of contemporary water balance and palaeoclimate estimates. The combined model is ab... Read More about Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling.

Predicting residential building age from map data (2018)
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Rosser, J., Boyd, D., Long, G., Zakhary, S., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Predicting residential building age from map data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.08.004

The age of a building influences its form and fabric composition and this in turn is critical to inferring its energy performance. However, often this data is unknown. In this paper, we present a methodology to automatically identify the construction... Read More about Predicting residential building age from map data.

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria (2018)
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Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria. Rural History, 29(2), 167-193. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793318000079

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. Th... Read More about Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria.

A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient (2018)
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Tarr, S., Meiri, S., Hicks, J. J., & Algar, A. C. (2019). A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient. Ecography, 42(4), 706-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03593

© 2018 The Authors The magnitude and direction of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) varies greatly across the animal kingdom, reflecting differential selection pressures on the reproductive and/or ecological roles of males and females. If the selection pr... Read More about A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient.

Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus (2018)
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Guerrero, A. M., Bennett, N. J., Wilson, K. A., Carter, N., Gill, D., Mills, M., …Nuno, A. (2018). Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society, 23(3), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-10232-230338

An integrated understanding of both social and ecological aspects of environmental issues is essential to address pressing sustainability challenges. An integrated social-ecological systems perspective is purported to provide a better understanding o... Read More about Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus.

Remote sensing restores predictability of ectotherm body temperature in the world’s forests (2018)
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Algar, A. C., Morley, K., & Boyd, D. S. (2018). Remote sensing restores predictability of ectotherm body temperature in the world’s forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(12), 1412-1425. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12811

AIM: Rising global temperatures are predicted to increase ectotherms’ body temperatures, benefitting some species but threatening others. Biophysical models predict a key role for shade in buffering these effects, but the difficulty of measuring shad... Read More about Remote sensing restores predictability of ectotherm body temperature in the world’s forests.

Icy grip on glacial monsoon (2018)
Journal Article
Metcalfe, S. E. (2018). Icy grip on glacial monsoon. Nature Geoscience, 11, 802-803. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0231-4

Full Metadata Object profiling for flexible geoprocessing workflows (2018)
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Rosser, J. F., Jackson, M., & Leibovici, D. (2018). Full Metadata Object profiling for flexible geoprocessing workflows. Transactions in GIS, 22(5), 1221-1237. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12460

The design and running of complex geoprocessing workflows is an increasingly common geospatial modelling and analysis task. The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard, which provides a graphical representation of a workflow, allows stake... Read More about Full Metadata Object profiling for flexible geoprocessing workflows.

Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification (2018)
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Pretty, J., Benton, T. G., Bharucha, Z. P., Dicks, L. V., Flora, C. B., Godfray, H. C. J., …Wratten, S. (2018). Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), 441-446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0114-0

© 2018, The Author(s). The sustainable intensification of agricultural systems offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural and natural capital outcomes. Efficiency and substitution are steps towards sustainable intensificat... Read More about Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification.

Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access (2018)
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Calkin, S., & Freeman, C. (2018). Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(9), 1325-1332. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1509114

Abortion is at once a routine medical procedure and the subject of intense controversy and unique criminal regulation. This provocation offers an account of the spatiality of abortion access and makes the argument that abortion implicates a range of... Read More about Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access.

'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape (2018)
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Lisewski-Hobson, V., & Watkins, C. (2019). 'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape. Landscape Research, 44(5), 507-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1493444

Recent studies of children have argued that children are suffering from a deficiency in nature experience. Some argue that a lack of experience leads to poor affective relations which for wooded environments may be manifested as fear. This study inve... Read More about 'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape.

Measuring beta-diversity by remote sensing: a challenge for biodiversity monitoring (2018)
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Rocchini, D., Luque, S., Pettorelli, N., Bastin, L., Doktor, D., Faedi, N., …Nagendra, H. (2018). Measuring beta-diversity by remote sensing: a challenge for biodiversity monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(8), 1787-1798. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12941

Biodiversity includes multiscalar and multitemporal structures and processes, with different levels of functional organization, from genetic to ecosystemic levels. One of the mostly used methods to infer biodiversity is based on taxonomic approaches... Read More about Measuring beta-diversity by remote sensing: a challenge for biodiversity monitoring.

Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion? (2018)
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Sesan, T., Jewitt, S., Clifford, M., & Ray, C. (2018). Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 28(6), 667-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2018.1503235

Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much evidence of knowle... Read More about Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?.

Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada (2018)
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Dugdale, S. J., Curry, R. A., St-Hilaire, A., & Andrews, S. N. (2018). Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada. Water Resources Management, 32(15), 4853-4878. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-2057-7

Water temperature is a key determinant of biological processes in rivers. Temperature in northern latitude rivers is expected to increase under climate change, with potentially adverse consequences for cold water-adapted species. In Canada, little is... Read More about Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada.

Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes (2018)
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Anderson, N., Curtis, C., Whiteford, E., Jones, V., McGowan, S., Simpson, G., & Kaiser, J. (2018). Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2250-2265. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10936

Disruption of the nitrogen cycle is a major component of global environmental change. d15N in lake sediments is increasingly used as a measure of reactive nitrogen input but problematically, the characteristic depleted d15N signal is not recorded at... Read More about Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes.

Recent ecological change in ancient lakes (2018)
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Hampton, S. E., McGowan, S., Ozersky, T., Virdis, S. G. P., Vu, T. T., Spanbauer, T. L., …Fritz, S. C. (2018). Recent ecological change in ancient lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2277-2304. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10938

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic events, and long association with human settlements. These lakes not only rec... Read More about Recent ecological change in ancient lakes.

Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research (2018)
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Morris, C., Raman, S., & Seymour, S. (2019). Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research. Sociologia Ruralis, 59(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12221

This paper explores a form of knowledge politics played out within and between universities and research institutes as sites of certified disciplinary expertise in the agro-food domain. It investigates the ‘openness’ of this domain to the expertise o... Read More about Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research.

Trees in art (2018)
Book
Watkins, C. (2018). Trees in art. London: Reaktion Books

Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland (2018)
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Alshammari, L., Large, D. J., Boyd, D. S., Sowter, A., Anderson, R., Andersen, R., & Marsh, S. (2018). Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland. Remote Sensing, 10(7), Article 1103. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071103

Satellite Earth Observation (EO) is often used as a cost-effective method to report on the condition of remote and inaccessible peatland areas. Current EO techniques are primarily limited to reporting on the vegetation classes and properties of the i... Read More about Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland.

Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play (2018)
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Coen, S. E., Tillmann, S., Ergler, C. R., McGuire, C., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play. Geohumanities, 4(2), 557-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1516956

In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into... Read More about Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play.