Professor MATTHEW JONES's Outputs (44)

Dermal absorption of high molecular weight parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from manufactured gas plant soils using in vitro assessment (2024)
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Williams-Clayson, A. M., Vane, C. H., Jones, M. D., Thomas, R., Taylor, C., & Beriro, D. J. (2024). Dermal absorption of high molecular weight parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from manufactured gas plant soils using in vitro assessment. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 469, Article 133858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.133858

An enhanced in vitro human dermal bioavailability method was developed to measure the release of twenty parent and seven alkylated high molecular weight (HMW) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated soils collected from five former... Read More about Dermal absorption of high molecular weight parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from manufactured gas plant soils using in vitro assessment.

FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains (2023)
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Katsi, F., Kent, M. S., Jones, M., Fraser, W. T., Jardine, P. E., Eastwood, W., Mariani, M., Osborne, C., Edwards, S., & Lomax, B. H. (2024). FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321, Article 105039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105039

Palynological analysis based on spore and pollen morphology is well established in the field of palaeo-environmental reconstruction but is currently not fully exploited for understanding the history and development of cereal cultivation due to diffic... Read More about FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains.

Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia (2023)
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Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Falster, G. M., Stevenson, S. L., Fischer, M. J., Atwood, A. R., Thompson, D. M., Jones, M. D., Tyler, J. J., DeLong, K. L., Martrat, B., Thomas, E. K., Conroy, J. L., Dee, S. G., Jonkers, L., Churakova (Sidorova), O. V., Kern, Z., Opel, T., Porter, T. J., Sayani, H. R., …Iso2k Project Members. (2023). Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience, 16(11), 997–1004. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01291-3

The response of the global water cycle to changes in global surface temperature remains an outstanding question in future climate projections and in past climate reconstructions. The stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions of precipitation (δ... Read More about Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia.

Elementary effects for models with dimensional inputs of arbitrary type and range: Scaling and trajectory generation (2023)
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Rutjens, R. J., Band, L. R., Jones, M. D., & Owen, M. R. (2023). Elementary effects for models with dimensional inputs of arbitrary type and range: Scaling and trajectory generation. PLoS ONE, 18(10), Article e0293344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293344

The Elementary Effects method is a global sensitivity analysis approach for identifying (un)important parameters in a model. However, it has almost exclusively been used where inputs are dimensionless and take values on [0, 1]. Here, we consider mode... Read More about Elementary effects for models with dimensional inputs of arbitrary type and range: Scaling and trajectory generation.

Climate and atmospheric circulation during the Early and Mid‐Holocene inferred from lake‐carbonate oxygen‐isotope records from western Ireland (2023)
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Holmes, J. A., Tindall, J., Jones, M., Holloway, M., Roberts, N., & Feeser, I. (2024). Climate and atmospheric circulation during the Early and Mid‐Holocene inferred from lake‐carbonate oxygen‐isotope records from western Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 39(1), 24-36. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3571

The Early to Mid‐Holocene experienced marked climate change over the northern hemisphere mid‐latitudes in response to changing insolation and declining ice volume. Oxygen isotopes from lake sediments provide a valuable climate proxy, encoding informa... Read More about Climate and atmospheric circulation during the Early and Mid‐Holocene inferred from lake‐carbonate oxygen‐isotope records from western Ireland.

Characterisation of former manufactured gas plant soils using parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Rock-Eval(6) pyrolysis (2023)
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Williams-Clayson, A. M., Vane, C. H., Jones, M. D., Thomas, R., Kim, A. W., Taylor, C., & Beriro, D. J. (2023). Characterisation of former manufactured gas plant soils using parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Rock-Eval(6) pyrolysis. Environmental Pollution, 339, Article 122658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122658

Soils sampled from 10 former manufactured gas plants (MGP) in the UK were investigated using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) and Rock-Eval(6) Pyrolysis (RE). RE is a screening tool used to characterise bulk organic matter in soils via... Read More about Characterisation of former manufactured gas plant soils using parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Rock-Eval(6) pyrolysis.

The role of reservoir species in mediating plague's dynamic response to climate (2023)
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Fell, H. G., Jones, M., Atkinson, S., Stenseth, N. C., & Algar, A. C. (2023). The role of reservoir species in mediating plague's dynamic response to climate. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), Article 230021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230021

The distribution and transmission of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, responds dynamically to climate, both within wildlife reservoirs and human populations. The exact mechanisms mediating plague's response to climate are still poorly... Read More about The role of reservoir species in mediating plague's dynamic response to climate.

Predicting spatial distribution of stable isotopes in precipitation by classical geostatistical- and machine learning methods (2023)
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Erdélyi, D., Hatvani, I. G., Jeon, H., Jones, M., Tyler, J., & Kern, Z. (2023). Predicting spatial distribution of stable isotopes in precipitation by classical geostatistical- and machine learning methods. Journal of Hydrology, 617(Part C), Article 129129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129129

Stable isotopes of precipitation are important natural tracers in hydrology, ecology, and forensics. The spatially explicit predictions of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in precipitation are obtained through different interpolation te... Read More about Predicting spatial distribution of stable isotopes in precipitation by classical geostatistical- and machine learning methods.

An 1800-year oxygen-isotope record of short- and long-term hydroclimate variability in the northern neotropics from a Jamaican marl lake (2023)
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Holmes, J., Burn, M., Cisneros-Dozal, L. M., Jones, M., & Metcalfe, S. (2023). An 1800-year oxygen-isotope record of short- and long-term hydroclimate variability in the northern neotropics from a Jamaican marl lake. Quaternary Science Reviews, 301, Article 107930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107930

Hydroclimate variability on multi-decadal timescales has been a prominent feature of the circum-Caribbean region over the common era, with marked dry intervals noted in particular for the period 800–950 CE coinciding with the Terminal Classic Period... Read More about An 1800-year oxygen-isotope record of short- and long-term hydroclimate variability in the northern neotropics from a Jamaican marl lake.

Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments (2022)
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Kumar, A., Gosling, S. N., Johnson, M. F., Jones, M. D., Zaherpour, J., Kumar, R., Leng, G., Schmied, H. M., Kupzig, J., Breuer, L., Hanasaki, N., Tang, Q., Ostberg, S., Stacke, T., Pokhrel, Y., Wada, Y., & Masaki, Y. (2022). Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments. Advances in Water Resources, 165, Article 104212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104212

Although global- and catchment-scale hydrological models are often shown to accurately simulate long-term runoff time-series, far less is known about their suitability for capturing hydrological extremes, such as droughts. Here we evaluated simulatio... Read More about Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments.

Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings (2022)
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Metcalfe, S. E., Holmes, J. A., Jones, M. D., Gonzalez, R. M., Primmer, N. J., Dyrzo, H. M., Davies, S. J., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 282, Article 107445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107445

The importance of climate change, specifically drought, across the Maya region in the northern Neotropics, remains a topic of lively debate. Part of this discussion hinges on the coherency of response to climatic variability across different archives... Read More about Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings.

Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings (2022)
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Fell, H. G., Osborne, O. G., Jones, M. D., Atkinson, S., Tarr, S., Keddie, S. H., & Algar, A. C. (2022). Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(4), 672-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13453

Aim: The distribution of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that causes plague in humans, is reliant upon transmission between host species; however, the degree to which host species distributions dictate the distribution of Y.pestis, compared with limita... Read More about Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings.

The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an) (2021)
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Jones, M. D., Richter, T., Rollefson, G., Rowan, Y., Roe, J., Toms, P., Wood, J., Wasse, A., Ikram, H., Williams, M., AlShdaifat, A., Pedersen, P. N., & Esaid, W. (2021). The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.023

This paper presents a summary of work undertaken by the authors and their teams on a series of Qe'an (plural of Qa’), in the Badia of eastern Jordan. These basins are foci for settlement in the region, with the sites described here (Shubayqa, Wisad a... Read More about The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an).

Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan (2021)
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Bode, L. J. K., Livarda, A., & Jones, M. D. (2021). Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00839-w

This paper presents the first archaeobotanical results on plant macroremains other than charcoal from the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV in the Azraq basin, one of the largest Epipalaeolithic sites in the southern Levant and one... Read More about Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan.

Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S., Jones, M., Leng, M. J., & Hou, J. (2021). Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, Article 106889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106889

Understanding the strength and extent of the Asian summer monsoon (including the East Asian summer monsoon and the Indian summer monsoon) in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region is crucial for predicting possible changes in the regional eco-environment an... Read More about Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co.

Can δ18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co (2020)
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Zhang, Y., Jones, M., Zhang, J., McGowan, S., & Metcalfe, S. (2020). Can δ18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co. Journal of Paleolimnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00158-6

© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. Glacier-fed lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have undergone rapid expansions since the late 1990s, concurrent with the changing climate. However, the dominant cause(s) of lake area increases is still debated. To identify... Read More about Can δ18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co.

Supplementary material to The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate (2020)
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Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Churakova (Sidorova), O. V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E. P., DeLong, K. L., Falster, G. M., Fischer, M. J., Jones, M. D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D. S., Leduc, G., Managave, S. R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Partin, J. W., Sayani, H. R., Thomas, E. K., Thompson, D. M., …the Iso2k Project Members. (2020). Supplementary material to The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate

The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate (2020)
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Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Churakova (Sidorova), O. V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E. P., DeLong, K. L., Falster, G. M., Fischer, M. J., Jones, M. D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D. S., Leduc, G., Managave, S. R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Partin, J. W., Sayani, H. R., Thomas, E. K., Thompson, D. M., …von Gunten, L. The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate

Reconstructions of global hydroclimate during the Common Era (CE; the past ~ 2000 years) are important for providing context for current and future global environmental change. Stable isotope ratios in water are quantitative indicators of hydroclimat... Read More about The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate.

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., Sharifi, A., Ponel, P., & 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.

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia (2019)
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Jones, M., Abu-Jaber, N., AlShdaifat, A., Baird, D., Cook, B. I., Cuthbert, M. O., Dean, J. R., Djamali, M., Eastwood, W., Fleitmann, D., Haywood, A., Kwiecien, O., Larsen, J., Maher, L. A., Metcalfe, S. E., Parker, A., Petrie, C. A., Primmer, N., Richter, T., Roberts, N., …Weeks, L. (2019). 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1330

The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 years. The complex social, economic and env... Read More about 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia.