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Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia (2024)
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Salgado, J., Jaramillo-Monroy, C., Link, A., Lopera, L., Velez, M. I., Gonzalez-Arango, C., Yang, H., Panizzo, V. N., & McGowan, S. (2025). Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia. Water Research, 268(Part A), Article 122633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122633

Tropical floodplain lakes are increasingly impacted by human activities, yet their pathways of spatial and temporal degradation, particularly under varying hydrological connectivity regimes and climate change, remain poorly understood. This study exa... Read More about Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia.

Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand? (2024)
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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?.

Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia (2024)
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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.

Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain (2024)
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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.

South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution (2024)
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Wilkin, J. T., Kender, S., Dejardin, R., Allen, C. S., Peck, V. L., Swann, G. E., …Leng, M. J. (2024). South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 43(1), 165-186. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-165-2024

The subantarctic islands of South Georgia are located in the Southern Ocean, and they may be sensitive to future climate warming. However, due to a lack of well-dated subantarctic palaeoclimate archives, there is still uncertainty about South Georgia... Read More about South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution.

Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology (2024)
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Smith, M. W., Willis, T., Mroz, E., James, W. H., Klaar, M. J., Gosling, S. N., & Thomas, C. J. (2024). Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology. Science, 384(6696), 697-703. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk8755

Changes in climate shift the geographic locations that are suitable for malaria transmission because of the thermal constraints on vector Anopheles mosquitos and Plasmodium spp. malaria parasites and the lack of availability of surface water for vect... Read More about Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology.

The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa (2024)
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Kunda, J. J., Gosling, S. N., & Foody, G. M. (2024). The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa. International Journal of Biometeorology, 68, 1015-1033. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-024-02650-4

This review examines high-quality research evidence that synthesises the effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa. Web of Science (WoS) was used to identify research articles on the effects extreme heat, humidity, Wet-bulb Globe Tem... Read More about The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa.

Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change (2024)
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Porkka, M., Virkki, V., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Gerten, D., Gleeson, T., Mohan, C., Fetzer, I., Jaramillo, F., Staal, A., te Wierik, S., Tobian, A., van der Ent, R., Döll, P., Flörke, M., Gosling, S. N., Hanasaki, N., Satoh, Y., Müller Schmied, H., Wanders, N., Famiglietti, J. S., …Kummu, M. (2024). Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change. Nature Water, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00208-7

Human actions compromise the many life-supporting functions provided by the freshwater cycle. Yet, scientific understanding of anthropogenic freshwater change and its long-term evolution is limited. Here, using a multi-model ensemble of global hydrol... Read More about Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change.

A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction (2024)
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Meister, P., Alexandre, A., Bailey, H., Barker, P., Biskaborn, B. K., Broadman, E., …Meyer, H. (2024). A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction. Climate of the Past, 20(2), 363-392. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-363-2024

Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica (δ18OBSi) from lake sediments allow for quantitative reconstruction of past hydroclimate and proxy-model comparison in terrestrial environments. The signals of individual records have been attributed to different fa... Read More about A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction.

Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities (2024)
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Luize, B. G., Bauman, D., ter Steege, H., Palma‐Silva, C., do Amaral, I. L., de Souza Coelho, L., …Dexter, K. G. (2024). Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14816

Aim: Amazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments and dispersed widely across... Read More about Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities.

Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography (2024)
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Ngute, A. S. K., Schoeman, D. S., Pfeifer, M., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Phillips, O. L., van Breugel, M., …Marshall, A. R. (2024). Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography. Global Change Biology, 30(1), Article e17140. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17140

Growing evidence suggests that liana competition with trees is threatening the global carbon sink by slowing the recovery of forests following disturbance. A recent theory based on local and regional evidence further proposes that the competitive suc... Read More about Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography.

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities (2024)
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Cooper, D. L., Lewis, S. L., Sullivan, M. J., Prado, P. I., Prado, P. I., ter Steege, H., …Zent, S. (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, 625(7996), 728-734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z

Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about m... Read More about Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities.

Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems (2024)
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Pereira, R., Panizzo, V. N., Bischoff, J., McGowan, S., Lacey, J., Moorhouse, H., …Fazry, S. (2024). Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, Article 1250889. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1250889

Inland waters are highways of carbon and nutrient flows between the land and ocean. Aquatic environments integrate multiple sources and processes over space and time that influence ecosystem functionality. The complexity of these systems and their mu... Read More about Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems.

An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking (2023)
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Valman, S. J., Boyd, D. S., Carbonneau, P. E., Johnson, M. F., & Dugdale, S. J. (2024). An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking. Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, Article 113932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113932

Monitoring rivers is vital to manage the invaluable ecosystem services they provide, and also to mitigate the risks they pose to property and life through flooding and drought. Due to the vast extent and dynamic nature of river systems, Earth Observa... Read More about An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking.

Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models (2023)
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Gnann, S., Reinecke, R., Stein, L., Wada, Y., Thiery, W., Satoh, Y., …Wagener, T. (2023). Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models. Nature Water, 1, 1079-1090. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00160-y

AbstractGlobal water models are increasingly used to understand past, present and future water cycles, but disagreements between simulated variables make model-based inferences uncertain. Although there is empirical evidence of different large-scale... Read More about Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models.

Identifying the controls on nitrate and metabolic state within the Red River delta (Vietnam) with the use of stable isotopes (2023)
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Smith, A. C., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., Panizzo, V. N., Ngo, T. T. T., Luu, T. N. M., …Trinh, A. D. (2024). Identifying the controls on nitrate and metabolic state within the Red River delta (Vietnam) with the use of stable isotopes. Journal of Hydrology, 628, Article 130467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130467

In many places around the world, anthropogenic activities have resulted in nitrate (NO3−) pollution and changes in the metabolic state of aquatic ecosystems. Here we combined stable isotope and physico-chemical monitoring to assess the sources of NO3... Read More about Identifying the controls on nitrate and metabolic state within the Red River delta (Vietnam) with the use of stable isotopes.

Sea level controls on the provenance of fine-grained sediments in the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea over the last ~30 ka (2023)
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Zhang, Q., Swann, G. E., Liu, J., Gao, W., Cui, Z., Li, G., …Li, W. (2023). Sea level controls on the provenance of fine-grained sediments in the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea over the last ~30 ka. Marine Geology, 466, Article 107184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107184

The Xisha Trough situated in the northwestern South China Sea (SCS), plays a pivotal role in transporting sediments from the Red River into the deep-sea basin of the SCS, and thus is a critical place to examine variations in source-to-sink process of... Read More about Sea level controls on the provenance of fine-grained sediments in the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea over the last ~30 ka.

Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora (2023)
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ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C. A., do Amaral, I. L., de Souza Coelho, L., de Almeida Matos, F. D., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., …Melgaço, K. (2023). Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology, 6(1), Article 1130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6

Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and investigated drivers for diversity and richness. Using only location,... Read More about Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora.

Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas (2023)
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Walton, R. E., Moorhouse, H. L., Roberts, L. R., Salgado, J., Ladd, C. J., Do, N. T., Panizzo, V. N., Tri Van, P. D., Downes, N. K., Trinh, D. A., Mcgowan, S., Taylor, S., & Henderson, A. C. (2024). Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas. Anthropocene Review, 11(2), 442-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196231204334

Tropical river deltas, and the social-ecological systems they sustain, are changing rapidly due to anthropogenic activity and climatic change. Baseline data to inform sustainable management options for resilient deltas is urgently needed and palaeoli... Read More about Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas.

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia (2023)
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Peripato, V., Levis, C., Moreira, G. A., Gamerman, D., ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C. A., …Aragão, L. E. O. C. (2023). More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia. Science, 382(6666), 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade2541

Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from... Read More about More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.