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New Potential In A Mature Petroleum Basin - Pannonian Basin Of Northern Croatia, M. Watkinson, M. Enfield, G. Schultz, C. Tucker, T. Beal Jan 2019

New Potential In A Mature Petroleum Basin - Pannonian Basin Of Northern Croatia, M. Watkinson, M. Enfield, G. Schultz, C. Tucker, T. Beal

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


For Wilderness Or Wildness? Decolonising Rewilding, K Ward Jan 2019

For Wilderness Or Wildness? Decolonising Rewilding, K Ward

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Drier Tropical Forests Are Susceptible To Functional Changes In Response To A Long-Term Drought, J Aguirre-Gutierrez, Imma Oliveras, Sami Rifai, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Timothy R. Baker, Ted R. Feldpausch, Agne Gvozdevaite, Wannes Hubau, Nathan J.B. Kraft, Simon L. Lewis, Sam Moore, Ülo Niinemets, Theresa Peprah, Oliver L. Phillips, K Zieminska, Brian Enquist, Yadvinder Malhi Jan 2019

Drier Tropical Forests Are Susceptible To Functional Changes In Response To A Long-Term Drought, J Aguirre-Gutierrez, Imma Oliveras, Sami Rifai, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Timothy R. Baker, Ted R. Feldpausch, Agne Gvozdevaite, Wannes Hubau, Nathan J.B. Kraft, Simon L. Lewis, Sam Moore, Ülo Niinemets, Theresa Peprah, Oliver L. Phillips, K Zieminska, Brian Enquist, Yadvinder Malhi

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Climate Change Communication In The United Kingdom, Ag Anderson Jan 2019

Climate Change Communication In The United Kingdom, Ag Anderson

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

There is a comparably lengthy history of climate change communication research in the UK that can be traced back to the late 1980s. As is the case for media research in general, most attention has historically focused on print media and elite newspapers in particular. The British public appears to have a rather ambivalent response to climate change and most people do not view it as a pressing threat. Whilst surveys suggest that the majority of citizens believe that climate change is occurring, and is at least partly caused by human activity, sceptic views have received greater prominence in the …


Antifouling Paint Particles In Intertidal Estuarine Sediments From Southwest England And Their Ingestion By The Harbour Ragworm, Hediste Diversicolor, Christina Muller-Karanassos, Andrew Turner, William Arundel, Tom Vance, Penelope K. Lindeque, Matthew Cole Jan 2019

Antifouling Paint Particles In Intertidal Estuarine Sediments From Southwest England And Their Ingestion By The Harbour Ragworm, Hediste Diversicolor, Christina Muller-Karanassos, Andrew Turner, William Arundel, Tom Vance, Penelope K. Lindeque, Matthew Cole

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

© 2019 Antifouling paint particles (APPs) of between 500 μm and >2 mm in diameter have been identified in silty, intertidal estuarine sediments through a combination of microscopy and x-ray fluorescence spectrometry. APPs were heterogeneously distributed, with maximal concentrations of 430 particles L −1 (0.2 g L −1 ) near to a facility where boats are regularly maintained and 400 particles L −1 (4.2 g L −1 ) at a location where old boats had been abandoned, with the majority of particles encountered in the finest size fraction retrieved. APPs contained variable concentrations of Cu, Zn, Sn and Pb, with …


Dynamic Accretion Beneath A Slow‐Spreading Ridge Segment: Iodp Hole 1473a And The Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex, Hjb Dick, Cj Macleod, P Blum, N Abe, Dk Blackman, Ja Bowles, Mj Cheadle, K Cho, J Ciazela, Jr Deans, Vp Edgcomb, C Ferrando, L France, B Ghosh, B Ildefonse, B John, Ma Kendrick, J Koepke, Jam Leong, C Liu, Q Ma, T Morishita, A Morris, Jh Natland, T Nozaka, O Pluemper, A Sanfilippo, Jb Sylvan, Ma Tivey, R Tribuzio, G Viegas Jan 2019

Dynamic Accretion Beneath A Slow‐Spreading Ridge Segment: Iodp Hole 1473a And The Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex, Hjb Dick, Cj Macleod, P Blum, N Abe, Dk Blackman, Ja Bowles, Mj Cheadle, K Cho, J Ciazela, Jr Deans, Vp Edgcomb, C Ferrando, L France, B Ghosh, B Ildefonse, B John, Ma Kendrick, J Koepke, Jam Leong, C Liu, Q Ma, T Morishita, A Morris, Jh Natland, T Nozaka, O Pluemper, A Sanfilippo, Jb Sylvan, Ma Tivey, R Tribuzio, G Viegas

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

809 deep IODP Hole U1473A at Atlantis Bank, SWIR, is 2.2 km from 1,508-m Hole 735B and 1.4 from 158-m Hole 1105A. With mapping, it provides the first 3-D view of the upper levels of a 660-km2 lower crustal batholith. It is laterally and vertically zoned, representing a complex interplay of cyclic intrusion, and ongoing deformation, with kilometer-scale upward and lateral migration of interstial melt. Transform wall dives over the gabbro-peridotite contact found only evolved gabbro intruded directly into the mantle near the transform. There was no high-level melt lens, rather the gabbros crystallized at depth, and then emplaced into …


Copper Accumulation And Toxicity In Earthworms Exposed To Cuo Nanomaterials: Effects Of Particle Coating And Soil Ageing, K Tatsi, Bj Shaw, Th Hutchinson, Rd Handy Dec 2018

Copper Accumulation And Toxicity In Earthworms Exposed To Cuo Nanomaterials: Effects Of Particle Coating And Soil Ageing, K Tatsi, Bj Shaw, Th Hutchinson, Rd Handy

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Devon Tourism: The Story Of The County’S Economic Leviathan, Stephen Essex, Mark Brayshay Dec 2018

Devon Tourism: The Story Of The County’S Economic Leviathan, Stephen Essex, Mark Brayshay

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Over the past 149 volumes of these Transactions, fewer than half a dozen papers have focused directly on tourism in Devon. Given its key role in shaping the county’s history, landscape and infrastructure, and its contemporary social and economic character, such a dearth of studies is striking and contrasts with the burgeoning body of scholarly work on Devon tourism aired elsewhere. The aim of this paper is to offer a broad, benchmark review of the origins, historical growth and changing character, as well as the contemporary state and future prospects, of tourism in the county. The analysis demonstrates how the …


Comparing Pollen And Archaeobotanical Data For Chalcolithic Cereal Agriculture At Çatalhöyük, Turkey, Warren J. Eastwood, Andrew Fairbairn, Elizabeth Stroud, Neil Roberts, Henry Lamb, Hakan Yiğitbaşıoğlu, Çetin Şenkul, Andrew Moss, Rebecca Turner, Peter Boyer Dec 2018

Comparing Pollen And Archaeobotanical Data For Chalcolithic Cereal Agriculture At Çatalhöyük, Turkey, Warren J. Eastwood, Andrew Fairbairn, Elizabeth Stroud, Neil Roberts, Henry Lamb, Hakan Yiğitbaşıoğlu, Çetin Şenkul, Andrew Moss, Rebecca Turner, Peter Boyer

More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research

© 2018 Establishing agricultural activity using pollen analysis is one of the prime challenges of a palaeoecological investigation. Here we report combined pollen and archaeobotanical data originating from a waterlogged off-site organic-rich fill radiocarbon dated to ∼8 ka Cal BP located between the two occupation mounds at Neolithic-Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, south central Turkey in order to investigate the record of Early Chalcolithic agricultural activity. Pollen results indicate extremely high abundances of Cerealia-type pollen (30->70%) and critical measurements of these show them to be Triticum-type, Avena/Triticum-type, Secale-type and Hordeum-type. Pollen data are also compared with archaeobotanical data retrieved from the same …


Magmatism, Serpentinization And Life: Insights Through Drilling The Atlantis Massif (Iodp Expedition 357), G Fruh-Green, Beth N. Orcutt, S Roumejon, Marvin D. Lilley, Yuki Morono, Carol Cotterill, Sophie Green, Javier Escartin, Barbara E. John, Andrew M. Mccaig, Mathilde Cannat, B Menez, Esther M. Schwarzenbach, Morgan J. Williams, Sally Morgan, Susan Q. Lang, M Shrenk, William J. Brazelton, Norikatsu Akizawa, Chiara Boschi, Kristina G. Dunkel, M Quéméneurr, Scott A. Whattam, Lisa Mayhew, Michelle Harris, Gaye Bayrakci, Jan Hinrich Behrmann, E Herro-Bervera, Kirsten Hesse, Hai Quan Liu, Amila Sandaruwan Ratnayake, Katrina Twing, Dominique Weis, Rui Zhao, Laura Bilenker Dec 2018

Magmatism, Serpentinization And Life: Insights Through Drilling The Atlantis Massif (Iodp Expedition 357), G Fruh-Green, Beth N. Orcutt, S Roumejon, Marvin D. Lilley, Yuki Morono, Carol Cotterill, Sophie Green, Javier Escartin, Barbara E. John, Andrew M. Mccaig, Mathilde Cannat, B Menez, Esther M. Schwarzenbach, Morgan J. Williams, Sally Morgan, Susan Q. Lang, M Shrenk, William J. Brazelton, Norikatsu Akizawa, Chiara Boschi, Kristina G. Dunkel, M Quéméneurr, Scott A. Whattam, Lisa Mayhew, Michelle Harris, Gaye Bayrakci, Jan Hinrich Behrmann, E Herro-Bervera, Kirsten Hesse, Hai Quan Liu, Amila Sandaruwan Ratnayake, Katrina Twing, Dominique Weis, Rui Zhao, Laura Bilenker

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Total Factor Energy Productivity And Efficiency Changes Of The Gher (Prawn-Carp-Rice) Farming System In Bangladesh: A Stochastic Input Distance Function Approach, S Rahman, Bk Barmon Dec 2018

Total Factor Energy Productivity And Efficiency Changes Of The Gher (Prawn-Carp-Rice) Farming System In Bangladesh: A Stochastic Input Distance Function Approach, S Rahman, Bk Barmon

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper measures energy performance, Total Factor Energy Productivity (TFEP), technical change (TC) and energy efficiency change (EEC) of the gher (prawn-carp-rice) farming system using a unique panel data of 90 farmers covering a 14 year period (2002–2015) from southwest Bangladesh by employing a stochastic input distance function approach. Results reveal that all inputs contribute significantly to energy productivity of the gher farming system with male labor energy input being the major contributor followed by energy from machineries, seeds and chemicals. Energy performance of the High Yielding Variety (HYV) rice enterprise is highly efficient whereas the prawn enterprise is highly …


Geographies Of Citizenship In Higher Education: An Introduction, Yi'en Cheng, Mark Holton Dec 2018

Geographies Of Citizenship In Higher Education: An Introduction, Yi'en Cheng, Mark Holton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2018 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This special section explores multiple ways of thinking about citizenship as informed by higher education students’ experiences. The papers collectively examine universities as a locus of citizenship production and consumption among students, but also highlight the role of young people in enacting alternative expressions of citizenship. All the papers locate experiences of higher education within their national contexts operating within broader geopolitical …


Climatic Niche Of The Saker Falcon Falco Cherrug: Predicted New Areas To Direct Population Surveys In Central Asia, Luke J. Sutton, Robert Puschendorf Dec 2018

Climatic Niche Of The Saker Falcon Falco Cherrug: Predicted New Areas To Direct Population Surveys In Central Asia, Luke J. Sutton, Robert Puschendorf

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


The Value Of 'Having A Go': Trialling A Project-Based Learning Activity To Inform Curriculum Design, Alison Stokes, Nichola Harmer Dec 2018

The Value Of 'Having A Go': Trialling A Project-Based Learning Activity To Inform Curriculum Design, Alison Stokes, Nichola Harmer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Myrmekite And Strain Weakening In Granitoid Mylonites, A Ceccato, L Menegon, G Pennacchioni, Lfg Morales Dec 2018

Myrmekite And Strain Weakening In Granitoid Mylonites, A Ceccato, L Menegon, G Pennacchioni, Lfg Morales

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

At mid-crustal conditions, deformation of feldspar is mainly accommodated by a combination of fracturing, dissolution–precipitation, and reaction-weakening mechanisms. In particular, K-feldspar is reaction-weakened by the formation of strain-induced myrmekite – a fine-grained symplectite of plagioclase and quartz. Here we use electron backscattered diffraction to (i) investigate the microstructure of a granodiorite mylonite, developed at ~ 450 °C during cooling of the Rieserferner pluton (Eastern Alps); and (ii) assess the microstructural processes and the weakening associated with myrmekite development. Our analysis shows that the crystallographic orientation of plagioclase in pristine myrmekite was controlled by that of the replaced K-feldspar. Myrmekite nucleation …


Extent And Retreat History Of The Barra Fan Ice Stream Offshore Western Scotland And Northern Ireland During The Last Glaciation, S. Louise Callard, Cofaigh C O, Sara Benetti, Richard C. Chiverrell, Landeghem K Van, Margot H. Saher, Jenny A. Gales, David Small, Chris D. Clark, Stephen Livingstone, Derek Fabel, Steven G. Moreton Dec 2018

Extent And Retreat History Of The Barra Fan Ice Stream Offshore Western Scotland And Northern Ireland During The Last Glaciation, S. Louise Callard, Cofaigh C O, Sara Benetti, Richard C. Chiverrell, Landeghem K Van, Margot H. Saher, Jenny A. Gales, David Small, Chris D. Clark, Stephen Livingstone, Derek Fabel, Steven G. Moreton

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Investigation And Identification Of Dye Structure As A Function Of Solvent And Temperature, Caroline Fiona Uncles Dec 2018

Investigation And Identification Of Dye Structure As A Function Of Solvent And Temperature, Caroline Fiona Uncles

The Plymouth Student Scientist

Triarylmethane dyes have absorption spectra that contain two peaks which overlap in polar solvents. The second peak being described as a shoulder peak. The body of work recorded in this dissertation aims to discover which of the theories behind the shoulder present on these absorbance spectra holds most precedence. Stock solutions of 5 different dyes with a range of steric factors and symmetries were prepared to a concentration of 10-3 M in 5 different solvents. These were primary, unbranched alcohols with chain lengths of C1 to C4 and water. The stock solutions were diluted to a concentration of 10-5 M, …


Ambulance Clinicians’ Perceptions, Assessment And Management Of Frailty: Thematic Analysis Of Focus Groups, J Green, K Kirby, S Hope Dec 2018

Ambulance Clinicians’ Perceptions, Assessment And Management Of Frailty: Thematic Analysis Of Focus Groups, J Green, K Kirby, S Hope

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.


On Site Determination Of Trace Metals In Estuarine Sediments By Field-Portable-Xrf., Andrew Turner, Alex Taylor Dec 2018

On Site Determination Of Trace Metals In Estuarine Sediments By Field-Portable-Xrf., Andrew Turner, Alex Taylor

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

A portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer and mobile test stand have been employed to examine the feasibility of on site measurements of trace metals in estuarine sediment. In the laboratory, the instrument was able to detect the trace metals: As, Cr, Cu, Pb, Sn and Zn; and the geochemical proxy metals: Ca, Fe, K and Rb; in both fresh and freeze-dried surficial samples from the Tamar and Tavy estuaries, southwest England, that had been emplaced in polyethylene bags over the detector window. The presence of interstitial water in fresh samples acted as both a diluent of sediment mass and an …


Replacement Reactions And Deformation By Dissolution And Precipitation Processes In Amphibolites, F Giuntoli, L Menegon, Cj Warren Dec 2018

Replacement Reactions And Deformation By Dissolution And Precipitation Processes In Amphibolites, F Giuntoli, L Menegon, Cj Warren

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The deformation of the middle to lower crust in collisional settings occurs via deformation mechanisms that vary with rock composition, fluid content, pressure, and temperature. These mechanisms are responsible for the accommodation of large tectonic transport distances during nappe stacking and exhumation. Here, we show that fracturing and fluid flow triggered coupled dissolution–precipitation and dissolution–precipitation creep processes, which were responsible for the formation of a mylonitic microstructure in amphibolites. This fabric is developed over a crustal thickness >500 m in the Lower Seve Nappe (Scandinavian Caledonides). Amphibolites display a mylonitic foliation that wraps around albite porphyroclasts appearing dark in panchromatic …


Changes In Total Factor Productivity And Efficiency Of Microfinance Institutions In The Developing World: A Non-Parametric Approach, Ak Kar, S Rahman Dec 2018

Changes In Total Factor Productivity And Efficiency Of Microfinance Institutions In The Developing World: A Non-Parametric Approach, Ak Kar, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

© 2018 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland Applying the Färe–Primont index, this paper computes the total factor productivity (TFP) index for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in terms of its six individual components: technical change, technical, scale and mix efficiency changes and residual scale and residual mix efficiency changes. We use panel data of 342 MFIs from 61 countries covering the period 2003–2013. Results show that MFIs are operating at a low level of productivity with an overall annual rate of decline in TFP of 1.7 percent. Although technical progress, technical efficiency change and mix efficiency change components of TFP have increased …


The Age Of Ambergris., Steven John Rowland, Paul Andrew Sutton, Timothy D.J. Knowles Nov 2018

The Age Of Ambergris., Steven John Rowland, Paul Andrew Sutton, Timothy D.J. Knowles

More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research

Ambergris, which is a coprolith originating from the sperm whale, has been found only rarely, but for centuries, as jetsam on beaches all over the world. There are no reliable data indicating how long such samples may have remained at sea, with unsubstantiated accounts suggesting maybe decades. Here, we obtained over forty jetsam samples, many collected on known dates, from mostly known beach locations across the globe. Such an inventory of verified jetsam ambergris is unprecedented. Each sample was characterised by analytical methods such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). We then determined the radiocarbon ages of some of the samples …


Oceanographic Drivers Of Marine Mammal And Seabird Habitat-Use Across Shelf-Seas: A Guide To Key Features And Recommendations For Future Research And Conservation Management, S. L. Cox, C. B. Embling, P. J. Hosegood, S. C. Votier, S. N. Ingram Nov 2018

Oceanographic Drivers Of Marine Mammal And Seabird Habitat-Use Across Shelf-Seas: A Guide To Key Features And Recommendations For Future Research And Conservation Management, S. L. Cox, C. B. Embling, P. J. Hosegood, S. C. Votier, S. N. Ingram

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Determination And Prediction Of Zinc Speciation In Estuaries, Holly B.C. Pearson, Sean D.W. Comber, Charlotte B. Braungardt, Paul Worsfold, Anthony Stockdale, Stephen Lofts Nov 2018

Determination And Prediction Of Zinc Speciation In Estuaries, Holly B.C. Pearson, Sean D.W. Comber, Charlotte B. Braungardt, Paul Worsfold, Anthony Stockdale, Stephen Lofts

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Lowering of the estuarine Environmental Quality Standard for zinc in the UK to 121 nM reflects rising concern regarding zinc in ecosystems and is driving the need to better understand its fate and behavior and to develop and parametrize speciation models to predict the metal species present. For the first time, an extensive data set has been gathered for the speciation of zinc within an estuarine system with supporting physicochemical characterization, in particular dissolved organic carbon. WHAM/Model VII and Visual MINTEQ speciation models were used to simulate zinc speciation, using a combination of measured complexation variables and available defaults. Data …


Computationally-Enhanced Ecologies, Organisms, And Parasites. Speculative Explorations Of Symbiotic Oscillations, S Didakis Nov 2018

Computationally-Enhanced Ecologies, Organisms, And Parasites. Speculative Explorations Of Symbiotic Oscillations, S Didakis

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This paper presents theoretical and practical research related to computationally-enhanced environments, analysing speculative explorations of media technologies that extend our understanding on alternative modes of architectural realities. An analysis is made concerning this transformation of interior spaces that realise immaterial dimensions and hidden layers of information, demonstrating strategies for computationally-enhanced ecologies that become an essential organism of the functions and aesthetics of space. The case studies presented in this work attempt to focus on how technological development and cutting-edge media practices are utilized to create objects and systems within the physical space for augmenting and amplifying creative processes, and exploring …


The ‘Right’ Side Of Creativity: Creative Personality And Social Risk-Taking Predict Political Party Affiliation, V Tyagi, Y Hanoch, B Choma, Sl Denham Nov 2018

The ‘Right’ Side Of Creativity: Creative Personality And Social Risk-Taking Predict Political Party Affiliation, V Tyagi, Y Hanoch, B Choma, Sl Denham

School of Psychology

Factors that predict political party affiliation are of particular importance in research due to the wider implications in politics and policy making. Extending this line of work, the idea that creativity predicts party affiliation was tested using 2 conceptualizations of creativity: creative personality and creative ideation. Participants (N = 406) based in the United States completed measures of creativity, socio-political attitudes, and domain specific risk-taking, and indicated their party affiliation. Results revealed a significant link between creative personality and political party affiliation. Furthermore, in addition to the socio-political attitudes, this link was explained, in part, by individuals’ social risk-taking. Specifically, …


Compositional Response Of Amazon Forests To Climate Change., Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Timothy R. Baker, Kyle G. Dexter, Simon L. Lewis, Roel J.W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Jon Lloyd, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Luzmila Arroyo, Esteban Álvarez-Dávila, Niro Higuchi, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Marcos Silveira, Emilio Vilanova, Emanuel Gloor, Yadvinder Malhi, Jerôme Chave, Jos Barlow, Damien Bonal, Cardozo N Davila, Terry Erwin, Sophie Fauset, Bruno Hérault, S Laurance, Lourens Poorter, Lan Qie, Clement Stahl, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Steege H Ter, Vincent Antoine Vos, Pieter A. Zuidema, Everton Almeida, Everton Almeida, Ana Andrade, Sa Vieira, Luiz Aragão, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, C Ga Aymard, Pb Camargo, Jorcely G. Barroso, Frans Bongers, Rene Boot, Jl Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Moscoso V Chama, James Comiskey, Valverde F Cornejo, Da Costa Ac Lola, Aguila Pasquel J Del, Fiore T Di, Duque L Fernanda, Fernando Elias, Julien Engel, Llampazo G Flores, David Galbraith, Fernández R Herrera, Coronado E Honorio, Wannes Hubau, Eliana Jimenez-Rojas, Adriano José Nogueira Lima, Ricardo Keichi Umetsu, W Laurance, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Thomas Lovejoy, Melo Cruz O Aurelio, Paulo S. Morandi, David Neill, Vargas P Núñez, Nc Pallqui, Gutierrez A Parada, Guido Pardo, Julie Peacock, Marielos Peña-Claros, Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora, N/A Pe Nov 2018

Compositional Response Of Amazon Forests To Climate Change., Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Timothy R. Baker, Kyle G. Dexter, Simon L. Lewis, Roel J.W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Jon Lloyd, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Luzmila Arroyo, Esteban Álvarez-Dávila, Niro Higuchi, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Marcos Silveira, Emilio Vilanova, Emanuel Gloor, Yadvinder Malhi, Jerôme Chave, Jos Barlow, Damien Bonal, Cardozo N Davila, Terry Erwin, Sophie Fauset, Bruno Hérault, S Laurance, Lourens Poorter, Lan Qie, Clement Stahl, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Steege H Ter, Vincent Antoine Vos, Pieter A. Zuidema, Everton Almeida, Everton Almeida, Ana Andrade, Sa Vieira, Luiz Aragão, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, C Ga Aymard, Pb Camargo, Jorcely G. Barroso, Frans Bongers, Rene Boot, Jl Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Moscoso V Chama, James Comiskey, Valverde F Cornejo, Da Costa Ac Lola, Aguila Pasquel J Del, Fiore T Di, Duque L Fernanda, Fernando Elias, Julien Engel, Llampazo G Flores, David Galbraith, Fernández R Herrera, Coronado E Honorio, Wannes Hubau, Eliana Jimenez-Rojas, Adriano José Nogueira Lima, Ricardo Keichi Umetsu, W Laurance, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Thomas Lovejoy, Melo Cruz O Aurelio, Paulo S. Morandi, David Neill, Vargas P Núñez, Nc Pallqui, Gutierrez A Parada, Guido Pardo, Julie Peacock, Marielos Peña-Claros, Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora, N/A Pe

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate-induced biodiversity changes are widely documented elsewhere, few studies have addressed this issue for lowland tropical ecosystems. Here we investigate whether the floristic and functional composition of intact lowland Amazonian forests have been changing by evaluating records from 106 long-term inventory plots spanning 30 years. We analyse three traits that have been hypothesized to respond to different environmental drivers (increase in moisture stress and atmospheric CO2 concentrations): maximum tree size, biogeographic water-deficit affiliation and wood density. Tree communities have become …


Applying Pattern Oriented Sampling In Current Fieldwork Practice To Enable More Effective Model Evaluation In Fluvial Landscape Evolution Research, Rebecca M. Briant, Kim M. Cohen, Stephane Cordier, Alain J.A.G. Demoulin, Mark G. Macklin, Anne E. Mather, Gilles Rixhon, Tom Veldkamp, John Wainwright, Alex Whittaker, Hella Wittmann Nov 2018

Applying Pattern Oriented Sampling In Current Fieldwork Practice To Enable More Effective Model Evaluation In Fluvial Landscape Evolution Research, Rebecca M. Briant, Kim M. Cohen, Stephane Cordier, Alain J.A.G. Demoulin, Mark G. Macklin, Anne E. Mather, Gilles Rixhon, Tom Veldkamp, John Wainwright, Alex Whittaker, Hella Wittmann

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


In-Situ Mechanical Weakness Of Subducting Sediments Beneath A Plate Boundary Décollement In The Nankai Trough, Yohei Hamada, Takehiro Hirose, Akira Ijiri, Yasuhiro Yamada, Yoshinori Sanada, Saneatsu Saito, Noriaki Sakurai, Takamitsu Sugihara, Takahiro Yokoyama, Tomokazu Saruhashi, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Nana Kamiya, Stephen Bowden, Margaret Cramm, Susann Henkel, Kira Homola, Hiroyuki Imachi, Masanori Kaneko, Lorenzo Lagostina, Hayley Manners, Harry Luke Mcclelland, Kyle Metcalfe, Natsumi Okutsu, Donald Pan, Maija Jocelyn Raudsepp, Justine Sauvage, Florence Schubotz, Arthur Spivack, Satoshi Tonai, Tina Treude, Man Yin Tsang, Bernhard Viehweger, David T. Wang, Emily Whitaker, Yuzuru Yamamoto, Kiho Yang, Masataka Kinoshita, Lena Maeda, Yusuke Kubo, Yuki Morono, Fumio Inagaki, Verena B. Heuer Nov 2018

In-Situ Mechanical Weakness Of Subducting Sediments Beneath A Plate Boundary Décollement In The Nankai Trough, Yohei Hamada, Takehiro Hirose, Akira Ijiri, Yasuhiro Yamada, Yoshinori Sanada, Saneatsu Saito, Noriaki Sakurai, Takamitsu Sugihara, Takahiro Yokoyama, Tomokazu Saruhashi, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Nana Kamiya, Stephen Bowden, Margaret Cramm, Susann Henkel, Kira Homola, Hiroyuki Imachi, Masanori Kaneko, Lorenzo Lagostina, Hayley Manners, Harry Luke Mcclelland, Kyle Metcalfe, Natsumi Okutsu, Donald Pan, Maija Jocelyn Raudsepp, Justine Sauvage, Florence Schubotz, Arthur Spivack, Satoshi Tonai, Tina Treude, Man Yin Tsang, Bernhard Viehweger, David T. Wang, Emily Whitaker, Yuzuru Yamamoto, Kiho Yang, Masataka Kinoshita, Lena Maeda, Yusuke Kubo, Yuki Morono, Fumio Inagaki, Verena B. Heuer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

© 2018, The Author(s). The study investigates the in-situ strength of sediments across a plate boundary décollement using drilling parameters recorded when a 1180-m-deep borehole was established during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 370, Temperature-Limit of the Deep Biosphere off Muroto (T-Limit). Information of the in-situ strength of the shallow portion in/around a plate boundary fault zone is critical for understanding the development of accretionary prisms and of the décollement itself. Studies using seismic reflection surveys and scientific ocean drillings have recently revealed the existence of high pore pressure zones around frontal accretionary prisms, which may reduce the effective …


European Land-Use At 6000 Bp: From On-Site Data To The Large-Scale View, N Whitehouse, M Madella, F Antolín Nov 2018

European Land-Use At 6000 Bp: From On-Site Data To The Large-Scale View, N Whitehouse, M Madella, F Antolín

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The LandCover6k working group investigates whether prehistoric and historic human impacts on land cover (i.e. anthropogenic land-cover change due to land use - LULC) were sufficiently large to have a significant impact on regional climates. This workshop focused on reconstructing land use for the European continent by synthesizing farming and landscape management patterns derived from the archaeological record, for a 6000 BP time slice. We were also interested in the location of settlements, field systems, and industrial activities. The main objectives of the workshop were to: (i) Review LU classifications developed for other regions (Morrison et al. 2018), ensure these …