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Conference paperFogell NA, Sherwin S, Cotter CJ, et al., 2013,
Fluid-structure iInteraction simulation of theinflated shape of ram-air parachutes
, 22nd AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida [Best Student Paper Award] -
Journal articleLedger ME, Brown LE, Edwards FK, et al., 2013,
Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs
, Nature Climate Change, Vol: 3, Pages: 223-227, ISSN: 1758-678X -
Journal articleDamerell P, Howe C, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2013,
Child-orientated environmental education influences adult knowledge and household behaviour
, Environmental Research Letters, Vol: 8, Pages: 1-7, ISSN: 1748-9326Environmental education is frequently undertaken as a conservation intervention designed to change the attitudes and behaviour of recipients. Much conservation education is aimed at children, with the rationale that children influence the attitudes of their parents, who will consequently change their behaviour. Empirical evidence to substantiate this suggestion is very limited, however. For the first time, we use a controlled trial to assess the influence of wetland-related environmental education on the knowledge of children and their parents and household behaviour. We demonstrate adults exhibiting greater knowledge of wetlands and improved reported household water management behaviour when their child has received wetland-based education at Seychelles wildlife clubs. We distinguish between 'folk' knowledge of wetland environments and knowledge obtained from formal education, with intergenerational transmission of each depending on different factors. Our study provides the first strong support for the suggestion that environmental education can be transferred between generations and indirectly induce targeted behavioural changes.
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Journal articleJordan TA, Ferraccioli F, Ross N, et al., 2013,
Inland extent of the Weddell Sea Rift imaged by new aerogeophysical data
, TECTONOPHYSICS, Vol: 585, Pages: 137-160, ISSN: 0040-1951- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 56
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Journal articleGallego-Sala AV, Prentice IC, 2013,
Blanket peat biome endangered by climate change
, NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE, Vol: 3, Pages: 152-155, ISSN: 1758-678X- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 101
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Journal articleMilner-Gulland EJ, Barlow J, Cadotte M, et al., 2013,
Celebrating the golden jubilee of the Journal of Applied Ecology
, JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, Vol: 50, Pages: 1-3, ISSN: 0021-8901- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 2
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Journal articleGuo F, Krishnan R, Polak J, 2013,
A computationally efficient two-stage method for short-term traffic prediction on urban roads
, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol: 36, Pages: 62-75, ISSN: 0308-1060- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 38
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Journal articleChun KP, Wheater HS, Onof C, 2013,
Comparison of drought projections using two UK weather generators
, HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES, Vol: 58, Pages: 295-309, ISSN: 0262-6667- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 6
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Journal articleSpence P, van Sebille E, Saenko OA, et al., 2013,
Using Eulerian and Lagrangian Approaches to Investigate Wind-Driven Changes in the Southern Ocean Abyssal Circulation
, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, Vol: 44, Pages: 662-675, ISSN: 0022-3670- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 7
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Journal articleLayer K, Hildrew AG, Woodward G, 2013,
Grazing and detritivory in 20 stream food webs across a broad pH gradient.
, Oecologia, Vol: 171, Pages: 459-471Acidity is a major driving variable in the ecology of fresh waters, and we sought to quantify macroecological patterns in stream food webs across a wide pH gradient. We postulated that a few generalist herbivore-detritivores would dominate the invertebrate assemblage at low pH, with more specialists grazers at high pH. We also expected a switch towards algae in the diet of all primary consumers as the pH increased. For 20 stream food webs across the British Isles, spanning pH 5.0-8.4 (the acid sites being at least partially culturally acidified), we characterised basal resources and primary consumers, using both gut contents analysis and stable isotopes to study resource use by the latter. We found considerable species turnover across the pH gradient, with generalist herbivore-detritivores dominating the primary consumer assemblage at low pH and maintaining grazing. These were joined or replaced at higher pH by a suite of specialist grazers, while many taxa that persisted across the pH gradient broadened the range of algae consumed as acidity declined and increased their ingestion of biofilm, whose nutritional quality was higher than that of coarse detritus. There was thus an increased overall reliance on algae at higher pH, both by generalist herbivore-detritivores and due to the presence of specialist grazers, although detritus was important even in non-acidic streams. Both the ability of acid-tolerant, herbivore-detritivores to exploit both autochthonous and allochthonous food and the low nutritional value of basal resources might render chemically recovering systems resistant to invasion by the specialist grazers and help explain the sluggish ecological recovery of fresh waters whose water chemistry has ameliorated.
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Journal articleTang R, Clark JM, Bond T, et al., 2013,
Assessment of potential climate change impacts on peatland dissolved organic carbon release and drinking water treatment from laboratory experiments.
, Environmental Pollution, Vol: 173, Pages: 270-277, ISSN: 0269-7491Catchments draining peat soils provide the majority of drinking water in the UK. Over the past decades, concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) have increased in surface waters. Residual DOC can cause harmful carcinogenic disinfection by-products to form during water treatment processes. Increased frequency and severity of droughts combined with and increased temperatures expected as the climate changes, have potentials to change water quality. We used a novel approach to investigate links between climate change, DOC release and subsequent effects on drinking water treatment. We designed a climate manipulation experiment to simulate projected climate changes and monitored releases from peat soil and litter, then simulated coagulation used in water treatment. We showed that the 'drought' simulation was the dominant factor altering DOC release and affected the ability to remove DOC. Our results imply that future short-term drought events could have a greater impact than increased temperature on DOC treatability.
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Journal articleAl-Jeboori MJ, Nguyen M, Dean C, et al., 2013,
Improvement of Limestone-Based CO2 Sorbents for Ca Looping by HBr and Other Mineral Acids
, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Vol: 52, Pages: 1426-1433, ISSN: 0888-5885- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 49
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Journal articleStaffell I, Green R, 2013,
The cost of domestic fuel cell micro-CHP systems
, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol: 38, Pages: 1088-1102, ISSN: 0360-3199 -
Journal articleWearn OR, Reuman DC, Ewers RM, 2013,
Response to Comment on "Extinction Debt and Windows of Conservation Opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon"
, SCIENCE, Vol: 339, ISSN: 0036-8075 -
Journal articleJagadevan S, Graham NJ, Thompson IP, 2013,
Treatment of waste metalworking fluid by a hybrid ozone-biological process
, JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, Vol: 244, Pages: 394-402, ISSN: 0304-3894- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 38
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Journal articleReeve M, Bell RE, Jackson CA-L, 2013,
Origin and significance of intra-basement seismic reflections offshore western Norway
, Journal of the Geological Society, Vol: 171, Pages: 1-4We use 3D seismic data to image a series of enigmatic, SW-dipping reflection packets within pre-Mesozoic crystalline basement offshore western Norway. Based on their low-angle dip and complex reflection wave-train our preferred interpretation is that the reflection packets are the seismic expression of mylonitic zones generated by nappe emplacement during the Caledonian Orogeny. Late Jurassic faults truncate and offset these reflection packets by several hundred metres, suggesting that these faults did not exploit pre-existing basement weaknesses. Our observations suggest that older basement fabrics may not always play a significant role in determining the geometry of later fault systems.
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Journal articleBulygina N, McIntyre N, Wheater H, 2013,
A comparison of rainfall-runoff modelling approaches for estimating impacts of rural land management on flood flows
, Hydrology Research, Vol: 44, Pages: 467-483 -
Journal articleYver CE, Graven HD, Lucas DD, et al., 2013,
Evaluating transport in the WRF model along the California coast
, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, Vol: 13, Pages: 1837-1852, ISSN: 1680-7316- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 26
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Journal articleSutherland WJ, Freckleton RP, Godfray HCJ, et al., 2013,
Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions
, JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, Vol: 101, Pages: 58-67, ISSN: 0022-0477- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 498
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Journal articleMcRobie FH, Wang L-P, Onof C, et al., 2013,
A spatial-temporal rainfall generator for urban drainage design
, WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol: 68, Pages: 240-249, ISSN: 0273-1223- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 16
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Journal articleDonaghey JE, Sohn E-H, Ashraf RS, et al., 2013,
Pyrroloindacenodithiophene polymers: the effect of molecular structure on OFET performance
, POLYMER CHEMISTRY, Vol: 4, Pages: 3537-3544, ISSN: 1759-9954- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 23
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Journal articleKelley DI, Prentice IC, Harrison SP, et al., 2013,
A comprehensive benchmarking system for evaluating global vegetation models
, BIOGEOSCIENCES, Vol: 10, Pages: 3313-3340, ISSN: 1726-4170- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 99
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Journal articleEconomopoulos SP, Chochos CL, Ioannidou HA, et al., 2013,
Novel BODIPY-based conjugated polymers donors for organic photovoltaic applications
, RSC ADVANCES, Vol: 3, Pages: 10221-10229, ISSN: 2046-2069- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 29
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Journal articleSalari H, Hallett JP, Padervand M, et al., 2013,
Systems designed with an ionic liquid and molecular solvents to investigate the kinetics of an SNAr reaction
, PROGRESS IN REACTION KINETICS AND MECHANISM, Vol: 38, Pages: 157-170, ISSN: 1468-6783- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 3
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Journal articleOrr A, Bracegirdle TJ, Hosking JS, et al., 2013,
Strong Dynamical Modulation of the Cooling of the Polar Stratosphere Associated with the Antarctic Ozone Hole
, JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, Vol: 26, Pages: 662-668, ISSN: 0894-8755- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 11
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Journal articleRyder CL, Highwood EJ, Rosenberg PD, et al., 2013,
Optical properties of Saharan dust aerosol and contribution from the coarse mode as measured during the Fennec 2011 aircraft campaign
, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, Vol: 13, Pages: 303-325, ISSN: 1680-7316- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 125
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Journal articleLambelet M, Rehkaemper M, de Flierdt TV, et al., 2013,
Isotopic analysis of Cd in the mixing zone of Siberian rivers with the Arctic Ocean-New constraints on marine Cd cycling and the isotope composition of riverine Cd
, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, Vol: 361, Pages: 64-73, ISSN: 0012-821X- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 44
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Journal articleLi X, Hylton NP, Giannini V, et al., 2013,
Multi-dimensional modeling of solar cells with electromagnetic and carrier transport calculations
, PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS, Vol: 21, Pages: 109-120, ISSN: 1062-7995- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 107
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Journal articleHudson LN, Emerson R, Jenkins GB, et al., 2013,
Cheddar: analysis and visualisation of ecological communities in R
, METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol: 4, Pages: 99-104, ISSN: 2041-210X- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 68
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Journal articleCharman DJ, Beilman DW, Blaauw M, et al., 2013,
Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium
, BIOGEOSCIENCES, Vol: 10, Pages: 929-944, ISSN: 1726-4170- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 228
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