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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 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 articleMurray SJ, Watson IM, Prentice IC, 2013,
The use of dynamic global vegetation models for simulating hydrology and the potential integration of satellite observations
, PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY-EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT, Vol: 37, Pages: 63-97, ISSN: 0309-1333- Cite
- Citations: 34
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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 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: 106
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Journal articleClements T, Rainey H, An D, et al., 2013,
An evaluation of the effectiveness of a direct payment for biodiversity conservation: The Bird Nest Protection Program in the Northern Plains of Cambodia
, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 157, Pages: 50-59, ISSN: 0006-3207- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 40
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Journal articlePawar S, Dell AI, Savage VM, 2013,
Pawar et al. reply
, Nature, Vol: 493, Pages: E2-E3, ISSN: 0028-0836 -
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: 546
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Journal articleHarrison SP, Morfopoulos C, Dani KGS, et al., 2013,
Volatile isoprenoid emissions from plastid to planet
, NEW PHYTOLOGIST, Vol: 197, Pages: 49-57, ISSN: 0028-646X- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 121
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Book chapterJohnson LR, Lafferty K, McNally A, et al., 2013,
Mapping the Distribution of Malaria: current methods and considerations
, Infectious Disease Modelling, Hoboken, N.J., Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, Pages: In Press-In Press
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