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Submissions from 2024
The phylogenetically isolated South African endemic diving beetle Caperhantus cicurius (Fabricius, 1787): redescription and range extensions (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae), David T Bilton, C.R. Turner, and M.C. Mlambo
Intraspecific variation of thermal tolerance along elevational gradients: the case of a widespread diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Susana Pallares, Jose Antonio Carbonell, Felix Picazo, David T Bilton, Andres Millan, and Pedro Abellan
Coal-derived rates of atmospheric dust deposition during the Jurassic-Cretaceous greenhouse periods, Dawei Lv, A Zhang, Z Zhang, Munira Raji, Yuan Gao, L Zhang, Luojing Wang, Wenxu Du, and Zekuan Li
Submissions from 2023
Three Horizons for Future Geoscience, S Iain, Angela C Maria, M Hassina, M Kombada, R Munira, and M Raji
Geochronology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of the Tonsteins from the Permo‐Carboniferous Benxi Formation, Ordos Basin, North China Craton, Luojing Wang, D LV, Z ZHANG, James C. Hower, Munira Raji, Y ZHANG, Yangyang Shen, and Jie Gao
Corrigendum: Sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Yan’an formation (NE Ordos Basin, China), relationship with climate conditions and basin evolution, and coal maceral’s characteristics, Zhihui Zhang, Dawei Lv, Yangyang Shen, van Loon AJ Tom, Munira Raji, Guangzeng Song, Zhouhe Ren, Y Wang, and D Wang
Sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Yan’an Formation (NE Ordos Basin, China), relationship with climate conditions and basin evolution, and coal maceral’s characteristics, D Lv, Y Shen, Loon AJT van, M Raji, Z Zhang, G Song, Z Ren, Y Wang, and D Wang
Astronomically forced saline lake deposition and paleoclimatic response in the Huanggang Basin during the Paleogene, Eastern China, Dawei Lv, Cuiyu Song, Jie Chang, John I. Ejembi, Lulu Tang, Munira Raji, Wentao Chen, and Zhihui Zhang
COASTAL DUNE DYNAMICS ACROSS CORNWALL, UK, L BRODIE, G MASSELINK, C STOKES, J SAUNDERS, TIM POATE, and TIM SCOTT
Diversity, duplication, and genomic organization of homeobox genes in Lepidoptera, Peter O. Mulhair, Liam Crowley, Douglas H. Boyes, Amber Harper, OT Lewis, and PWH Holland
Status of pelagic habitats within the EU-Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Proposals for improving consistency and representativeness of the assessment, C Magliozzi, M Palma, J-N Druon, A Palialexis, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, V Ioanna, G-Q Rafael, G Elena, H Birgit, B Laura, and AL Felipe
Submissions from 2022
A nation that rebuilds its soils rebuild itself- an engineer's perspective, Karen L. Johnson, Neil D. Gray, Wendy Stone, Bryce F.J. Kelly, M Fitzimons, Cathy Clarke, Lynsay Blake, Stephen Chivasa, Florence Mtambanengwe, Paul Mapfumo, Andy Baker, Sabrina Beckmann, Lena Dominelli, Andrew L. Neal, and Tariro Gwandu
Geochemical characteristics and paleoclimate implication of Middle Jurassic coal in the Ordos Basin, China, Dawei Lv, Luojing Wang, James C. Hower, Zhihui Zhang, Munira Raji, Jigen Tang, Yamin Liu, and Jie Gao
Reconstruction of provenance and tectonic setting of the Middle Jurrasic Yan'an Formation (Ordos Basin, North China) by analysis of major, trace and rare earth elements in the coals, Zhihui Zhang, Jie Gao, Dawei Lv, van Loon AJ Tom, James C. Hower, Munira Raji, Yi Yang, Zhonghe Ren, and Yujia Wang
Submissions from 2021
Eye-Transcriptome and Genome-Wide Sequencing for Scolecophidia: Implications for Inferring the Visual System of the Ancestral Snake, David J. Gower, James F. Fleming, Davide Pisani, Freek J. Vonk, Harald M.I. Kerkkamp, Leo Peichl, Sonja Meimann, Nicholas R. Casewell, Christiaan V. Henkel, Michael K. Richardson, Kate L. Sanders, and Bruno F. Simões
Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part II – sedimentological evidence of phased land degradation, Maarten Wynants, Aloyce Patrick, Linus Munishi, Kelvin Mtei, Samuel Bodé, Alex Taylor, Geoffrey Millward, Neil Roberts, David Gilvear, Patrick Ndakidemi, Pascal Boeckx, and William H. Blake
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from Heteropyxis natalensis leaf extract and their potential antibacterial efficacy, Meer S. D., Yougasphree Naidoo, Dewir Y H., Johnson Lin, and Rihan H Z.
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots, N/A ForestPlotsnet, Cecilia Blundo, Julieta Carilla, Ricardo Grau, A Malizia, L Malizia, Oriana Osinaga-Acosta, M Bird, Matt Bradford, Damien Catchpole, Andrew Ford, Andrew Graham, David Hilbert, Jeanette Kemp, S Laurance, W Laurance, Francoise Yoko Ishida, Andrew Marshall, Catherine Waite, Hannsjoerg Woell, Jean Francois Bastin, Marijn Bauters, Hans Beeckman, Pfascal Boeckx, Jan Bogaert, Canniere C De, Haulleville T de, Jean Louis Doucet, Olivier Hardy, Wannes Hubau, Elizabeth Kearsley, Hans Verbeeck, Jason Vleminckx, Steven W. Brewer, Alfredo Alarcón, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Ezequiel Chavez, Todd Fredericksen, René Guillén Villaroel, Gloria Gutierrez Sibauty, Timothy Killeen, Juan Carlos Licona, John Lleigue, C. Mendoza, Samaria Murakami, Alexander Parada Gutierrez, Guido Pardo, Marielos Peña-Claros, Lourens Poorter, Marisol Toledo, Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo, Laura Jessica Viscarra, Vincent Vos, Jorge Ahumada, E Almeida, J Almeida, A. de Oliveira, FA Carvalho, Flávio Amorim Obermuller, Ana Andrade, FA Carvalho, SA Vieira, Ana Carla Aquino, Luiz Aragão, Ana Claudia Araújo, Marco Antonio Assis, Jose Ataliba Mantelli Aboin Gomes, Fabrício Baccaro, PB de Camargo, Paulo Barni, Jorcely Barroso, Luis Carlos Bernacci, Kauane Bordin, MB de Medeiros, Igor Broggio, José Luís Camargo, Domingos Cardoso, Maria Antonia Carniello, Andre Luis Casarin Rochelle, Carolina Castilho, and AAJF Castro
Riberazantaena, a new hydraenid genus from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), David T. Bilton
Response to Ota, Allison and Fabinyi on ‘Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post COVID‐19’, Dan Laffoley, John M. Baxter, Diva J. Amon, Joachim Claudet, JM Hall‐Spencer, K Grorud‐Colvert, Lisa A. Levin, P. Chris Reid, Alex D. Rogers, Michelle L. Taylor, Lucy C. Woodall, and Natalie F. Andersen
Submissions from 2020
Synthesis of 14C-labelled polystyrene nanoplastics for environmental studies, Maya Al-Sid-Cheikh, Steven J. Rowland, Ralf Kaegi, Theodore B. Henry, Marc André Cormier, and Richard C. Thompson
Physico-chemical factors controlling the speciation of phosphorus in English and Welsh rivers, Rupert Goddard, Michael J. Gardner, Thomas H. Hutchinson, Paul Lunt, Holly B.C. Pearson, Alan Tappin, H. Kate Schofield, Tarryn Attfield, Paul Worsfold, and Sean Comber
Ambrein: a minor, but common constituent of mammalian faeces?, Steven J. Rowland, Paul A. Sutton, der Lühe B von, John K. Volkman, Christopher H. Vane, Simon N. Ingram, Charlotte Dunn, and Diane Claridge
Spectral diversification and trans-species allelic polymorphism during the land-to-sea transition in snakes, Simoes B. Fonseca, David J. Gower, Arne R. Rasmussen, Mohammad A.R. Sarker, Gary C. Fry, Nicholas R. Casewell, Robert A. Harrison, Nathan S. Hart, Julian C. Partridge, David M. Hunt, Belinda S. Chang, Davide Pisani, and Kate L. Sanders
Advances in Distinguishing Groundwater Influenced by Oil Sands Process-Affected Water (OSPW) from Natural Bitumen-Influenced Groundwaters, L. Mark Hewitt, James W. Roy, Steve J. Rowland, Greg Bickerton, Amila Desilva, John V. Headley, Craig B. Milestone, Alan G. Scarlett, Susan Brown, Christine Spencer, Charles E. West, Kerry M. Peru, Lee Grapentine, Jason M.E. Ahad, Hooshang Pakdel, and Richard A. Frank
DNA preserved in jetsam whale ambergris, Ruairidh Macleod, Mikkel Holger S. Sinding, Morten Tange Olsen, Matthew J. Collins, and Steven J. Rowland
Submissions from 2019
First evidence of terrestrial ambrein formation in human adipocere, der Lühe B von, Robert W. Mayes, Volker Thiel, Lorna A. Dawson, Matthias Graw, Steven J. Rowland, and Sabine Fiedler
Establishing a link between composition and toxicity of offshore produced waters using comprehensive analysis techniques – A way forward for discharge monitoring?, Lisbet Sørensen, Paul McCormack, Dag Altin, William J. Robson, Andy M. Booth, Liv Guri Faksness, Steven J. Rowland, and Trond R. Størseth
Elevated trace elements in sediments and seagrasses at CO2 seeps, A. K. Mishra, R. Santos, and -Spencer JM Hall
Biosynthesis of ambrein in ambergris: evidence from isotopic data and identification of possible intermediates, Steven J. Rowland, Paul A. Sutton, and George A. Wolff
Holocene demographic fluctuations, climate and erosion in the Mediterranean: A meta data-analysis, Kevin Walsh, Jean François Berger, C. Neil Roberts, Boris Vanniere, Matthieu Ghilardi, Antony G. Brown, Jessie Woodbridge, Laurent Lespez, Joan Estrany, Arthur Glais, Alessio Palmisano, Martin Finné, and Gert Verstraeten
Holocene Landscape Dynamics and Long-term Population Trends in the Levant, Alessio Palmisano, J Woodbridge-Fisher, C. Neil Roberts, Andrew Bevan, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Shennan, Rachid Cheddadi, Raphael Greenberg, David Kaniewski, Dafna Langgut, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Thomas Litt, and Andrea Miebach
Mediterranean landscape change during the Holocene: synthesis, comparison and regional trends in population, land cover and climate, C. Neil Roberts, J Woodbridge-Fisher, Alessio Palmisano, Andrew Bevan, Ralph Fyfe, and Stephen Shennan
The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence, Dafna Langgut, Rachid Cheddadi, Josѐ Sebastián Carrión, Mark Cavanagh, Daniele Colombaroli, Warren John Eastwood, Raphael Greenberg, Thomas Litt, Anna Maria Mercuri, Andrea Miebach, C. Neil Roberts, Henk Woldring, and Jessie Woodbridge
Pollen-inferred regional vegetation patterns and demographic change in Southern Anatolia through the Holocene, J Woodbridge-Fisher, CN Roberts, and R Fyfe
The Plymouth Morris Tradition, Plymouth Morris and John Summerscales
20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia, Matthew D. Jones, N Abu‐Jaber, Ahmad Alshdaifat, Douglas Baird, Benjamin I. Cook, Mark O. Cuthbert, Jonathan R. Dean, Morteza Djamali, Warren Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, Alan Haywood, Ola Kwiecien, Joshua Larsen, Lisa A. Maher, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Adrian Parker, Cameron A. Petrie, Nick Primmer, Tobias Richter, Neil Roberts, Joe Roe, Julia C. Tindall, E Ünal‐İmer, and Lloyd Weeks
Submissions from 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, and Peter Boyer
The age of ambergris., Steven John Rowland, Paul Andrew Sutton, and Timothy D.J. Knowles
Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy, R. Civico, S. Pucci, F. Villani, L. Pizzimenti, Martini PM De, and R. Nappi
Assessing sample extraction e ciencies for the analysis of complex unresolved mixtures of organic pollutants: A comprehensive non-target approach, SJ Rowland, S Samanipour, JA Baz-Lomba, MJ Reid, E Ciceri, P Nilsson, and KV Thomas
Summer School - Tuesday 11 September 2018 - Experimental planning I: Facilities and set-up, C Perez-Collazo
Joint PRIMaRE and UK&CHN|CORE Summer School Programme: Hydrodynamic modelling and well-being in engineering, C Perez-Collazo
Summer School - Monday 10 September - Modelling Concept to Reality, C Perez-Collazo
Pan-Mediterranean Holocene vegetation and land-cover dynamics from synthesised pollen data, J Woodbridge-Fisher, Neil Roberts, and Ralph Fyfe
Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers, M Roffet-Salque, A Marciniak, PJ Valdes, K Pawłowska, J Pyzel, L Czerniak, M Krüger, CN Roberts, S Pitter, and RP Evershed
Predicted and measured acute toxicity and developmental abnormalities in zebrafish embryos produced by exposure to individual aromatic acids, Steven J. Rowland, Alan G. Scarlett, Yuktee Dogra, Darren Rowe, and Tamara S. Galloway
PRIMaRE Workshop Agenda: Paving the way to scale up MRE devices towards commercialisation, C Perez-Collazo and Emiliano Renzi
Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia, Neil Roberts, Marica Cassis, Owen Doonan, Warren Eastwood, Hugh Elton, John Haldon, Adam Izdebski, and James Newhard
Waxy bitumen stranding in southern Australia: a geochemical study of multiple oil families and their likely origins, Steven J. Rowland, Dianne S. Edwards, David M. McKirdy, David J. Heath, and Patricia S. Gray
Further spectral and chromatographic studies of ambergris., Steven J. Rowland, Paul A. Sutton, Simon T. Belt, Vera Fitzsimmons-Thoss, and Alan G. Scarlett
Europe's lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years, N. Roberts, R. M. Fyfe, J. Woodbridge, M. J. Gaillard, B. A.S. Davis, J. O. Kaplan, L. Marquer, F. Mazier, A. B. Nielsen, S. Sugita, A. K. Trondman, and M. Leydet
Paleomagnestism of the Santa Victoria Group in the Mojotoro Range, Salta: Contributions to the paleogeographic position of Pampia in Early Paleozoic, Piceda C. Rodríguez, PR Franceschinis, MP Escayola, and AE Rapalini
Submissions from 2017
Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the last Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean, Neil Roberts, Jessie Woodbridge, Andrew Bevan, Alessio Palmisano, Stephen Shennan, and Eleni Asouti
Toxicity of organic compounds from unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) to primary fish hepatocytes, Steven J. Rowland, Karina Petersen, Maria T. Hultman, and Knut Erik Tollefsen
An integrated approach for the planning of dredging operations in estuaries, M. Alvarez, R. Carballo, V. Ramos, and J. G. Iglesias Rodriguez
Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of complex mixtures of anaerobic bacterial metabolites of petroleum hydrocarbons, S. J. Rowland, C. M. Aitken, I. M. Head, A. G. Scarlett, and C. E. West
The area-to-mass ratio and fractal dimension of marine flocs, D. G. Bowers, D. McKee, C. F. Jago, and W. A.M. Nimmo-Smith
Chromatographic and spectral studies of jetsam and archived ambergris, Steven J. Rowland and Paul A. Sutton
Submissions from 2016
Relative importance of microplastics as a pathway for the transfer of hydrophobic organic chemicals to marine life, Adil Bakir, Isabel A. O'Connor, Steven J. Rowland, A. Jan Hendriks, and Richard C. Thompson
Assessing spatial and temporal variability of acid-extractable organics in oil sands process-affected waters, Richard A. Frank, Craig B. Milestone, Steve J. Rowland, John V. Headley, Richard J. Kavanagh, Sabine K. Lengger, Alan G. Scarlett, Charles E. West, Kerry M. Peru, and L. Mark Hewitt
A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey, Neil Roberts, Samantha L. Allcock, Fabien Arnaud, Jonathan R. Dean, Warren J. Eastwood, Matthew D. Jones, Melanie J. Leng, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Emmanuel Malet, Jessie Woodbridge, and H Yigitbasioglu
Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?, W. F. Ruddiman, D. Q. Fuller, J. E. Kutzbach, P. C. Tzedakis, J. O. Kaplan, E. C. Ellis, S. J. Vavrus, C. N. Roberts, R. Fyfe, F. He, C. Lemmen, and J. Woodbridge
Lake isotope records of the 8200-year cooling event in western Ireland: Comparison with model simulations, Jonathan A. Holmes, Julia Tindall, Neil Roberts, W Marshall, JD Marshall, Ann Bingham, Ingo Feeser, Michael O'Connell, Tim Atkinson, Anne Lise Jourdan, Anna March, and Elizabeth H. Fisher
Submissions from 2015
The effect of oil sands process-affected water and model naphthenic acids on photosynthesis and growth in Emiliania huxleyi and Chlorella vulgaris., Jessica Beddow, Richard J. Johnson, Tracy Lawson, Mark N. Breckels, Richard J. Webster, Ben E. Smith, Steven J. Rowland, and Corinne Whitby
The effect of interbedding on shale reservoir properties, Munira Raji, Darren R. Gröcke, H. Chris Greenwell, Jon G. Gluyas, and Chris Cornford
Synergistic androgenic effect of a petroleum product caused by the joint action of at least three different types of compounds, Michiel T.O. Jonker, Angelica Candido, Cozmina M. Vrabie, Alan G. Scarlett, and Steven J. Rowland
Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy, Jonathan R. Dean, Matthew D. Jones, Melanie J. Leng, Stephen R. Noble, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Hilary J. Sloane, Diana Sahy, Warren J. Eastwood, and C. Neil Roberts
Use of the distributions of adamantane acids to profile short-term temporal and pond-scale spatial variations in the composition of oil sands process-affected waters, Sabine K. Lengger, Alan G. Scarlett, Charles E. West, Richard A. Frank, L. Mark Hewitt, Craig B. Milestone, and Steven J. Rowland
Submissions from 2014
Aquatic hazard assessment of a commercial sample of naphthenic acids., James P. Swigert, Carol Lee, Diana C.L. Wong, Russell White, Alan G. Scarlett, Charles E. West, and Steven J. Rowland
Mass spectral characterisation of a polar, esterified fraction of an organic extract of an oil sands process water., S. J. Rowland, A. S. Pereira, J. W. Martin, A. G. Scarlett, C. E. West, S. K. Lengger, M. J. Wilde, J. Pureveen, E. W. Tegelaar, R. A. Frank, and L. M. Hewitt
Submissions from 2013
Diamondoid diacids (′O4′ species) in oil sands process-affected water, Steven J. Rowland, Sabine K. Lengger, Alan G. Scarlett, and Charles E. West
Submissions from 2012
Aerobic biotransformation of alkyl branched aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids via two different pathways by a new isolate of Mycobacterium., Corinne Whitby, Richard J. Johnson, Charles E. West, Aisha M. Swaih, Ben D. Folwell, Ben E. Smith, and Steven J. Rowland
Palaeolimnological evidence for an east-west climate see-saw in the Mediterranean since AD 900, Neil Roberts, Ana Moreno, BL Valero-Garces, Corella J Pablo, Matthew Jones, Samantha Allcock, Jessie Woodbridge, M Morellon, Juerg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki, and M Turkes
Risk Management in Research-informed Teaching, Karen Gresty, Troy Heffernan, Wei Pan, and Andrew Edwards-Jones
Submissions from 2004
A system for the correction of missing or deleted symbols, Martin Tomlinson, Jing Cai, C. J. Tjhai, Marcel Ambroze, and Mohammed Zaiki Ahmed
