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Community engagement in active travel
GALLANT aims to work with up to five communities in Glasgow to develop multi-level (infrastructure-, social/community-, individual-focused) interventions to promote active travel f...
Impact of Holocene land use and climate change upon Brazil's Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot
Brazil's tropical Atlantic Forest (AF) is exceptionally biodiverse and critically endangered due to centuries of deforestation, with less than 20% of its original forest cover...
"Making the landscape": a palaeoecological and archaeological investigation of late prehistoric land uses in upland England
English uplands are valued ecosystems, presenting a mosaic of heathlands, grasslands, and peat formations. Due to their remote locations, lack of visible land uses, and wetter cond...
An Investigation into the Stability and Dynamics of the Antarctic Peninsular Ice Sheet During the Last Deglaciation
The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has been thinning and retreating over the past 40-years prompting fears that anthropogenic climate change could initiate a rapid collapse of parts of...
Tephra connections between environmental change and human prehistory in Ethiopia
Pleistocene volcanism associated with the MER produced colossal pyroclastic deposits found widely as tephra layers within sedimentary archives such as lake sediments and fluvial te...
The future of irrigated agriculture in Europe's mountainous regions; exploring trade-offs and synergies for climate adaptation
This project will address the need for sustainable agricultural water management strategies under climate change. It will explore the trade-offs between (changes in) water availabi...
The Impact of Polar Stratospheric Clouds when Modelling the Future Recovery of the Polar Ozone Layer
The UM-UKCA (Unified Model coupled to the United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosol module) global chemistry-climate model includes a parameterisation scheme describing stratospheric mo...
Evaluating the combined effects of environmental pollutants on the evolution of antimicrobial resistance
Project BackgroundAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to modern society. The environment is increasingly recognised as playing an important role in the ev...
Linking microbial genes to methane emissions from peatlands under water-table changes
Despite covering only approximately 3 per cent of the Earth's surface, peatlands play an important role in climate regulation (a key ecosystem service), storing approximately...
The role of large mammals in determining forest structure, microclimate, and carbon storage potential
Project backgroundLarge mammal populations are increasing across Europe and their numbers are often controlled to realise forest restoration objectives because high browsing pressu...
Dynamic Earth, Surface Processes & Natural Hazards
As the world shifts towards clean and renewable energy sources, hydrogen is emerging as a promising alternative energy carrier to fossil fuels, with the potential to power vehicles...
Providing for our pollinators: Investigating how urbanisation affects the ecology of flower-feeding insects
Pollinating insects are declining due to habitat loss and climate change, threatening the pollination of crops and wild plants.Plant-pollinator interactions may be particularly vul...
Restoration of riparian habitats on sugarcane plantations for bird diversity, bird - regulated ecosystem services (cont)
Title cont - and climate change mitigation and adaptation in rural tropical landscapes, TanzaniaLand use change for agricultural intensification to meet increasing food demands is...
Digital Voices of the Future: Children's visions of future UK treescapes revealed through gaming
The future of UK treescapes belongs to the children and young people of today: they will witness and judge the long-term legacy of the UK Treescapes programme. Yet, interdisciplina...
Uniting taphonomy and tomography to illuminate early actinopterygian evolution
Ray finned fishes account for more than half of living vertebrate diversity, yet their early diversifications remain mysterious.This project will use mu-CT and Synchrotron tomograp...
Was there a Cambrian explosion on land?
The colonisation of land was a key transition in the history of life. Molecular clock analyses imply a rapid radiation ofarthropods and plants on land in the early Palaeozoic, over...
Cultural landscape aesthetics of beaver-modified landscapes, a cross cultural comparison
Urgent action is needed to reverse global biodiversity loss, as highlighted in the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) with their decision to adopt a Global Biodiversity...
Modelling the Impact of the Proposed Newhurst Incinerator on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Urban Health Index (UHI) of Loughborough Town and Uni
Ambient air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases (WHO, 2016).Around 91% of the...
Post-copulatory sexual selection in insects: discovering new mechanisms of male and female mate choice
In the natural world, although natural selection should favour against it, some matings don't lead to offspring production. Copulations occur, but through morphological, physi...
The evolution of sociality in subsocial animals
Associations with family members, namely the mother and siblings from the same brood, is one of the most common forms of social living, and is thought to be key for the transition...