Results for Environment
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Heat, drought and fire: Risk from compound extreme weather and climate events
Climate change will lead to more hot weather and drought. Extremely warm and dry conditions can desiccate vegetation and lead to fire. How have such events unfolded in the past, ca...
Towards a unified understanding of species invasions along chemical stress gradients
Predicting how ecological systems respond to environmental change is hampered by their inherent complexity - processes operating at one scale of organisation lead to emergent prope...
Determining Buffalo Behaviour, Movement, Disease and Energy Costs to Assist their Management and Conservation
Coexistence between humans and wildlife is one of the most important issues in modern biodiversity conservation. Protected areas provide a haven for wildlife but as human populatio...
Quantifying interactions between topographic variability and forest structure.
Ecology's role in influencing landscape dynamics has been acknowledged since the late 19th century, yet adequately incorporating ecological factors into landscape models has p...
Bayesian Meta-Learning for Earth Observation: Better Models with Less Data
Machine learning has brought significant improvements to pattern recognition systems in the past decade [5]. The three main factors that this success is attributed to are the use o...
Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in the benthos: implications for marine spatial planning
Shelf seas are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, playing important roles in nutrient cycling, climate regulation, and food production.Benthic macroinvertebrates are ke...
Proglacial landscape evolution with climate change across Jostedalsbreen, Norway
Glaciers and ice caps are highly sensitive to climate changes, and they will be key drivers of change for a multitude of natural and societal factors throughout the 21st century. W...
Structural controls on geothermal systems in the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland
The world moves necessarily towards finding cleaner, more sustainable energy sources to ensure reductions in carbon emissions whilst looking to provide for the world's energy...
Beavers and climate change mitigation in freshwater systems
The reintroduction of beavers has been a conservation success story repeated across Europe and North America. By damming small rivers and creating pools, ponds and canals, beavers...
Efficient Emulation of Earth System Processes for Adaptation and Mitigation
Climate model emulators are simplified representations of more complex climate models and are becoming increasingly important to the IPCC. This is because emulators can be run quic...
Biodiversity, Ecology & Evolutionary Processes
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A sustainable future for Arctic marine shipping using Artificial Intelligence
Arctic warming has led to a dramatic reduction in sea ice coverage. As a result, marine traffic is increasing across the Arctic region and expanding the geographical reach of the A...
Impact of oceanic mesoscale eddies on the productivity of the western Bay of Bengal: contribution of new EO data and machine learning
Background and objectives: Oceanic mesoscale variability and eddies (scales from ~10 to 100 km) play a key role in regulating regional and global physical and biogeochemical proces...
Trans-national zoonoses. The interacting role of environmental and socio-political processes on zoonotic pathogen futures.
The UK and Italy are two similarly sized European nations, yet their climates, land types and socio-political systems differ substantially. Zoonotic pathogen transmission occurs ag...
Improving our understanding of the atmospheric sulfur cycle and its impact on air pollution and climate
Particulate matter (PM) is a major air quality challenge, estimated to be responsible for >29,000 equivalent deaths a year in the UK alone, and also represents a major uncer...
The evolution of plant chemical defence
This project delves into the ongoing evolutionary combat between plants and herbivores.Otherwise known as an 'evolutionary arms-race', both sides of the battle are consta...
The future of the East African Long-rains: insights from observations, model experiments, and process-based model assessments
East Africa's two rainy seasons, known as the Long (March-May) and Short (October-December) rains, are the lifeblood of the region. Their timely arrival is vital for all aspec...
Mating strategies in changing environments
BackgroundSexual selection is a potent force that drives rapid evolutionary change. Sexual selection often continues after mating, when females mate with multiple males, generating...
Identifying the antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes that shape a microbiome
Scientific backgroundMicrobiomes offer great benefits to their hosts, including nutrient acquisition, growth promotion, immunity, and defence against disease but they are complex a...
Enigma at the roots of whole-mantle plumes
Enigma at the roots of whole-mantle plumes