Recent Publications
Recent publications 2010
Acs, S., Hanley, N., Dallimer, M., Gaston, J. K., Robertson, P., Wilson, P. and Armsworth, P. (2010). The Effects of Decoupling on Marginal Agricultural Systems: Implications for Farm Incomes, Land Use and Upland Ecology, Land Use Policy, 27, 550-563.
Gibbons, J.M., Wood, A.T.A., Craigon, J., Ramsden, S.J. and Crout, N.M.J. (2010). Semi-automatic reduction and upscaling of large models: A farm management example. Ecological Modelling 221:590-598.
Hardy, I.C.W. (2010) Sex allocation, sex ratios and reproduction. in: Breed M & Moore J (Eds.) The encyclopaedia of animal behavior. Elsevier, Oxford, in press.
Wilson, P. (2010) Estimating Tractor Depreciation: The Impact of Choice of Functional Form, Journal of Farm Management, 13 (12), 799-818.
Recent Publications 2009
Ahmed, I.A.M., Young, S.D., Mosselmans, J.F.W., Crout, N.J.M. and Bailey, E.H. (2009) Coordination of Cd2+ ions in the internal pore system of zeolite-X: A combined EXAFS and isotopic exchange study. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 1577-1587.
Atkinson, B.S., Sparkes, D.L. & Mooney, S.J. (2009). Effect of seedbed cultivation and soil macrostructure on establishment of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum). Soil & Tillage Research, 103, 291-301.
Bamford, A.J., Monadjem, A., Anderson, M.D., Anthony, A., Borello, W.D., Bridgeford, M., Bridgeford, P., Hancock, P., Howell, B., Wakelin, J. & Hardy, I.C.W. (2009). Trade-offs between specificity and regional generality in habitat association models: a case study of two species of African vulture. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46,852-860.
Bamford, A.J., Monadjem, A., & Hardy, I.C.W. (2009). Nesting habitat preference of the African white-backed vulture, Gyps africanus, and the effects of anthropogenic disturbance. Ibis, 151,51-62.
Bentley, T., Hull, T.T., Hardy, I.C.W. & Goubault, M. (2009). The elusive paradox: owner-intruder roles, strategies and outcomes in parasitoid contests. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 296-304.
Clonan, A., Holdsworth, M., Swift, J. and Wilson, P. (2009). Awareness and attitudes of consumers to sustainable food. EurSafe Conference, University of Nottingham, 2-4 July 2009. In Millar, K., Hobson West, P., and Nerlich, B. (Ed) Ethical Futures: bioscience and food horizons. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN: 978-90-8686-115-6.
Crout, N.M.J., Tarsitano, D. and Wood, A.T. (2009). Is my model too complex? Evaluating model formulation using model reduction. Environmental Modelling & Software, 24:1-7.
Dallimer, M., Acs, S., Hanley, N., Wilson, P. Gaston, K.J. and Armsworth, P.R. (2009). What explains property-level variation in avian diversity? An inter-disciplinary approach, Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, 647-656.
Galeriu, D., Melintescu, A., Beresford, N.A., Takeda, H., Crout, N.M.J. (2009). The dynamic transfer of 3H and 14C in mammals: a proposed generic model. Radiat. Environ. Biophys., 48, 29-45.
Jenkins D.J. & Stekel D.J. (2009) A new model for investigating the evolution of transcription control networks. Artif Life, 15, 259-91.
Lake, J.A., Field, K.J., Davey, M.P., Beerling, D.J. and Lomax B.H. (2009). Metabolomic and physiological responses reveal multi-phasic acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana to chronic UV radiation. Plant Cell and Environment, 32, (10), 1377-1389.
Lomax, B.H., Woodward, F.I., Leitch, I.J., Knight, C.A. and Lake, J.A. (2009). Genome size as a predictor of Guard cell length in Arabidopsis thaliana L. is independent of environmental conditions. New Phytologist, 181, 311-314.
Ma H., Hagen F., Stekel D.J., Johnston S.A., Sionov E., Falk R., Polacheck I., Boekhout T. & May R.C. (2009) The fatal fungal outbreak on Vancouver Island is characterized by enhanced intracellular parasitism driven by mitochondrial regulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106, 12980-5.
Mooney, S.J. & Korosak, D. (2009). Using complex networks to model 2-D and 3-D soil porous architecture. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 73, 1094-1100.
Muthuri, C. W., Ong, C. K., Craigon, J., Mati, B. M., Ngumi, V. W. & Black, C. R. (2009) Gas exchange and water use efficiency of trees and maize in agroforestry systems in semi-arid Kenya. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 129, 497-507.
Papadopoulos, A., Bird, N.R., Mooney, S.J. & Whitmore, A.P. (2009). Combining spatial resolutions in the multiscale analysis of soil pore size distributions. Vadose Zone Journal, 8, 227-232.
Papadopoulos, A., Bird, N.R., Mooney, S.J. & Whitmore, A.P. (2009). Investigating the effects of organic and conventional management on soil aggregate stability using X-ray Computed Tomography. European Journal of Soil Science, 60, 360-369.
Ramsden, S.J. and Gibbons, J.M. (2009). Modelling agri-environment interactions and trade-offs using Farm-adapt - integration of models, investigation of scale, dynamics and uncertainty. Aspects of Applied Biology, 93, Integrated Agricultural Systems: Methodologies, Modelling and Measuring, 123-130.
Rhodes, P., Craigon, J., Gray, C., Rhind, S. M., Loughna, P. T. & Gardiner, D. S. (2009) Adult-onset obesity reveals prenatal programming of glucose-insulin sensitivity in male sheep nutrient restricted during late gestation. PLoS One, 4, e7393.
Shelmerdine, P.A., Black, C.R., McGrath, S.P. and Young, S.D. (2009). Describing uptake of arsenic from historically-contaminated soils by the hyperaccumulating fern, Pteris vittata, using a ‘free ion activity model’. Environmental Pollution, 157, 1589 – 1596.
Sjögersten, S. and Wookey, P. (2009). The impact of climate change of ecosystem carbon dynamics at the Scandinavian mountain birch forest – tundra ecotone. Ambio, 38, 2-10.
Swatridge, C., Monadjem, A. & Hardy, I.C.W. (2009). Regal eagle: the African crowned eagle in Mpumalanga. Africa Birds and Birding 14:55-58.
Thornton, I. Farago, M.E., Thums, C.R., Parrish, R.R., McGill, R.A.R., Breward, N., Forty, N.J., Simpson, P., Young, S.D., Tye, A.M., Crout, N.M.J., Hough, R.L. and Watt, J. (2009). Urban Geochemistry: research strategies to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 30, 565 - 576.
Walker, T.R., Crittenden, P.D., Dauvalter, V.A., Jones, V., Kuhry, P., Nikula, A., Patova, E., Ponomarev, V.I., Pystina, T.N., Loskutova, O., Stenina, A., Rätti, O., Solovieva, N., Virtanen, T. and Young, S.D. (2009). Multiple indicators of human impacts on the environment in the Pechora Basin, north-eastern European Russia. Ecological Indicators, 9, 765 – 779.
Welham P.A. & Stekel D.J. (2009) Mathematical model of the Lux luminescence system in the terrestrial bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens. Mol Biosyst., 5, 68-76.
West, H.M. & Tracy, S.R. (2009). The veterinary drug ivermectin influences immune response in the yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria). Environmental Pollution, 157, 955-958.
Winfield, M.O., Lu, C., Wilson, I.D., Coghill, J.A. & Edwards, K.J. (2009). Cold- and light-induced changes in the transcriptome of wheat leading to phase transition from vegetative to reproductive growth. BMC Plant Biology, 9, 55.
Recent Publications 2008
Ahmed, I.A.M., Crout, N.M.J. and Young, S.D. (2008). Kinetics of Cd sorption, desorption and fixation by calcite: a long term radiotracer study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 1498 - 1512.
Gibbons, J.M., Cox, G.M., Wood, A.T.A., Craigon, J., Ramsden, S.J., Tarsitano, D., Crout, N.M.J. (2008). Applying Bayesian Model Averaging to mechanistic models: an example and comparison of methods. Environmental Modelling & Software, 23, 973-985.
Gibbons, J.M, and Ramsden, S.J. (2008). Incorporating price variability into a climate change adaptation model. Operational Research Society Conference (OR50), York, 9-11 September, 2008, Conference Handbook, p36.
Gibbons, J.M, and Ramsden, S.J. (2008). Integrated modelling of farm adaptation to climate change in East Anglia, UK: scaling and farmer decision making. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 127, 126-134.
Goubault, M., Batchelor, T.P., Romani, R., Linforth, R.S.T., Fritzsche, M., Francke, W. & Hardy, I.C.W. (2008). Volatile chemical release by bethylid wasps: identity, phylogeny, anatomy and behaviour. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 94,837-852.
Lomax, B.H., Beerling, D.J., Callaghan, T.V., Harfoot, M.J.B., Fraser, W., Pyle, J.A., Self, S., Sephton, M. and Wellman, C.H. (2008). Plant spore biochemistry tracks long-term changes in stratospheric ozone. Nature Geoscience, 1, (9), 592-596.
Nyarko, G., Alderson, P. G., Craigon, J., Murchie, E. & Sparkes, D. L. (2008) Comparison of cell membrane thermostability and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters for the determination of heat tolerance in ten cabbage lines. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology, 83, 678-682.
Ode, P.J. & Hardy, I.C.W. (2008). Parasitoid sex ratios and biological control. pp 253-291 in: Wajnberg E, Bernstein C & van Alphen JJM (Eds) Behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids: from theoretical approaches to field applications. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Reid, T. and Crout, N.M.J. (2008). A thermodynamic model of freshwater Antarctic lake ice. Ecological Modelling, 210, 231-241.
Sinclair, K. D., Lunn, L. A., Kwong, W. Y., Wonnacott, K., Linforth, R. S. T. & Craigon, J. (2008) Amino acid and fatty acid composition of follicular fluid as predictors of in-vitro embryo development. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 16, 859-868.
Sjögersten, S., van der Wal, R., & Woodin, S. (2008). Habitat type determines herbivory controls of CO2 fluxes in a warmer arctic. Ecology, 89, 2103-2116.
Stekel D.J. & Jenkins D.J. (2008) Strong negative self regulation of prokaryotic transcription factors increases the intrinsic noise of protein expression. BMC Syst Biol., 2:6.
Recent Publications 2007
Rollett, A.J., Sparkes, D.L. and Wilson, P. (2007). The Legacy of Stockless Organic Conversion Strategies, Annals of Applied Biology, 150, 107-113.2.
Rollett, A., Wilson, P. and Sparkes, D.L. (2007). The Economic Legacy of Stockless Organic Conversion Strategies, Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 25 (2), 103-122.