School of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions
(2025)The design and implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) in cities are often limited by an anthropocentric approach that prioritizes utilitarian goals instead of the diverse needs and abilities of multiple species ... -
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes
(2024)Intertwined within a patchwork of different types of land use and land cover, novel ecosystems are urban ecosystems that have no historical analogues and contain novel species assemblages. Some researchers and practitioners ... -
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review
(2025)Collaborative processes such as co-design are increasingly crucial in generating social-ecological research and practice. Fostering change within complex adaptive systems requires collaboratively working with real-world actors ... -
Exploring the restorative capacity of urban green spaces and their biodiversity through an adapted One Health approach: a scoping review
(2024)The One Health framework was proposed by the World Health Organisation to explore human, animal, and environmental health interfaces using a holistic and interdisciplinary approach. Yet, the application of this framework ... -
Growing Older Urbanism: exploring the nexus between ageing, the built environment, and urban ecosystems
(2023)Background: Some of the main urban issues we currently face include ageing popu- lations, the impact of the built environment, and the treatment of urban ecosystems. Yet the dynamic relationships and synergies between ... -
Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions
(2025)Co-creation is becoming a widely used mode of urban governance and research for city- making and city-transitioning being conceptually entangled with experimentation, innovation and collaboration. In this paper, we address ... -
Using ecosystem services to measure the degree to which a solution is nature-based
(2021)There has been a recent surge of interest in Nature-based Solutions, a concept encompassing a broad suite of ideas that have arisen from the intersection of ecology, engineering, sociology and economics. Solutions founded ... -
Historical and contemporary effects of fire on native woodland vegetation of Killarney, S.W. Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Botany, 1991)Summary: This research investigates the Post-glacial history of fire in the Killarney area, and describes how heathland burning practices have affected the present-day extent and species composition of the native oakwoods. ... -
Tephrostratigraphy, magmatic histories and volcanic-climate linkages using high-resolution records in southern Italy.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2025)The relationship between volcanic activity and climate change has long been a subject of scientific inquiry, though it remains a relatively underexplored aspect of Earth, particularly the influence of climate over volcanism. ... -
Vegetation richness and rarity in habitats of European conservation value in Ireland.
(2020)Species richness is widely used as a measure of biodiversity in quantifying the conservation value of sites or habitats and in researching ecological functioning, but it gives equal weighting to different species irrespective ... -
Plant community ecology of petrifying springs (Cratoneurion) - a priority habitat
(2017)Aims: To investigate the floristic and abiotic characteristics of the Habitats Directive priority habitat ‘Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion)’. Location: The island of Ireland, north-western Europe. ... -
Can air humidity and temperature regimes within cloud forest canopies be predicted from bryophyte and lichen cover?
(2015)The use of bryophyte and lichen cover as a proxy for air relative humidity (RH) and temperature in tropical forests has been widely proposed. Many studies that have assessed the usefulness of such indicators have mostly ... -
Conceptual characteristics of weather information: An interdisciplinary integrative review
(2025-04)The accuracy and communication of weather information, along with its cognition by the user, play a crucial role in public safety and decision-making. This becomes especially important in the context of increasing climate ... -
Quantifying variation in the temporal resolution of the visual system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2025)Temporal processing, the regular updating of visual information over time, is an integral part of visual perception. It contributes to motion perception, allows for the perception of environmental changes and, depending ... -
Sedimentary and foliar mercury sequestrations in contemporary and palaeo-environments, and the establishment of a new leaf-based atmospheric mercury proxy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2025)Gaseous emissions from Phanerozoic large igneous province (LIP) emplacements have been implicated as instigators of global carbon cycle perturbations and associated global change and mass extinction events. However, ... -
Conservation biology of the threatened Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciosum Willd.) in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2014)Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciosum Willd.) is a rare fern species which is listed on Annex II and IV of the EU Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC) and the Irish Flora Protection Order (1999). T. speciosum ... -
The Mesozoic Ridges of the Southern Porcupine Basin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geology, 2014)This dissertation presents a review of the geology and geophysics of the principal intra basinal ridges of the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore south-western Ireland. These ridges, namely the Porcupine Median Volcanic ... -
Addressing the Demand for Green Skills: Bridging the Gap Between University Outcomes and Industry Requirements
(2025)The transition to a green economy requires a workforce equipped with green skills to meet the demands of sustainable development and environmental stewardship. This study investigates the alignment between university ... -
Mechanisms, kinetics and pathways in the early-stage crystallisation of Ca-REE-F-bearing carbonates under ambient and hydrothermal conditions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2025)The aim of this study is to investigate the reaction pathways, mechanisms, kinetics, and energetics of the REE-CaF2-CaCO3 system crystallization reactions. It also seeks to understand the role of different REEs in the ... -
From the Smart City to Urban Artificial Intelligence: the Case of Guangzhou, China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, Department of Geography, 2025)The thesis investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart city initiatives within the urban governance framework of Guangzhou, China, with a focus on their influence on healthcare services and the ...
