School of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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Upper mantle structure, intraplate volcanism and the unique anisotropy of the Antarctic Plate from waveform tomography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2025)Antarctica’s unique geological setting makes it an important location for understanding the Earth’s crust and upper mantle, and its connections to the past and future evolution of the Earth. The Antarctic continent has ... -
Collagen Deposition, Cellular and Molecular characterisation of self-assembled tendon constructs grown in vitro from embryonic chick tenocyte cells
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2025)Tendons are fibrous connective tissues that connect and transmit forces between muscle and bone. Following injury, they are very difficult to repair surgically, often resulting in tissue that is not comparable to native ... -
Tephra identification without pre‐separation in ashed peat
(Wiley, 2024)Cryptotephras in peat and sediment samples are traditionally separated for geochemical characterization using chemical or density floatation techniques following initial tephra identification and shard counting through analysis ... -
Optimizing SEM-EDX for fast, high-quality and non-destructive elemental analysis of glass
(2024)Advancements in scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX) technologies have reached the point where rapid, fully quantitative, non-destructive and high-resolution acquisition of effectively ... -
The pivotal role of evaporation in lake water isotopic variability across space and time in a High Arctic periglacial landscape
(2024)Rapidly changing climate is disrupting the High Arctic's water systems. As tracers of hydrological processes, stable water isotopes can be used for high quality monitoring of Arctic waters to better reconstruct past ... -
Modelling the thermal history of onshore Ireland, Britain and its offshore basins using low-temperature thermochronology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geology, 2017)The main goal of this PhD thesis is to investigate the early Cenozoic exhumation history of Ireland and Britain. The causal mechanism for early Cenozoic exhumation on this sector of the NW European margin remains contentious, ... -
Methods for the identification of important areas of plant diversity in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)The loss of biodiversity is an on-going global issue that not only results in the extinction of species but also threatens the ecosystem services and goods on which humanity depends. The global community has responded with ... -
Biogeochemical patterns during cold-water coral growth and their potential application for environmental interpretation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2016)In the light of changing marine environments as a consequence of climatic shifts it is essential to gain a better understanding of such vulnerable habitats especially when they are located out of sight in the deep sea. The ... -
Financialisation, West European banking groups and postsocialist transformation in East-Central Europe: Geographies of subnational banking in Croatia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2024)The overarching aim of this dissertation is to examine the main drivers and manifestations of financialisation in the East-Central European periphery after the collapse of state socialism. To do this, the dissertation takes ... -
Quantification of the population dynamics of Pinus and Ulmus in Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)This thesis addresses the need to elucidate tree population dynamics at a local and regional scale. Herein tests and develops a variety of methods to quantify tree population dynamics at varying temporal and spatial scales. ... -
Ecological stability across scales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2016)One of the greatest challenges facing ecologists is how to detect and predict species and community responses to disturbance against a background of concurrent and potentially interacting environmental, biotic and anthropogenic ... -
Stable isotope analysis of Dublin Bay food web
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2017)Coastal ecosystems are being increasingly impacted by human activities. Among the main threats, eutrophication is a major issue worldwide which can lead to major dysfunctions such as the excessive development of opportunistic ... -
Applications of the LA-ICP-MS image mapping approach to U-Pb carbonate dating : from far-field tectonism to pedogenic nodules
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)Carbonates are one of the most common mineral phases in the upper crust, and form in many geological environments (e.g. biotic and abiotic carbonate precipitation, fracture fills in tectonic veins and ore deposits). This ... -
Pollinator ecology at a landscape scale
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)Pollination is a key ecosystem service in natural and agricultural ecosystems which provides benefits to human society. It has been estimated that 87.5 % of angiosperms depend on animal pollinators. The role of pollinators ... -
Quantifying fire regimes and their impact on the Irish landscape
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)This thesis examines the role of fire in the Irish landscape in the past, its drivers, impacts and interactions with the surrounding landscape, vegetation, climate and humans. Lacustrine sediment is utilised from seven ... -
Biodiversity impacts of legume-supported cropping in Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)Current global biodiversity loss is mainly driven by anthropogenic activities including land use change, pollution and over exploitation. Legumes have for millennia been used as a source of nitrogen in agriculture, and may ... -
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation
(2024)Environmental governance faces persistent challenges worldwide, with traditional conservation and restoration policies often proving ineffective against ongoing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. This is ... -
The Impact of Cost Rental Housing: Security, Affordability and Place
(The Housing Agency, 2024)Overall Cost Rental is extremely successful in creating secure homes and a sense of belonging and ownership among residents. Survey data shows that 80% of residents feel very secure, and 73% say they ‘never’ or ‘rarely’ ... -
Expression analysis of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) and caspases in chick (Gallus gallus) neural retina embryonic development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2016)Programmed cell death occurs naturally in developing neural tissues to regulate cell population, neural circuit connection and refined tissue structure. Caspases and inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) are believed to ...
