School of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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Community Self-Organizing and the Urban Food Commons in Berlin and New York
(2019)Food sharing and food commons have both been raised as possible solutions to unsustainable and unjust urban food systems. This paper draws upon ethnographic research conducted in Berlin and New York to examine self-organizing ... -
Sharing food and risk in Berlin’s urban food commons
(2019)Public fridges are open-access community-stewarded spaces where food can be freely and anonymously shared. As such, they are fertile ground for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for governing food as a commons. ... -
Cooking and eating together in London: Food sharing initiatives as collective spaces of encounter
(2019)Commensality, the act of eating together, is an important human ritual that benefits beyond the biological need for food and it is well established amongst food studies scholars. At the same time, novel forms of social ... -
Taxon-specific temporal shifts in pollinating insects in mass-flowering crops and field margins in Ireland
(2021)In intensively cropped agricultural landscapes, the vegetation in edges and hedges (henceforth “field margins”) represents an important semi-natural habitat providing fundamental resources for insect pollinators. We surveyed ... -
Climate change and political (in)action: an intergenerational epistemic divide?
(2021)This paper critically examines the constructed narrative that there is an epistemic intergenerational divide on the topic of climate change, climate science, and the political actions necessary to address the most urgent ... -
Evolution in the understorey: The Sulawesi babbler Pellorneum celebense (Passeriformes: Pellorneidae) has diverged rapidly on land-bridge islands in the Wallacean biodiversity hotspot
(2021)Tropical islands hold great treasures of Earth's biodiversity, but these fragile ecosystems may be lost before their diversity is fully catalogued or the evolutionary processes that birthed it are understood. We ran ... -
Heritable Changes in Physiological Gas Exchange Traits in Response to Long-Term, Moderate Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment
(2019)Atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO2]) concentrations significantly alter developmental plant traits with potentially far-reaching consequences for ecosystem function and productivity. However, contemporary evolutionary responses ... -
Convergence in maximum stomatal conductance of C3 woody angiosperms in natural ecosystems across bioclimatic zones
(2019)Stomatal conductance (gs) in terrestrial vegetation regulates the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide for photosynthesis and water loss through transpiration, closely linking the biosphere and atmosphere and influencing ... -
Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019)Intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE), defined as the ratio of photosynthesis to stomatal conductance, is a key variable in plant physiology and ecology. Yet, how rising atmospheric CO2 concentration affects iWUE at broad ... -
Plant responses to decadal scale increments in atmospheric CO2 concentration: comparing two stomatal conductance sampling methods
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)Our study demonstrated that the species respond non-linearly to increases in CO2 concentration when exposed to decadal changes in CO2, representing the year 1987, 2025, 2051, and 2070, respectively. There are several lines ... -
Consistent Relationship between Field-Measured Stomatal Conductance and Theoretical Maximum Stomatal Conductance in C3 Woody Angiosperms in Four Major Biomes
(University of Chicago Press, 2020)Premise of research. Understanding the relationship between field-measured operating stomatal conductance (gop) and theoretical maximum stomatal conductance (gmax), calculated from stomatal density and geometry, provides ... -
Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold
(Wiley, 2020)How plants have shaped Earth surface feedbacks over geologic time is a key question in botanical and geological inquiry. Recent work has suggested that biomes during the Carboniferous Period contained plants with extraordinary ... -
Enhancing the productivity of ryegrass at elevated CO2is dependent on tillering and leaf area development rather than leaf-level photosynthesis
(2021)Whilst a range of strategies have been proposed for enhancing crop productivity, many recent studies have focused primarily on enhancing leaf photosynthesis under current atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Given ... -
Integrated simulation for improved mineral recovery processes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2021)The consumption of mineral and metals is increasing as the population grows and the demand for mineral resources will remain high and evolve as society moves towards a carbon-neutral future. The increasing demand for metals, ... -
Environmental offsets in Colombia: Policy, practice and conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2021)Environmental offsets aim to find a balance between economic growth and biodiversity conservation by compensating for the adverse environmental impacts of development. In Colombia, environmental offsets are being put forward ... -
Fingerprinting and assessing the reactivity of past and future aggregates
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2021)The Irish construction boom of the early 2000s generated an unprecedented demand for sub floor rock aggregate. However, due to a lack of residential specific material standardisation, unacceptable documentation practices ... -
Participating in food waste transitions: Exploring surplus food redistribution in Singapore through the ecologies of participation framework
(2021)Food waste is a global societal meta-challenge requiring a sustainability transition involving everyone, including publics. However, to date, much transitions research has been silent on the role of public participation ... -
Just Adapt: Engaging disadvantaged young people in planning for climate adaptation, in SI Is there a new climate politics?
(2021)The visibility of young people in climate change debates has risen significantly since the inception of the Fridays for Future movement, but little is known about the diversity of positions, perspectives and experiences ...
