School of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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Fungi as parasites: A conspectus of the fossil record
(Springer, 2021)Fungal parasites are important drivers in ecosystem dynamics today that can have far-reaching effects on the performance and community structure of other organisms. Knowledge of the fossil record and evolution of ... -
China's Spatial Fix and 'Debt Diplomacy' in Africa
(2022)Mounting overaccumulation of capital and material has compelled the Chinese government to seek solutions overseas. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with its transregional infrastructure projects connecting Eurasia and ... -
Applying the System of Environmental Economic Accounting-Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) framework at catchment scale to develop ecosystem extent and condition accounts
(2021)Ecosystem accounting is a tool to integrate nature into decision-making in a more structured way. Applying the use of nationally available datasets at catchment scale and following the System of Environmental Economic ... -
A Unified Theoretical Framework of Learning Theories to Inform and Guide Public Health Continuing Medical Education Research and Practice
(2021)Continuing medical education (CME) emerged at the start of the 20th century as a means of maintaining clinical competence among health care practitioners. However, evidence indicates that CME is often poorly developed and ... -
Influential factors of cereal crop landscapes on aphidophagous syrphid communities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2021)Aphidophagous syrphids are a common group of insects in agriculture, attributed with benefiting farmers with pollination and pest control services. Farmed landscapes are also believed to have potential in supporting and ... -
Making biodiversity their business
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2021)Biodiversity loss has emerged as a threat to humanity equal to that of climate change. Urgently addressing this loss requires transformational change across many sectors of society. Global studies have highlighted the ... -
Dublin City Environmental Directory 2004
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Novel ecosystems and social-ecological resilience
(2015)Context: Novel ecosystems are anthropogenic landscapes that cannot be returned to their original ecological status. Little is known the social-ecological dynamics of these never-before-seen ecosystems. Less is known of ... -
Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands
(2021)Mediterranean islands face significant environmental challenges due to their high population density, reliance on imports, and water scarcity, exacerbated by increasing risks from climate change. Nature-based solutions ... -
Reaction Pathways toward the Formation of Bastnäsite: Replacement of Calcite by Rare Earth Carbonates
(2021)The interaction of rare earth bearing (La, Nd, Dy) aqueous solutions with calcite crystals at ambient and hydrothermal conditions (25–220 °C) results in the solvent-mediated surface precipitation and subsequent pseudomorphic ... -
ICT mediated food sharing and food transitions towards sustainable food systems in Singapore
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2021)With projected population growth of 9.1 billion people by 2050, and accelerated planetary urbanization quickly approaching, there is growing concern regarding the unsustainability of cities. Urban food systems are a focal ... -
Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution?
(2021)The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners, managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the effectiveness of using nature as a viable solution ... -
Study of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radon/Thoron Release Potential of Bedrock and Soil in Southeastern Ireland
(2021)Radon (222Rn) and thoron (220Rn) account for almost two-thirds of the annual average radiation dose received by the Irish population. A detailed study of natural radioactivity levels and radon and thoron exhalation rates ... -
A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production
(2019)Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on ... -
Geochemistry & Stratigraphy of the Mesozoic & Cenozoic Sedimentary Rocks Encountered in the Mandawa Basin, South Eastern Tanzania
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2021)The Mandawa Basin in south eastern Tanzania has long been regarded as the most hydrocarbon-prospective onshore sedimentary basin in the country. However, despite containing the ingredients necessary for a working petroleum ... -
Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects
(2018)Insects play a key role in the regulation and dynamics of many ecosystem services (ES). However, this role is often assumed, with limited or no experimental quantification of its real value. We examined publication trends ... -
Breeding system and pollination ecology of a potentially invasive alien Clematis vitalba L. in Ireland
(2018)Aims Invasive alien plants can greatly affect native communities and ecosystem processes but only a small fraction of alien plant species become invasive. Barriers to establishment and invasion include reproductive ... -
Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield
(2019)How insects promote crop pollination remains poorly understood in terms of the contribution of functional trait differences between species. We used meta-analyses to test for correlations between community abundance, species ... -
Plant protection product residues in plant pollen and nectar: a review of current knowledge
(2020)Exposure to Plant Protection Products, PPPs, (fungicides, herbicides and insecticides) is a significant stressor for bees and other pollinators, and has recently been the focus of intensive debate and research. Specifically, ... -
A natural capital lens for a sustainable bioeconomy: Determining the unrealised and unrecognised services from nature
(2020)Human activity has led to degradation of the natural environment, with far-reaching impacts for society and the economy, sparking new conceptual framings for how people interact with, and depend upon, the environment. The ...
