Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras (2020)
Journal Article
Sasso, T., Cox, C., & Gilroy, D. (2020). Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras. South american journal of herpetology (Impresso), 17(1), 29-32. https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-18-00015.1

The slender and elusive Nototriton brodiei is known only from a few specimens at two separate sites in the Sierra de Merendón, in Guatemala and Honduras. We present the first record of an aggregation of three adults of N. brodiei on a single leaf in... Read More about Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras.

Partitioning the environmental drivers of immunocompetence (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, J., Friberg, I., Hablutzel, P., Masud, N., Stewart, A., Synnott, R., & Cable, J. (2020). Partitioning the environmental drivers of immunocompetence. Science of the Total Environment, 747, 141152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141152

By determining susceptibility to disease, environment-driven variation in immune responses can affect the health, productivity and fitness of vertebrates. Yet how the different components of the total environment control this immune variation is rema... Read More about Partitioning the environmental drivers of immunocompetence.

Elucidating cryptic diversity in East African frogs : the case of Arthroleptis francei Loveridge, 1953 (2020)
Thesis
Woest, N. Elucidating cryptic diversity in East African frogs : the case of Arthroleptis francei Loveridge, 1953. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Detailed information on the diversity of species and their distributions is crucial for the implementation of useful conservation measures. Here, I focus on the Afromontane region of Malawi and Mozambique, and use molecular techniques, environmental... Read More about Elucidating cryptic diversity in East African frogs : the case of Arthroleptis francei Loveridge, 1953.

The archaeology of Manchester in 20 digs (2020)
Book
Nevell, M. (2020). The archaeology of Manchester in 20 digs. Stroud: Amberley Publishing

Manchester has always had the ability to reinvent itself. Evolving from a Roman fort to an Elizabethan linen market town and a Georgian market centre, it became the world’s largest cotton spinning town in the early nineteenth century. In the Victoria... Read More about The archaeology of Manchester in 20 digs.

Disease reservoirs threaten the recently rediscovered Podocarpus Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus podocarpus) (2020)
Journal Article
Podocarpus Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus podocarpus). Amphibian & reptile conservation, 14(2), 157-164

The Andes have experienced an unprecedented wave of amphibian declines and extinctions that are linked to a combination of habitat reduction and the spread of the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). In the present study, a range o... Read More about Disease reservoirs threaten the recently rediscovered Podocarpus Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus podocarpus).

Out of the Blue: The Seacombe Smalt Works (2020)
Journal Article
Radford, A., & Miller, I. (2020). Out of the Blue: The Seacombe Smalt Works. Current archaeology, 365,

Brief summary of an excavation of the 19th-century Seacombe Smalt Works in Birkenhead.

Association of low-level inorganic arsenic exposure from rice with age-standardized mortality risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England and Wales (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, L., Polya, D., Li, Q., & Mondal, D. (2020). Association of low-level inorganic arsenic exposure from rice with age-standardized mortality risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England and Wales. Science of the Total Environment, 743, 140534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140534

Adverse health outcomes, including death from cardiovascular disease (CVD), arising from chronic exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) are well documented. Consumption of rice is a major iAs exposure route for over 3 billion people, however, there is s... Read More about Association of low-level inorganic arsenic exposure from rice with age-standardized mortality risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England and Wales.

A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes) (2020)
Journal Article
Beck, R., Louys, J., Brewer, P., Archer, M., Black, K., & Tedford, R. (2020). A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes). Scientific reports, 10(9741), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66425-8

We describe the partial cranium and skeleton of a new diprotodontian marsupial from the late Oligocene (~26–25 Ma) Namba Formation of South Australia. This is one of the oldest Australian marsupial fossils known from an associated skeleton and it rev... Read More about A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes).

Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using copernicus ground based observations for validation data (2020)
Journal Article
Brown, L., Meier, C., Morris, H., Pastor-Guzman, J., Bai, G., Lerebourg, C., …Dash, J. (2020). Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using copernicus ground based observations for validation data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111935

With a growing number of Earth observation (EO) products available through operational programmes such as the European Union’s Copernicus, there is increasing emphasis on product accuracy and uncertainty, necessitating evaluation against in situ refe... Read More about Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using copernicus ground based observations for validation data.

Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird (2020)
Journal Article
Leedale, A., Simeoni, M., Sharp, S., Green, J., Slate, J., Lachlan, R., …Hatchwell, B. (2020). Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(27), 15724-15730. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918726117

Inbreeding is often avoided in natural populations by passive processes such as sex-biased dispersal. But, in many social animals, opposite-sexed adult relatives are spatially clustered, generating a risk of incest and hence selection for active inbr... Read More about Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.

Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach (2020)
Journal Article
Walford, N., & Armitage, R. (2020). Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach. Applied Geography, 121, 102219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102219

National small area classifications in Britain were first produced over 40 years ago using statistics from 1971 Population Census and have now become a regular feature of governmental, academic and commercial analysis of census information. These c... Read More about Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach.

A comparison of air pollution in different socio-economic areas (2020)
Thesis
Houghton, R. A comparison of air pollution in different socio-economic areas. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Air pollution has a significant impact on human health causing around 40,000 deaths annually in the United Kingdom (RCPCH, 2016). This thesis examines the variations in Particulate Matter concentration across areas of different socio-economic status.... Read More about A comparison of air pollution in different socio-economic areas.

Detection of Moku virus and replication in honey bees and social wasps (2020)
Journal Article
Highfield, A., Kevill, J., Mordecai, G., Hunt, J., Henderson, S., Sauvard, D., …Schroeder, D. (2020). Detection of Moku virus and replication in honey bees and social wasps. Viruses, 12(6), 607. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060607

Transmission of honey bee viruses to other insects, and vice versa, has previously been reported and the true ecological importance of this phenomenon is still being realized. Members of the family Vespidae interact with honey bees via predation or t... Read More about Detection of Moku virus and replication in honey bees and social wasps.

Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals (2020)
Journal Article
King, B., & Beck, R. (2020). Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0943

The estimation of the timing of major divergences in early mammal evolution is challenging due to conflicting interpretations of key fossil taxa. One contentious group is Haramiyida, the earliest members of which are from the Late Triassic. Many phyl... Read More about Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals.

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020)
Journal Article
Zurrel, D., Franklin, J., König, C., Yates, K., Zimmerman, N., & Merow, C. (2020). A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models. Ecography, 43(9), 1261-1277. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04960

Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready-to-use software pack - ages and increasing availability of digital geoinformation have considerably assis... Read More about A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models.

Increasing the resilience of cultural heritage using novel technologies : the perspective from a UK volunteer-led site (2020)
Journal Article
Williamson, R., Nevell, M., & Humphrey-Taylor, B. (2020). Increasing the resilience of cultural heritage using novel technologies : the perspective from a UK volunteer-led site. Post Classical Archaeologies, 10, 135-146

Continuing anthropogenic induced climate change poses risks to Cultural Heritage (CH) across the world. In the UK, cultural, natural and built heritage sites are often run by or with the help of groups of volunteers, whether that being at a nationa... Read More about Increasing the resilience of cultural heritage using novel technologies : the perspective from a UK volunteer-led site.

Echolocation of Central Amazonian 'whispering' phyllostomid bats : call design and interspecific variation (2020)
Journal Article
Yoh, N., Syme, P., Rocha, R., Meyer, C., & Lopez-Baucells, A. (2020). Echolocation of Central Amazonian 'whispering' phyllostomid bats : call design and interspecific variation. Mammal Research, 65, 583-597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-020-00503-0

Phyllostomids (New World leaf-nosed bats) are the ecologically most diverse bat family and have undergone the most extensive adaptive radiation of any mammalian family. However comprehensive, multi-species studies regarding phyllostomid echolocation... Read More about Echolocation of Central Amazonian 'whispering' phyllostomid bats : call design and interspecific variation.

Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits: is call similarity used to direct help towards kin? (2020)
Journal Article
Leedale, A., Lachlan, R., Robinson, E., & Hatchwell, B. (2020). Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits: is call similarity used to direct help towards kin?. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 375(1802), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0565

Most cooperative breeders live in discrete family groups, but in a minority, breeding populations comprise extended social networks of conspecifics that vary in relatedness. Selection for effective kin recognition may be expected for more related ind... Read More about Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits: is call similarity used to direct help towards kin?.

Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk (2020)
Journal Article
flood risk. Water, 12(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051355

Although knowledge of sediment transport has improved over the last 25 years, our understanding of bedload transfer and sediment delivery is still based on a limited set of observations or on models that make assumptions on hydraulic and sediment tra... Read More about Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk.

Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk (2020)
Journal Article
Heritage, G., & Entwistle, N. (2020). Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk. Water, 12(5), 1355. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051355

Although knowledge of sediment transport has improved over the last 25 years, our understanding of bedload transfer and sediment delivery is still based on a limited set of observations or on models that make assumptions on hydraulic and sediment tra... Read More about Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk.