Publications list
E-coli O157 on Scottish cattle farms: Evidence of local spread and persistence using repeat cross-sectional data. BMC Veterinary Research. 10
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Early-life residential exposure to soil components in rural areas and childhood respiratory health and allergy. Science of the Total Environment. 466-467:338-344.
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Ecological mitigation of hillsope instability: ten key issues facing researchers and practitioners. Plant and Soil. 377:1-23.
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Effect of agricultural production systems on the potato metabolome. Metabolomics. 10:212-224.
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The effect of image compression on synthetic PROBA-V images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 35:2639-2653.
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Effect of short-term exposure to high-temperature on total gene expression in the leaves of four raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) cultivars. Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. 89:532-541.
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Effects of Post-Flowering Environmental Variation along an Altitudinal Gradient on Chemical Composition of 'Glen Ample' Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.). European Journal of Horticultural Science. 79:267-277.
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Effects of riparian buffer strips on ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) within an agricultural landscape. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 7:172-184.
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Effects of supplemental irrigation with micro-sprinkling hoses on water distribution in soil and grain yield of winter wheat. Field Crops Research. 161:26-37.
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Elevated atmospheric CO2 impairs aphid escape responses to predators and conspecific alarm signals. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 40:1110-1114.
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Elevating crop disease resistance with cloned genes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences.. 369:ArticleNo20130087.
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Energy costs of carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms in aquatic organisms. Photosynthesis Research. 121:111-124.
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Environmental risk factors in the incidence of Johne's disease.l. Critical Reviews in Microbiology..
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Environmental risks and futures. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 21, 1-2..
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Epigenetic status in the offspring of spontaneous and assisted conception. Human Reproduction. 29:1452-1458.
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Equine grass sickness in Scotland: A case-control study of signalment- and meteorology-related risk factors. Equine Veterinary Journal. 46:64-71.
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Escherichia coli common pilus (ECP) targets arabinosyl residues in plant cell walls to mediate adhesion to fresh produce plants. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289:34349-34365.
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Estimating fuel demand elasticities to evaluate CO2 emissions: Panel data evidence for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Transportation Research Part A; Policy and Practice. 67:30-46.
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Estimation of crossbreeding parameters for humoral response in broiler. Livestock Science. 170:8-15.
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European dietary patterns and their associated land use: Variation between and within countries. Food Policy. 44:158-166.
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Evaluating knowledge exchange in interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder research. Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions. 25:204-220.
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Evaluating wider benefits of natural flood management strategies: an ecosystem-based adaptation perspective. Hydrology Research. 45:774-787.
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Evaluation of methods to age Scottish red deer: the balance between accuracy and practicality. Journal of Zoology. 294:180-189.
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Evolving a conceptual framework to explore the links between human wellbeing and the environment. Environmental Scientist. 23:9-14.
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Expectations and experiences of diverse forms of knowledge use: the case of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Environment and Planning C. 32:229-246.
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Experimental evidence that feral cats cause local extirpation of small mammals in Australia's tropical savannas. Journal of Applied Ecology. 51:1486-1493.
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Experimental evidence that livestock grazing intensity affects cyclic vole population regulation processes. Population Ecology. 56:55-61.
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Explanatory factors for household involvement in illegal bushmeat hunting around Serengeti, Tanzania. Journal for Nature Conservation. 22:491-496.
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An explicit immunogenetic model of gastrointestinal nematode infection in sheep. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 11:ArrticleNo.20140416..
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Exploring institutional changes in agriculture to inform adaptation planning to climate change in transition countries. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. Published online..
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Extraction and identification of antioxidant polyhydroxynaphthoquinone pigments from the sea urchin, Psammechinus miliaris. LWT - Food Science and Technology. 59:455-460.
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Facilitation displaces hotspots of diversity and allows communities to persist in heavily stressed and disturbed environments. Journal of Vegetation Science.. 25:66-76.
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Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity. Ecology Letters. 17:193-202.
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Factors determining the stability and productivity of small scale anaerobic digesters. Biomass and Bioenergy. 70:51-57.
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Farmers without borders - genetic structuring in century old barley (Hordeum vulgare). Heredity. 114:195-206.
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The feeding tube of cyst nematodes: characterisation of protein exclusion. PLoS ONE. 9:e87289.
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Field phenotyping of potato to assess root and shoot characteristics associated with drought tolerance. Plant and Soil. 378:351-363.
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Fine-scale diversity and distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungal mycelium in a Scots pine forest. New Phytologist. 201:1423-1430.
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First 20 years of DNDC: model evolution. Ecological Modelling. 292:51-62.
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Flagella interact with ionic plant lipids to mediate adherence of pathogenic Escherichia coli to fresh produce plants. Environmental Microbiology. 16:2181-2195.
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A framework for managing runoff and pollution in the rural landscape using a Catchment Systems Engineering approach. Science of the Total Environment. 468-469:1245-1254.
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A framework for valuing spatially targeted peatland restoration. Ecosystem Services. 9:20-33.
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From euphoria to reality on efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 19:615-620.
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From policy design to implementation: an institutional analysis of the new Nicaraguan Water Law. Water Policy. 16:1009-1030.
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Functional trait metrics are sensitive to the completeness of the species' trait data? Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5:9-15.
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Fungal transformation of metallic lead to pyromorphite in liquid medium. Chemosphere. 113:17-21.
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The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world. Ecology and Evolution. 4:2787-2798.
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Future-proofing the farm: On-farm wind turbine development in farm business decision-making. Land Use Policy. 36:102-112.
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Genetic and environmental regulation of plant architectural traits and opportunities for pest and disease control in raspberry. Annals of Applied Biology. 165:318-328.
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Genetical and comparative genomics of Brassica under altered Ca supply identifies Arabidopsis Ca-transporter orthologs. The Plant Cell. 26:2818-2830.
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Genome-wide QTL and bulked transcriptomic analysis reveals new candidate genes for the control of tuber carotenoid content in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 127:1917-1933.
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Genotypic variation in a foundation tree (Populus tremula L.) explains community structure of associated epiphytes. Biology Letters. 10:ArticleNo.20140190.
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Geographical gradient of the eIF4E alleles conferring resistance to potyviruses in pea (Pisum) germplasm. PLoS ONE. 9:e90394-e90394.
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The geographical patterns of symbiont diversity in the invasive legume Mimosa pudica can be explained by the competitiveness of its symbionts and by the host genotype. Environmental Microbiology. 16:2099-2111.
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Glucose uptake by the brain on chronic high-protein weight-loss diets with either moderate or low amounts of carbohydrate. British Journal of Nutrition. 111:586-597.
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"Green" nanotechnologies: synthesis of metal nanoparticles using plants. Acta Naturae. 6:35-44.
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Greenhouse gas emissions from renewable energy sources: A review of lifecycle considerations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 39:461-475.
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Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) population declines and phenological changes: is there a connection? Ecological Indicators. 41:15-24.
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Growth rate affects the responses of the green alga Tetraselmis suecica to external perturbations. Plant Cell and Environment. 37:512-519.
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Heather moorland vegetation and air pollution: a comparison and synthesis of three national gradient studies. Payne, R.J.; Caporn, S.J.M.; Field, C.D.; Carroll, J.A.; Edmondson, J.L.; Britton, A.J.; Dise, N.B. Water, Air and Soil Pollution.. 225:ArticleNo.1198.
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Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics. 15
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Heterogeneity of experts' opinion regarding opinion regarding opportunities and challenges of tackling defrestation in the tropics: a Q methodology application. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 19:621-640.
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The heterogeneity, distribution and environmental associations of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, in Scotland. Frontiers in Public Health, 2, Article 129. 2
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Hybridity of representation: insights from river basin management planning in Scotland. Environment and Planning C: Government and Society. 32:549-566.
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Identification and characterisation of a hyper-variable apoplastic effector gene family of the potato cyst nematodes. PLoS Pathogens. 10:ArticleNo.e1004391.
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Identifying qualitative effects of different grazing types on below-ground communities and function in a long-term field experiment. Environmental Microbiology. 17:841-854.
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Identifying the multi-scale spatial structure of plant community determinants of an important national resource. Journal of Vegetation Science. 25:184-197.
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Ignoring IUPAC guidelines for measurement and reporting of stable isotope abundance values affects us all. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.
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The impact of computer aided architectural design programs on conceptual design in an educational context. Design Studies. 35:412-428.
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Impacts of exceptional and extreme inter-annual climatic events on the net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange of a Sitka spruce forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 184:147-157.
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Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China. Environment International. 77:5-15.
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Implementing REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation): evidence on governance, evaluation and impacts from the REDD-ALERT project. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 19:907-925.
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Improved soil fertility from compost amendment increases root growth and reinforcement of surface soil on slopes. Ecological Engineering.. 71:458-465.
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Improving breeding efficiency in potato using molecular and quantitative genetics. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 127:2279-2292.
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Improving crop mineral nutrition. Plant and Soil. 384:1-5.
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Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes. Ecosystem Services. 9:44-53.
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Improving the science-policy dialogue to meet the challenges of biodiversity conservation: having a conversation rather than talking at one-another. Biodiversity and Conservation. 23:387-404.
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In silico identification and characterization of conserved plant microRNAs in barley. Central European Journal of Biology. 9:841-852.
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In utero exposure to cigarette smoke dysregulates human fetal ovarian developmental signalling. Human Reproduction. 29:1471-1489.
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In vitro and in vivo models of colorectal cancer: antigenotoxic activity of berries. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 62:3852-3866.
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Incentivising the collaborative management of ecological resources: a case study of wild deer in the UK. Land Use Policy. 36:485-491.
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Incorporation of urea-derived C-13 into microbial communities in four different agriculture soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 50:603-612.
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Increasing phosphorus supply is not the mechanism by which arbuscular mycorrhiza increase attractiveness of bean (Vicia faba) to aphids. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65:5231-5241.
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Induced variations in Brassinosteroid genes define barley height and sturdiness, and expand the green revolution genetic toolkit. Plant Physiology. 166:1912-1927.
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The influence of clay mineralogy on formation damage in North Sea reservoir sandstones: a review with illustrative examples. Earth Science Reviews. 134:70-80.
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The influence of information provision on people's landscape preferences: a case study on understorey vegetation of deer-browsed woodlands. Landscape and Urban Planning. 124:129-139.
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Influence of soil temperature on Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallida. Phytopathologia Mediterranea. 53:396-405.
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Intensive management in grasslands causes diffuse water pollution at the farm scale. Journal of Environmental Quality. 43:2009-2023.
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Interactions between light intensity and phosphorus nutrition affect the phosphate-mining capacity of white lupin (Lipinus albus L.). Journal of Experimental Botany. 65:2995-3003.
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Investigating the loss of recruitment potential in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): the relative importance of hen mortality, food supply, tick infestation and louping-ill. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 60:313-322.
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The Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans originated in central Mexico rather than the Andes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 111:8791-8796.
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Kaolins and health: from first grade to first aid. Elements. 10:207-211.
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Late-season foliar urea applications can increase berry yeast-assimilable nitrogen in winegrapes (Vitis vinifera L.). American Journal of Enology and Viticulture. 65:89-95.
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Leave only footprints? How traces of movement shape the appropriation of space Cultural Geographies.
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The length of micro-sprinkling hoses delivering supplemental irrigation affects photosynthesis and dry matter production of winter wheat. Field Crops Research. 168:65-74.
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Leptosphaeria spp., phoma stem canker and potential spread of L. maculans on oilseed rape crops in China. Plant Pathology. 63:598-612.
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Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment. Journal of Web Semantics. 27-28:70-77.
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Levels of endocrine disrupting compounds in South China Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 85:628-633.
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A locus conferring effective late blight resistance in potato cultivar Sarpo Mira maps to chromosome XI. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 127:647-657.
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Long noncoding RNA modulates alternative splicing regulators in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell. 30:166-176.
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Long term temporal and spatial changes in the distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Scottish soils. Science of the Total Environment. 468-469:158-164.
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Long-term trends in restored moorland vegetation assemblages. Community Ecology.. 15:104-112.
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Loss of labile carbon following soil disturbance determinded by measurement of respired d¹³CO. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 68:125-132.
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Loss of microbial diversity in soils is coincident with reductions in some specialized functions. Environmental Microbiology. 16:2408-2420.
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Low levels of ribosomal RNA partly account for the very high photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency of Proteaceae species. Plant Cell and Environment. 37:1276-1298.
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The low recombining pericentromeric region of barley restricts gene diversity and evolution but not gene expression. The Plant Journal. 79:981-992.
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Mapping socio-economic performance in rural Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal. 130:1-21.
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Mapping species distributions in one dimension by non homogeneous hidden Markov models: freshwater pearl mussels in the River Dee. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 21:487-505.
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Measuring the difference between actual and reported food intakes in the context of energy balance under laboratory conditions. British Journal of Nutrition. 111:2032-2043.
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Message ends: RNA Processing and flowering time control. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65:353-363.
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Metabolic effects of elevated temperature on organic acid degradation in ripening Vitis vinifera fruit. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65:5975-5988.
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Methods to investigate the geochemistry of groundwaters with values for nitrogen compounds below the detection limit. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 141:78-88.
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Microbial and microfaunal communities in phosphorus limited, grazed grassland change composition but maintain homeostatic nutrient stoichiometry. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 75:94-101.
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Microbial properties and nitrogen contents of arable soils under different tillage regimes. Soil Use and Management. 30:152-159.
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Minimising methodological biases to improve the accuracy of partitioning soil respiration using natural abundance 13C. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 28:2341-2351.
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Mitigating diffuse pollution from agriculture: International approaches and experience. Science of the Total Environment. 468-469:1173-1177.
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Modelling soil organic carbon storage with RothC in irrigated Vertisols under cotton cropping systems in the sub-tropics. Soil and Tillage Research. 143:38-49.
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Modelling species abundance in a river by Negative Binomial hidden Markov models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 71:599-614.
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Modelling the hydrological impacts of rural land use change. Hydrology Research. 45:737-754.
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Modelling the long-term response of stream water chemistry to forestry in Galloway, Southwest Scotland. Ecological Indicators. 37:396-411.
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Modelling under-reporting in epidemics. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 69:737-765.
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Molecular effects of resistance elicitors from biological origin and their potential for crop protection. Frontiers in Plant Science. 5
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More plant growth but less plant defence? First global gene expression data for plants grown in soil amended with biochar Global Change Biology Bioenergy. Published online.
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Morphological, genetic and molecular characteristics of barley root hair mutants. Journal of Applied Genetics. 55:433-447.
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Mp10 and Mp42 from the aphid species Myzus persicae trigger plant defenses in Nicotiana benthamiana through different activities. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions. 27:30-39.
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Mud, muddle and models in the knowledge value-chain to action on tropical peatland conservation. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 19:887-905.
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The need to disentangle key concepts from Ecosystem Approach jargon. Conservation Biology. 28:1215-1224.
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A neoproterozoic transition in the marine nitrogen cycle. Current Biology. 24:652-657.
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Neural network integration of field observations for soil endocrine disruptor characterisation. Science of the Total Environment. 468-469:240-248.
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New model diagnostics for spatio-temporal systems in epidemiology and ecology. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 11:ArticleNo.20131093..
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A new statistical framework for the quantification of covariate associations with species distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5:421-432.
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The nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide increases mineralisation-immobilisation turnover in slurry amended grassland soil. Journal of Agricultural Science. 152:S137-S149.
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Nitrogen and sulfur assimilation in plants and algae. Aquatic Botany. 118:45-61.
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NMDA receptor-dependent regulation of miRNA expression and association with Argonaute during LTP in vivo. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 7
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Non-destructive automatic leaf area measurements by combining stereo and time-of-flight images. IET Computer Vision. 8:391-403.
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The North East Scotland Energy Monitoring Project: Exploring relationships between household occupants and energy usage. Energy and Buildings. 75:493-503.
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On the interplay of actors in the co-management of natural resources - a dynamic perspective. Journal of Environmental Management. 64:158-168.
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An optimised method for the extraction of bacterial mRNA from plant roots infected with Escherichia coli O157:H7. Frontiers in Microbiology Research. 5
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Overview of holistic application of biogas for small scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Biomass and Bioenergy. 70:4-16.
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Oxalate production by fungi: significance in geomycology, biodeterioration and bioremediation. Fungal Biology Reviews. 28:36-55.
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Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change. Functional Ecology. 28:75-86.
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Permeable reactive interceptors - blocking diffuse nutrient and greenhouse gases losses in key areas of the farming landscape. Journal of Agricultural Science. 152:S71-S81.
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Pesticides "security" threat. Chemistry and Industry. 78:28.
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pH feedback and phenotypic diversity within bacterial functional groups of the human gut. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 342:62-69.
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Phenolic-rich extracts from the edible seaweed, Ascophyllum nodosum, inhibit alpha-amylase and alpha-glucosidase: Potential anti-hyperglycemic effects. Journal of Functional Foods. 10:201-209.
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Photosynthetic potential of planets in 3:2 spin-orbit resonances. International Journal of Astrobiology.
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Physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of the potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plant to moderately elevated temperature. Plant Cell and Environment. 37:439-450.
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Phytophthora infestans RXLR Effector PexRD2 interacts with Host MAPKKK epsilon to suppress plant immune signaling. The Plant Cell. 26:1345-1359.
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Pinus sylvestris sapling growth and recovery from mammalian browsing. Forest Ecology and Management. 325:18-25.
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Plant immunity in plant-aphid interactions. Frontiers in Plant Science. 5
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Platelet-derived microparticle count and surface molecule expression differ between subjects with and without type 2 diabetes, independently of obesity status. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 37:455-463.
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Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis of mineral and organic soils and the influence of organic matter. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 143:31-42.
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Post-flowering photoperiod has marked effects on fruit chemical composition in red raspberry (Rubus idaeus). Annals of Applied Biology. 165:454-465.
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Postprandial cell defense system responses to meal formulations: Stratification through gene expression profiling. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research. 58:2066-2079.
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Potato virus Y HCPro localization at distinct, dynamically related and environment-influenced structures in the cell cytoplasm. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 27:1331-1343.
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Potential for pathogen reduction in anaerobic digestion and biogas generation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Biomass and Bioenergy. 70:112-124.
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The potential for small-scale biogas digesters in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve sustainable rural livelihoods. Biomass and Bioenergy. 70:1-3.
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The potential of chlorhexidine lavage to reduce the shedding of VTEC 0157 from cattle. Cattle Practice. 22:280-280.
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