Publications list
How do individuals and groups perceive wetland functioning? Fuzzy cognitive mapping of wetland perceptions in Uganda Land Use Policy. 60:181-196.
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2017.
Biogeography of plant root-associated fungal communities in the North Atlantic region mirrors climatic variability. Journal of Biogeography. 46:1532-1546.
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2019.
Diversity of fungi in hair roots of Ericaceae varies along a vegetation gradient. Molecular Ecology. 16(21):4624-4636.
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2007.
Soil information in support of policy making and awareness raising. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 4:1-7.
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2012.
Quantifying the power and precision of QTL analysis in autopolyploids under bivalent and multivalent genetic models. G3-Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 9:2107-2122.
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2019.
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2013.
Interdependency of efficient nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhization in Piptadenia gonoacantha, a Brazilian legume tree. Plant Cell and Environment. 41:2008-2020.
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2018.
Between migration load and evolutionary rescue: dispersal, adaptation and the response of spatially structured populations to environmental change. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 281:1471-2954.
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2014.
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2011.
Biochemical properties and biodegradation of dissolved organic matter from soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 45:733-742. Abstract
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2009.
Cross-realm assessment of the impact of climate change on species’ abundance trends. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1:ArticleNo.0067.
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2017.
A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe. Biological Conservation. 187:41-50.
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2015.
Cross-realm assessment of the impact of climate change on species’ abundance trends. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1:ArticleNo.0067.
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2017.
Consequences of intraspecific variation for the structure and function of ecological communities. I: Model development and predicted patterns of diversity. Ecological Modelling. 207(2-4):264-276.
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2007.
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2007.
Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 14478-14483..
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2014.
Carbon dynamics in a model grassland with functionally different soil communities. Functional Ecology. 21(4):690-697.
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2007.
Risk perception - Issues for flood management in Europe. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 12:2299-2309.
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2012.
Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111:E5491-E5491.
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2014.
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2009.
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2006.
QTL mapping of yield, agronomic and quality traits in tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum). Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 116:193-211. Abstract
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2008.
A genetic perspective on yield plateau in potato (Review). Potato Journal (Indian). 36:79-94.
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2009.
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2006.
Kale population improvement and cultivar production. Euphytica. 184:275-288.
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2012.
Review and analysis of limitations in ways to improve conventional potato breeding. Potato Research. 60:171-193.
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2017.
The Canon of Potato Science: 4. Tetrasomic Inheritance. Potato Research. 50:219-222. Abstract
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2008.
Population improvement and synthetic cultivar production in forage kale (Brassica oleracea L.). Euphytica. 217:ArticleNo.150..
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2021.
Single seed descent as a breeding method for swedes (Brassica napus L. var. napobrassica Peterm). Euphytica. 169:387-401.
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2009.
Utilisation of the Commonwealth Potato Collection in potato breeding. Euphytica. 146:9-19. Abstract
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2005.
Mapping the R10 and R11 genes for resistance to late blight (Phytophthora infestans) present in the potato (Solanum tuberosum) R-gene differentials of Black. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 112:744-751. Abstract
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2006.
Plant breeding: past, present and future. Euphytica. 213:ArticleNo.UNSP60.
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2017.
The Canon of Potato Science: 2. Population Genetics. Potato Research. 50:211-214. Abstract
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2008.
Live biospeckle laser imaging of root tissues. European Biophysics Journal. 38:679-686. Abstract
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2009.
Status and prospects of plant virus control through interference with vector transmission. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 51,177-201.. 51:177-201.
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2013.
Protein elemental sparing and codon usage bias are correlated among bacteria. Molecular Ecology. 21:2480-2487.
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2012.
Fisheries conservation and management: finding consensus in the midst of competing paradigms. Animal Conservation. 15:1-3.
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2012.
A simple approach to modelling the soil water budget in cool temperate mineral topsoils. Environmental Modelling and Software. 127:ArticleNo.104700.
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2020.
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses. Basic and Applied Ecology. 53:26-38.
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2021.
Multiple C2 domains and transmembrane region proteins (MCTPs) tether membranes at plasmodesmata. Embo Reports. 20:ArticleNo.e47182..
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2019.
Bulk mineralogical characterisation of oilfield reservoir rocks and sandstones using diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform spectroscopy and partial least squares analysis. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 60(1):1-17.
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2008.
Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58:44-57.
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2021.
Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself. Journal of Applied Ecology.
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2020.
Weighted logrank permutation tests for randomly right censored life science data. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 41:742-761.
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2014.
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2017.
Development and quality of barley husk adhesion correlates with changes in caryopsis cuticle biosynthesis and composition. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10:ArticleNo.672.
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2019.
The development of a PCR-based marker linked to resistance to the blackcurrant gall mite (Cecidophyopsis ribis Acari: Eriophyidae). Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 118:205-211. Abstract
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2009.
Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3:750-754.
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2019.
Improving fruit quality in Rubus and Ribes through breeding (Invited review). Functional Plant Science and Biotechnology. 3 Special Issue 1:22-29.
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2009.
Clay mineral type effect on bacterial enteropathogen survival in soil. Science of the Total Environment. 468-469:302-305.
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2014.
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2008.
Improving breeding efficiency in blackcurrant - the application of new selection techniques in Ribes. Acta Horticulturae. 946:157-160.
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2011.
Insights into the low temperature adaptation and nutritional flexibility of a soil persistent Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 84:75-85.
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2013.
Variable smoothing in Bayesian intrinsic autoregressions. Environmetrics. 18(8):841-857.
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2007.
Source distribution modelling for end-member mixing in hydrology. Environmetrics. 22:921-932.
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2011.
The relative performance of AIC, AIC(C) and BIC in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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2016.
Quantifying potato pathogen DNA in soil. Applied Soil Ecology. 41:234-238.
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2009.
Factors affecting the development and control of black dot on potato tubers. Plant Pathology. 64:167-177.
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2015.
The relative importance of seed- and soil-borne inoculum of Rhizoctonia solani AG-3 in causing black scurf on potato. Potato Research. 59:181-193.
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2016.
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2013.
Chemical speciation studies on DU contaminated soils using flow field flow fractionation linked to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (FIFFF-ICP-MS). Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 14:782-790.
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2012.
Growth responses of low-alpine dwarf-shrub heath species to nitrogen deposition and management. Environmental Pollution. 153(3):564-573.
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2008.
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2018.
Developing monitoring protocols for cost-effective surveillance of lichens. The Lichenologist. 46:471-482.
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2014.
Biodiversity gains and losses: evidence for homogenisation of Scottish alpine vegetation. Biological Conservation. 142:1728-1739.
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2009.
Impacts of nitrogen deposition on carbon and nitrogen cycling in alpine Racomitrium heath and prospects for recovery. Environmental Pollution. 254:112986.
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2019.
An integrated assessment of ecosystem carbon pools and fluxes across an oceanic alpine toposequence. Plant and Soil. 345:287-302.
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2011.
Terricolous alpine lichens are sensitive to both load and concentration of applied nitrogen and have potential as bioindicators of nitrogen deposition. Environmental Pollution. 158(5):1296-1302.
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2010.
Nitrogen deposition drives loss of moss cover in alpine moss-sedge heath via lowered C: N ratio and accelerated decomposition. New Phytologist.. 218:470-478.
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2018.
Pollution and climate change drive long-term change in Scottish wetland vegetation composition. Biological Conservation. 210:72-79.
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2017.
NP stoichiometry of low-alpine heathland: usefulness for bio-monitoring and prediction of pollution impacts. Biological Conservation. 138(1-2):100-108.
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2007.
Climate, pollution and grazing drive long-term change in moorland habitats. Applied Vegetation Science. 20:194-203.
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2017.
Interactive effects of nitrogen deposition and fire on plant and soil chemistry in an alpine heathland. Environmental Pollution. 156:409-416.
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2008.
Interactive effects of nitrogen deposition, fire and grazing on diversity and composition of low-alpine prostrate Calluna vulgaris heathland. Journal of Applied Ecology. 44(1):125-135.
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2007.
An efficient procedure for normalising ionomics data for Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist. 186:270-274.
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2010.
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2008.
Evidence of neutral transcriptome evolution in plants. New Phytologist. 180:587-593. Abstract
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2008.
Shoot zinc (Zn) concentration varies widely within Brassica oleracea L. and is affected by soil Zn and phosphorus (P) levels. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology. 85:375-380.
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2010.
Some elements are more equal than others: soil-to-plant transfer of radiocaesium and radiostrontium, revisited. Plant and Soil. 355:23-27.
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2012.
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2010.
Tansley Review. Zinc in plants. New Phytologist. 173:677-702. Abstract
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2007.
Dietary requirements for magnesium but not calcium are likely to be met in Malawi based on national food supply data. International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research. 82:192-199.
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2012.
Eats roots and leaves. Can edible horticultural crops address dietary calcium, magnesium and potassium deficiencies? Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 69:601-612.
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2010.
The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world. Ecology and Evolution. 4:2787-2798.
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2014.
The algal revolution. Trends in Plant Science. 22:726-738.
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2017.
Facilitation in the conceptual melting pot. Journal of Ecology. 97(6):1117-1120.
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2009.
Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology. New Phytologist. 206:107-117.
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2015.
Long-term spatial pattern change in a semi-arid plant community: The role of climate and composition. Acta Oecologia. 45:8-15.
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2012.
Association of vegetation and soil mite assemblages with isolated Scots pine trees on a Scottish wet heath. Landscape Ecology. 23(7):861-871.
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2008.
Climate change and biodiversity: impacts and policy development challenges - a European case study. International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management. 3:12-30.
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2007.
Crop presence, but not genetic diversity, impacts on the rare arable plant Valerianella rimosa. Plant Ecology and Diversity. 10:495-507.
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2018.
Facilitation and biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming. Journal of Ecology. 109:2054-2067.
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2021.
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present and the future. Journal of Ecology. 96:18-34.
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2008.
Modelling species' range shifts in a changing climate: The impacts of biotic interactions, dispersal distance and the rate of climate change. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 245(1):59-65.
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2007.
The concept and measurement of importance: a comment on Rees et al. 2012. Journal of Ecology. 101:1369-13789.
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2013.
Importance: an overlooked concept in plant interaction research. Journal of Ecology. 96(4):703-708.
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2008.
Plant-plant interactions and environmental change. New Phytologist. 171:273-275.
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2006.
Tiny niches and translocations: the challenge of identifying suitable recipient sites for small and immobile species. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55:621-630.
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2018.
Don't diss integration: A comment on Ricklef's disintegrating communities. American Naturalist.. 174(6):919-927.
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2009.
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2016.
Clonal plants and facilitation research: bridging the gap. Folia Geobotanica.. 52:295-302.
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2017.
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2013.
Invertebrate biodiversity in maize following withdrawal of triazine herbicides. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 272:1497-1502. Abstract
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2005.
How national context, project design, and local community characteristics influence success in community-based conservation projects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 109:2165-21270.
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2012.
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2019.
Limitations of field soil microbial biomass measures. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 39(10):2693-2695.
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2007.
Improving value transfer through socio-economic adjustments in a multicountry choice experiment of water conservation alternatives. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 59:458-478.
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2015.
Modeling self-censoring of polluter pays protest votes in stated preference research to support resource damage estimations in environmental liability. Resource and Energy Economics. 34:151-166.
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2012.
Intact salicylic acid signalling is required for potato defence against the necrotrophic fungus Alternaria solani. Plant Molecular Biology. 104:1-19.
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2020.
Mapping and classification of peatland on the Isle of Lewis using Landsat ETM+. Scottish Geographcial Journal. 123(3):173-192.
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2008.
Changes in climate variability with reference to land quality and agriculture in Scotland. International Journal of Biometeorology. 59:717-732.
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2015.
Influence of seasonal weather and climate variability on crop yields in Scotland. International Journal of Biometeorology. 57:605-614.
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2013.
Sharing public space across difference: attunement and the contested burdens of choreographing encounter. Social and Cultural Geography. 13:801-820.
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2012.
Photosynthetic potential of planets in 3:2 spin-orbit resonances. International Journal of Astrobiology.
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2014.
The Rhizosheath - A potential trait for future agricultural sustainability occurs in orders throughout the angiosperms. Plant and Soil. Published online..
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2017.
Participatory scenario planning for developing innovation in community adaptation responses: three contrasting examples from Latin America. Regional Environmental Change. 16:1685-1700.
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2016.
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2014.
Variable impacts of reduced and zero tillage on soil carbon storage across 4-10 years of UK field experiments. Journal of Soils and Sediments..
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2020.
The role of landscape in regulating (Ir) responsible conduct: moral geographies of the ‘proper control’ of dogs. Landscape Research. 40:39-56.
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2015.
Climate change, drought risk and land capability for agriculture: implications for land-use in Scotland. Regional Environmental Change. 11:503-518.
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2011.
Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach II: a stress-testing case study for the UK. Environmental Science and Policy. 52:74-88.
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2015.
The Rhizosheath - a potential trait for future agricultural sustainability occurs in orders throughout the angiosperms. Plant and Soil. 418:115-128.
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2017.
High quality reference transcript datasets hold the key to transcript-specific RNA-seq analysis in plants. New Phytologist. 213:525-530.
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2017.
New challenges for old Commons: The role of historical common land in contemporary rural spaces. Scottish Geographical Journal. 122:109-129.
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2006.
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2012.
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2016.
Variable impacts of reduced and zero tillage on soil carbon storage across 4-10 years of UK field experiments. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 21:890-904.
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2021.
Scenario analysis for regional decision-making on sustainable multifunctional land uses. Regional Environmental Change. 14:1357-1371.
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2014.
Lost in translation: pitfalls in deciphering plant alternative splicing transcripts. The Plant Cell. 27:2083-2087.
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2015.
Participatory scenario planning for developing innovation in community adaptation responses: three contrasting examples from Latin America. Regional Environmental Change. Published online.
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2016.
The haptic pleasures of ground-feel: The role of textured terrain in motivating regular exercise. Health and Place. 46:307-314.
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2017.
Is green manure from riparian buffer strip species an effective nutrient source for crops? Journal of Environmental Quality. 48:385-393.
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2019.
Arabidopsis nucleolar protein database (AtNoPDB). Nucleic Acids Research. 33:D633-D636.
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2005.
Landscape models and explanation in landscape ecology- A space for generative landscape science? Professional Geographer. 58(4):369-382.
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2006.
Mechanisms underlying the anti-proliferative effects of berry components in in vitro models of colon cancer. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 13:200-209.
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2012.
Using a head-mounted video camera to understand social worlds and experiences. Sociological Research Online. 13(6)
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2008.
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2014.
Are people who participate in cultural activities more satisfied with life? Social Indicators Research. 122:135-146.
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2015.
Understanding the materialities and moralities of property: reworking collective claims to land. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 32(4):507-522.
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2007.
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2013.
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2012.
An agent-based modelling approach to evaluate factors influencing bioenergy crop adoption in north-east Scotland. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. 8:226-244.
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2016.
The role of the plant nucleolus in pre-mRNA processing. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. 326:291-311.
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2008.
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2019.
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2014.
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2008.
The effects of host age on follicular dendritic cell status dramatically impair scrapie agent neuroinvasion in aged mice. Journal of Immunology. 183:5199-5207.
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2009.
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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2014.
Is green manure from riparian buffer strip species an effective nutrient source for crops? Journal of Environmental Quality. 48:385-393.
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2019.
A working typology of response options to manage environmental change and their scope for complementarity using an ecosystem approach. Environmental Science and Policy. 52:61-73.
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2015.
Reconciling moral and legal collective entitlement: Lessons for community-based land reform. Land Use Policy. 24(4):633-643.
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2007.
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2013.
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2012.
Intronic noncoding RNAs and splicing. Trends in Plant Science. 13:335-342. Abstract
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2008.
Leave only footprints? How traces of movement shape the appropriation of space Cultural Geographies.
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2014.
Evidence for litter differences in play behaviour in pre-weaned pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 172:17-25.
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2015.
Is bere barley specifically adapted to fertilisation with seaweed as a nutrient source? Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 118:149-163.
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2020.
Prospects for plant defence activatiors and biocontrol in IPM - concpets and lessons learnt so far. Crop Protection. 97:128-134.
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2017.
The stem rust resistance gene Rpg5 encodes a protein with nucleotide binding site, leucine-rich and protein kinase domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 105:14970-14975. Abstract
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2008.
The prevalence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus infection in beef suckler herds in Scotland. Veterinary Journal. 186:226-231.
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2010.
The effects of soil horizons and faunal excrement on bacterial distribution in an upland grassland soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 52:139-144. Abstract
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2005.
Levels of intra-specific AFLP diversity in tuber-bearing potato species with different breeding systems and ploidy Llevels. Frontiers in Genetics. 8:ArticleNo.119.
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2017.
Genomic resources and tools for gene function analysis in potato. International Journal of Plant Genomics. 2008:-216513.
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2008.
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2013.
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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2014.
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2011.
How should regional biodiversity be monitored? Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 19:601-626.
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2012.
Integration of juvenile habitat quality and river connectivity models to understand and prioritise the management of barriers for Atlantic salmon populations across spatial scales. Science of the Total Environment. 655:557-566.
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2019.
Metrics to assess how longitudinal channel network connectivity and in-stream Atlantic salmon habitats are impacted by hydropower regulation. Hydrological Processes. 31:2132-2142.
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2017.
From urban gardening to planetary stewardship: human-nature relationships and their implications for environmental management. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 61:747-755.
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2018.
Understanding people's ideas on natural resource management: research on social representations of nature. Society and Natural Resources.. 25:1167-1181.
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2012.
Looking beyond superficial knowledge gaps: Understanding public representations of biological diversity. International Journal Biodiversity Science Management. 4(2):65-80.
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2008.
Mechanisms of root reinforcement in soils: an experimental methodology using four-dimensional X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation. Proceedings of the Royal Society A - Mathematicla Physical and Engineering Science. 476:ArticleNo.20190838.
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2020.
Genomic variations associated with attenuation in Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis vaccine strains. BMC Microbiology, 13, Article No.11..
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2013.
Barley SIX-ROWED SPIKE3 encodes a putative Jumonji C-type H3K9me2/me3 demethylase that represses lateral spikelet fertility. Nature Communications. 8:ArticleNo.936.
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2017.
A rapid diagnostic for detection of Aphelenchoides besseyi and A. fujianensis based on real-time PCR. Plant Disease. 102:519-526.
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2018.
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2014.
Biomineralization of fungal hyphae with calcite (CaCO3) and calcium oxalate mono- and dihydrate in carboniferous limestone microcosms. Geomicrobiology Journal. 23(8):599-611.
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2006.
Assessing climate change causes, risks and opportunities in forestry. Outlook on Agriculture. 39(4):263-268.
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2010.
A recombinant subunit vaccine for the control of ovine psoroptic mange (sheep scab). Veterinary Research. 47
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2016.
Psoroptes ovis-Early Immunoreactive Protein (Pso-EIP-1) a novel diagnostic antigen for sheep scab. Parasite Immunology, Article No. e12788. Published online..
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2020.
A survey of the trichostrongylid nematode species present on UK sheep farms and associated anthelmintic control practices. Veterinary Parasitology. 189:299-307.
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2012.
Oceanic embodiments: living ENSO events in coastal TImor-Leste. Political Geography. 70:102-116.
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2019.
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2017.
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2014.
Vaccination of pigs with the S48 strain of Toxoplasma gondii - safer meat for human consumption. Veterinary Research. 46
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2015.
Assessing the vulnerability of the marine bird community in the western North Sea to climate change and other anthropogenic impacts. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 507:277-295.
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2014.
Demographic consequences of increased winter births in a large aseasonally breeding mammal (Bos taurus) in response to climate change. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80:1134-1144.
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2011.
Phenological trends and trophic mismatch across multiple levels of a North Sea pelagic food web. International Journal of Plant Genomics. 454:119-133.
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2012.
Endoscopy as a novel method for assessing endoparasite burdens in free-ranging European shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4:207-216.
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2013.
Exploring farmers' cultural resistence to voluntary agri-environmental schemes. Sociologia Ruralis. 48(1):16-37.
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2008.
Injecting social psychology theory into conceptualisations of agricultural agency: towards a post-productionist farmer self -identity. Journal of Rural Studies. 22(1):95-115.
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2006.
An alternative to farmer age as an indicator of life-cycle stage: The case for a farm family age index. Journal of Rural Studies. 22(4):485-492.
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2006.
Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture. PLoS Biology. 15:ArticeleNo.e2001793.
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2017.
Social risk amplification as an attribution: the case of zoonotic disease outbreaks. Journal of Risk Research. 15:1049-1074.
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2012.
Spatial sampling of weather data for regional crop yield simulations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 220:101-115.
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2016.
Exome sequences and multi-environment field trials elucidate the genetic basis of adaptation in barley. The Plant Journal. 99:1172-1191.
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2019.
Gypsum and hydrohalite dynamics in sea ice brines. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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2017.
A latent Gaussian model for compositional data with zeros. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C - Applied Statistics. 57:505-520. Abstract
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2008.
Extreme value analysis of decadal variations in storm surge elevations. Journal of Marine Systems. 67:189-200. Abstract
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2007.