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Climate Smart: geography, place and climate change adaptation education
(2024)Geographical education provides a unique space for supporting climate literacy and action. In this paper we present a novel place-based online educational resource platform - Climate Smart – which seeks to expand the ... -
Pollination of invasive Rhododendron ponticum (Ericaceae) in Ireland
(EDP Sciences, 2007)Several insect species visited exotic Rhododendron ponticum flowers, but bumblebees were most common. Only bumblebees (and one Vespula) contacted the flower stigma whilst foraging and are probably the main pollinators. ... -
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 ... -
The structure and dynamics of the lithosphere beneath Tibet from seismic surface-wave analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geology, 2013)Despite the numerous studies undertaken to investigate the underlying structures beneath the Tibetan Plateau, fundamental questions about the mechanism of lithospheric convergence between India and Asia (establishing if ...