Browsing School of Natural Sciences by Sponsor "Trinity College Dublin (TCD)"
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Application of micro-computed tomography towards a taxonomic and palaeobiological reassessment of Huxley and Wright's tetrapods from the jarrow assemblage (langsettian, pennsylvanian) co. Killkenny
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2020)The Jarrow assemblage records a diverse collection of fish and tetrapods from the Leinster Coalfield (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian), south east Ireland. Specimens are preserved in an area where the Jarrow Seam thickens ... -
Dietary Conservatism: The Influences and Determinants of Alternative Foraging Strategies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)Dietary conservatism – the existence of alternative foraging strategies in response to novel foods – continues to be a little-known and understudied topic of animal behaviour. In every vertebrate population tested so far, ... -
Exploring gender and climate justice: A multiscalar analysis of gender mainstreaming in climate change adaption. evidence from Malawi
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2019)Climate change impacts are differentiated between communities and individuals, and adaptive capacity is determined by underlying social and economic factors, such as gender. There is a growing emphasis on differing impacts ... -
Identifying the determinants of Brazilian migration to and from Ireland: a micro-level cross-country analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)Brazilian migration since the 1990s has given rise to what is now the largest non-EU immigrant group residing in Ireland (CSO, 2016). However, the determinants of Brazilian migration to Ireland have been considered only ... -
Interrogating the Poverty Impact of Gold Mining at the Community Level in Ghana.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2023)Many studies show a negative correlation at the national level between natural resource wealth and poverty reduction ? the so-called 'resource curse'. However, this may not hold at the local level. For example, the incidence ... -
The Land of the Chiefs and the Land of the State - What happens after an acquisition in Ghana?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2020)In Africa the importance of land cannot be overstated given that many rural livelihoods depend on farming for subsistence. Yet, where international land acquisitions are concerned, the majority take place on the African ... -
People and Nature in anthropogenic landscapes: an ecological perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)Nature-based Solutions have been a popular research topic within the sustainability literature for last decade. Conceived of as a more sustainable alternative to engineered solutions, solutions founded in nature are promised ... -
Refinement of high-spatial resolution U-Pb geochronological methodologies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2021)Zircon [ZrSiO4] is a naturally occurring mineral commonly used in geochronological, isotope and elemental geochemical studies. It can form as an accessory phase in a wide variety of magmatic and metamorphic conditions and ... -
A study of Rock Coast Erosion on the Atlantic coast of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2019)The rate and processes of erosion on a coastal rock cliff on the west coast of Ireland are investigated. The links between site characteristics (wave climate, nearshore bathymetry, foreshore characteristics (platform ... -
Utilizing Papal Taxation Records for Geographical, Economic, and Cultural Analysis: A Study of Early Fourteenth Century Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2020)This project explores the economic, physical, political, and cultural geography of medieval Ireland by mapping the 1302-20 papal tax valuations of ecclesiastical benefices, with parish incomes being used as proxies for ...