Botany: Recent submissions
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Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities
(2024)This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how ... -
Strategies for mainstreaming nature-based solutions in urban governance capacities in ten European cities
(2023)This paper explores the institutional mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NBS) to advance a process-based understanding about how to strategically develop the governance capacities needed for systemic, localised and ... -
Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene
(2023)Northern peatlands store globally-important amounts of carbon in the form of partly decomposed plant detritus. Drying associated with climate and land-use change may lead to increased fire frequency and severity in ... -
Reconstructing Devonian palaeoatmosphere & paleoecology using fossil plant traits
(Tcd thesis dataset, 2023) -
Reconstructing Devonian palaeoatmosphere & paleoecology using fossil plant traits
(TCD masters thesis, 2023) -
Spatial variability of urban forest topsoil properties: towards representative and robust sampling design
(2023)Background: Soil spatial variability is a major concern when deciding how to collect a representative topsoil sample for laboratory analysis. Sampling design to capture site-specific variability is documented in the ... -
Impacts of land use and climate change on carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics of Irish peatland ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)Peatlands are wetlands that are found on every continent except Antarctica, covering around 3% of the global land area and are the largest terrestrial soil organic carbon store. They are estimated to store around 550 ... -
People, nature, and sustainability: A critical analysis of bioeconomy and natural capital
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)The last century has been characterised by rising socio-economic measures of wellbeing against a backdrop of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. This trend threatens the positive contributions nature makes to ... -
Impact of landscape characteristics on flower-visiting insects in agricultural environments across Europe
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)In the last few decades, there has been growing concern about the decline in insect communities in Europe, including pollinators. One-third of syrphids and butterflies are considered to be in decline, and nearly one out ... -
Characterising pesticide residues in floral resources for bees
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)Pesticide use in agriculture is one of the main factors driving pollinator declines. Bees are highly important pollinators and may be at risk from exposure to pesticide compounds while foraging for pollen and nectar. In ... -
Finding justice in wild, novel ecosystems: a review through a multispecies lens
(2023)Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities has grown in scale and magnitude in recent times but is still considered to be the main challenge for transitioning our cities and their communities to be more climate resilient ... -
An integrated process for planning, delivery, and stewardship of urban nature-based solutions: the Connecting Nature Framework
(2023)Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities has grown in scale and magnitude in recent times but is still considered to be the main challenge for transitioning our cities and their communities to be more climate resilient ... -
Development of Hybrid Models to Estimate Gross Primary Productivity at a Near-Natural Peatland Using Sentinel 2 Data and a Light Use Efficiency Model
(2023)Peatlands store up to 2320 Mt of carbon (C) on only ~20% of the land area in Ireland; however, approximately 90% of this area has been drained and is emitting up to 10 Mt C per year. Gross primary productivity (GPP) is a ... -
Persistency and genomic tools in forage grasses
Perennial ryegrass (PRG; Lolium perenne) is the most widely cultivated forage grass species in Ireland. Despite its widespread use, there have been meagre gains in the improvement of agronomically important traits, including ... -
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 ... -
Assessing fixed depth carbon stocks in soils with varying horizon depths and thicknesses, sampled by horizon
(2017)Soil surveys for improving carbon (C) stock estimates frequently involve soil sampling by pre-determined regular depth-intervals, in order to enable more convenient computation of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. As a ... -
Hyperlinked compendium of nature-based solutions projects 2016-2026
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Applying ecosystem accounting to develop a risk register for peatlands and inform restoration targets at catchment scale: a case study from the European region
(2022)Combining natural capital accounting tools and ecosystem restoration approaches builds on existing frameworks to track changes in ecosystem stocks and flows of services and benefits as a result of restoration. This approach ... -
Pollinator selection against toxic nectar as a key facilitator of a plant invasion
(2022)Plant compounds associated with herbivore defence occur widely in floral nectar and can impact pollinator health. We showed previously that Rhododendron ponticum nectar contains grayanotoxin I (GTX I) at concentrations ... -
From science to society: implementing effective strategies to improve wild pollinator health
(2022)Despite a substantial increase in scientific, public and political interest in pollinator health and many practical conservation efforts, incorporating initiatives across a range of scales and sectors, pollinator health ...