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Recent Submissions
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Pollinator ecology at a landscape scale
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)Pollination is a key ecosystem service in natural and agricultural ecosystems which provides benefits to human society. It has been estimated that 87.5 % of angiosperms depend on animal pollinators. The role of pollinators ... -
Quantifying fire regimes and their impact on the Irish landscape
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)This thesis examines the role of fire in the Irish landscape in the past, its drivers, impacts and interactions with the surrounding landscape, vegetation, climate and humans. Lacustrine sediment is utilised from seven ... -
Biodiversity impacts of legume-supported cropping in Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2016)Current global biodiversity loss is mainly driven by anthropogenic activities including land use change, pollution and over exploitation. Legumes have for millennia been used as a source of nitrogen in agriculture, and may ... -
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation
(2024)Environmental governance faces persistent challenges worldwide, with traditional conservation and restoration policies often proving ineffective against ongoing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. This is ... -
The Impact of Cost Rental Housing: Security, Affordability and Place
(The Housing Agency, 2024)Overall Cost Rental is extremely successful in creating secure homes and a sense of belonging and ownership among residents. Survey data shows that 80% of residents feel very secure, and 73% say they ‘never’ or ‘rarely’ ... -
Expression analysis of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) and caspases in chick (Gallus gallus) neural retina embryonic development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2016)Programmed cell death occurs naturally in developing neural tissues to regulate cell population, neural circuit connection and refined tissue structure. Caspases and inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) are believed to ... -
From “Virtual Democracy” to Authocracy or Regime Diversity? Prospects for Democratisation in Africa
(James Currey, 2025)Much has been written about the nature of democracy in Africa, particularly in recent decades. After the end of the “first” Cold War, large parts of the continent appeared to be part of the “third wave” of democratization ... -
The 2024 Presidential Election in the US: Potential Impacts on Global Politics and Economics
(2024)The 2024 US presidential election will determine who will work with Congress to address three major fiscal issues: the expiration of key tax reforms from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the ongoing trade war with ... -
How can architectural form follow ecological function? Mixed methods research with practitioners of architecture and landscape architecture to study their professional insights into perceptions of informal wild spaces, and to explore how biodiversity in general is considered within the design and development process in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2024)A major factor in global biodiversity loss is land use change. Several processes influence this, including the expansion of the built environment through development. Consequently, there is a need for development projects ... -
Utilization of radiometric data for mapping primary and secondary sources of gamma radiation and radon/thoron release potentials in Ireland
(2024)Background: This paper presents a novel approach to predict and map radon and thoron levels. We developed separate radon and thoron prediction maps for Ireland and introduced a system for producing high-resolution 3D ... -
Inner-group and inter-group relations in Seoul participatory planning: revisiting the concept of social capital
(2023)This paper explores the composition of social relations in Korean community-led regeneration planning. Power dynamics among participants are understood as an important factor in shaping decision-making planning processes. ... -
Imagining diversity in Seoul: Gender and immigrant identities
(2022)While immigrant studies focus on the role of local-level migration and integration policies to respond to the immigrant groups in their areas, the research on how urban policies mediate the social inequality which ethnic ... -
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Logistic regression model for detecting radon prone areas in Ireland
(2017)A new high spatial resolution radon risk map of Ireland has been developed, based on a combination of indoor radon measurements (n = 31,910) and relevant geological information (i.e. Bedrock Geology, Quaternary Geology, ... -
Examining fish scale biomineral from Atlantic salmon populations
(2024)Fish scale microchemistry can be used to make life-history inferences, although ecological studies examining scale composition are relatively rare. Salmon scales have an external layer of calcium phosphate hydroxyl apatite ... -
'Digital Provide' or Product Consumption Diffusion Cycle? The Diffusion Impact and Potential of Digital Technology in the Global South
(2024)The global digital divide is sometime presented as the primary obstacle to developmental convergence between world regions. On the other hand mobile phone and internet technology are at times seen as transformative innovations ... -
Between Energy and Politics: Ruin, Renewal, and the Contours of State Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2024)South Africa’s energy system is in the midst of significant change and disturbance. On the one hand, a decrease in available generational capacity means that planned blackouts, known as load shedding, have increased to ... -
Trophic adaptability shapes isotopic niche of the resident fish Aphanius fasciatus across lagoon habitats
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Coastal lagoons are characterized by high habitat heterogeneity where natural habitats coexist with artificial ones, historically set up to support human activities. Increasing anthropogenic pressure may lead to progressive ... -
The consequences of unidentifiable individuals for the analysis of an animal social network
(2015)Social network analysis is pervasive in understanding animal social systems, and provides information about how individuals vary in their social strategies. Many long-term studies comprising uniquely marked individuals ... -
Seismic Tomography of South America: Continental Lithosphere, Subduction-Zone Structures, and the Origins of Intraplate Magmatism
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)The lithospheric structure of South America records its long and complex tectonic evolution, during which it has influenced the distribution and composition of local magmatism, the geometry of the subduction at its western ...