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Composted: A Festival of Biodegradable Ideas (2025)
Other
Chaloner, S. (2025). Composted: A Festival of Biodegradable Ideas. Festival at Cambo Gardens Fife. https://www.cambogardens.org.uk/

Collaboration with Cambo Garden in May 2025 funded by Napier University & Fife Climate Action Network.

Witnessing visitors arriving in their droves to Cambo Garden’s Snowdrop Festival, inspired head Gardener Cal Halstead and myself to pitch to Cam... Read More about Composted: A Festival of Biodegradable Ideas.

Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission (2025)
Report
Mackinnon, J., Turner, R. S., & White, P. J. C. (2025). Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission. Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4055895

We conducted a systematic literature review as part of a Forestry Commission (FC) contract to provide good practice technical guidance to manage impacts of mammals on trees, woods, establishing woodlands and treescapes. The review examined both the p... Read More about Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission.

Protecting trees from mammal damage: technical guidance (2025)
Report
Turner, R., Mackinnon, J., Chaloner, S., & White, P. (2025, October 30). Protecting trees from mammal damage: technical guidance. Forestry Commission. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protecting-trees-from-mammal-damage-technical-guidance

Find out how to identify mammal damage to trees, understand the impact and practical ways to protect our treescapes. This guidance is for people who: own or manage woods, forests, or trees; provide advice on woodland management; plan to plant or esta... Read More about Protecting trees from mammal damage: technical guidance.

Applying permeable pavement and gabion basket concepts as nature-based drought management strategies in the Caribbean (2025)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Matouq, M., Eslamian, S., Fonseca, A. P., & Weaver, M. (2025). Applying permeable pavement and gabion basket concepts as nature-based drought management strategies in the Caribbean. In S. Eslamian, & F. Eslamian (Eds.), Handbook of Nature-Based Drought Solutions. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-29993-3.00021-7

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Synthesis Report of 2023 attributes many weather and climatic extremes in every region globally to human-caused climatic change, leading to extensive effects and damages to nature and humans, inclu... Read More about Applying permeable pavement and gabion basket concepts as nature-based drought management strategies in the Caribbean.

Future productive species for Scotland (2025)
Report
Edwards, D., Barsoum, N., Bathgate, S., Blake, M., Dainton, K., Davidson, M., Gill, R., Green, S., Ham, C., Hardy, C., Hattersley, R., Hendry, S., Kurtev, S., Leslie, A., Macdonald, E., Mason, B., Morison, J., Nisbet, T., Reynolds, C., …Willoughby, I. (2025, September). Future productive species for Scotland. Forest Research. https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/selecting-a-shortlist-of-tree-species-for-diversification-and-resilience/

This report describes work led by Forest Research (FR), and commissioned by Scottish Forestry (SF), to support the selection of a shortlist of productive tree species for Scotland. Production of the shortlist delivers a primary action in Scottish For... Read More about Future productive species for Scotland.

Jus feudale tribus libris comprehensum: Book 2, Titles 1-12 (2025)
Book
Craig, T. (2025). Jus feudale tribus libris comprehensum: Book 2, Titles 1-12 (L. Dodd, (Ed.); 71). Stair Society. https://www.stairsociety.org/publications/

Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Chen, S., Priyadarshana, T., Lee, M.-B., Xiao, L., Fischer, T. B., He, X., Woodcock, B. A., & Pagani-Núñez, E. (2025). Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6(3), e70084. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70084

1. As cities expand, they encroach on agricultural land, impacting food production and natural habitats. While urban agriculture could help address these issues, the impact of increased food production on ecosystem functions—particularly with regards... Read More about Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population (2025)
Journal Article
Thornton, M., Wilson, D., Leitch, A., Roos, S., & White, P. (2025). Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population. Bird Study. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2025.2513542

Capsule: Over three decades, the garden bird community composition in Edinburgh has changed, probably in response to increased garden bird feeding, and this has increased prey biomass for Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus, coinciding with a signi... Read More about Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population.

Should there be a legal duty to rewild to remedy ecocides of the past: the case of the lost bears, wolves and lynxes of the United Kingdom (2025)
Journal Article
Prisner Levyne, Y. (2025). Should there be a legal duty to rewild to remedy ecocides of the past: the case of the lost bears, wolves and lynxes of the United Kingdom. Costituzionalismo britannico e irlandese, 1(1), 391-421. https://www.rivistacbi.it/assets/rivista-cbi---012025.pdf

In light of the ongoing environmental crisis, amending Article 5 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to include the crime of ecocide has been under consideration for a number of years. With this objective in mind, an Independent... Read More about Should there be a legal duty to rewild to remedy ecocides of the past: the case of the lost bears, wolves and lynxes of the United Kingdom.

Citizen science enabled planning for species conservation in urban landscapes: the case of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in southern China (2025)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Liu, Y., Li, P., Patrick, S. C., Goodale, E., Safran, R. J., Zhao, X., Zhuo, X., Fu, J., Herr, C. M., & Pagani-Núñez, E. (2025). Citizen science enabled planning for species conservation in urban landscapes: the case of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in southern China. Landscape Ecology, 40(3), 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02071-7

Context: Urbanization has detrimental effects on biodiversity, yet how species respond to urban planning zoning outcomes and environmental changes at different spatial scales when selecting urban breeding habitats remains understudied. Mitigating suc... Read More about Citizen science enabled planning for species conservation in urban landscapes: the case of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in southern China.

Bots on the Ground vs Boots on the Ground: The Future of Robots in Terrestrial Ecological Surveying (2025)
Journal Article
White, P., Le Goff, L., Emery, L., Abrahams, C., Findlay, M., Cook, J., Macleod, K., Deacon, L., Reason, P., Stanhope, K., Wale, M., Hart, E., & Diele, K. (2025). Bots on the Ground vs Boots on the Ground: The Future of Robots in Terrestrial Ecological Surveying. In Practice (CIEEM), 27, 47-52.

At the 2023 CIEEM Modernising Ecology conference, a robot greeted the attendees as they arrived. Was it a glimpse into the future? As with other technologies, robots have the potential to revolutionise ecological surveying, yet this comes with both o... Read More about Bots on the Ground vs Boots on the Ground: The Future of Robots in Terrestrial Ecological Surveying.

The direct and indirect effects of road verges and urban greening on butterflies in a tropical city-state (2025)
Journal Article
Priyadarshana, T. S., Woodcock, B. A., Jain, A., Martínez-Núñez, C., Goodale, E., Pagani-Núñez, E., Gebert, F., Lee, J. S. H., & Slade, E. M. (2025). The direct and indirect effects of road verges and urban greening on butterflies in a tropical city-state. Landscape and Urban Planning, 258, 105335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105335

Road verges have considerable potential to benefit wildlife, but in highly urbanised areas management often limits their value for biodiversity. Evaluating how the management of road verges affects wildlife, both directly and indirectly, provides opp... Read More about The direct and indirect effects of road verges and urban greening on butterflies in a tropical city-state.

Establishing a Relationship between Particle size distribution & Thaw weakening Susceptibility in Soils (2025)
Journal Article
Leak, J., Dimitriadi, V., Barreto, D., Bernal-Sanchez, J., & Imre, E. (2025). Establishing a Relationship between Particle size distribution & Thaw weakening Susceptibility in Soils. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 231, 104423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2025.104423

Susceptibility to frost action in soils is an important consideration in cold and seasonably cold regions. Whilst the particle size distribution (PSD) is commonly used to measure susceptibility to frost action, this method is typically seen as unreli... Read More about Establishing a Relationship between Particle size distribution & Thaw weakening Susceptibility in Soils.

WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pérez-Granados, C., Etxebarría, J. M., Darras, K. F. A., Gómez, O. H. M., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. Á., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Rubio, J. M. d. l. P., Morena, E. L. G. d. l., Santa-Cruz:, M., Nava, P. d. l., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez-Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., …Sebastián-González, E. (2025). WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5729784/v1

Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that are able to gather large amounts of information cost-effectively at large scales. One such technique is passive acoustic monitorin... Read More about WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring.

‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime (2024)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2024). ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime. Modernist Cultures, 19(1), 128 - 151. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2024.0421%29

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here, I argue that his po... Read More about ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime.

An Innovative Approach to Geotechnical Seismic Isolation: Rubber-Soil Mixture Trenches (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bernal-Sanchez, J., Mcdougall, J., Barreto, D., Dimitriadi, V., Leak, J., & Nseabasi, M. (2024). An Innovative Approach to Geotechnical Seismic Isolation: Rubber-Soil Mixture Trenches. Proceedings of the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. https://proceedings-wcee.org/wcee18.html

This study presents a Geotechnical Seismic Isolation (GSI) system proposed for utilising Rubber-Soil mixtures (RSm) to enhance the dynamic performance of a modified soil and foundation structure. The inclusion of RSm enables the system to exhibit low... Read More about An Innovative Approach to Geotechnical Seismic Isolation: Rubber-Soil Mixture Trenches.

Norman Nicholson and rural wartime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May 7). Norman Nicholson and rural wartime [Presentation / Talk]. Cultural Landscapes, University of Cumbria, Ambleside.

A different version of this paper is published as ‘Rural modernity and wartime in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.’ Modernist Cultures. See corresponding entry.

Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Priyadarshana, T. S., Martin, E. A., Sirami, C., Woodcock, B. A., Goodale, E., Martínez‐Núñez, C., Lee, M., Pagani‐Núñez, E., Raderschall, C. A., Brotons, L., Rege, A., Ouin, A., Tscharntke, T., & Slade, E. M. (2024). Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis [Spatial heterogeneity benefits biodiversity]. Ecology Letters, 27(3), e14412. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14412

Agricultural intensification not only increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may s... Read More about Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis.

The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Egan, C. (2024). The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden. Permaculture Magazine, 4-7.

Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace

A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray (2024)
Journal Article
Xiao, L., Pagani‐Núñez, E., Han, X., Zhao, P., Li, X., Hong, Y., Hu, R., Zhao, X., Sun, G., Wardhana, C., & Lu, Z. (2024). A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(2), e13062. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13062

The Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework requires effective actions to bend the curve of biodiversity loss by 2030. Wildlife trade, a direct drive of biodiversity decline, calls for more effective regulations to both protect wildlife popula... Read More about A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray.