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Selected Publications (2010)

56 publications listed

• Alcántara-Ayala, I. and Goudie, A.S. (eds.) (2010) Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 304. ISBN: 9780521769259.
• Bailey, R.M. (2010) Direct measurement of the fast component of quartz optically-stimulated luminescence and implications for the accuracy of optical dating. Quaternary Geochronology, 5: 559-568.
• Bailey, R.M. (2010) Spatial and temporal signatures of fragility and threshold proximity in modelled semi-arid vegetation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278(1708): 1064-1071.
• Boardman, J. (2010) A short history of muddy floods. Land Degradation and Development, 21(4): 303-309.
• Boardman, J. and Vandaele, K. (2010) Soil erosion, muddy floods and the need for institutional memory. Area, 42(4): 502-513.
• Boardman, J., Foster, I., Rowntree, K., Mighall, T. and Gates, J. (2010) Environmental stress and landscape recovery in a semi-arid area, the Karoo, South Africa. Scottish Geographical Journal, 126(2): 64-75.
• Bull, P.A. (2010) The sedimentary sequence Pontnewydd Cave: a scanning electron microscope study of the sediments from the main cave sequence and new entrance. Chapter 4 in, Aldhouse-Green, S. (ed.) Pontnewydd Cave. University of Wales Press.
• Cutler, N. (2010) Long-term primary succession: a comparison of non-spatial and spatially explicit inferential techniques. Plant Ecology, 208(1): 123-136.
• Cutler, N. and Viles, H. (2010) Eukaryotic microorganisms and stone biodeterioration. Geomicrobiology Journal, 27(6-7): 630-646.
• Dadson, S.J. (2010) Geomorphology and Earth system science. Progress in Physical Geography, 34(3): 385-398.
• Dadson, S.J., Ashpole, I., Harris, P., Davies, H.N., Clark, D.B., Blyth, E. and Taylor, C.M. (2010) Wetland inundation dynamics in a model of land-surface climate: evaluation in the Niger inland delta region. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D23114).
• Durcan, J.A., Roberts, H.M., Duller, G.A.T. and Alizai, A.H. (2010) Testing the use of range-finder OSL dating to inform field sampling and laboratory processing strategies. Quaternary Geochronology, 5(2-3).
• Eakin, H., Bohle, H-G., Izac, A-M., Reenberg, A., Gregory, P. and Pereira, L. (2010) Food, violence and human rights. In, Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and D. Liverman (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. pp. 245-271. ISBN: 9781849711289.
• Eklund, J.A. and Thomas, M.G. (2010) Assessing the effects of conservation treatments on short sequences of DNA in vitro. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(11): 2831-2841.
• Everard, O., Heitz, C., Liegeois, M., Boardman, J., Vandaele, K., Auzet, A-V. and van Wesemael, B. (2010) A comparison of management approaches to mitigate muddy floods in central Belgium, northern France and southern England. Land Degradation and Development, 21(4): 322-335.
• Evrard, O., Heitz, C., Liegeois, M., Boardman, J., Vandaele, K., Auzet, A.V. and van Wesemael, B. (2010) A comparison of management approaches to control muddy floods in central Belgium, northern France and southern England. Land Degradation & Development, 21(4): 322-335.
• Faulkner, H., Boardman, J. and Ruiz, J-L. (2010) A simple validated GIS expert system to map relative soil vulnerability and patterns of erosion during the muddy floods of 2000-2001 on the South Downs, Sussex, UK. Land Degradation and Development, 21(4): 310-321.
• Gillies, J.A., Nickling, W.G., King, J. and Lancaster, N. (2010) Modeling aeolian sediment transport thresholds on physically rough martian surfaces: A shear stress partitioning approach. Geomorphology, 121(1-2): 15-21.
• Gomez-Heras, M., Smith, B.J. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Oxford stone revisited. Chapter 10 in, Prikryl, R. (ed.) Natural Stone Resources for Historical Monuments. Geological Society, London. pp. 101-110. ISBN: 978-1-86239-291-5. GSL Special Publications.
• Goudie, A.S. and Boardman, J. (2010) Soil erosion. Chapter 14 in, Alcántara-Ayala, I. and Goudie, A.S. (eds.) Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention. Cambridge University Press. 177 pp. ISBN: 9780521769259.
• Goudie, A.S. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Landscapes and Geomorphology: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 144. ISBN: 0199565570.
• Hirpa, F.A., Gebremichael, M. and Hopson, T. (2010) Evaluation of high-resolution satellite precipitation products over very complex terrain in Ethiopia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49(5): 1044-1051.
• Hirpa, F.A., Gebremichael, M. and Over, T.M. (2010) River flow fluctuation analysis: Effect of watershed area. Water Resources Research, 46(12).
• Koprowski, M., Winchester, V. and Zielski, A. (2010) Tree reactions and dune movements: Slowinski National Park, Poland. Catena, 81(1): 55-65.
• Livingstone, I., Bristow, C., Bryant, R.G., Bullard, J., White, K., Wiggs, G.F.S., Baas, A.C.W., Bateman, M.D. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2010) The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables. Aeolian Research, 2(2-3): 93-104.
• Mol, L. and Preston, P.R. (2010) The writing's in the wall: a review of new preliminary applications of electrical resistivity tomography within archaeology. Archaeometry, 52(6): 1079-1095.
• Mol, L. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Geoelectric investigations into sandstone moisture regimes: Implications for rock weathering and the deterioration of San Rock Art in the Golden Gate Reserve, South Africa. Geomorphology, 118(3-4): 280-287.
• Morgan, R.M., French, J., O'Donnell, L. and Bull, P.A. (2010) The reincorporation and redistribution of trace geoforensic particulates on clothing: an introductory study. Science and Justice, 50(4): 195-199.
• Morgan, R.M., Robertson, J., Lennard, C., Hubbard, K. and Bull, P.A. (2010) Quartz grain surface texture analysis of sediments and soils from Canberra, Australia; a forensic reconstruction tool. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 42(3): 169-179.
• Newell, A.J., Griffin, L.D., Morgan, R.M. and Bull, P.A. (2010) Texture-based estimation of physical characteristics of sand grains. International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications.. 504-509.
• Nield, J.M., Wiggs, G.F.S. and Squirrell, R.S. (2010) Aeolian sand strip mobility and protodune development on a drying beach: examining surface moisture and surface roughness patterns measured by terrestrial laser scanning. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36(4): 513-522.
• Parajka, J., Dadson, S.J., Lafon, T. and Essery, R. (2010) Evaluation of snow cover and depth simulated by a land surface model using detailed regional snow observations from Austria. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D24117).
• Pereira, L. (2010) Becoming coca: a materiality approach to a commodity chain analysis of hoja de coca in Colombia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 31(3): 384-400.
• Quigley, M., Fattahi, M., Sohbati, R. and Schmidt, A. (2010) Palaeoseismicity and pottery: Investigating earthquake and archaeological chronologies on the Hajiarab alluvial fan, Iran. Quaternary International, 242(1): 185-195.
• Rueff, H. and Rahim, I. (2010) Book review: Desarrollo y Perspectivas de los Sistemas de Andenerıas en los Andes Centrales del Peru (Development and Perspectives of Irrigated Terrace Systems in the Peruvian Central Andes). Mountain Research and Development, 30(2): 186-187.
• Rueff, H., Rahim, I. and Hirschbuehl, T. (2010) Carbon Finance and Dryland Afforestation. Evidence for Policy Series, Regional edition Central Asia, No. 1, ed. Mira Arynova. NCCR North-South, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
• Sass, O. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Two-dimensional resistivity surveys of the moisture contents of historic limestone walls in Oxford, UK: implications for understanding catastrophic stone deterioration. In, Limestone in the Built Environment: Present-day Challenges for the Preservation of the Past. Geological Society, Special Publication 331. pp. 237-250. ISBN: 9781862392946.
• Sass, O. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Wetting and drying of masonry walls: 2D-resistivity monitoring of driving rain experiments on historic stonework in Oxford, UK. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 70(1): 72-83.
• Schilpzand, R., Liverman, D., Tecklin, D., Gordon, R., Pereira, L., Saxl, M., Wiebe, K. et al. (2010) Governance beyond the state: non-state actors and food systems. In, Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D. (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781849711289.
• Smith, B.J., Gomez-Heras, M. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Underlying issues on the selection, use and conservation of building limestone. In, Limestone in the Built Environment: Present-day Challenges for the Preservation of the Past. Geological Society, Special Publication 331. pp. 1-13. ISBN: 9781862392946.
• Smith, B.J., Gomez-Heras, M., Viles, H.A. and Cassar, J. (eds.) (2010) Limestone in the Built Environment: Present-day Challenges for the Preservation of the Past. Geological Society, Special Publication, 331, London. pp. 272. ISBN: 9781862395794.
• Smith, B.J., McCabe, S., McAllister, D., Adamson, C., Viles, H.A. and Curran, J.M. (2010) A commentary on climate change, stone decay dynamics and the 'greening' of natural stone buildings: new perspectives on 'deep wetting'. Environmental Earth Sciences, 63(7-8): 1691-1700.
• Sternberg, T. (2010) Unravelling Mongolia's extreme winter disaster of 2010. Nomadic Peoples, 14(1): 72-86.
• Sternberg, T., Thomas, D.S.G. and Middleton, N. (2010) Drought dynamics on the Mongolian steppe, 1970-2006. International Journal of Climatology, 31(12): 1823-1830.
• Sternberg, T., Tsolmon, R., Middleton, N. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2010) Tracking desertification on the Mongolian steppe through NDVI and field-survey data. International Journal of Digital Earth, 4(1): 50-64.
• Sternberg, T., Viles, H.A. and Cathersides, A. (2010) Evaluating the role of ivy (Hedera helix) in moderating wall surface microclimates and contributing to the bioprotection of historic buildings. Building and Environment, 46(2): 293-297.
• Sternberg, T., Viles, H.A., Cathersides, A. and Edwards, M. (2010) Dust particulate absorption by ivy (Hedera helix L) on historic walls in urban environments. Science of the Total Environment, 409(1): 162-168.
• Stone, A.E.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Viles, H.A. (2010) Late Quaternary palaeohydrological changes in the northern Namib Sand Sea: New chronologies using OSL dating of interdigitated aeolian and water-lain interdune deposits. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 288(1-4): 35-53.
• Stone, A.E.C., Viles, H.A., Thomas, L. and van Calsteren, P. (2010) Can ²³⁴U-²³⁰Th dating be used to date large semi-arid tufas? Challenges from a study in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(8): 1360-1372.
• Telfer, M.W., Bailey, R.M., Burrough, S.L., Stone, A.E.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Wiggs, G.S.F. (2010) Understanding linear dune chronologies: Insights from a simple accumulation model. Geomorphology, 120(3-4): 195-208.
• Turowski, J.M., Rickenmann, D. and Dadson, S.J. (2010) The partitioning of the total sediment load of a river into suspended load and bedload: a review of empirical data. Sedimentology. Sedimentology, 57: 1126-1146.
• Vermeesch, P., Fenton, C.R., Kober, F., Wiggs, G.F.S., Bristow, C.S. and Xu, S. (2010) Sand residence times of one million years in the Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides. Nature Geoscience, 3: 862-865.
• Viles, H.A., Ehlmann, B., Wilson, C.F., Cebula, T., Page, M. and Bourke, M. (2010) Simulating weathering of basalt on Mars and Earth by thermal cycling. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L18201).
• Viles, H.A., Goudie, A.S., Grab, S. and Lalley, J. (2010) The use of the Schmidt Hammer and Equotip for rock hardness assessment in geomorphology and heritage science: a comparative analysis. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36(3): 320-333.
• Walker, R.T., Talebian, M., Sloan, R.A., Rasheedi, A., Fattahi, M. and Bryant, C. (2010) Holocene slip-rate on the Gowk strike-slip fault and implications for the distribution of tectonic strain in eastern Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 181(1): 221-228.
• Willis, K.J., Bailey, R.M., Bhagwat, S.A. and Birks, H.J.B. (2010) Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 25(10): 583-591.