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Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size (2024)
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Venditti, C., Baker, J., & Barton, R. (2024). Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02451-3

Despite decades of comparative studies, puzzling aspects of the relationship between mammalian brain and body mass continue to defy satisfactory explanation. Here we show that several such aspects arise from routinely fitting log-linear models to the... Read More about Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size.

Evaluating the performance of key ERA‐Interim, ERA5 and ERA5‐Land climate variables across Siberia (2024)
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Baxter, R., Clelland, A., & Marshall, G. (2024). Evaluating the performance of key ERA‐Interim, ERA5 and ERA5‐Land climate variables across Siberia. International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8456

Reanalysis datasets provide a continuous picture of the past climate for every point on Earth. They are especially useful in areas with few direct observations, such as Siberia. However, to ensure these datasets are sufficiently accurate they need to... Read More about Evaluating the performance of key ERA‐Interim, ERA5 and ERA5‐Land climate variables across Siberia.

Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: Crossing the species gap (2024)
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Collaro, E., Barton, R., Ainge, J., & Easton, A. Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: Crossing the species gap. Manuscript submitted for publication

Mental time travel is considered as the projection of the mind into the past or future, and relates to experiential aspects of episodic memory, and episodic future thinking. Framing episodic memory and future thinking in this way causes a challenge w... Read More about Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: Crossing the species gap.

Book Review of Archaeology on the Apulian–Lucanian Border by Alistair Small and Carola Small (2023)
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Witcher, R. (2023). Book Review of Archaeology on the Apulian–Lucanian Border by Alistair Small and Carola Small. Medieval Archaeology, 67(2), 499-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2023.2263022

Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term (2023)
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Roth, N., Baxter, R., Furness, M., Kimberley, A., & Cousins, S. A. O. (2023). Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term. Plant Ecology and Diversity, https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2023.2286229

Background Winters are expected to warm more than summers in central and northern Europe, with largely unknown effects on grassland plant communities. Aims By studying the interactions between winter warming and summer grazing, we aimed to disen... Read More about Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term.

Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe (2023)
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Kitching, P., & Witcher, R. (2023). Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe. Antiquity, 97(396), 1613-1616. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.161

Price and Jaffe (2023) argue that acknowledging failure humanises the past. It can also serve as a lens through which to reflect on archaeological reasoning. Here, we turn to the Roman world, and the frontier of northern Britain in particular, to co... Read More about Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe.

Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study (2023)
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Poole, R., Cook, C. C. H., Song, R., & Robinson, C. A. (2023). Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study. BJPsych Bulletin, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.66

Aims and method Calls for the integration of spirituality into psychiatric practice have raised concerns about boundary violations. We sought to develop a method to capture psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries and spirituality, explor... Read More about Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study.

Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests (2023)
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Rutter, N., Essery, R., Baxter, R., Hancock, S., Horton, M., Huntley, B., …Woodward, J. (2023). Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(14), Article e2022JD037980. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037980

Longwave radiation is often the dominant source of energy for snowmelt in forests. Measurements at forest sites of varying density in Sweden and Finland show that downwelling longwave radiation is enhanced under forest canopies, even for sparse canop... Read More about Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests.

Women in Antiquity: an analysis of gender and publishing in a global archaeology journal (2022)
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Hanscam, E., & Witcher, R. (2023). Women in Antiquity: an analysis of gender and publishing in a global archaeology journal. Journal of Field Archaeology, 48(2), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2143896

Studies of archaeology publishing demonstrate a persistent imbalance in the ratio of male and female authors. We present an analysis of the world archaeology journal Antiquity using submissions and editorial decisions data (2015–2020). We identify a... Read More about Women in Antiquity: an analysis of gender and publishing in a global archaeology journal.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
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Marley, C. L., Pollard, T. M., Barton, R. A., & Street, S. E. (2022). A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(12), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03260-z

It is widely believed that juvenile male mammals typically engage in higher rates of rough and tumble play (RTP) than do females, in preparation for adult roles involving intense physical competition between males. The consistency of this sex differe... Read More about A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals.

Abundance and accessibility of forage for reindeer in forests of Northern Sweden: Impacts of landscape and winter climate regime (2022)
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Kater, I., & Baxter, R. (2022). Abundance and accessibility of forage for reindeer in forests of Northern Sweden: Impacts of landscape and winter climate regime. Ecology and Evolution, 12(4), Article e8820. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8820

The survival of reindeer during winter, their period of greatest food stress, depends largely on the abundance and accessibility of forage in their pastures. In Northern Sweden, realized availability of forage is notably affected by snow conditions a... Read More about Abundance and accessibility of forage for reindeer in forests of Northern Sweden: Impacts of landscape and winter climate regime.

Climate change, fire return intervals and the growing risk of permanent forest loss in boreal Eurasia (2022)
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Burrell, A. L., Sun, Q., Baxter, R., Kukavskaya, E. A., Zhila, S., Shestakova, T., …Barrett, K. (2022). Climate change, fire return intervals and the growing risk of permanent forest loss in boreal Eurasia. Science of the Total Environment, 831, Article 154885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154885

Climate change has driven an increase in the frequency and severity of fires in Eurasian boreal forests. A growing number of field studies have linked the change in fire regime to post-fire recruitment failure and permanent forest loss. In this study... Read More about Climate change, fire return intervals and the growing risk of permanent forest loss in boreal Eurasia.

Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology (2022)
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DeCasien, A. R., Barton, R. A., & Higham, J. P. (2022). Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(5), 432-445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.02.003

Human brains are exceptionally large, support distinctive cognitive processes, and evolved by natural selection to mediate adaptive behavior. Comparative biology situates the human brain in evolutionary context to illuminate how it has been shaped by... Read More about Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology.

Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis (2021)
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Barrett, L., Henzi, S. P., & Barton, R. A. (2022). Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1844), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0533

The anthropoid primates are known for their intense sociality and large brain size. The idea that these might be causally related has given rise to a large body of work testing the ‘social brain hypothesis'. Here, the emphasis has been placed on the... Read More about Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis.

The Roman Hinterland Project: integrating archaeological field surveys around Rome and beyond (2021)
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Attema, P., Carafa, P., Jongman, W., Smith, C., Bronkhorst, A., Capanna, M., …Wouda, N. (2022). The Roman Hinterland Project: integrating archaeological field surveys around Rome and beyond. European Journal of Archaeology, 25(2), 238-258. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.51

This article presents the background to and prospects for a new initiative in archaeological field survey and database integration. The Roman Hinterland Project combines data from the Tiber Valley Project, Roman Suburbium Project, and the Pontine Reg... Read More about The Roman Hinterland Project: integrating archaeological field surveys around Rome and beyond.

Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review (2021)
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Brown, C., White, R., & Kelly, A. (2021). Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review. Emerald Open Research, 3(26), https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14385.1

Change agents are individuals who can successfully transform aspects of how organisations operate. In education, teachers as change agents are increasingly seen as vital to the successful operation of schools and self-improving school systems. To dat... Read More about Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review.

Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database (2021)
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Poyatos, R., Granda, V., Flo, V., Adams, M. A., Adorján, B., Aguadé, D., …Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2021). Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database. Earth System Science Data, 13(6), 2607-2649. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2607-2021

Plant transpiration links physiological responses of vegetation to water supply and demand with hydrological, energy, and carbon budgets at the land–atmosphere interface. However, despite being the main land evaporative flux at the global scale, tran... Read More about Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database.

Climate variability may delay post-fire recovery of boreal forest in southern Siberia, Russia (2021)
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Sun, Q., Burrell, A., Barrett, K., Kukavskya, E., Buryak, L., Kaduk, J., & Baxter, R. (2021). Climate variability may delay post-fire recovery of boreal forest in southern Siberia, Russia. Remote Sensing, 13(12), Article 2247. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122247

Prolonged dry periods and increased temperatures that result from anthropogenic cli-22 mate change have been shown to increase the frequency and severity of wildfires in the boreal 23 region. There is growing evidence that such changes in fire regime... Read More about Climate variability may delay post-fire recovery of boreal forest in southern Siberia, Russia.

Patterns of Etruscan urbanism (2020)
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Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A., Redhouse, D., Barker, G., Di Paola, G., Motta, L., …Witcher, R. (2020). Patterns of Etruscan urbanism. Frontiers in digital humanities, 7, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2020.00001

This paper examines the patterns of Etruscan urbanism by the innovative use of newly available rural data, employing rank size, and indices of centralization. The detailed case study looks at the development of urbanism of pre-Roman Etruria where bot... Read More about Patterns of Etruscan urbanism.

Plant carbon allocation drives turnover of old soil organic matter in permafrost tundra soils (2020)
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Street, L., Garnett, M., Subke, J., Baxter, R., Dean, J., & Wookey, P. (2020). Plant carbon allocation drives turnover of old soil organic matter in permafrost tundra soils. Global Change Biology, 26(8), 4559-4571. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15134

Carbon cycle feedbacks from permafrost ecosystems are expected to accelerate global climate change. Shifts in vegetation productivity and composition in permafrost regions could influence soil organic carbon (SOC) turnover rates via rhizosphere (root... Read More about Plant carbon allocation drives turnover of old soil organic matter in permafrost tundra soils.