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Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall (2010)
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Witcher, R., Tolia-Kelly, D., & Hingley, R. (2010). Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall. Journal of Material Culture, 15(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510355228

This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian’s Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These traje... Read More about Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall.

Predictive Modelling of Roman Settlement in the Middle Tiber Valley (2010)
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Kay, S., & Witcher, R. (2010). Predictive Modelling of Roman Settlement in the Middle Tiber Valley. Archeologia e calcolatori (Testo stampato), 20(2009), 277-290

This paper discusses the results of an inductive predictive modelling experiment on Roman settlement data from the middle Tiber valley, Italy. The study forms part of the British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project, which since its inception in 199... Read More about Predictive Modelling of Roman Settlement in the Middle Tiber Valley.

Characterising inter-annual variation in the spatial pattern of thermal microclimate in a UK upland using a combined empirical-physical model (2010)
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Bennie, J., Wiltshire, A., Joyce, A., Clark, D., Lloyd, A., Adamson, J., …Huntley, B. (2010). Characterising inter-annual variation in the spatial pattern of thermal microclimate in a UK upland using a combined empirical-physical model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150(1), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.07.014

Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis (2010)
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Montgomery, S., Capellini, I., Barton, R., & Mundy, N. (2010). Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis. BMC Biology, 8(9), https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-9

Background: Brain size is a key adaptive trait. It is often assumed that increasing brain size was a general evolutionary trend in primates, yet recent fossil discoveries have documented brain size decreases in some lineages, raising the question of... Read More about Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis.

Sperm competition and brain size evolution in mammals. (2009)
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Lemaître, J., Ramm, S., Barton, R., & Stockley, P. (2009). Sperm competition and brain size evolution in mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01837.x

The 'expensive tissue hypothesis' predicts a size trade-off between the brain and other energetically costly organs. A specific version of this hypothesis, the 'expensive sexual tissue hypothesis', argues that selection for larger testes under sperm... Read More about Sperm competition and brain size evolution in mammals..

The Villa of the Gordiani at the 3rd Mile of the Via Prenestina, Rome. Reassessment of a Roman and Medieval Site in the Suburbs of Rome (2009)
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Leone, A., Palombi, D., Maiuro, M., Witcher, R., Howard, P., & Vallelonga, F. (2009). The Villa of the Gordiani at the 3rd Mile of the Via Prenestina, Rome. Reassessment of a Roman and Medieval Site in the Suburbs of Rome

This article presents the principal aims and the preliminary results of the Villa dei Gordiani project conducted during summer 2006. The research is jointly run by the University of Durham, Department of Archaeology and the University “La Sapienza” d... Read More about The Villa of the Gordiani at the 3rd Mile of the Via Prenestina, Rome. Reassessment of a Roman and Medieval Site in the Suburbs of Rome.

Remotely sensed productivity, home range selection and local range use by an omnivorous primate (2009)
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Willems, E., Barton, R., & Hill, R. (2009). Remotely sensed productivity, home range selection and local range use by an omnivorous primate. Behavioral Ecology, 20(5), 985-992. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp087

Remote sensing of the environment has proved an invaluable tool to the study of animal ecology at continental to regional scales. Here, we investigated the utility of a remotely sensed index of plant productivity (the normalized difference vegetation... Read More about Remotely sensed productivity, home range selection and local range use by an omnivorous primate.

SnowMIP2: An evaluation of forest snow process simulations (2009)
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Essery, R., Rutter, N., Pomeroy, J., Baxter, R., Stähli, M., Gustafsson, D., …Elder, K. (2009). SnowMIP2: An evaluation of forest snow process simulations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(8), 1120-1135. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009bams2629.1

The Northern Hemisphere has large areas that are forested and seasonally snow covered. Compared with open areas, forest canopies strongly influence interactions between the atmosphere and snow on the ground by sheltering the snow from wind and solar... Read More about SnowMIP2: An evaluation of forest snow process simulations.

Nonvascular contribution to ecosystem NPP in a subarctic heath during early and late growing season (2009)
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Campioli, M., Samson, R., Michelsen, A., Jonasson, S., Baxter, R., & Lemeur, R. (2009). Nonvascular contribution to ecosystem NPP in a subarctic heath during early and late growing season. Plant Ecology, 202(1), 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-008-9527-6

Abstract Bryophytes and lichens abound in many arctic ecosystems and can contribute substantially to the ecosystem net primary production (NPP). Because of their growth seasonality and their potential for growth out of the growing season peak, bryoph... Read More about Nonvascular contribution to ecosystem NPP in a subarctic heath during early and late growing season.

Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test (2009)
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Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Preston, B., Nunn, C., & Barton, R. (2009). Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test. PLoS ONE, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004609

Sleep is a pervasive characteristic of mammalian species, yet its purpose remains obscure. It is often proposed that ‘sleep is for the brain’, a view that is supported by experimental studies showing that sleep improves cognitive processes such as me... Read More about Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test.

Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep (2009)
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Preston, B. T., Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Barton, R. A., & Nunn, C. L. (2009). Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9(7), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-7

Sleep is a biological enigma. Despite occupying much of an animal's life, and having been scrutinized by numerous experimental studies, there is still no consensus on its function. Similarly, no hypothesis has yet explained why species have evolved s... Read More about Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep.

Slope, aspect and climate: Spatially explicit and implicit models of topographic microclimate in chalk grassland (2008)
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Bennie, J., Huntley, B., Wiltshire, A., Hill, M., & Baxter, R. (2008). Slope, aspect and climate: Spatially explicit and implicit models of topographic microclimate in chalk grassland. Ecological Modelling, 216(1), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.04.010

The slope and aspect of a vegetated surface strongly affects the amount of solar radiation intercepted by that surface. Solar radiation is the dominant component of the surface energy balance and influences ecologically critical factors of microclima... Read More about Slope, aspect and climate: Spatially explicit and implicit models of topographic microclimate in chalk grassland.

(Re)surveying Mediterranean Rural Landscapes: GIS and Legacy Survey Data (2008)
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Witcher, R. (2008). (Re)surveying Mediterranean Rural Landscapes: GIS and Legacy Survey Data. Internet Archaeology, 24,

Legacy data have always been important for Mediterranean archaeologists. Over the past decade, one specific category of legacy data, that deriving from regional survey, has become particularly important. Not only has the scale of research questions b... Read More about (Re)surveying Mediterranean Rural Landscapes: GIS and Legacy Survey Data.