Key Recent Publications
SCIDR is a research driven centre which aims to not only to undertake high quality research but to publish the outcomes of this research in quality peer reviewed journals. A selection of some of this work can be found below.
2011
Bateman, M.D., Carr, A.S., Dunajko, A., Holmes, P.J., Roberts, D.L., McClaren, S.J., Bryant, R.G., Murray-Wallace, C.V., and Marker, M.E. (2011). The evolution of coastal barrier systems: A case study of the Middle-Late Pleistocene Wilderness barriers, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 63-81. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.003
2010
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.
doi:10.1016/j.aeolia.2010.08.001
Pasquini, L., Cowling, R.M., Twyman, C. and Wainwright, J. (2010). Devising appropriate policies and instruments in support of private conservation areas: lessons learnt from the Klein Karoo, South Africa. Conservation Biology, 24(2), 470-478.
doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01344.x
Osbahr, H., Twyman, C., Adger, W.N. and Thomas D.S.G. (2010). Evaluating successful livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in southern Africa. Ecology and Society, 15(2), 27.
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss2/art27/
Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. and Brazier, R.E. (2010). Hydrology, erosion and nutrient transfers over a transition from semi-arid grassland to shrubland in the South-Western USA: A modelling assessment. Journal of Hydrology, 388(3-4), 258-272.
doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.005
Murton, J.B., Bateman, M.D., Dallimore, S.R., Teller, J.T. and Yang, Z. (2010). Mackenzie outburst flooding into the Arctic Ocean at the start of the Younger Dryas. Nature, 464, 740-743.
doi:10.1038/nature08954
Boulter, C., Bateman, M.D., and Frederick, C.D. (2010). Late Quaternary environmental change in the southern US: an integrated study from an East Central Texas bog system. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25, 889-902.
doi:10.1002/jqs.1365
Aiuvalasit, M.J., Neely, J.A. and Bateman, M.D. (2010). New Radiometric Dating of Water Management Features at the Prehistoric Purrón Dam Complex,Tehuacán Valley, Puebla, México. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 1367-1377.
2009
Sallu, S.M., Twyman, C. and Thomas D.S.G. (2009). The multidimensional nature of biodiversity and social dynamics and implications for contemporary rural livelihoods in remote Kalahari settlements, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 47(s1), 110-118.
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.01057.x
Stringer, L., Dyer, J., Reed, M., Dougill, A., Twyman, C. and Mkwambisi, D. (2009). Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in Southern Africa. Environmental Science and Policy, 12(7), 748-765.
doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00298.x
Baddock, M.C., Bullard, J.E. and Bryant, R.G. (2009). Dust source identification using MODIS: a comparison of techniques applied to the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(7), 1511-1523. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2009.03.002
Okin, G.S., Parsons, A.J., Wainwright, J., Herrick, J.E., Bestelmeyer, B.T., Peters, D.P.C. and Fredrickson, E.L. (2009). Do changes in connectivity explain desertification? BioScience, 59(3), 237-244.
doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.3.8
Michaelides, K., Lister, D., Wainwright, J. and Parsons, A.J. (2009). Controls on small-scale runoff and erosion dynamics in different vegetation communities in a dryland environment. Hydrological Processes, 23(11), 1617-1630. doi:10.1002/hyp.6823
McLaren, S.J., Al-Juaidi, F., Bateman, M.D. and Millington, A.C. (2009). First evidence for episodic flooding events in the arid interior of Central Saudi Arabia over the last 60 ka. Journal of Quaternary Science, 24, 198-207.
doi:10.1002/jqs.1199
Hansen. E.C., Fisher, T.G., Arbogast, A.F. and Bateman, M.D. (2009). Geomorphic History of Low Perched, Transgressive Dune Complexes Along The South-eastern Shore of Lake Michigan. Aeolian Research, 1, 111-127.
2008
Turnbull, L., Brazier, R.E., Wainwright, J., Dixon, E. and Bol, R. (2008). Use of carbon isotope analysis to understand soil erosion dynamics and long-term semi-arid land degradation. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22(11), 1697–1702.
doi:10.1002/rcm.3518
Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. and Brazier, R.E. (2008). A conceptual framework for understanding semi-arid land degradation: ecohydrological interactions across multiple-space and time scales. Ecohydrology, 1(1), 23–34.
doi:10.1002/eco.4
Osbahr, H., Twyman, C., Adger, W.N. and Thomas D.S.G. (2008). Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique. Geoforum, 39(6), 1951-1964.
doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.07.010
Bateman, M.D., Carr, A.S., Murray-Wallace, C.V., Roberts, D.L. and Holmes, P.J. (2008). A dating intercomparison study on Late Stone Age coastal midden deposits, South Africa. Geoarchaeology, 23, 715-741.
doi:10.1002/gea.20243
Borejsza, A., Rodríguez López, I., Frederick, C.D. and Bateman, M.D. (2008). Agricultural slope management and soil erosion at La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 1854-1866
doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.11.024
Telfer, M.W., Bateman, M.D., Carr, A.C. and Chase, B.C. (2008). Testing the applicability of a Standardized Growth Curve (SGC) for quartz OSL dating: Kalahari dunes, South African coastal dunes and Florida dune cordons. Quaternary Geochronology, 3, 137-142
doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2007.08.001
McCulloch, G.P., Irvine, K., Eckardt, F.D. and Bryant, R.G. (2008). Hydrochemical fluctuations and crustacean community composition in an ephemeral saline lake (Sua Pan, Makgadikgadi Botswana). Hydrobiologia,
596(1), 31-46
doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9055-8
Eckardt, F.D., Bryant, R.G., McCulloch, G., Spiro, B. and Wood, W.W. (2008). The hydrochemistry of a semi-arid pan basin, case study: Sua Pan,Makgadikgadi, Botswana. Applied Geochemistry
doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.12.033
2007 and earlier
Bateman, M.D., Boulter, C.H., Carr, A.S., Frederick, C.D., Peter, D., Wilder, M. (2007). Detecting Post-depositional sediment disturbance in sandy deposits using optical luminescence. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 57-64
doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2006.05.033
Carr, M.D., Bateman, M.D., Holmes, P.J., (2007). Developing a 150 ka luminescence chronology for the barrier dunes of the Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 110-116
doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2006.09.002
Bryant, R.G., Bigg, G.R., Mahowald, N.M., Eckhardt, F.D., and Ross, S.G. (2007). Dust emission response to climate in southern Africa
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 112,
D09207. doi:10.1029/2005JD007025
French, D. (2007). Managing Global Change for Sustainable Development: Technology, Community and Multilateral Environmental Agreements. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 7: 209-235
Powell, D.M., Brazier, R.E., Parsons, A.J., Wainwright, J. and Nichols, M.N. (2007). Patterns and processes of sediment transfer in low-order dryland streams. Geomorphology, 88, 152-166
doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.11.001
Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J. & Parsons, A.J. (2007). The impact of connectivity on the modelling of overland flow within semi-arid shrubland environments. Water Resources Research, 43(9)
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.04.010
Thomas, DSG; Twyman, C, Osbahr, H, et al (2007). Adaptation to climate change and variability: farmer responses to intra-seasonal precipitation trends in South Africa. CLIMATIC CHANGE, 83, 301-322
doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9205-4
Stringer, LC; Thomas, DSG; Twyman, C. (2007). From global politics to local land users: applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, 173, 129-142
doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00226.x
Dennell, R.W. (2007). Archaeological Archives from Asia, 2.7 MYR – 300,000 years ago. Chapter 385, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 73-89
Carr, A.C., Thomas, D.S.G., Bateman, M.D., Meadows, M.E. and Chase, B. (2006). Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
239, 147-165
doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.01.014
Gregory, K.J., Benito, G., Dikau, R., Golosov, V., Johnstone, E.C., Jones, J.A.A., Macklin, M.G., Parsons, A.J., Passmore, D.G., Poesen, J., Soja, R. Starkel, L., Thorndycraft, V.R., & Walling, D.E. (2006). Past hydrological events and global change. Hydrological Processes, 20,199-204
Rango, A. Tartowski, S.L. Laliberte, A. Wainwright, J. and Parsons A. (2006). Islands of hydrologically enhanced biotic productivity in natural and managed arid ecosystems. Journal of Arid Environments, 65, 235-252
doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.09.002
Parsons, A.J., Wainwright, J., Powell, D.M., Brazier, R.E. (2006). Is sediment delivery a fallacy? Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31, 1325-28
doi:10.1002/esp.1395
Hopley, P.J., Marshall, J.D., Weedon, G.P., Latham, A.G., Herries, A.I.R., and Kuykendall, K.L. (2006). Orbital-forcing and the spread of C 4 Grasses in the late Neogene: Stable isotope evidence from South African speleothems. J. Human Evolution, 53:620-634
Dennell R.W., Coard, R. and Turner, A. (2006). The biostratigraphy and magnetic polarity zonation of the Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan : an Upper Siwalik (Pinjor Stage) Plio-Pleistocene fluvial sequence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 234: 168-185
Ayala, G. & French, C. (2005). Erosion Modeling of Past Land-Use Practices in the Fiume di Sotto di Troina River Valley, North-Central Sicily. Geoarchaeology, Vol. 20, No. 2, 149–-167
Bateman, M.D. Thomas, D.S.G, and Singhvi, A.K. (2003). Extending the aridity record of the Southwest Kalahari: current problems and future perspectives. Quaternary International, 111, 37-49
doi:10.1016/S1040-6182(03)00013-2
Bryant, R.G. (2003). Monitoring hydrological controls on dust emissions: preliminary observations from Etosha Pan, Namibia. Geographical Journal, 169(2), 131-141
doi:10.1111/1475-4959.04977
Ayala, G. & French, C. (2003). Holocene landscape dynamics in a Sicilian upland river valley, in A.J. Howard, M.G. Macklin and D.G. Passmore (eds.). Alluvial Archaeology in Europe Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger: 229-235
Wainwright, J. and J.B. Thornes (2003). Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean: Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present, Routledge, London
Wainwright, J., Parsons A.J. W.H. Schlesinger and A.D. Abrahams (2002). Hydrology–vegetation interactions in areas of discontinuous flow on a semi-arid bajada, southern New Mexico. Journal of Arid Environments, 51, 319–330
doi:10.1006/jare.2002.0970
Wainwright, J., Parsons A.J. and A.D. Abrahams (2000). Plot-scale studies of vegetation, overland flow and erosion interactions: case studies from Arizona and New Mexico. Hydrological Processes, 14, 2921–2943
doi:10.1002/1099-1085(200011/12)14:16/17<2921::AID-HYP127>3.0.CO;2-7