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Environmental Monitoring Research Group

Environmental Monitoring Research Group

  • Crabbe, M.J.C. (2010)  Global warming and coral reefs: from mitigation to geoengineering. In: Global Warming in the 21st Century.  Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA. In the press.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C. (2010) Computational Biology approaches to plant metabolism and photosynthesis: applications for corals in times of climate change and environmental stress. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. In the Press.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C., Martinez, E., Garcia, C., Chub, J., Castro, L. and Guy, J. (2010) Review: Capacity building in science and management for sustainable development of coral reefs.  An example from the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.  In: (Eds: T.B. Davin and A. P. Brannet) Coral Reefs: Biology, Threats and Restoration.  Nova, USA. In the press.
  • Walker, E.L.L., Stephenson, D.B. and Crabbe, M.J.C. (2010) Coral reefs and the influence of El-niño.  In: (Eds: T.B. Davin and A. P. Brannet) Coral Reefs: Biology, Threats and Restoration.  Nova, USA. In the press.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C. (2010) Topography and spatial arrangement of reef-building corals on the fringing reefs of North Jamaica may influence their response to disturbance from bleaching.  Marine Environmental Research 69, 158-162.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C., Martinez, E., Garcia, C., Chub, J., Castro, L. and Guy, J. (2010) Is capacity building important in policy development for sustainability? A case study using action plans for sustainable Marine Protected Areas in Belize. Society and Natural Resources 23, 181-190.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C. (2009) Climate change and tropical marine agriculture. J. Experimental Botany 60, 2839-2844.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C. (2009) Modelling effects of climate geo-engineering options in response to climate change and global warming: implications for coral reefs.  Computational Biology and Chemistry 33, 415-420.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C. (2009) Scleractinian coral population size structures and growth rates indicate coral resilience on the fringing reefs of North Jamaica.  Marine Environmental Research 67, 189-198.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C. and Carlin, J.P. (2009) Multiple Symbiodinium clades in Acropora species scleractinian corals from the Ningaloo reef, Australia. Int. J. Integrative Biol. 5, 72-74.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C., Martinez, E., Garcia, C., Chub, J., Castro, L. and Guy, J. (2009) Hurricanes and corals in Southern Belize: from science to management and policy development. Proceedings of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2008, 1173- 1176.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C., Martinez, E., Garcia, C., Chub, J., Castro, L. and Guy, J. (2009) Identifying management needs for coral reef ecosystems.  Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy 5, 42-47.
  • Crabbe, M.J.C., Walker, E.L.L. and Stephenson, D.B. (2009) El-niño and coral reefs. In: (Eds. J.A. Long and D.S.Wells) Ocean circulation and El-niño: New research. Pp. 265-274. Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA.
  • Luo R, Wei H, Ye L, Wang K, Chen F, Luo L, Liu L, Li Y, Crabbe MJC, Li Y, Zhong Y. (2009) Photosynthetic metabolism of C3 plants shows highly cooperative regulation under changing environmental conditions: a systems biological analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106, 847-852.
  • Mallela, J. and Crabbe, M.J.C. (2009) Hurricanes and coral bleaching linked to changes in coral recruitment in Tobago.  Marine Environmental Research 68, 158-162.
  • Duncan A M, Guest J E, Stofan E R, Anderson S W, Pinkerton H and Calvari S.Development of tumuli in the medial portion of the 1983 aa flow-field, Mount Etna, Sicily. .Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 2004, 132, 173-187.
  • Guest J E, Cole P D, Duncan A M and Chester D K. Volcanoes of Southern Italy Geological Society Press, London, 2003, 284pp.
  • Thomas D S G., Brook G A, Shaw P A, Bateman M D, Haberyan K, Appleton C, Nash D J, McLaren S and Davies F B. Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana. Quaternary International, 2003, 104, 53-67.
  • Weedon G P. Time-Series Analysis and Cyclostratigraphy. Examining Stratigraphic Records of Environmental Cycles. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Chester D K, Dibben C J L and Duncan A M. Volcanic hazard assessment in western Europe. Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 2002, 115, 411-435.
  • Davies F B M.Urban pollution and lichen re-colonisation. The Lichenologist, 2002, 34, 141-151.
  • Thomas D S G and Shaw P A. Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: new data, synthesis, issues and prospects. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2002, 21, 783-797.
  • Weedon, G.P., and Hall, I.R., 2002. Data Report: Inorganic geochemistry of Miocene to Recent samples from Chatham Rise, Southwest Pacific, Site 1123. Proc. Ocean Drill. Prog. Sci. Res., 2002, 181 paper 209.
  • Chester D K, Degg M, Duncan A M and Guest J E. The increasing exposure of cities to the effects of volcanic eruptions: a global survey. Environmental Hazards, 2001, 2, 89-103.
  • Cole P D, Guest J E, Duncan A M and Pacheco J-M.Capelinhos 1957-1958, Faial, Azores: deposits formed by an emergent surtseyan eruption. Bulletin Volcanology, 2001, 63, 204-220.
  • Davies F B M.Lichen status in Bedfordshire. In: Biodiversity Action Plan for Luton and Bedfordshire, Ed: Bellamy G, Wildlife Trust pp56-59.
  • Finch A A, Shaw P A, Weedon G P and Holmgren K. Trace element variation in speleothem aragonite: potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 186, 255-267.
  • Hall I R, McCave I N, Shackleton N J, Weedon G P and Harris S. Glacial intensification of deep Pacific inflow and ventilation. Nature, 2001, 412, 809-812.
  • Notcutt G and Davies F. Environmental accumulation of airborne fluorides in Romania. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2001, 23, 43-51.
  • Thomas D S G, O'Connor P, Shaw P A, Stokes S, Nash D J and Bateman M D. Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary activity in the northern Kalahari: new evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arid and humid chronologies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, 2001, 156, 243-259.
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