College of Life and Environmental Sciences
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Recent Submissions
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Biofilms facilitate cheating and social exploitation of β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli (dataset)
(University of Exeter, 21 October 2019)Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli commonly resist β-lactam antibiotics using plasmid-encoded β-lactamase enzymes. Bacterial strains that express β-lactamases have been found to detoxify liquid cultures and ... -
Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 13 July 2018)Rising oceanic and atmospheric oxygen levels through time have been crucial to enhanced habitability of surface Earth environments. Few redox proxies can track secular variations in dissolved oxygen concentrations around ... -
How Different Loading Sports and a 9-Month Plyometric Intervention Programme Affect Bone Turnover Markers During Adolescence: The PRO-BONE Study
(MDPI, 20 September 2019)Aim: The purpose of the present study was to (1) investigate the cross-sectional (baseline) and longitudinal (12 months) effects of football (weight-bearing sport), swimming and cycling (non-weight-bearing sports), and an ... -
Representation of disturbance in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator Vn4.8 (JULES)
(Copernicus Publications, 19 July 2018)The representation of disturbance is a critical factor in land-surface modelling, but is generally poorly constrained in carbon cycle models. In particular, land-use change and fire can be treated as large-scale disturbances ... -
The centre cannot (always) hold: examining pathways towards energy system de-centralisation
(Elsevier, 2019)'Energy decentralisation' means many things to many people. Among the confusion of definitions and practices that may be characterised as decentralisation, three broad causal narratives are commonly (implicitly or explicitly) ...