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.
2008
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
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
Roberts, D.L, Bateman, M.D., Murray-Wallace, C.V., Carr, A.S., Holmes, P.J. (2008)
Last Interglacial Fossil Elephant Trackways dated by OSL/AAR in Coastal Aeolianites, Still Bay, South Africa
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
257, 261-279
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
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
Boulter, C., Bateman, M.D., Frederick, C.D. (2007)
Developing a protocol for selecting and dating sandy sites in East Central Texas: Preliminary results
Quaternary Geochronology
2, 45-50
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
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
Brazier, R.E., Parsons, A.J., Wainwright, J., D. Mark Powell, D.M. and William H. Schlesinger, W.H. (2007)
Upscaling understanding of nutrient dynamics associated with overland flow in semi-arid environments
Biogeochemistry
82, 265-278
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)
Bateman, M.D., Boulter, C.H., Carr, A.S., Frederick, C.D., Peter, D. and Wilder, M. (2007)
Preserving the palaeoenvironmental record in Drylands: Bioturbation and its significance for luminescence derived chronologies
Sediment Geology
195, 5-19
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
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
Dennell, R.W. (2007)
Archaeological Archives from Asia, 2.7 MYR – 300,000 years ago
Chapter 385, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science
73-89
2006
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
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
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
WAINWRIGHT, J (2006)
‘Climate and climatological variations’, in KM Havstad, WH Schlesinger and LF Huenneke (eds)
Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem: The Jornada LTER
44–80, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Abrahams, AD, M Neave, J WAINWRIGHT, AJ Parsons and WH Schlesinger (2006)
‘Fluxes of water and materials: processes and controls.’ In: KM Havstad, WH Schlesinger and LF Huenneke (eds)
Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem: The Jornada LTER
150–175, Oxford University Press, Oxford
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
Herries, A.I.R., Adams , J., Kuykendall, K.L., and Shaw, J., (2006)
Speleology and magnetobiostratigraphic chronology of the GD 2 locality of the Gondolin hominin-bearing paleocave deposits, North West Province , South Africa
J. Human Evolution
51:617-631
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
2005
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
2003
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
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
2002 and earlier
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
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
Parsons AJ, Wainwright J, Abrahams AD. (1996)
Runoff and erosion on semi-arid hillslopes
In Advances in Hillslope Processes, Anderson MG, Brooks SM. (eds), Wiley, Chichester
1061-1078
Abrahams AD & Parsons, AJ (Eds) (1994)
Geomorphology of Desert Envirnments, Chapman & Hall
