Index Catalog // Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew research repository

2024

Research report

Nature Returns Interim Report.

Morecroft, Mike ; Moat, Justin ; Swartz, Melissa ; Stewart, Emma ; Waterfield, Chris …

Climate change, Net Zero, Biodiversity, Blended funding, Carbon, Environment Act, Nature-based solutions, Green finance, Landscape scale, Environmental Improvement Plan, and Nature Returns

2024

Journal article

Geographic distribution and conservation status of the endemic cactus Austrocylindropuntia pachypus and new records for southern Peru.

Austrocylindropuntia pachypus (K.Schum.) Backeb. it is an endemic cactus whose distribution was restricted to the western slopes of La Libertad, Ancash, Lima; and based on botanical expeditions through the Andean foothills of Ica, new records are reported with reduced populations of A. pachypus, which makes it possible to extend its...

Taquiri Yanqui, Willinton ; Capcha Ramos, Jean Berti ; Orellana Garcia, Alfonso ; Ostolaza Nano, Carlos ; Moat, Justin …

Range extension, Endemism, Austrocylindropuntia pachypus, Opuntia pachypus, Categorization, Geographical distribution, Conservation status, and Ica (Peru)

2024

Journal article

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates.

Giant sequoias ( ) are some of the UK’s largest trees, despite only being introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. There are an estimated half a million giant sequoias and closely related coastal redwoods ( ) in the UK. Given the recent interest in planting more trees, partly due to their...

Holland, Ross ; Castro, Guilherme ; Chavana-Bryant, Cecilia ; Levy, Ron ; Moat, Justin …

Carbon storage potential, United Kingdom, Biomass, Lidar, Giant redwood, Three-dimensional structure, Growth rates, Sequoiadendron giganteum, and Carbon

2023

Journal article

Late pre-Hispanic fog oasis settlements and long-term human occupation on the Peruvian central coast from satellite imagery.

Fog oases ( ) present pockets of verdant vegetation within the arid coastal desert of Andean South America and archaeological excavation within some of the oases has revealed a long history of human exploitation of these landscapes. Yet lomas settlements are under-represented in archaeological datasets due to their tendency to...

Marcone, Giancarlo ; Huertas, Geraldine ; Zimmer-Dauphinee, James ; Van Valkenburgh, Parker ; Moat, Justin …

South America, Pre-Hispanic, Peru, Pre-Colombian civilizations, Lomas, Andean central coast, Settlement patterns, Satellite imagery survey, and Fog oases

2018

Doctoral thesis

Plant conservation in space, time and a changing world: forecasting the fate of Coffea arabica in Ethiopia.

We are facing an ever-increasing environmental crisis on our planet, with multiple threats from humankind. Industrialisation, deforestation, overpopulation and exploitation of our natural resources is driving species to extinction and changing the environment we live in. We need to plan for the future in order to adapt or mitigate these...

Moat, Justin

Cultivated plants, Ethiopia, Crop wild relatives, Climate change, Plant conservation, Coffea arabica, and Coffee industry