Dr Roland Ennos (MA, PhD) - publications

2011

• Ennos AR. (2011). Dealing with Variation. Biological Sciences Review, 24(2), 16-19. eScholarID:136512
• Rahman MA, Smith JR, Stringer P, Ennos AR. (2011). Effect of rooting conditions on the growth and cooling ability of Pyrus calleryana. Urban Forestry and urban Greening, 10, 185-192. eScholarID:128954 | DOI:10.1016/j.ufug.2011.05.003
• Ennos AR. (2011). Solid Biomechanics. Princeton, new Jersey: Princeton University Press. eScholarID:125627
• Ennos AR. (2011). Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology, 3rd Edition. Harlow: Pearson. eScholarID:125628

2010

• Kalson NS, Holmes DF, Kapacee Z, Otermin I, Lu Y, Ennos AR, Canty-Laird EG, Kadler KE. (2010). An experimental model for studying the biomechanics of embryonic tendon: Evidence that the development of mechanical properties depends on the actinomyosin machinery. Matrix Biology, 29, 678-689. eScholarID:105169 | DOI:10.1016/j.matbio.2010.08.009
• van Delden SH, Stomph TJ, Ennos AR, Vos J. (2010). Analysing lodging of the panicle bearing cereal teff (Eragrostis tef [Zuccagni] Trotter). New Phytologist, 186, 696-707. eScholarID:79739 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03224.x
• Ennos AR. (2010). How people work. Physics World, 23(1), 28-31. eScholarID:79704 | DOI:10.1080/713676993
• VAN CASTEREN A, CODD JR, GARDINER JD, MCGHIE H, ENNOS AR. (2010). Sonation in the male common snipe (Capella gallinago gallinago L.) is achieved by a flag-like fluttering of their tail feathers and consequent vortex shedding. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213, 1602-1608. eScholarID:79738 | DOI:10.1242/jeb.034207
• Ennos AR. (2010). Urban Cool. Physics World, 23(8), 22-25. eScholarID:92315

2009

• Warman PW, Ennos AR. (2009). Fingerprints are unlikely to increase the friction of primate fingerpads. Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, 2015-2021. eScholarID:42732 | DOI:10.1242/​jeb.028977
• Massey FP, Massey K, Ennos AR, Hartley, SE. (2009). Impacts of silica-based defences in grasses on the feeding preferences of sheep. Basic and Applied Ecology, 10, 622-630. eScholarID:74336 | DOI:10.1016/j.baae.2009.04.004
• Farran L, Ennos AR, Eichhorn SJ. (2009). Micro and Nanoindentation of Human Fingernails at Varying Relative Humidity. Journal of Materials Research, 24, 980-984-. eScholarID:42748
• Gill S, Handley J, Ennos AR, Nolan P. (2009). Planning for green infrastructure: adapting to climate change. In Davoudi S, Crawford J, Mehmood A (Ed.), Planning for Climate Change. London: Earthscan. eScholarID:57990
• Farran L, Ennos AR, Starkie M, Eichhorn SJ. (2009). Tensile and shear properties of fingernails as a function of a changing humidity environment. Journal of Biomechanics, 1230-1235. eScholarID:42756
• Wargent JJ, Moore JP, Ennos AR, Paul ND. (2009). Ultraviolet radiation as a limiting factor in leaf expansion and development. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 85, 279-286. eScholarID:1c8339 | DOI:10.1111/j.1751-1097.2008.00433.x

2008

• Hunt JW, Dean AP, Webster RE, Johnson GN, Ennos AR. (2008). A Novel Mechanism by which Silica Defends Grasses Against Herbivory. Annals of Botany, 102, 653-656. eScholarID:1c7803 | DOI:10.1093/aob/mcn130
• Christensen–Dalsgaard KK, Ennos AR, Fournier, M. (2008). Are radial changes in vascular anatomy mechanically induced or an ageing process? Evidence from observations on buttressed tree root systems. Trees: Structure and Function, 22, 543-550. eScholarID:1c8336 | DOI:10.1007/s00468-008-0214-y
• Gill S, Handley JF, Ennos AR, Lindley S, Theuray N, Pauleit S. (2008). Characterising the urban environment of UK cities and towns: a template for landscape planning. Lanscape and Urban Planning, 87, 210-222. eScholarID:1c8337 | DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.06.008
• Farran L, Ennos AR, Eichhorn SJ. (2008). The effect of humidity on the fracture properties of human fingernails. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211, 3677-3681. eScholarID:1c8338 | DOI:10.1242/jeb.023218

2007

• Gill S, Handley JF, Ennos AR, Pauleit S. (2007). Adapting cities for climate change: the role of the green infrastructure. Built Environment, 33, 97-115. eScholarID:1c7313
• Christensen-Dalsgaard KK, Ennos AR, Fournier M. (2007). Changes in hydraulic conductivity, mechanical properties, and density reflecting the fall in strain along the lateral roots of two species of tropical trees. Journal of experimental botany, 58(15-16), 4095-105. eScholarID:1c7310 | PMID:18039738 | DOI:10.1093/jxb/erm268
• Christensen-Dalsgaard KK, Fournier M, Ennos AR, Barfod AS. (2007). Changes in vessel anatomy in response to mechanical loading in six species of tropical trees. The New phytologist, 176(3), 610-22. eScholarID:1c7311 | PMID:17953543 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02227.x
• Tickle PG, Ennos AR, Lennox LE, Perry SF, Codd JR. (2007). Functional significance of the uncinate processes in birds. The Journal of experimental biology, 210(Pt 22), 3955-61. eScholarID:1c7229 | PMID:17981863 | DOI:10.1242/jeb.008953
• Massey FP, Ennos AR, Hartley, SE. (2007). Grasses and the resource availability hypothesis: the importance of silica-based defences. Journal of Ecology, 95, 414-424. eScholarID:1c7312
• Massey FP, Ennos AR, Hartley SE. (2007). Herbivore specific induction of silica-based plant defences. Oecologia, 152(4), 677-83. eScholarID:1c7309 | PMID:17375331 | DOI:10.1007/s00442-007-0703-5
• Ennos AR. (2007). Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology 2nd Edition. Harlow: Prentice Hall. eScholarID:56874

2006

• Manning PL, Payne D, Pennicott J, Barrett PM, Ennos AR. (2006). Dinosaur killer claws or climbing crampons? Biology Letters, 2, 110-112. eScholarID:56858
• Massey FP, Ennos AR, Hartley SE. (2006). Silica in grasses as a defence against insect herbivores: contrasting effects on folivores and a phloem feeder. The Journal of animal ecology, 75(2), 595-603. eScholarID:1c5563 | PMID:16638012 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01082.x
• Oladokun MA, Ennos AR. (2006). Structural development and stability of rice Oryza sativa L. var. Nerica 1. Journal of experimental botany, 57(12), 3123-30. eScholarID:1c5562 | PMID:16926238 | DOI:10.1093/jxb/erl074

2005

• Golding YC, Ennos AR. (2005). Biomechanics and behavioural mimicry in insects. In Herrel A, Speck T, Rowe N (Ed.), eScholarID:3c96
• Ennos AR. (2005). Compliance in plants. In Jenkins CHM (Ed.), eScholarID:3c95
• Golding YC, Edmunds M, Ennos AR. (2005). Flight behaviour during foraging of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) and four mimetic hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae): Sericomyia silentis, Myathropa florea, Helophilus spp. and Syrphus spp.. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208, 4523-4527. eScholarID:1c4969
• Golding YC, Ennos AR, Sullivan M, Edmunds M. (2005). Hoverfly mimicry deceives humans. Journal of zoology, 266, 1-5. eScholarID:1c4464
• Pauleit S, Golding YC, Ennos AR. (2005). Modeling the environmental impacts of urban land use and surface cover change – a study in Merseyside, UK. Landscape and urban planning, 71, 295-310. eScholarID:1c4463
• Rousseau K, Atcha Z, Denton J, Cagampang FR, Ennos AR, Freemont AJ, Loudon AS. (2005). Skeletal bone morphology is resistant to the high amplitude seasonal leptin cycle in the Siberian hamster. The Journal of endocrinology, 186(3), 475-9. eScholarID:1c4903 | PMID:16135667 | DOI:10.1677/joe.1.06207

2004

• Mickleborough J, van der Linden ML, Richards J, Tallis RC, Ennos AR. (2004). Muscle activity during gait initiation in normal elderly. Gait and posture, 19, 50-57. eScholarID:1c2353 | DOI:10.1016/S0966-6362(03)00016-X
• Farren L, Shayler S, Ennos AR. (2004). The Fracture Properties and Mechanical Design of Human Fingernails. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 735-741. eScholarID:1c2354 | DOI:10.1242/jeb.00814
• Berry PM, Sterling M, Spink JH, Baker CJ, Sylvester-Bradley R, Mooney SJ, Tams AR, Ennos AR. (2004). Understanding and Reducing Lodging in Cereals. Advances in Agronomy, 84, 217-271. eScholarID:1c3728

2003

• MICKOVSKI S, Ennos AR. (2003). Anchorage and asymmetry in the root system of Pinus peuce. Silva Fennica, 37, 161-173. eScholarID:1c2224
• Barratt SR, Ennos AR, Greenhalgh M, Robson GD, Handley PS. (2003). Fungi are the predominant micro-organisms responsible for degradation of soil-buried polyester polyurethane over a range of soil water holding capacities. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 95(1), 78-85. eScholarID:1c1535 | PMID:12807456 | DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2672.2003.01961.x
• MICKOVSKI S, Ennos AR. (2003). Model and whole-plant studies on the anchorage capabilities of bulbs. Plant and soil, 255, 641-652. eScholarID:1c2223 | DOI:10.1023/A:1026007229517
• MICKOVSKI S, Ennos AR. (2003). The effect of unidirectional stem flexing on shoot and root morphology and architecture in young Pinus sylvestris trees. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 33, 2202-2209. eScholarID:1c2225 | DOI:10.1139/x03-139
• Smith VC, Ennos AR. (2003). The effects of air flow and stem flexure on the mechanical and hydraulic properties of the stems of sunflowers Helianthus annuus L. Journal of experimental botany, 54(383), 845-9. eScholarID:1c1536 | PMID:12554727 | DOI:10.1093/jxb/erg068

2002

• Goodman AM, Ennos AR. (2002). A mechanical study of retting in glyphosate treated flax stems (Linum usitatissimum). Industrial Crops and Products, 15, 169-177. eScholarID:1c2777 | DOI:10.1016/S0926-6690(01)00108-X
• MICKOVSKI S, Ennos AR. (2002). A morphological and mechanical study of the root systems of suppressed crown scots pine Pinus sylvestris. TREES: Structure and Function, 16, 274-280. eScholarID:1c2776
• Lancashire JR, Ennos AR. (2002). Modelling the hydrodynamic resistance of bordered pits. Journal of experimental botany, 53(373), 1485-93. eScholarID:1c1537 | PMID:12021296 | DOI:10.1093/jexbot/53.373.1485

2001

• Goodman AM, Crook MJ, Ennos AR. (2001). Anchorage mechanics of the tap root system of winter-sown oilseed rape Brassica napus L. Annals of botany, 87, 397-404. eScholarID:1c2779 | DOI:10.1006/anbo.2000.1347
• Jones L, Ennos AR, Turner SR. (2001). Cloning and characterization of irregular xylem4 (irx4): a severely lignin-deficient mutant of Arabidopsis. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 26(2), 205-16. eScholarID:1c1538 | PMID:11389761
• Golding YC, Ennos AR, Edmunds M. (2001). Similarity in flight behaviour between the honeybee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: apidae) and its presumed mimic, the dronefly Eristalis tenax (Diptera: syrphidae). The Journal of experimental biology, 204(Pt 1), 139-45. eScholarID:1c1540 | PMID:0011104717
• Goodman AM, Ennos AR. (2001). The effects of mechanical stimulation on the morphology and mechanics of maize roots grown in an aerated nutrient solution. International journal of plant sciences, 162, 691-696. eScholarID:1c2780 | DOI:10.1086/320780
• Ennos AR. (2001). Trees. eScholarID:4c24
• Whitford V, Ennos AR, Handley JW. (2001). “City form and natural process” – Indicators for the ecological performance of urban areas. Landscape and urban planning, 57, 91-103. eScholarID:1c2778 | DOI:10.1016/S0169-2046(01)00192-X

2000

• Ennos AR, Sheffield E. (2000). Plant Life. eScholarID:4c25
• Ennos AR, Spatz HC, Speck T. (2000). The functional morphology of the petioles of the banana, Musa textilis. Journal of experimental botany, 51(353), 2085-93. eScholarID:1c1539 | PMID:0011141182 | DOI:10.1093/jexbot/51.353.2085
• Mickelborough J, van der Linden ML, Richards J, Ennos AR. (2000). Validity and reliability of a kinematic protocol for determining foot contact events. Gait and posture, 11(1), 32-7. eScholarID:1c1541 | PMID:0010664483 | DOI:10.1016/S0966-6362(99)00050-8