Most significant peer-reviewed publications by subject
 
Sustainability
  1. Zhang, J, Skene, K.R., Wang, S., Ji, Q., Zheng H., Zhou, C., Pradhan, P., Meadows, M.E. and Fu, B. (2024). Beyond borders: assessing global sustainability through interconnected systems. Sustainable Development.
  2. Skene, K.R. and Mulec-Oarga, A. (2024). The circular economy: the butterfly diagram, systems theory and the economic pluriverse. Journal of Circular Economy 2(3): 1-25.
  3. Skene, K.R. (2023). Biosphere Evolution, Ecology and Sustainability: Why Thermodynamics and System Theory Matter. In: B. Veress and J. Szigethy, eds. Horizons in Earth Science Research Volume 24 pp. 1-46. Nova Science Publishers.
  4. Seják, J., Pokorný, J., Seeley, K. and Skene, K.R. (2022). Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature’s thermodynamic costs. Ecosystem Services, 57: 101469.
  5. ​Sabater, B. and Skene, K.R. (2022). Plant Thermodynamics. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13. 
  6. Skene, K.R. (2022). Chapter 15. Steering the circular economy: a new role for Adam Smith's invisible hand. In: A. Stefanakis and I. Nikolaou (Eds.), Sustainability and the Circular Economy. Elsevier, London. Pp. 21- 33.  
  7. Skene, K.R. (2022). The circular economy: a critique of the concept. In: A. Alvarez-Risco (Ed.). Towards a Circular Economy.  Springer, Cham. Pp. 99-116.
  8. Skene, K.R. (2021). The dark shadows of the jolly green giants: urgent policy and research priorities in renewable energy technologies. Sustainability and Climate change 14 (5): 335-357.
  9. Skene, K.R. (2021). Sustainability policy and practice: Is Nature an appropriate mentor? Environment, Development and Sustainability, pp. 1-19. 
  10. Skene, K.R. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis: Can Technology Really Save the World? Routledge, Abington.
  11. Skene, K.R. (2018). Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work. Sustainability Science, 13: 479-492.
  12. Skene, K.R. and Murray, A. (2017). Sustainable Economics: Context, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st-Century Practitioner. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
  13. Murray, A., Skene, K. and Haynes, K. (2017). The circular economy: an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept and application in a global context. Journal of Business Ethics, 140: 369-380.
  14. Skene, K.R. and Murray, A. (2012). The Circular Economy: A Literature Review. Centre for Low Carbon Futures, York.
  15. Skene, K.R. and Murray, A. (2012). The Circular Economy: A Definitional Paper. Centre for Low Carbon Futures, York.
  16. Skene, K.R. (2011). Escape from Bubbleworld: Seven Curves to Save the Earth. Ard Macha Press.

Socio-ecological interactions
  1. Skene, K.R. (2022). What is the unit of empowerment? An ecological perspective. British Journal of Social Work, 52 (1): 498–517. 
  2. Skene, K.R. (2022). How can economics contribute to environmental and social sustainability? The significance of systems theory and the embedded economy. Frontiers in Sustainability, 3: p.107.

Climate change
  1. Skene, K.R. (2021). COP26: An Open Letter. Biosphere Research Institute.
  2. Kučera, A., Skene K.R. and Kupec, P. (2020). Soil hydric properties and carbon stock in a semi-arid region of Iraqi Kurdistan: the importance of historical pedogenesis, climate and locality in atmospheric decarbonization. Ecological Indicators Vol. 119. 
  3.  Skene, K.R. (2010). After the Copenhagen Conference: carbon is not the planet’s greatest threat. Contemporary Review, 292: 15-22.
  4. Carfrae, J.A., Skene, K.R., Sheppard, L.J., Ingleby, K. and Crossley, A. (2006). Effects of  nitrogen with and without acidified sulphur on an ectomycorrhizal community in a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis Bong. Carr) forest. Environmental Pollution, 141(1): 131-138.

SDGs and education

     1. Skene, K.R. (2021). No goal is an island: the implications of systems theory for the Sustainable Development Goals. Environment, Development and                     Sustainability, 23(7), pp.9993-10012.
​     2. Malcolm, J. and Skene, K.R. (2020). Using the SDGs to promote change and nurture connectivity in an undergraduate design module. In: E. Sengupta, P.              Blessinger and T.S. Yamin (Eds.), Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning,            Vol. 19, pp. 41-56). Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
     3. Skene, K. R. and Malcolm, J. (2019). Using the SDGs to nurture connectivity and promote change. The Design Journal, 22(sup1), 1629-1646.
     4. Skene K.R. (2009). Putting Colour into your Curriculum: Flexible Classroom Activities for Science Teachers. Ard Macha Press.
     5. Heather Sears, Jackie Wilson, Julian Park, Simon van Heyningen, Emma Clamp, Simon Creasey, Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds, Dave Phoenix, Peter Robinson,           Donal Shanahan, Vivien Sieber, Keith Skene, Stephen Barasi, Dave Skingsley, Stuart Lane, David Price, Maria Donkin, Clare Carter, Robert Slater, Mike                 Mattey (2002). Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Bioscience, University of Leeds.

Ecology and evolutionary biology
  1. Skene, K.R. (2024). Systems theory, thermodynamics and life: integrated thinking across ecology, organization and biological evolution. Biosystems, 236: p.105123
  2. Skene, K.R. (2020). In pursuit of the framework behind the biosphere: S-curves, self-assembly  and the genetic entropy paradox. Biosystems, 190: 104101. 
  3. Skene, K.R. (2017). Thermodynamics, ecology and evolutionary biology: a bridge over troubled water or common ground? Acta Oecologica, 85: 116-125.
  4. Skene, K.R. (2015). Life’s a gas: a thermodynamic theory of biological evolution. Entropy, 17: 5522-5548.
  5. Skene K.R. (2013). The energetic of ecological succession: a logistic model of entropic output. Ecological Modelling, 250: 287-293.
  6. Skene K.R. (2009). Shadows on the Cave Wall: A New Theory of Evolution. Ard Macha Press.

Forestry
  1. Kučera, A., Samec, P., Bajer, A., Skene, K.R., Vichta, T., Vranová, V., Meena, R.S. and Datta, R. (2020). Forest Soil Water.  In: R.S. Meena and R. Datta (Eds.), Soil Moisture Importance. Intech Open, London. 
  2. Skene, K.R. (2011). Form, function, forests and fossils: sustainability revisited. Contemporary Review, 293: 462-472.
  3. Skene, K.R., Raven, J.A. and Sprent, J.I. (1998). Cluster root development in Grevillea robusta (Proteaceae) I. Xylem, pericycle, cortex and epidermal development in a determinate root. New Phytologist, 138: 725-732.
  4. Skene, K.R., Sutherland, J.M., Raven, J.A. and Sprent, J.I. (1998). Cluster root development in Grevillea robusta (Proteaceae) II. The development of the endodermis in a determinate root and in an indeterminate, lateral root. New Phytologist, 138: 733-742.
  5. Skene, K.R., Sprent, J.I. and Ong, C.K. (1996). Cluster roots of Grevillea robusta – foragers or scavengers? Agroforestry Today, 8(2): 11-12.

Ocean biology
  1. Skene, K.R. (2004). Key differences in photosynthetic characteristics of nine species of intertidal macroalgae are related to their position on the shore. Canadian Journal of Botany, 82(2): 177-184.
  2. Raven, J.A. and Skene, K.R. (2003). Chemistry of the oceans: the environment of early life. In: L.J. Rothschild and A.M. Lister (Eds.), Evolution on Planet Earth – The Impact of the Physical Environment. Academic Press, San Diego. Pp. 55-64.
  3. Skene, K.R. and Raven, J.A. (1998). Photosynthetic characteristics of nine species of marine macroalgae on the east coast of Scotland in relation to the intertidal position in which they occur. Botanical Journal of Scotland, 50(1): 55-62.

Soil ecology
  1. Vranová, V., Rejšek, K., Skene, K.R., Janous, D. and Formanek, P. (2013). Methods of collection of plant root exudates in relation to plant metabolism and purpose: a review. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 176: 175-199.
  2. Vranová, V., Zahradnickova, H., Janous, D., Skene, K.R., Matharu, A.S., Rejšek, K. and Formanek, P. (2011). The significance of D-amino acids in soil, fate and utilization by microbes and plants: review and identification of knowledge gaps. Plant and Soil, 354: 21-39.
  3. Vranová, V., Rejšek, K., Skene, K.R. and Formanek, P. (2011). Non-protein amino acids: plant, soil and ecosystem interactions. Plant and Soil, 42: 31-48.
  4. McCluskey J., Herdman, L and Skene K.R. (2004). Iron deficiency induces changes in metabolism of citrate in lateral roots and cluster roots of Lupinus albus L.. Physiologia Plantarum, 121: 586-594.
  5.  Taylor, B. and Skene, K.R. (2003). Forensic palynology: spatial and temporal considerations of pollen deposition in forensic investigations.  Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 35: 193-204.
  6. Skene, K.R. (2003). The evolution of physiology and development in the cluster root: teaching an old dog new tricks? Plant and Soil, 248: 21-30.
  7. Skene, K.R. (2003). Plant-insect interactions in ultramafic habitats.  In: Recent Research Developments in Entomology, Vol. 4: 59-75.
  8. Wall, J.W., Skene, K.R. and Neilson R. (2002). Nematode community and trophic structure along a sand dune succession. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 35: 293-301.
  9. Skene, K.R. (2001). Cluster roots: model experimental tools for key biological problems. Journal of Experimental Botany, 52: 479-485.
  10. Averiss, R.J. and Skene, K.R. (2001). Changes in nutrient heterogeneity in a sand dune succession at Tentsmuir Point, Eastern Scotland. Botanical Journal of Scotland, 53(I): 45-56.
  11. Hoang, D. and Skene, K.R. (2001). Racines très spéciales pour sols carencés. Recherche, 343: 40-42.
  12. Skene, K.R. (2000). Cluster roots: their physiology, ecology and developmental biology.  Annals of Botany, 85: 899.
  13. Skene, K.R. (2000). Pattern formation in cluster roots: some developmental and evolutionary considerations. Annals of Botany, 85: 901-908.
  14. Skene, K.R., Sprent, J.I., Raven J.A. and Herdman, L. (2000). Biological Flora of the British Isles. Myrica gale L.. Journal of Ecology, 88: 1079-1094.
  15. Davison, G, Lambie, C.L., James, W.M., Skene, M.E. and Skene, K.R. (1999). A comparison of heavy metal content in insects associated with ultramafic and non-ultramafic sites in the Scottish Highlands. Ecological Entomology, 24: 1-6.
  16. Skene, K.R. (1998). Cluster roots: some ecological considerations. Journal of Ecology, 86: 1062-1066.