Purpose The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of load carriage in a range of temperatures to establish the interaction between cold exposure, the magnitude of change from unloaded to loaded walking and gradient. Methods Eleven participants (19–27 years) provided written informed consent before performing six randomly ordered walking trials in six temperatures (20, 10, 5, 0, −5, and −10 °C). Trials involved...

Biogenic silica concentrations and phytolith morphology and abundance in green leaf material are described in 34 species/subspecies of Chionochloa (Danthonieae) and nine species/subspecies of Festuca (Poeae). A dry‐ash technique was used to extract biogenic silica from mature leaves from plants grown in potting mix. Phytolith morphology and abundance were characterised by scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy, resp...