Reports and outputs | UK-SCAPE | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

These are highlights of papers from UK-SCAPE funded projects.

Case study: Air

Engagement: Dick, J, Vieno, M. 2021. Stakeholder evaluation of modelled EMEP4UK gridded UK atmospheric composition data. Wallingford, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 21pp. (UKCEH Project no. 06948) (Unpublished)

COSMOS-UK

Evans, J G, Ward, H C, Blake, J R, Hewitt, E J, Morrison, R, Fry, M, Ball, L A, Doughty, L C, Libre, J W, Hitt, O E, Rylett, D, Ellis, R J, Warwick, A C, Brooks, M, Parkes, M A, Wright, G M H, Singer, A C, Boorman, D B, Jenkins, A. 2016. Soil water content in southern England derived from a cosmic-ray soil moisture observing system - COSMOS-UK. Hydrological Processes, 30 (26). 4987-4999. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10929
Cooper, E, Blyth, E, Cooper, H, Ellis, R, Pinnington, E, Dadson, S J. 2020. Using data assimilation to optimize pedotransfer functions using large-scale in-situ soil moisture observations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions. DOI: 10.5194/hess-2020-359
Chivers, B D, Wallbank, J, Cole, S J, Sebek, O, Stanley, S, Fry, M, Leontidis, G. 2020. Imputation of missing sub-hourly precipitation data in a large sensor network: a machine learning approach. Journal of Hydrology, 588, 125126. 12, pp. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125126
Alton, J, Antoniou, V, Askquith-Ellis, A, Bagnoli, S, Ball, L, Bennett, E, Blake, J, Boorman, D, Brooks, M, Clarke, M, Cooper, H, Cowan, N, Cumming, A, Doughty, L, Evans, J, Farrand, P, Fry, M, Hewitt, N, Hitt, O, Jenkins, A, Kral, F, Libre, J, Lord, W, Roberts, C, Morrison, R, Parkes, M, Nash, G, Newcomb, J, Rylett, D, Scarlett, P, Singer, A, Stanley, S, Swain, O, Szczykulska, M, Teagle, S, Thornton, J, Trill, E, Vincent, H, Wallbank, J, Ward, H, Warwick, A, Winterbourn, B, Wright, G. 2020. COSMOS-UK user guide: users’ guide to sites, instruments and available data (version 3.00). Wallingford, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 64pp. (CEH Project no. C06943)
Cooper, H M, Bennett, E, Blake, J, Blyth, E, Boorman, D, Cooper, E, Fry, M, Jenkins, A, Morrison, R, Rylett, D, Stanley, S, Szczykulska, M, Trill, E. COSMOS-UK: National soil moisture and hydrometeorology data for empowering UK environmental science. Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-287, in review, 2020.

Cumbrian Lakes monitoring platform

Environmental, including climate, change

State of the Climate - a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Woolway, R, Weyhenmeyer, G A, Schmid, M, et al. 2019. Substantial increase in minimum lake surface temperatures under climate change. Climatic Change 155, 81–94. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02465-y
Gray, E, Elliott, J A, Mackay, E B, Folkard, A M, Keenan, P O, Jones, I D. 2019. Modelling lake cyanobacterial blooms: Disentangling the climate‐driven impacts of changing mixed depth and water temperature. Freshw Biol. 64: 2141–2155. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13402
Pilla, R M, Williamson, C E, Adamovich, B V, et al. 2020. Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes. Sci Rep 10, 20514. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76873-x
Woolway, R I, Simpson, J H, Spiby, D, et al. 2018. Physical and chemical impacts of a major storm on a temperate lake: a taste of things to come?. Climatic Change 151, 333–347. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2302-3
Engagement: Mackay, E, Thackeray, S, Dick, J. 2020. Cumbrian lakes: community engagement. Stakeholder meeting 3rd Nov 2020. Lancaster, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 19pp. (UKCEH Project no. 06948, 06953) (Unpublished)

Plankton and fish populations and communities

Rusak, J A, Tanentzap, A J, Klug, J L, Rose, K C, Hendricks, S P, Jennings, E, Laas, A, Pierson, D, Ryder, E, Smyth, R L, White, D S, Winslow, L A, Adrian, R, Arvola, L, de Eyto, E, Feuchtmayr, H, Honti, M, Istvánovics, V, Jones, I D, McBride, C G, Schmidt, S R, Seekell, D, Staehr, P A and Zhu, G. 2018. Wind and trophic status explain within and among‐lake variability of algal biomass. Limnol. Oceanogr., 3: 409-418. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10093
Bartrons, M, Mehner, T, Argillier, C, Beklioglu, M, Blabolil, P, Hesthagen, T, Holmgren, K, Jeppesen, E, Krause, T, Podgornik, S, Volta, P, Winfield, I J and Brucet, S. 2020. Energy‐based top‐down and bottom‐up relationships between fish community energy demand or production and phytoplankton across lakes at a continental scale. Limnol Oceanogr, 65: 892-902. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11434
Ohlberger, J, Langangen, Ø, Winfield, I J and Vindenes, Y. 2020. The importance of variation in offspring body size for stability in cannibalistic populations. Oikos, 129: 59-69. DOI: 10.1111/oik.05507
Stubberud, M W, Vindenes, Y, Vøllestad, L A, Winfield, I J, Stenseth, N C, and Langangen, Ø. 2019. Effects of size- and sex-selective harvesting: An integral projection model approach. Ecology and evolution, 9(22), 12556–12570. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5719
Lawson Handley, L, Read, D S, Winfield, I J, et al. 2019. Temporal and spatial variation in distribution of fish environmental DNA in England’s largest lake. Environmental DNA. 1: 26–39. DOI: 10.1002/edn3.5

Ecosystem structure and function

Thackeray, S J, Hampton, S E. 2020. The case for research integration, from genomics to remote sensing, to understand biodiversity change and functional dynamics in the world's lakes. Glob Change Biol. 26: 3230– 3240. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15045
Birk, S, Chapman, D, Carvalho, L, et al. 2020. Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1060–1068. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1216-4
Pilotto, F, Kühn, I, Adrian, R, et al. 2020. Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe. Nat Commun 11, 3486. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y

Data Science Framework

Engagement: Rennie, S, Watkins, J, Ball, L, Brown, M, Fry, M, Henrys, P, Hollaway, M, Quinn, J, Sier, A, Dick, J. 2020. Shaping the development of the UKCEH UK-SCAPE Data Science Framework. Workshop report. Lancaster, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 26pp. (UKCEH Project no. 06948) (Unpublished)

Environmental Change Network

Alday, JG., O'Reilly, J., Rose, RJ. and Marrs, RH. (2022). Long-term effects of sheep-grazing and its removal on vegetation dynamics of British upland grasslands and moorlands; local management cannot overcome large-scale trends. Ecological Indicators, 139, -. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108878.
Alday, J, O'Reilly, J, Rose, R J, Marrs, R H. 2020. Effects of long-term removal of sheep-grazing in a series of British upland plant communities: Insights from plant species composition and traits. Science of the Total Environment, 759, 143508. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143508.
Andrews, C. and Dick, J. (2021). The potential use of acoustic indices for biodiversity monitoring at long-term ecological research (LTER) sites: a summary of current knowledge, equipment and methods. ECN report (Unpublished).
Andrews, C. and Dick, J. (2020). Utilising repeat photography for long-term monitoring at the Cairngorm Environmental Change Network site: data analysis report. ECN report (Unpublished).
Andrews, C., Snazell, R. and Dick, J. (2020). Temporal trends in spider communities at the UK Environmental Change Network Cairngorm field station, 2007-2019: data analysis report. ECN report (Unpublished).
Bürli, S, Theurillat, J-P, Winkler, M, Lamprecht, A, Pauli, H, Rixen, C, Steinbauer, K, Wipf, S, Abdaladze, O, Andrews, C, Barancok, P, Benito-Alonso, JL, Fernández Calzado, MR, Carranza, ML, Dick, J, Erschbamer, B, Ghosn, D, Gigauri, K, Kazakis, G, Mallaun, M, Michelsen, O, Moiseev, D, Moiseev, P, Molau, U, Mesa, JM, Morra di Cella, U, Nadeem, I, Nagy, L, Nicklas, L, Palaj, A, Pedersen, B, Petey, M, Puscas, M, Rossi, G, Stanisci, A, Tomaselli, M, Unterluggauer, P, Ursu, T-M, Villar, L, Vittoz, P. 2021. A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains. Alpine Botany. DOI: 10.1007/s00035-021-00250-1.
Jarvie, H P, Pallet, D W, Schafer, S M, Macrae, M L, Bowes, M J, Farrand, P, Warwick, A C, King, S M, Williams, R J, Armstrong, L, Nicholls, D J E, Lord, W D, Rylett, D, Roberts, C, Fisher, N. 2020. Biogeochemical and climate drivers of wetland phosphorus and nitrogen release: Implications for nutrient legacies and eutrophication risk. Journal of Environmental Quality, 49, 1703-1716. DOI: 10.1002/jeq2.20155.
Kwon, T., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, IK., Larsen, KS., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Lamarque, J-F., Hagedorn, F., …., Andrews, C., Dick, J., …. and Zsolt, T. (2021). Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, -. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480.
Lembrechts, JJ., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, MB., De Frenne, P., Kemppinen, J., Kopecký, M., Luoto, M., Maclean, IMD., …., Andrews, C., Dick, J., …. and Lenoir, J. (2021). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology, , 1-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060.
Marrs, R H, Lee, H, Blackbird, S, Connor, L, Girdwood, S E, O'Connor, M, Smart, S M, Rose, R J, O'Reilly, J, Chiverrell, R C. 2020. Release from sheep-grazing appears to put some heart back into upland vegetation: A comparison of nutritional properties of plant species in long-term grazing experiments. Annals of Applied Biology, 177, 152-162. DOI: 10.1111/aab.12591.
Medinets, S, White, S, Cowan, N, Drewer, J, Dick, J, Jones, M, Andrews, C, Harvey, Skiba, U. 2021. Impact of climate change on soil nitric oxide and nitrous oxide emissions from typical land uses in Scotland. Environmental Research Letters, 16. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf06e.
Pilotto, F, Kühn, I, Adrian, R, Alber, R, Alignier, A, Andrews, C, Bäck, J, Barbaro, L, Beaumont, D, Beenaerts, N, Benham, S, Boukal, D S, Bretagnolle, V, Camatti, E, Canullo, R, Cardoso, P G, Ens, B J, Everaert, G, Evtimova, V, Feuchtmayr, H, García-González, R, Gómez García, D, Grandin, U, Gutowski, J M, Hadar, L, Halada, L, Halassy, M, Hummel, H, Huttunen, K-L, Jaroszewicz, B, Jensen, T C, Kalivoda, H, Schmidt, I K, Kröncke, I, Leinonen, R, Martinho, F, Meesenburg, H, Meyer, J, Minerbi, S, Monteith, D, Nikolov, B P, Oro, D, Ozolinš, D, Padedda, B M, Pallett, D, Pansera, M, Pardal, M A, Petriccione, B, Pipan, T, Pöyry, J, Schafer, S M, Schaub, M, Schneider, S C, Skuja, A, Soetaert, K, Springe, G, Stanchev, R, Stockan, J, Stoll, S, Sundqvist, L, Thimonier, A, Van Hoey, G, Van Ryckegem, G, Visser, M E, Vorhauser, S, Haase, P. 2020. Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe. Nature Communications, 11, 3486. Available online. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y.
Rennie, S, Andrews, C, Atkinson, S, Beaumont, D, Benham, S, Bowmaker, V, Dick, J, Dodd, B, McKenna, C, Pallett, D, Rose, R, Schafer, S, Scott, T, Taylor, C, Watson, H. 2020. The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015). Earth System Science Data, 12, 87-107. DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-87-2020.
Rennie, S, Goergen, K, Wohner, C, Apweiler, S, Peterseil, J, and Watkins, J. 2020. [Preprint] A Climate Service for Ecologists: Sharing pre-processed EUROCORDEX Regional Climate Scenario Data using the eLTER Information System. Earth System Science Data. DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-225.
Sawicka, K, Clark, J M, Vangueloca, E, Monteith, D T, Wade, A J. 2021. Spatial properties affecting the sensitivity of soil water dissolved organic carbon long-term median concentrations and trends. Science of the Total Environment, 780, 146670. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146670.
Tso, C H M, Henrys, P, Rennie, S, Watkins, J. 2020. State Tagging for Improved Earth and Environmental Data Quality Assurance. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 8, 46. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00046.
Tso, C-H M, Monteith, D, Scott, T, Watson, H, Dodd, B, Pereira, MG, Henrys, P, Hollaway, M, Rennie, S, Lowther, A, Watkins, J, Killick, R, Blair, G. 2022. The evolving role of weather types on rainfall chemistry under large reductions in pollutant emissions. Environmental Pollution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118905.
Engagement: Dick, J, Andrews, C, Beaumont, D A, Benham, S, Bowmaker, V, Dodd, B, McKenna, C, Pallett, D, Parry, S, Rose, R, Scott, T, Schafer, S M, Taylor, C, Watson, H. 2020. UK Environmental Change Network stakeholder consultation. Wallingford, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 18pp. (UKCEH Project no. 06948) (Unpublished)
Staude, I R, Pereira, H M, Daskalova, G N, Bernhardt-Römermann, M, Diekmann, M, Pauli, H, et al. 2022. Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecology Letters, 25, 466-482. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13937

Environmental DNA

Antognazza, C M, Britton, R J, Read, D S, et al. 2021. Application of eDNA metabarcoding in a fragmented lowland river: Spatial and methodological comparison of fish species composition. Environmental DNA. 3: 458–471. DOI: 10.1002/edn3.136

Lawson Handley, L, Read, D S, Winfield, I J, et al. 2019. Temporal and spatial variation in distribution of fish environmental DNA in England’s largest lake. Environmental DNA. 1: 26–39. DOI: 10.1002/edn3.5

Harper, L R, Lawson Handley, L, Carpenter, A I, Ghazali, M, Di Muri, C, Macgregor, C J, Logan, T W, Law, A, Breithaupt, T, Read, D S, McDevitt, A D, Hänfling, B. 2019. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of pond water as a tool to survey conservation and management priority mammals. Biological Conservation, Volume 238, 108225. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108225.

Gweon, H S, Bowes, M J, Moorhouse, H L, Oliver, A E, Bailey, M J, Acreman, M C, Read, D S. 2021. Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum. Environ Microbiol, 23: 484-498. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15337

Harper, L R, Lawson Handley, L, Sayer, C D, et al. 2020. Assessing the impact of the threatened crucian carp (Carassius carassius) on pond invertebrate diversity: A comparison of conventional and molecular tools. Mol Ecol. 00:1–18. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15670

GB Non-native Species Information Portal

Pyšek, P, Hulme, P E, Simberloff, D, Bacher, S, Blackburn, T M, Carlton, J T, Dawson, W, Essl, F, Foxcroft, L C, Genovesi, P, Jeschke, J M, Kühn, I, Liebhold, A M, Mandrak, N E, Meyerson, L A, Pauchard, A, Pergl, J, Roy, H E, Seebens, H, van Kleunen, M, Vilà, M, Wingfield, M J, Richardson, D M. 2020. Scientists' warning on invasive alien species. Biol Rev, 95: 1511-1534. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12627
Roy, H E, Peyton, J, Aldridge, D C, Bantock, T, Blackburn, T M, Britton, R, Clark, P, Cook, E, Dehnen‐Schmutz, K, Dines, T, Dobson, M, Edwards, F, Harrower, C, Harvey, M C, Minchin, D, Noble, D G, Parrott, D, Pocock, M J O, Preston, C D, Roy, S, Salisbury, A, Schönrogge, K, Sewell, J, Shaw, R H, Stebbing, P, Stewart, A J A, Walker, K J. 2014. Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity in Great Britain. Glob Change Biol, 20: 3859-3871. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12603

Loch Leven

Dick, J, Turkelboom, F, Woods, H, Iniesta-Arandia, I, Primmer, E, Saarela, S-R, Bezák, P, Mederly, P, Leone, M, Verheyden, W, Kelemen, E, Hauck, J, Andrews, C, Antunes, P, Aszalós, R, Baró, F, Barton, D N, Berry, P, Bugter, R, Carvalho, L, Czúcz, B, Dunford-Brown, R, Garcia Blanco, G, Geamănă, N, Giucă, R, Grizzetti, B, Izakovičová, Z, Kertész, M, Kopperoinen, L, Langemeyer, J, Montenegro Lapola, D, Liquete, C, Luque, S, Martínez Pastur, G, Martin-Lopez, B, Mukhopadhyay, R, Niemela, J, Odee, D, Peri, P L, Pinho, P, Patrício-Roberto, G B, Preda, E, Priess, J, Röckmann, C, Santos, R, Silaghi, D, Smith, R, Vădineanu, A, van der Wal, Jan T, Arany, I, Badea, O, Bela, G, Boros, E, Bucur, M, Blumentrath, S, Calvache, M, Carmen, E, Clemente, P, Fernandes, J, Ferraz, D, Fongar, C, García-Llorente, M, Gómez-Baggethun, E, Gundersen, V, Haavardsholm, O, Kalóczkai, Á, Khalalwe, T, Kiss, G, Köhler, B, Lazányi, O, Lellei-Kovács, E, Lichungu, R, Lindhjem, H, Magare, C, Mustajoki, J, Ndege, Ch, Nowell, M, Nuss Girona, S, Ochieng, J, Often, A, Palomo, I, Pataki, G, Reinvang, R, Rusch, G, Saarikoski, H, Smith, A, Soy Massoni, E, Stange, E, Vågnes Traaholt, N, Vári, Á, Verweij, P, Vikström, S, Yli-Pelkonen, V, Zulian, G. 2018. Stakeholders’ perspectives on the operationalisation of the ecosystem service concept: results from 27 case studies [in special issue: SI: Synthesizing OpenNESS] Ecosystem Services, 29 (C). 552-565. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.015
Carrea, L, Woolway, R I, Merchant, C J, Dokulil, M T, DeGasperi, C L, de Eyto, E, Kelly, S, La Fuente, R S, Marszelewski, W, May, L, Paterson, A M, Pulkkanen, M, Rusak, J A, Rusanovskaya, O, Schadlow, S G, Schmid, M, Shimaraeva, S V, Silow, E A, Timofeyev, M A, Verburg, P, Watanabe, S, Weyhenmeyer, G A. 2020. Global climate - lake surface temperature. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (8), supplement State of the climate in 2019. S26-S28. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0104.1
Carrea, L, Woolway, R I, Merchant, C J, Dokulil, M T, de Eyto, E, DeGasperi, C L, Korhonen, J, Marszelewski, W, May, L, Paterson, A M, Rusak, J A, Schadlow, S G, Schmid, M, Verburg, P, Watanabe, S, Weyhenmeyer, G A. 2019. Global climate - lake surface temperature. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9), supplement State of the climate in 2018. S13-S14. DOI: 10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Woolway, R I, Weyhenmeyer, G A, Schmid, M, Dokulil, M T, de Eyto, E, Maberly, S C, May, L, Merchant, C J. 2019. Substantial increase in minimum lake surface temperatures under climate change. Climatic Change, 155 (1). 81-94. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02465-y
Birk, S, Chapman, D, Carvalho, L, Spears, B, Andersen, H E, Argillier, C, Auer, S, Baattrup-Pedersen, A, Banin, L, Beklioğlu, M, Bondar-Kunze, E, Borja, A, Branco, P, Bucak, T, Buijse, A D, Cardoso, A C, Couture, R-M, Cremona, F, de Zwart, D, Feld, C K, Ferreira, M T, Feuchtmayr, H, Gessner, M O, Gieswein, A, Globevnik, L, Graeber, D, Graf, W, Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C, Hanganu, J, Işkın, U, Järvinen, M, Jeppesen, E, Kotamäki, N, Kuijper, M, Lemm, J U, Lu, S, Solheim, A L, Mischke, U, Moe, S J, Nõges, P, Nõges, T, Ormerod, S J, Panagopoulos, Y, Phillips, G, Posthuma, L, Pouso, S, Prudhomme, C, Rankinen, K, Rasmussen, J J, Richardson, J, Sagouis, A, Santos, J M, Schäfer, R B, Schinegger, R, Schmutz, S, Schneider, S C, Schülting, L, Segurado, P, Stefanidis, K, Sures, B, Thackeray, S J, Turunen, J, Uyarra, M C, Venohr, M, von der Ohe, P C, Willby, N, Hering, D. 2020. Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4 (8). 1060-1068. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1216-4
Stockwell, J D, Doubek, J P, Adrian, R, Anneville, O, Carey, C C, Carvalho, L, De Senerpont Domis, L N, Dur, G, Frassl, M A, Grossart, H‐P, Ibelings, B W, Lajeunesse, M J, Lewandowska, A M, Llames, M E, Matsuzaki, S‐I S, Nodine, E R, Nõges, P, Patil, V P, Pomati, F, Rinke, K, Rudstam, L G, Rusak, J A, Salmaso, N, Seltmann, C T, Straile, D, Thackeray, S J, Thiery, W, Urrutia‐Cordero, P, Venail, P, Verburg, P, Woolway, R I, Zohary, T, Andersen, M R, Bhattacharya, R, Hejzlar, J, Janatian, N, Kpodonu, A T N K, Williamson, T J, Wilson, H L. 2020. Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes. Global Change Biology, 26 (5). 2756-2784. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15033
Richardson, J, Miller, C, Maberly, S C, Taylor, P, Globevnik, L, Hunter, P, Jeppesen, E, Mischke, U, Moe, S J, Pasztaleniec, A, Søndergaard, M, Carvalho, L. 2018. Effects of multiple stressors on cyanobacteria abundance vary with lake type. Global Change Biology, 24 (11). 5044-5055. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14396
Richardson, J, Feuchtmayr, H, Miller, C, Hunter, P D, Maberly, S C, Carvalho, L. 2019. Response of cyanobacteria and phytoplankton abundance to warming, extreme rainfall events and nutrient enrichment. Global Change Biology, 25 (10). 3365-3380. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14701

National Fish Tissue Archive (NFTA)

PhD thesis: Jürgens, M D. 2015. Biomonitoring of wild fish to assess chemical pollution in English rivers – an application of a Fish Tissue Archive Lancaster Environment Centre. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1068.0165
Cerveny, D, Grabic, R, Grabicova, K, Randak, T, Larsson, D G J, Johnson, A, Jürgens, M, Tysklind, M, Lindberg, R, Fick, J. 2021. Neuroactive drugs and other pharmaceuticals found in blood plasma of wild European fish. Environment International 146: 106188. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106188
Horton, A A, Jürgens, M D, Lahive, E, van Bodegom, P M, Vijver, M G. 2018. The influence of exposure and physiology on microplastic ingestion by the freshwater fish Rutilus rutilus (roach) in the River Thames, UK. Environmental Pollution 236: 188-194. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.044
Lu, Q, Jürgens, M D, Johnson, A C, Graf, C, Sweetman, A, Crosse, J, Whitehead, P. 2017. Persistent Organic Pollutants in sediment and fish in the River Thames Catchment (UK). Science of the Total Environment 576: 78-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.067
Jürgens , M D, Crosse, J, Hamilton, P B, Johnson, A C, Jones, K C. 2016. The long shadow of our chemical past - high DDT concentrations in fish near a former agrochemicals factory in England. Chemosphere 162: 333-344. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.07.078
Jürgens, M D, Chaemfa, C, Hughes, D, Johnson, A C, Jones, K C. 2015. PCB and organochlorine pesticide burden in eels in the lower Thames river (UK). Chemosphere, 118, 103-111. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.06.088
Jürgens, M D, Johnson, A C, Jones, K C, Hughes, D, Lawlor, A J. 2013. The presence of EU priority substances mercury, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorobutadiene and PBDEs in wild ﬁsh from four English rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 461–462, 441-452. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.05.007

National River Flow Archive (NRFA)

Parry, S, Barker, L, Sefton, C, Hannaford, J, Turner, S, Muchan, K, Matthews, B, Pennington, C. 2020. Briefing note. Severity of the February 2020 floods - preliminary analysis.
Muchan, K, Dixon, H. 2019. Insights into rainfall undercatch for differing raingauge rim heights. Hydrology Research 1 December 2019; 50 (6): 1564–1576. DOI: 10.2166/nh.2019.024
Harrigan, S, Hannaford, J, Muchan, K, Marsh, T J. 2018. Designation and trend analysis of the updated UK Benchmark Network of river flow stations: the UKBN2 dataset. Hydrology Research 1 April 2018; 49 (2): 552–567. DOI: 10.2166/nh.2017.058

Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics (SOC-D)

Engagement: National Soil Health Policy Workshop, 6 Feb. 2020, UKCEH Lancaster
Engagement: Improving Soil Health for Future Generations; Submission to UKRI SPF, 10 Feb 2020

Spatially explicit Projections of EnvironmEntal Drivers (SPEED)

Bullock, J, Ball, L, Brown, M, Rennie, S, Robinson, E, Harrison P. 2021. SPEED Data Workshop Report - UK Climate and Socioeconomic Scenario Data Products
Engagement: Pedde, S, Harrison, P A, Holman, I P, Powney, G D, Lofts, S, Schmucki, R, Gramberger, M, Bullock, J M. 2021. Enriching the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways to co-create consistent multi-sector scenarios for the UK, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 756, 143172, ISSN 0048-9697

The virtual UK-Environmental Specimen Bank catalogue (UK-vESB)

Chaplow, J S, Bond, A L, Koschorreck, J, Rüdel, H, F. Shore, R F. 2021. The role of environmental specimen banks in monitoring environmental contamination. In: Johnson, Steven, (ed.) Monitoring environmental contaminants. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 123-138. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-64335-3.00002-5.
Chaplow, J S, Patel, S, Howard, D C, Brown, M J, Shore, R F. 2012. A study to examine the operation and function of a virtual UK environmental specimen bank (UK-ESB). Final report. Lancaster, NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 29pp. (CEH Project Number: C04510, CEH Report Ref Number: LA/ NEC04510/1) (Unpublished).
Chaplow, J S, Walker, L A, MacKechnie, C J, Shore, R F. 2010. A scoping study of specimen archiving activity in the UK and the potential for a UK Environmental Specimen Bank. NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 26pp.

UKCEH Countryside Survey

Smart, S. 2017. Monitoring functionally-important plant diversity across Great Britain; the natural capital of common plants. Lancaster, NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 13pp.
Smart, S M, Jarvis, S G, Mizunuma, T, et al. 2019. Assessment of a large number of empirical plant species niche models by elicitation of knowledge from two national experts. Ecol Evol. 9: 12858–12868. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5766
Villa‐Galaviz, E, Smart, S M, Clare, E L, Ward, S E, Memmott, J. 2021. Differential effects of fertilisers on pollination and parasitoid interaction networks. J Anim Ecol. 90: 404–414. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13373
George, P B L, Coelho, K P, Creer, S, Lebron, I, Robinson, D A, Jones, D L. Decoupled richness of generalist anaerobes and sulphate‐reducing bacteria is driven by pH across land uses in temperate soils. Eur J Soil Sci. 2020; 1– 12. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13040
Robinson, D A, Hopmans, J W, Filipovic, V, et al. 2019. Global environmental changes impact soil hydraulic functions through biophysical feedbacks. Glob Change Biol. 25: 1895–1904. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14626
Seaton, F M, Barrett, G, Burden, A, et al. 2020. Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators. Eur J Soil Sci. 1–16. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12958
Maskell, L C, Henrys, P, Pescott, O L, Smart, S M. 2020. Long-term trends in the distribution, abundance and impact of native 'injurious' weeds. Appl Veg Sci. 23: 635– 647. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12518

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

Breeze, T D, Bailey, A P, Balcombe, K G, Brereton, T, Comont, R, Edwards, M, Garratt, M P, Harvey, M, Hawes, C, Isaac, N, Jitlal, M, Jones, C, Kunin, W E, Lee, P, O’Connor, R S, Morris, R K A, Musgrove, A, Peyton, J, Potts, S G, Roberts, S P M, Roy, D B, Roy, H E, Tang, C Q, Vanbergen, A J, and Carvell, C. 2020. Pollinator Monitoring More than Pays for Itself. Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13755
Powney, et al. 2019. Widespread losses of pollinating insects in Britain. Nature Communications, 10: 1018. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08974-9
Creedy, T J, Norman, H, Tang, C Q, Chin, K Q, Andujar, C, Arribas, P, Carvell, C, Vogler, A P. 2019. A validated workflow for rapid taxonomic assignment and monitoring of a national fauna of bees (Apiformes) using high throughput DNA barcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13056
O'Connor, R S, Kunin, W E, Garratt, M P D, Potts, S G, Carvell, C. 2019. Monitoring insect pollinators and flower visitation: The effectiveness and feasibility of different survey methods. Methods Ecol Evol. 2019;00:1–12. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13292
Garratt, M P D, Potts, S G, Banks, G, Hawes, C, Breeze, T D, O'Connor, R S, Carvell, C. 2019. Capacity and willingness of farmers and citizen scientists to monitor crop pollinators and pollination services. Global Ecology and Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00781