Publications
We regularly publish our findings in high impact journals indicative of the scope and quality of our research.
2024
- Jacobsen, D. et al. 2024. Long-term changes and seasonal variability in the stream macrofauna of a Himalayan river system. Inland Waters (10.1080/20442041.2024.2394278)
- Perry, W. B., Ahmadian, R., Munday, M., Jones, O., Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2024. Addressing the challenges of combined sewer overflows. Environmental Pollution 343, article number: 123225. (10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123225)
- Pharaoh, E., Diamond, M., Jarvie, H. P., Ormerod, S., Rutt, G. and Vaughan, I. 2024. Potential drivers of changing ecological conditions in English and Welsh rivers since 1990. Science of the Total Environment 946, article number: 174369. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174369)
- Rohde, M. M., Stella, J. C., Singer, M. B., Roberts, D., Caylor, K. and Albano, C. M. 2024. Establishing ecological thresholds and targets for groundwater management. nature water 2, pp. 312-323. (10.1038/s44221-024-00221-w)
- Salway, S. et al. 2024. Developing water supply reservoir operating rules for large-scale hydrological modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 28, pp. 4203-4218. (10.5194/hess-28-4203-2024)
- Williams, R. C. et al. 2024. Simultaneous detection and characterization of common respiratory pathogens in wastewater through genomic sequencing. Water Research 256, article number: 121612. (10.1016/j.watres.2024.121612)
2023
- Pharaoh, E., Diamond, M., Ormerod, S. J., Rutt, G. and Vaughan, I. P. 2023. Evidence of biological recovery from gross pollution in English and Welsh rivers over three decades. Science of the Total Environment 878, article number: 163107. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163107)
- Portela, A. P., Durance, I., Vieira, C. and Honrado, J. 2023. Response-effect trait overlap and correlation in riparian plant communities suggests sensitivity of ecosystem functioning and services to environmental change. Science of the Total Environment 860, article number: 160549. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160549)
- Portela, A. P., Durance, I., Vieira, C. and Honrado, J. 2023. Environmental filtering and environmental stress shape regional patterns of riparian community assembly and functional diversity. Freshwater Biology 68(8), pp. 1428-1441. (10.1111/fwb.14138)
- Quichimbo Miguitama, E. A., Singer, M. B., Michaelides, K., Rosolem, R., MacLeod, D. A., Asfaw, D. and Cuthbert, M. O. 2023. Assessing the sensitivity of modelled water partitioning to global precipitation datasets in a data‐scarce dryland region. Hydrological Processes 37(12), article number: e15047. (10.1002/hyp.15047)
2022
- Glibert, P. M. and Mitra, A. 2022. From webs, loops, shunts, and pumps to microbial multitasking: evolving concepts of marine microbial ecology, the mixoplankton paradigm, and implications for a future ocean. Limnology and Oceanography 67(3), pp. 585-597. (10.1002/lno.12018)
- Perry, I. et al. 2022. Challenges to implementing environmental-DNA monitoring in Namibia. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9, article number: 773991. (10.3389/fenvs.2021.773991)
- Pye, M. C., Vaughan, I. P., Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2022. Organic litter dynamics in headwater streams draining contrasting land uses. Hydrobiologia (10.1007/s10750-022-05084-4)
2021
- Cooke, S. J., Lynch, A. J., Piccolo, J. J., Olden, J. D., Reid, A. J. and Ormerod, S. J. 2021. Stewardship and management of freshwater ecosystems: from Leopold's land ethic to a freshwater ethic. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 31(6), pp. 1499-1511. (10.1002/aqc.3537)
- Gutierrez-Canovas, C. et al. 2021. Populations of high-value predators reflect the traits of their prey. Ecography 44(5), pp. 690-702. (10.1111/ecog.05438)
- Harper, M. et al. 2021. Twenty-five essential research questions to inform the protection and restoration of freshwater biodiversity. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 31(9), pp. 2632-2653. (10.1002/aqc.3634)
- Kibler, C. L., Schmidt, E. C., Roberts, D. A., Stella, J. C., Kui, L., Lambert, A. M. and Singer, M. B. 2021. A brown wave of riparian woodland mortality following groundwater declines during the 2012-2019 California drought. Environmental Research Letters 16, article number: 84030. (10.1088/1748-9326/ac1377)
- Mehrnegar, N. et al. 2021. Exploring groundwater and soil water storage changes across the CONUS at 12.5 km resolution by a Bayesian integration of GRACE data into W3RA. Science of the Total Environment 758, article number: 143579. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143579)
- Quichimbo, E. A., Singer, M. B., Michaelides, K., Hobley, D. E. J., Rosolem, R. and Cuthbert, M. O. 2021. DRYP 1.0: A parsimonious hydrological model of DRYland Partitioning of the water balance. Geoscientific Model Development 14, pp. 6893-6917. (10.5194/gmd-14-6893-2021)
- Rohde, M. M., Stella, J. C., Roberts, D. A. and Singer, M. B. 2021. Groundwater dependence of riparian woodlands and the disrupting effect of anthropogenically altered streamflow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(25), article number: e2026453118. (10.1073/pnas.2026453118)
- Sabathier, R., Singer, M. B., Stella, J. C., Roberts, D. A. and Caylor, K. K. 2021. Vegetation responses to climatic and geologic controls on water availability in southeastern Arizona. Environmental Research Letters 16(6), article number: 64029. (10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8c)
- Sargeant, C. I. and Singer, M. B. 2021. Local and non-local controls on seasonal variations in water availability and use by riparian trees along a hydroclimatic gradient. Environmental Research Letters 16(8), article number: 84018. (10.1088/1748-9326/ac1294)
- Singer, M. B. et al. 2021. Hourly potential evapotranspiration at 0.1˚ resolution for the global land surface from 1981-present. Scientific Data 8, article number: 224. (10.1038/s41597-021-01003-9)
- Warter, M. M., Singer, M. B., Cuthbert, M. O., Roberts, D., Caylor, K. K., Sabathier, R. and Stella, J. 2021. Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 major drought in Southern California. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25(6), pp. 3713–3729. (10.5194/hess-25-3713-2021)
- Zarate, E. et al. 2021. The role of superficial geology in controlling groundwater recharge in the weathered crystalline basement of semi-arid Tanzania. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 36, article number: 100833. (10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100833)
2020
- Birk, S. et al. 2020. Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, pp. 1060-1068. (10.1038/s41559-020-1216-4)
- Ciampalini, R., Constantine, J. A., Walker-Springett, K. J., Hales, T. C., Ormerod, S. J. and Hall, I. R. 2020. Modelling soil erosion responses to climate change in three catchments of Great Britain. Science of the Total Environment 749, article number: 141657. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141657)
- D'Souza, J., Windsor, F. M., Santillo, D. and Ormerod, S. J. 2020. Food web transfer of plastics to an apex riverine predator. Global Change Biology 26(7), pp. 3846-3857. (10.1111/gcb.15139)
- Jams, I. B., Windsor, F. M., Poudevigne-Durance, T., Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2020. Estimating the size distribution of plastics ingested by animals. Nature Communications 11, article number: 1594. (10.1038/s41467-020-15406-6)
- Mayes, M., Caylor, K. K., Singer, M. B., Stella, J. C., Roberts, D. and Nagler, P. 2020. Climate sensitivity of water use by riparian woodlands at landscape scales. Hydrological Processes 34(25), pp. 4884-4903. (10.1002/hyp.13942)
- Quichimbo Miguitama, E. A., Singer, M. B. and Cuthbert, M. O. 2020. Characterizing groundwater-surface water interactions in idealized ephemeral stream systems. Hydrological Processes 34(18), pp. 3792-3806. (10.1002/hyp.13847)
- Stone, C., Windsor, F. M., Munday, M. and Durance, I. 2020. Natural or synthetic – how global trends in textile usage threaten freshwater environments. Science of the Total Environment 718, article number: 134689. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134689)
- Worthington, T. A., Worthington, I., Vaughan, I. P., Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2020. Testing the ecosystem service cascade framework for Atlantic salmon. Ecosystem Services 46, article number: 101196. (10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101196)
2019
- Chen, S., Michaelides, K., Grieve, S. W. D. and Singer, M. B. 2019. Aridity is expressed in river topography globally. Nature 573, pp. 573-577. (10.1038/s41586-019-1558-8)
- Reid, A. J. et al. 2019. Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity. Biological Reviews 94(3), pp. 849-873. (10.1111/brv.12480)
- Sargeant, C. I., Singer, M. B. and Vallet-Coulomb, C. 2019. Identification of source-water oxygen isotopes in trees Toolkit (ISO-Tool) for deciphering historical water use by forest trees. Water Resources Research 55(12), pp. 10954-10975. (10.1029/2018WR024519)
- Washburn, S. J., Blum, J. D., Donovan, P. M. and Singer, M. B. 2019. Isotopic evidence for mercury photoreduction and retention on particles in surface waters of Central California, USA. Science of the Total Environment 674, pp. 451-461. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.145)
- Windsor, F. M., Durance, I., Horton, A. A., Thompson, R. C., Tyler, C. R. and Ormerod, S. J. 2019. A catchment-scale perspective of plastic pollution. Global Change Biology 25(4), pp. 1207-1221. (10.1111/gcb.14572)
- Windsor, F. M., Pereira, M. G., Tyler, C. R. and Ormerod, S. J. 2019. River organisms as indicators of the distribution and sources of persistent organic pollutants in contrasting catchments. Environmental Pollution 255(P1), pp. -., article number: 113144. (10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113144)
2018
- Larsen, S., Chase, J. M., Durance, I. and Ormerod, S. J. 2018. Lifting the veil: richness measurements fail to detect systematic biodiversity change over three decades. Ecology 99(6), pp. 1316-1326. (10.1002/ecy.2213)
- Riley, W. D. et al. 2018. Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action. Science of The Total Environment 645, pp. 1598-1616. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.243)
- Seymour, M. et al. 2018. Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms. Communications Biology 1, article number: 4. (10.1038/s42003-017-0005-3)
- Singer, M., Michaelides, K. and Hobley, D. 2018. STORM 1.0: a simple, flexible, and parsimonious stochastic rainfall generator for simulating climate and climate change. Geoscientific Model Development 11, pp. 3713-3726. (10.5194/gmd-11-3713-2018)
- Windsor, F. M., Ormerod, S. J. and Tyler, C. R. 2018. Endocrine disruption in aquatic systems: up-scaling research to address ecological consequences. Biological Reviews 93(1), pp. 626-641. (10.1111/brv.12360)
2017
- Anderson, J. M. 2017. Reframing the sustainability of surfing culture. In: Borne, G. ed. Surfing and Sustainability. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society London: Routledge
- Arora, M., Casas-Mulet, R., Costelloe, J. F., Peterson, T. J., McCluskey, A. H. and Stewardson, M. J. 2017. Impacts of hydrological alternations on water quality. In: Horne, A. et al. eds. Water for the environment: From policy and science to implementation and management. Academic Press
- Casas-Mulet, R., Alfredsen, K. T., McCluskey, A. H. and Stewardson, M. J. 2017. Key hydraulic drivers and patterns of fine sediment accumulation in gravel streambeds: A conceptual framework illustrated with a case study from the Kiewa River, Australia. Geomorphology 299, pp. 152-164. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.032)
- Ouro, P., Harrold, M., Stoesser, T. and Bromley, P. 2017. Hydrodynamic loadings on a horizontal axis tidal turbine prototype. Journal of Fluids and Structures 71, pp. 78-95. (10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2017.03.009)
- Ouro, P. and Stoesser, T. 2017. An immersed boundary-based large-eddy simulation approach to predict the performance of vertical axis tidal turbines. Computers & Fluids 152, pp. 74-87. (10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.04.003)
- Small, N., Munday, M. and Durance, I. 2017. The challenge of valuing ecosystem services that have no material benefits. Global Environmental Change 44, pp. 57-67. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.03.005)
2016
- Anderson, J. M. 2016. On trend and on the wave: carving cultural identity through active surf dress. Annals of Leisure Research 19(2), pp. 212-234. (10.1080/11745398.2015.1106327)
- Angeloudis, A., Ahmadian, R., Falconer, R. A. and Bockelmann-Evans, B. 2016. Numerical model simulations for optimisation of tidal lagoon schemes. Applied Energy 165, pp. 522-536. (10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.12.079)
- Angeloudis, A., Stoesser, T., Gualtieri, C. and Falconer, R. A. 2016. Contact tank design impact on process performance. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 21(5), pp. 563-576. (10.1007/s10666-016-9502-x)
- Bear, C. 2016. Tracing bacterial legalities: the fluid ecologies of the European Union's bathing water directive. In: Braverman, I. ed. Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities. London: Routledge, pp. 79-98.
- Clayton, S., Devine-Wright, P., Swim, J., Bonnes, M., Steg, L., Whitmarsh, L. and Carrico, A. 2016. Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges. American Psychologist 71(3), pp. 199-215. (10.1037/a0039482)
- Durance, I. et al. 2016. The challenges of linking ecosystem services to biodiversity. Advances in Ecological Research 54, pp. 87-134. (10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.003)
- Florence, K., Sapsford, D. J., Johnson, D. B., Kay, C. M. and Wolkersdorfer, C. 2016. Iron-mineral accretion from acid mine drainage and its application in passive treatment. Environmental Technology 37(11), pp. 1428-1440. (10.1080/09593330.2015.1118558)
- Fraga, B., Stoesser, T., Lai, C. C. and Socolofsky, S. A. 2016. A LES-based Eulerian–Lagrangian approach to predict the dynamics of bubble plumes. Ocean Modelling 97, pp. 27-36. (10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.11.005)
- Nobu, M. K. et al. 2016. Phylogeny and physiology of candidate phylum 'Atribacteria' (OP9/JS1) inferred from cultivation-independent genomics. ISME Journal 10(2), pp. 273-286. (10.1038/ismej.2015.97)
- Pearson, C. E., Ormerod, S. J., Symondson, W. O. C. and Vaughan, I. P. 2016. Resolving large-scale pressures on species and ecosystems: propensity modelling identifies agricultural effects on streams. Journal of applied ecology 53(2), pp. 408-417. (10.1111/1365-2664.12586)
- Raikova, S. et al. 2016. Assessing hydrothermal liquefaction for the production of bio-oil and enhanced metal recovery from microalgae cultivated on acid mine drainage. Fuel Processing Technology 142, pp. 219-227. (10.1016/j.fuproc.2015.10.017)
- Schelkle, B., Richards, E. L., Snellgrove, D. and Cable, J. 2016. Cajeput oil, an effective botanical against gyrodactylid infection. Aquaculture Research 47(9), pp. 2928-2936. (10.1111/are.12744)
- Sutton, A. and Sapsford, D. J. 2016. Physicochemical characterization of sludge originating from vegetable oil–based cutting fluids. Journal of Environmental Engineering 142(1), article number: 4015057. (10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001014)
- Thomas, S. M., Griffiths, S. W. and Ormerod, S. J. 2016. Beyond cool: adapting upland streams for climate change using riparian woodlands. Global Change Biology 22(1), pp. 310-324. (10.1111/gcb.13103)
- Wilkes, M. A. et al. 2016. Early careers on ecohydraulics: challenges, opportunities and future directions. Journal of Ecohydraulics 1(1-2), pp. 102-107. (10.1080/24705357.2016.1249423)
- Woodward, G. et al. 2016. The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 371(1694), article number: 20150274. (10.1098/rstb.2015.0274)
- Zhao, W., Beach, T. and Rezgui, Y. 2016. Optimization of potable water distribution and wastewater collection networks: A systematic review and future research directions. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 46(5), pp. 659-681. (10.1109/TSMC.2015.2461188)
2015
- Casas-Mulet, R., Alfredsen, K., Boissy, T., Sundt, H. and Rüther, N. 2015. Performance of a one-dimensional hydraulic model for the calculation of stranding areas in hydropeaking rivers. River Research and Applications 31(2), pp. 143-155. (10.1002/rra.2734)
- Casas-Mulet, R., Alfredsen, K., Brabrand, ?. and Saltveit, S. J. 2015. Survival of eggs of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in a drawdown zone of a regulated river influenced by groundwater. Hydrobiologia 743(1), pp. 269-284. (10.1007/s10750-014-2043-x)
- Casas-Mulet, R., Saltveit, S. J. and Alfredsen, K. 2015. The survival of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) eggs during dewatering in a river subjected to hydropeaking. River Research and Applications 31(4), pp. 433-445. (10.1002/rra.2827)
- Casas-Mulet, R., Alfredsen, K., Hamududu, B. and Timalsina, N. P. 2015. The effects of hydropeaking on hyporheic interactions based on field experiments. Hydrological Processes 29(6), pp. 1370-1384. (10.1002/hyp.10264)
- Clayton, S. et al. 2015. Psychological research and global climate change. Nature Climate Change 5, pp. 640-646. (10.1038/nclimate2622)
- Fenrich, E., Bockelmann-Evans, B. N., Kadiri, M. O., Ahmadian, R., Wieprecht, S. and Falconer, R. A. 2015. An input-output approach to assessing the influence of changes in eutrophication potential on estuarine ecosystems due to tidal barrage. Presented at: 10th InternationalSymposium on Ecohydraulics, Trondheim, Norway, 23-27 June 2014.
- Gandhi, V., Bryant, D. B., Socolofsky, S. A., Stoesser, T. and Kim, J. 2015. Concentration-based decomposition of the flow around a confined cylinder in a UV disinfection reactor. Journal of Engineering Mechanics 141(12), pp. 1-12., article number: 4015050. (10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000959)
- Hall, D. M. and Lazarus, E. D. 2015. Deep waters: Lessons from community meetings about offshore wind resource development in the U.S.. Marine Policy 57, pp. 9-17. (10.1016/j.marpol.2015.03.004)
- Lamy, F. et al. 2015. Glacial reduction and millennial-scale variations in Drake Passage throughflow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(44), pp. 13496-13501. (10.1073/pnas.1509203112)
- Maceda-Veiga, A., Webster, G., Canals, O., Salvadó, H., Weightman, A. J. and Cable, J. 2015. Chronic effects of temperature and nitrate pollution on Daphnia magna: Is this cladoceran suitable for widespread use as a tertiary treatment?. Water Research 83, pp. 141-152. (10.1016/j.watres.2015.06.036)
- Moffa-Sanchez, P., Hall, I. R., Thornalley, D. J., Barker, S. and Stewart, C. 2015. Changes in the strength of the Nordic Seas Overflows over the past 3000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 123, pp. 134-143. (10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.007)
- Mulder, C. et al. 2015. 10 years later: revisiting priorities for science and society a decade after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Advances in Ecological Research 53, pp. 1-53. (10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.005)
- O'Sullivan, L. A. et al. 2015. Survival of Desulfotomaculum spores from estuarine sediments after serial autoclaving and high-temperature exposure. ISME Journal 9, pp. 922-933. (10.1038/ismej.2014.190)
- Roussel, E. G. P. et al. 2015. Complex coupled metabolic and prokaryotic community responses to increasing temperatures in anaerobic marine sediments: critical temperatures and substrate changes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91(8), article number: fiv084. (10.1093/femsec/fiv084)
- Sapsford, D. J., Santonastaso, M., Thorn, P. and Kershaw, S. 2015. Conversion of coal mine drainage ochre to water treatment reagent: Production, characterisation and application for P and Zn removal. Journal of Environmental Management 160, pp. 7-15. (10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.06.004)
- Simon, M. H. et al. 2015. Salt exchange in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway since the LGM: A compensating effect between Agulhas Current changes and salinity variations?. Paleoceanography 30(10) (10.1002/2015PA002842)
- Stoesser, T., McSherry, R. and Fraga Bugallo, B. 2015. Secondary currents and turbulence over a non-uniformly roughened open-channel bed. Water 7(9), pp. 4896-4913. (10.3390/w7094896)
- Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N., Whitmarsh, L. and Ballinger, R. 2015. Expert judgements of sea-level rise at the local scale. Journal of Risk Research 19(5), pp. 664-685. (10.1080/13669877.2015.1043568)
- Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N., Whitmarsh, L. and Ballinger, R. 2015. Mental models of sea-level change: A mixed methods analysis on the Severn Estuary, UK. Global Environmental Change 33, pp. 71-82. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.009)
- Thomas, R., Constantine, J., Gough, P. and Fussell, B. 2015. Rapid channel widening following weir removal due to bed-material wave dispersion on the River Monnow, Wales. River Research and Applications 31(8), pp. 1017-1027. (10.1002/rra.2803)
2014
- Ahmadian, R., Falconer, R. A. and Bray, S. 2014. Sensitivity study of modelling of Severn Barrage performance. Presented at: 1st International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 November 2014.
- Angeloudis, A., Ahmadian, R., Falconer, R. A. and Bockelmann-Evans, B. N. 2014. Numerical modelling of a tidal lagoon along the North Wales coast. Presented at: 1st International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 November 2014.
- Capstick, S. B., Whitmarsh, L. E., Poortinga, W., Pidgeon, N. F. and Upham, P. 2014. International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 6(1), pp. 35-61. (10.1002/wcc.321)
A Cardiff University Water Research Institute report for Catchment Systems Thinking Cooperative (CaSTCo) exploring the actors and activities driving the health of Usk catchment freshwaters.