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Pesticide-related risks embodied in global soybean trade (2024)
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Wang, J., Geng, X., Wang, P., Yang, J., Yang, Y., Chan, F. K. S., …Chen, W. (2024). Pesticide-related risks embodied in global soybean trade. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(3), Article 100055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100055

Pesticides may help safeguard food security but endanger the local ecosystem and farmer health. The globalization of the food trade is masking such impacts by separating production from consumption, and its effects on pesticide use and their related... Read More about Pesticide-related risks embodied in global soybean trade.

Reconnecting a stream channel to its floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure (2024)
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Edwards, P. M., Popp, N. C., Pan, Y., Weilhoefer, C. L., Peterman, A. B., Mork, L. A., …Popp, B. N. (2024). Reconnecting a stream channel to its floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure. Restoration Ecology, Article e14123. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14123

Streams systems draining upland landscapes provide valuable ecosystem services, but they are vulnerable to incision and channelization caused by anthropogenic disturbance. Restoring a degraded stream to its pre‐disturbance condition by reconnecting t... Read More about Reconnecting a stream channel to its floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure.

Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience (2024)
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Johnson, M. F., Albertson, L. K., Algar, A. C., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., England, J., …Wood, P. J. (2024). Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Article e1724. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1724

Rising water temperatures in rivers due to climate change are already having observable impacts on river ecosystems. Warming water has both direct and indirect impacts on aquatic life, and further aggravates pervasive issues such as eutrophication, p... Read More about Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience.

Food security in climatic extremes: Challenges and opportunities for China (2024)
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Shun Chan, F. K., Zhu, Y., Wang, J., Chen, J., Johnson, M. F., Li, G., …Wang, J. (2024). Food security in climatic extremes: Challenges and opportunities for China. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(2), Article 100013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2023.100013

Droughts and floods in 2022 and 2023 have compounded stress on Chinese food security. China’s northeast region is a major grain-producing powerhouse, but recent climatic extremes combined with EI Niño effects have exposed vulnerabilities in its agric... Read More about Food security in climatic extremes: Challenges and opportunities for China.

An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking (2023)
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Valman, S. J., Boyd, D. S., Carbonneau, P. E., Johnson, M. F., & Dugdale, S. J. (2024). An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking. Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, Article 113932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113932

Monitoring rivers is vital to manage the invaluable ecosystem services they provide, and also to mitigate the risks they pose to property and life through flooding and drought. Due to the vast extent and dynamic nature of river systems, Earth Observa... Read More about An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking.

Relationships between soil and badger elemental concentrations across a heterogeneously contaminated landscape (2023)
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Sartorius, A., Cahoon, M., Corbetta, D., Grau-Roma, L., Johnson, M. F., Sandoval Barron, E., …Bennett, M. (2023). Relationships between soil and badger elemental concentrations across a heterogeneously contaminated landscape. Science of the Total Environment, 869, Article 161684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161684

Understanding the links between environmental and wildlife elemental concentrations is key to help assess ecosystem functions and the potential effects of legacy pollutants. In this study, livers from 448 European badgers (Meles meles) collected acro... Read More about Relationships between soil and badger elemental concentrations across a heterogeneously contaminated landscape.

Widespread occurrence of microplastics in marine bays with diverse drivers and environmental risk (2022)
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Liu, D., Guo, Z. F., Xu, Y. Y., Ka Shun Chan, F., Xu, Y. Y., Johnson, M., & Zhu, Y. G. (2022). Widespread occurrence of microplastics in marine bays with diverse drivers and environmental risk. Environment International, 168, Article 107483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107483

Microplastic contamination in the sediment of marine bays has attracted widespread attention, whereas the distribution, sedimentation, morphology and risk of microplastics at regional scale remain poorly understood. By introducing a data mining frame... Read More about Widespread occurrence of microplastics in marine bays with diverse drivers and environmental risk.

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire (2022)
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Pugh, B. E., Colley, M., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., Flitcroft, R., Holz, A., …Field, R. (2022). A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(10), 1990-2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13555

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosai... Read More about A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire.

Fluffy Rivers: How Our Clothes Can Harm Rivers and The Oceans (2022)
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Stanton, T., Johnson, M., Gomes, R. L., Nathanail, P., Macnaughtan, W., & Kay, P. (2022). Fluffy Rivers: How Our Clothes Can Harm Rivers and The Oceans. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, Article 743943. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.743943

Microplastics are one of the most well-known types of environmental pollution. A microplastic is any piece of plastic smaller than 5 mm (about the size of one of the circles on top of a Lego® block). Microplastics come in a variety of shapes and they... Read More about Fluffy Rivers: How Our Clothes Can Harm Rivers and The Oceans.

Human health implications from consuming eggs produced near a derelict metalliferous mine: a case study (2022)
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Sartorius, A., Johnson, M., Young, S., Bennett, M., Baiker, K., Edwards, P., & Yon, L. (2022). Human health implications from consuming eggs produced near a derelict metalliferous mine: a case study. Food Additives and Contaminants: Part A: Chemistry, Analysis, Control, Exposure and Risk Assessment, 39(6), 1074-1085. https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2022.2062059

Lead pollution from metalliferous mines can have major environmental and health effects long after the mines have closed. Animals living near derelict mine sites can inadvertently ingest lead-contaminated soils, causing them to accumulate lead and po... Read More about Human health implications from consuming eggs produced near a derelict metalliferous mine: a case study.

Planet Patrolling: A citizen science brand audit of anthropogenic litter in the context of national legislation and international policy (2022)
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Stanton, T., Chico, G., Carr, E., Cook, S., Gomes, R. L., Heard, E., …Johnson, M. (2022). Planet Patrolling: A citizen science brand audit of anthropogenic litter in the context of national legislation and international policy. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 436, Article 129118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129118

Anthropogenic Litter (AL) is ubiquitous in distribution and diverse in type and impact. Citizen science AL clean-ups engage citizens with the environment and have the potential to generate data that can inform policy. Here we present a detailed citiz... Read More about Planet Patrolling: A citizen science brand audit of anthropogenic litter in the context of national legislation and international policy.

Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments (2022)
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Kumar, A., Gosling, S. N., Johnson, M. F., Jones, M. D., Zaherpour, J., Kumar, R., …Masaki, Y. (2022). Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments. Advances in Water Resources, 165, Article 104212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104212

Although global- and catchment-scale hydrological models are often shown to accurately simulate long-term runoff time-series, far less is known about their suitability for capturing hydrological extremes, such as droughts. Here we evaluated simulatio... Read More about Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments.

Aquatic Insect Bioconstructions Modify Fine-Sediment Entrainment and Mobility (2022)
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Mason, R. J., Rice, S. P., Johnson, M. F., Wood, P. J., & Vettori, D. (2022). Aquatic Insect Bioconstructions Modify Fine-Sediment Entrainment and Mobility. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(2), Article e2021JF006399. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jf006399

The importance of two-way interactions between animals and the physical hydraulic and sedimentological environment are increasingly recognized (e.g., zoogeomorphology). Caddisflies (Trichoptera) are a group of aquatic insects known for their bioconst... Read More about Aquatic Insect Bioconstructions Modify Fine-Sediment Entrainment and Mobility.

Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration (2021)
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England, J., Angelopoulos, N., Cooksley, S., Dodd, J., Gill, A., Gilvear, D., …Wilkes, M. A. (2021). Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration. Water, 13(23), Article 3352. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233352

Nature-based solutions are widely advocated for freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration. As increasing amounts of river restoration are undertaken, the need to understand the ecological response to different measures and where measures are... Read More about Best practices for monitoring and assessing the ecological response to river restoration.

Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management? (2021)
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Green, D., O'Donnell, E., Johnson, M., Slater, L., Thorne, C., Zheng, S., …Boothroyd, R. J. (2021). Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(6), Article e1560. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1560

Urban flooding is a key global challenge which is expected to become exacerbated under global change due to more intense rainfall and flashier runoff regimes over increasingly urban landscapes. Consequently, many cities are rethinking their approach... Read More about Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?.

Microplastic pollution in Chinese urban rivers: The influence of urban factors (2021)
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Xu, Y., Chan, F. K. S., Johnson, M., Stanton, T., He, J., Jia, T., …Yu, X. (2021). Microplastic pollution in Chinese urban rivers: The influence of urban factors. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 173, Article 105686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105686

Microplastics are being widely discussed as an emerging global environmental contaminant. Microplastic pollution usually originates from land-based sources, which are then mainly transported through hydrological and atmospheric pathways and accumulat... Read More about Microplastic pollution in Chinese urban rivers: The influence of urban factors.

Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes (2021)
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D'Souza, M., Johnson, M. F., & Ives, C. D. (2021). Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes. Journal of Environmental Management, 291, Article 112636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112636

Natural Flood Management (NFM) is now well established as a paradigm for reducing flood risk. It is characterised by adopting a catchment-wide hydrological perspective and implementing solutions that work with natural processes such as wetlands, ripa... Read More about Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes.

Synthesis of dominant plastic microfibre prevalence and pollution control feasibility in Chinese freshwater environments (2021)
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Chan, F. K. S., Stanton, T., Johnson, M. F., Kay, P., Xu, Y., He, J., …Wang, Z. (2021). Synthesis of dominant plastic microfibre prevalence and pollution control feasibility in Chinese freshwater environments. Science of the Total Environment, 783, Article 146863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146863

Microplastic pollution of freshwaters is known to be a great concern in China and these pollutants can be discharged into the coastal environment through fluvial processes, posing threats to the global marine ecosystem. This paper reviewed the litera... Read More about Synthesis of dominant plastic microfibre prevalence and pollution control feasibility in Chinese freshwater environments.

Simulating land use changes, sediment yields, and pesticide use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin: Implications for conservation of the Pantanal wetland (2021)
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de Oliveira Roque, F., Guerra, A., Johnson, M., Padovania, C., Corbi, J., Covich, A. P., …Yon, L. (2021). Simulating land use changes, sediment yields, and pesticide use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin: Implications for conservation of the Pantanal wetland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 314, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107405

As a consequence of accelerated and excessive use of pesticides in tropical regions, wilderness areas are under threat; this includes the Pantanal wetlands in the Upper Paraguay River Basin (UPRB). Using a Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) modelling... Read More about Simulating land use changes, sediment yields, and pesticide use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin: Implications for conservation of the Pantanal wetland.

Anthropogenic litter is a novel habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban rivers (2020)
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Wilson, H. L., Johnson, M. F., Wood, P. J., Thorne, C. R., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2021). Anthropogenic litter is a novel habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban rivers. Freshwater Biology, 66(3), 524-534. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13657

1. Anthropogenic litter (solid manufactured waste) is an understudied but pervasive element of river systems worldwide. Its physical structure generally differs from natural substrates, such as gravel and cobbles (hereafter rocks). Consequently, anth... Read More about Anthropogenic litter is a novel habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban rivers.