Water research publications
water@leeds actively seeks to make our research available to all – through the publication of peer-reviewed papers, books, conference proceedings and articles.
A selection of the most recent publications by water@leeds members is provided below and provides a further insight into the variety of our research.
New Publications
Knippertz, P.; Wernli, H. (2010) A Lagrangian climatology of tropical moisture exports to the Northern Hemispheric extratropics. Journal of Climate, 23(4), 987–1003.
Stewart, DI; Burke, IT; Hughes-Berry, DV; Whittleston, RA (2010) Microbially-mediated chromate reduction in soil contaminated by highly alkaline leachate from chromium containing waste, Ecological Engineering, 36(2), pp211-221. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.12.028
Lear, G; McBeth, JM; Boothman, C; Gunning, DJ; Ellis, BL; Lawson, RS; Morris, K; Burke, IT; Bryan, ND; Brown, AP; Livens, FR; Lloyd, JR (2010) Probing the biogeochemical behaviour of technetium using a novel nuclear imaging approach., Environmental Science Technology, 44(1), pp156-162. doi:10.1021/es802885r
Law, GT; Geissler, A; Boothman, C; Burke, IT; Livens, FR; Lloyd, JR; Morris, K (2010) Role of nitrate in conditioning aquifer sediments for technetium bioreduction, Environmental Science Technology, 44(1), pp150-155. doi:10.1021/es9010866
Burke, I. T; Livens, F. R; Lloyd, J. R; Brown, A; law, G. T. W; McBeth, J. M; Ellis, B; Lawson, R. S; Morris, K (2010) The fate of technetium in reduced estuarine sediments: Combining direct and indirect analyses, Applied Geochemistry, 25(2), pp233-241. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.11.008
Geissler, A; Selenska-Pobell, S; Morris, K; Burke, I. T; Livens, F. R; Lloyd, J. R (2010) The microbial ecology of land and water contaminated with radioactive waste; towards the development of bioremediation options for the nuclear industry, In: Batty, L.C., Hallberg, K., Jarvis, A.P. (Ed) The Ecology of Industrial Pollution: restoration, remediation and preservation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, UK.
Palmer-Felgate, E. J; Mortimer, R. J. G; Krom, M. D.; Jarvie, H. P. (2010) Impact of Point-Source Pollution on Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycling in Stream-Bed Sediments, Environmental Science Technology, 44 (3), 908-914. doi:10.1021/es902706r
Brown, L.E., Milner, A.M. & Hannah, D.M. (in press) Predicting river ecosystem response to glacial meltwater dynamics: a comparative case study of quantitative water sourcing and glaciality index approaches. Aquatic Sciences
Holden, J. and Rose, R. (in press) Temperature and surface lapse rate change: a study of the UK’s longest upland instrumental record. International Journal of Climatology.
Garcia-Carreras, L., D. J. Parker, C. M. Taylor, C. E. Reeves, and J. G. Murphy (2010), Impact of mesoscale vegetation heterogeneities on the dynamical and thermodynamic properties of the planetary boundary layer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 15, D03102, doi:10.1029/2009JD012811.
Gupta, A. (2009) Geology and landforms of the Mekong Basin, In: The Mekong: Biophysical environment of an international river basin (I.C. Campbell, Ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 29-51.
Mohammad Abou Romieh, Rob Westaway, Mohamad Daoud, Yousef Radwan, Rayan Yassminh, Ahlam Khalil, Abeer al-Ashkar, Susan Loughlin, Katherine Arrell, and David Bridgland (2009) Active crustal shortening in NE Syria revealed by deformed terraces of the River Euphrates. Terra Nova. 21(6) 427-437
Woulds C., Cowie G., Middelburg J. J., 2009, A method for the quantitative detection of 13-C labelled amino acids and aldoses in marine sediments and fauna, Organic Geochemistry. 41, 13-21.
Szupiany, RN; Amsler, ML; Parsons, DR; Best, JL (2009) Morphology, flow structure, and suspended bed sediment transport at two large braid-bar confluences, Water Resources Research, 45, . doi:10.1029/2008WR007428
Smith, GHS; Ashworth, PJ; Best, JL; Lunt, IA; Orfeo, O; Parsons, DR (2009) The Sedimentology And Alluvial Architecture Of A Large Braid Bar, Rio Parana, Argentina. Journal of Sediment Research, 79(7-8), pp629-642. doi:10.2110/jsr.2009.066
Fewtrell, L., Kay, D. and McDonald, A. (2009) Rainwater harvesting – an HIA of rainwater harvesting in the UK. In Fewtrell, L. and Kay, D. (eds) Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Management. IWA Publishing. London ISBN 1843391333. pp45-68.
Mitchell, G., McDonald, A.T. and Clarke, M. (2009) Applications of an urban diffuse pollution model to support WFD investment appraisal. In Gallo, M. and Ferrari, M. (eds) River Pollution Research Progress. ISBN 978-1-60456-643-7
Reed MS, Arblaster K, Bullock C, Burton R, Davies AL, Holden, J, Hubacek K, May R, Mitchley J, Morris J, Nainggolan D, Potter C, Quinn CH, Swales V, Thorp S (2009) Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures. Futures, 41, 619-630.
Holden, J. Howard, A.J., West, L.J., Maxfield, E., Panter, I., Oxley, J. (2009) A critical review of hydrological data collection schemes for assessing preservation risk for urban waterlogged archaeology: a case study from the City of York, UK. Journal of Environmental Management, 90, 3197-3204.
Brown, L.E., Céréghino, R. & Compin, A. 2009. Endemic aquatic invertebrates from southern France: diversity, distribution and conservation implications. Biological Conservation 142: 2613-2619
Reed MS, Bonn A, Slee W, Beharry-Borg N, Birch J, Brown I, Burt TP, Chapman D, Chapman PJ, Clay G, Cornell S, Fraser EDG, Holden J, Hodgson J, Hubacek K, Irvine B, Jin N, Kirkby MJ, Kunin W, Moore O, Moseley D, Prell C, Quinn C, Redpath S, Stagl S, Stringer LC, Termansen M, Thorp S, Towers W, Worrall F (in press, 2009) The future of the uplands. Land Use and Management.
Johnston, K. and Robson, B.J. (2009). Habitat use by five sympatric Australian freshwater crayfish species (Parastacidae). Freshwater Biology, 54: 1629-1641.
Worrall, F., Evans M.G., Bonn, A., Reed, M.S., Chapman, D., Holden, J. (in press) Can carbon offsetting pay for upland ecological restoration? Science of the Total Environment.
Blundell , A., Hannam, J.A. Dearing, J.A., Boyle, J.F. (In press). Detecting atmospheric pollution in surface soils using magnetic measurements: A reappraisal using an England and Wales database. Environmental Pollution.
Blundell, A., et al., Controlling factors for the spatial variability of soil magnetic susceptibility across England and Wales, Earth-Science Reviews (2009), doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.05.001
A Arneth, S Sitch et al. (2009) From biota to chemistry and climate: Towards a comprehensive description of trace gas exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere. Biogeosciences. MS No.: bg-2009-175
Bevan, R.J., SLACK, R.J., Holmes, P. & Levy, L.S. (2009) An assessment of potential cancer risk following occupational exposure to ethanol. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 12: 188-205.
Holden, J. and Gell, K.F. (2009) Morphological characterization of solute flow in a brown earth grassland soil with cranefly larvae burrows (leatherjackets). Geoderma, 152, 181-186.
A special issue of Deep Sea Research Part II has just come out with three of Clare Woulds' papers in:
Woulds, C., J. H. Andersson, et al. (2009). "The short-term fate of organic carbon in marine sediments: Comparing the Pakistan margin to other regions." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(6-7): 393-402.
Woulds, C. and G. L. Cowie (2009). "Sedimentary pigments on the Pakistan margin: Controlling factors and organic matter dynamics." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(6-7): 347-357.
Woulds, C., M. C. Schwartz, et al. (2009). "Porewater nutrient concentrations and benthic nutrient fluxes across the Pakistan margin OMZ." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(6-7): 333-346.
Brown, L.E., Cereghino, R. & Compin, A. Endemic aquatic invertebrates from southern France: diversity, distribution and conservation implications. Biological Conservation (accepted).
O'ishi, Ryouta; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Prentice, I. Colin; Sitch, Stephen. Vegetation dynamics and plant CO[2] responses as positive feedbacks in a greenhouse world Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 36, No. 11, L11706.http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038217
Kay, P. (2009). Are we doing enough to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture? International Water Association W&RBM newsletter, May 2009. pp. 22-23.
Nesha Beharry-Borg, David A. Hensher, Riccardo Scarpa (2009) An Analytical Framework for Joint vs Separate Decisions by Couples in Choice Experiments: The Case of Coastal Water Quality in Tobago. Environmental and Resource Economics. 43(1):95-117.
Collier, C.G. (2009) "On the propagation of uncertainty in weather radar estimates of rainfall through hydrological models". Meteorological Applications, 16, 35-40.
Shilong Piao, Jingyun Fang, Philippe Ciais, Philippe Peylin, Yao Huang, Stephen Sitch, Tao Wang, The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China, Nature 458, 1009-1013 (23 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07944 Letter
Lina M. Mercado ,Nicolas Bellouin, Stephen Sitch, Olivier Boucher, Chris Huntingford, Martin Wild, Peter M. Cox, Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink, Nature 458, 1014-1017 (23 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07949 Letter
Holden, J. Howard, A.J., West, L.J., Maxfield, E., Panter, I., Oxley, J. (2009 in press) A critical review of hydrological data collection schemes for assessing preservation risk for urban waterlogged archaeology: a case study from the City of York, UK. Journal of Environmental Management.
Hubacek, K., Guan, D., John Barrett, J., Wiedmann, T. (2009) Environmental implications of urbanization and lifestyle change in China: ecological and water Footprints. Journal of Cleaner Production (In Press).
Jackson, R.B., Cook, C.W., Pippen, J.S. & Palmer, S.M.Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. Ecology.
Carrivick J.L. 2009. Jokulhlaups from Kverkfjoll volcano, Iceland: modelling transient hydraulic phenomena. In. Burr, D.M., Carling, P.A., and Baker, V.R. (eds.). Megaflooding on Earth and Mars. Cambridge University Press.
Keylock, C.J. 2009. Evaluating the dimensionality and significance of “active periods” in turbulent environmental flows defined using Lipshitz/Hölder regularity, Environmental Fluid Mechanics DOI:10.1007/s10652-009-9127-6
Holden, J. (2009) Topographic controls upon soil macropore flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 345-351.
Reed MS, Arblaster K, Bullock C, Burton R, Fraser EDG, Hubacek K, May R, Mitchley J, Morris J, Potter C, Reid C, Swales V, Thorpe S (in press) Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures. Futures 41 (9)
Stringer LC, Reed MS, Dougill AJ, Twyman C (in press) Local adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environmental Science & Policy
Prell C, Reed MS, Hubacek K (in press) Social network analysis and stakeholder analysis for natural resource management. Society & Natural Resources
Reed MS, Dougill AJ (in press) Linking Degradation Assessment to Sustainable Land Management: a decision support system for Kalahari pastoralists. Journal of Arid Environments
Chapman DS, Termansen M, Jin N, Quinn CH, Cornell SJ, Fraser EDG, Hubacek K, Kunin WE, Reed MS (2009) Modelling the coupled dynamics of moorland management and vegetation in the UK uplands. Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 278–288
Reed MS, Graves A, Dandy N, Posthumus H, Hubacek K, Morris J, Prell C, Quinn CH, Stringer LC (2009) Who’s in and why? Stakeholder analysis as a prerequisite for sustainable natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Management 90: 1933–1949
Stringer LC, Scrieciu SS, Reed MS (2009) Biodiversity, Land Degradation and Climate Change: Participatory Planning in Romania. Applied Geography 29: 77–90
Foxton T, Reed MS, Stringer LC (2009) Governing long-term socio-ecological change: What can resilience and transitions approaches learn from each other? Environmental Policy and Governance 19: 3–20
Crabtree, B; Kelly, S; Green, H; Squibbs, G. and Mitchell, G. (2009) Water Framework Directive catchment planning: a case study apportioning loads and assessing environmental benefits of programme of measures. Water Science and Technology, 59, 3, 407-416
Holden, J., Howard, AJ, West, LJ., Maxfield, E., Panter, I., Oxley, J (in press) A critical review of hydrological data collection for assessing preservation risk for urban waterlogged archaeology: a case study from the City of York, UK. Journal of Environmental Management.
Crushell PH, Smolders AJP, Schouten MGC, Robroek BJM, Van Wirdum G & Roelofs JGM. Restoration of a terrestrialised soak lake of an Irish raised bog: results of field experiments.accepted in Resotation Ecology
Jonathan Carrivick and 5 others. 2009. "Geomorphological evidence towards a deglacial control on volcanism". Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.(in press).
Shanmugam, P. and Horan NJ (2009) Simple and rapid methods to evaluate methane potential and biomass yield for a range of mixed solid wastes Bioresource Technology, 100(1), 471-474.
Reed MS, Arblaster K, Bullock C, Burton R, Davies AL, Holden, J, Hubacek K, May R, Mitchley J, Morris J, Nainggolan D, Potter C, Quinn CH, Swales V, Thorp S (in press, 2009) Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures.Futures, 41 (9).
Robroek BJM, Eppinga MB, Limpens J, Wassen MJ & Schouten MGC (in press) Hoogveenherstel in Nederland: méér dan een droom. Restoration of raised bogs in the Netherlands: more than just a dream (in Dutch). Landschap xx: xx-xx
Milner, A.M., Brown, L.E. & Hannah, D.M. (2009) Hydroecological effects of shrinking glaciers. Hydrological Processes 23: 62-77
Ings, T.C., Montoya, J.M., Bascompte, J., Blüthgen, N., Brown, L.E., Dormann, C.F., Edwards, F., Figueroa, D., Jacob, U., Jones, J.I., Laurisden, R.B., Ledger, M.E., Olesen, J.M., Van Veen, F.J., Warren, P.H. & Woodward, G. (2009) Ecological networks – beyond food webs Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 253-269
Holden, J. (2009) Flow through macropores of different size classes in blanket peat. Journal of Hydrology, 364, 342-348.
Gouldson, A. E. Lopez-Gunn, J. Van Alstine, Y. Rees, M. Davies and V. Krishnarayan (2008) ‘New, Alternative and Complementary Policy Instruments and the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive’, European Environment, 19, 6, pp359-370.
Brown, L.E, Hannah, D.M & Milner, A.M. (accepted) ARISE: A classification approach for Alpine RIver and Stream Ecosystems.Freshwater Biology
Richard Grayson, Paul Kay and Miles Foulger (2008) The use of GIS and multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) to identify agricultural land management practices which cause surface water pollution in drinking water supply Catchments. Water Science & Technology 58 9 1797-1802
Richard Grayson and Andrew Plater (2008) A lake sediment record of Pb mining from Ullswater, English Lake District, UK. Journal of Paleolimnology DOI 10.1007/s10933-008-9270-y
Milner, A.M., Brown, L.E. & Hannah, D.M. (in press) Hydroecological effects of shrinking glaciers. Hydrological Processes
Farley, K. A., G. Piñeiro, S. M. Palmer, E. G. Jobbágy, and R. B. Jackson (2008), Stream acidification and base cation losses with grassland afforestation, Water Resour. Res., 44, W00A03, doi:10.1029/2007WR006659.
Guan Dabo and Klaus Hubacek (2008). “A Hydro-Economic Accounting and Analytical Framework for Water Resources: A case study for North China.” Environmental Management. Volume 88, Issue 4, Pages 1300-1313. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.07.010.
Barua, Anamika and Klaus Hubacek (2008). “Water pollution and economic growth in India: An Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis on the Watershed and State Level.” Ecological Economics and Statistics. Vol. 10, pp. 63-78. http://www.ceser.res.in/ijees.html
Reed, M.S (2008). "Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review." Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.07.014
Liew, S.C., Thouret, J.-C., Gupta, A. and Kwoh, L.K. (2008) First satellite image of a moving pyroclastic flow, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 89, no. 22, 27 May, p. 202.
Keylock, C.J.. 2008. A criterion for delimiting active periods within turbulent flows, Geophysical Research Letters 35, L11804, doi:10.1029/2008GL033858
Keylock, C.J.. 2008. Improved preservation of autocorrelative structure in surrogate data using an initial wavelet step, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 15, 435-444.
Howard, A.J., Challis, K., Holden, J., Kincey, M. and Passmore, D.G. (2008) The impact of climate change on archaeological resources in Britain: a catchment scale assessment. Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9426-9.
Holden, J., Kirkby, M.J., Lane, S.N., Milledge, D.J., Brookes, C.J., Holden, V. and McDonald, A.T. (2008) Overland flow velocity and roughness properties in peatlands. Water Resources Research, 44. DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006052
Holden, J. (in press) Topographic controls upon soil macropore flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Limpens, J., Berendse, F., Blodau, C., Canadell, P., Freeman, C., Holden, J., Roulet, N, Håkan Rydin, H., Schaepman-Strub, G. and Vitt, D. (in press) Peatlands and the carbon cycle: from local processes to global implications - a synthesis. Biogeosciences.
A.T. McDonald, A.D.J. McDonald, D. Kay, J. Watkins. (2008)The microbial status of natural waters in a protected wilderness area
A.T. McDonald, P.J. Chapman, K. Fukasawa, (2008) Farmyards, an overlooked source for highly contaminated runoff.
D. Kay, J. Crowther, C.M. Stapleton, M.D. Wyer, L. Fewtrell, S. Anthony, M. Bradford, A. Edwards, C.A. Francis, M. Hopkinsa, C. Kay, A.T. McDonald, J. Watkins, J. Wilkinson. (2008) Characteristics and significance of liquid effluent from woodchip corrals in Scotland
Holden, J. (ed) (2008) An introduction to physical geography and the environment. Second edition. Pearson Education, Harlow.
water@leeds actively seeks to make our research available to all – through the publication of peer-reviewed papers, books, conference proceedings and articles.
A selection of the most recent publications by water@leeds members is provided below and provides a further insight into the variety of our research.
