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Integrating regulatory surveys and citizen science to map outbreaks of forest diseases : acute oak decline in England and Wales (2017)
Journal Article
Brown, N., van den Bosch, F., Parnell, S., & Denman, S. (2017). Integrating regulatory surveys and citizen science to map outbreaks of forest diseases : acute oak decline in England and Wales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1859), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0547

The number of emerging tree diseases has increased rapidly in recent times, with severe environmental and economic consequences. Systematic regulatory surveys to detect and establish the distribution of pests are crucial for successful management eff... Read More about Integrating regulatory surveys and citizen science to map outbreaks of forest diseases : acute oak decline in England and Wales.

An evaluation DEM accuracy acquired using a small unmanned aerial vehicle across a riverine environment (2017)
Journal Article
unmanned aerial vehicle across a riverine environment. International journal of new technology and research, 3(7), 43-48

Fluvial systems offer a challenging and varied environment for topographic survey, displaying a rapidly varying morphology, diversevegetation assemblage and varying degree of submergence. Traditionally theodolite or GPS based systems have been used t... Read More about An evaluation DEM accuracy acquired using a small unmanned aerial vehicle across a riverine environment.

Effects of heavy metal contamination in saltmarsh and reed bed on carbon sequestration (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Enya, O., Lin, C., & James, P. (2017, June). Effects of heavy metal contamination in saltmarsh and reed bed on carbon sequestration. Poster presented at Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC), Media city

Assessing stabilization of soil organic matter (SOM) with heavy metal contamination is one factor that will invariably provide an answer to whether heavy metal contamination affects the storage of soil organic matter/carbon. The transformations of SO... Read More about Effects of heavy metal contamination in saltmarsh and reed bed on carbon sequestration.

Investing the impact of social variation on Edge Space (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Scaletta, K. (2017, June). Investing the impact of social variation on Edge Space. Presented at Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC) 2017, University of Salford, UK

Funding environmental management and research over the long term : the Mersey Gateway case study (2017)
Presentation / Conference
James, P. (2017, June). Funding environmental management and research over the long term : the Mersey Gateway case study. Presented at IALE(UK) Annual Conference: 25 Years of Landscape Ecology, Manchester Metropolitan University

When a local authority is the developer of a major civil engineering project, the normal route to ensure appropriate environmental mitigation, a Section 106 agreement, is not feasible. The construction of a six-lane toll bridge between Runcorn and Wi... Read More about Funding environmental management and research over the long term : the Mersey Gateway case study.

Modeling stormwater management at the city district level in response to changes in land use and low impact development (2017)
Journal Article
Kong, F., Ban, Y., James, P., & Dronova, I. (2017). Modeling stormwater management at the city district level in response to changes in land use and low impact development. Environmental Modelling and Software, 95, 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.021

Mitigating the impact of increasing impervious surfaces on stormwater runoff by low impact development (LID) is currently being widely promoted at site and local scales. In turn, the series of distributed LID implementations may produce cumulative ef... Read More about Modeling stormwater management at the city district level in response to changes in land use and low impact development.

Surveillance to inform control of emerging plant diseases : an epidemiological perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Parnell, S., van den Bosch, F., Gottwald, T., & Gilligan, C. (2017). Surveillance to inform control of emerging plant diseases : an epidemiological perspective. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 55, 591-610. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-phyto-080516-035334

The rise in emerging pathogens and strains has led to increased calls for more effective surveillance in plant health. We show how epidemiological insights about the dynamics of disease spread can improve the targeting of when and where to sample. We... Read More about Surveillance to inform control of emerging plant diseases : an epidemiological perspective.

Evaluation of the impact of 2 years of a dosing intervention on canine echinococcosis in the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan (2017)
Journal Article
van Kesteren, F., Mastin, A., Torgerson, P., Mytynova, B., & Craig, P. (2017). Evaluation of the impact of 2 years of a dosing intervention on canine echinococcosis in the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan. Parasitology, 144(10), 1328-1337. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182017000397

Echinococcosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease in Kyrgyzstan. In 2012, an echinococcosis control scheme was started that included dosing owned dogs in the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan with praziquantel. Control programmes require large investments of mo... Read More about Evaluation of the impact of 2 years of a dosing intervention on canine echinococcosis in the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan.

An endemic hantavirus in field voles in northern England (2017)
Journal Article
Thomason, A., Begon, M., Bradley, J., Paterson, S., & Jackson, J. (2017). An endemic hantavirus in field voles in northern England. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23(6), https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.161607

We report a PCR survey of hantavirus infection in the extensive field vole (Microtus agrestis) populations occurring in the Kielder Forest, northern England. A Tatenale virus-like lineage was frequently detected (~ 15% prevalence) in liver tissue. Su... Read More about An endemic hantavirus in field voles in northern England.

Metrology of dye-sensitised solar cells (Poster Presentation) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Furnell, L., Holliman, P., Anthony, R., Connell, A., Jones, E., & Kershaw, C. (2017, April). Metrology of dye-sensitised solar cells (Poster Presentation). Poster presented at PVSAT 13 2017 (The 13th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference), Bangor University, Bangor

Anthropogenic noise reduces bird species richness and diversity in urban parks (2017)
Journal Article
and diversity in urban parks. Ibis, 159(3), 638-646. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12481

Anthropogenic noise is becoming more prevalent in the world and has been shown to affect many animal species, including birds. The impact of such noise was measured in Neotropical urban parks to assess how the noise affects avifauna diversity and spe... Read More about Anthropogenic noise reduces bird species richness and diversity in urban parks.

Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’ (2017)
Journal Article
Gilroy, D., Phillips, K., Richardson, D., & van Oosterhout, C. (2017). Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(7), 1276-1287. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13077

Balancing selection can maintain immunogenetic variation within host populations, but detecting its signal in a postbottlenecked population is challenging due to the potentially overriding effects of drift. Toll-like receptor genes (TLRs) play a fund... Read More about Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’.

Risk-based management of invading plant disease (2017)
Journal Article
Hyatt-Twynam, S., Parnell, S., Stutt, R., Gottwald, T., Gilligan, C., & Cunniffe, N. (2017). Risk-based management of invading plant disease. New Phytologist, 214(3), 1317-1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14488

Effective control of plant disease remains a key challenge. Eradication attempts often involve removal of host plants within a certain radius of detection, targeting asymptomatic infection. Here we develop and test potentially more effective, epidemi... Read More about Risk-based management of invading plant disease.

Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation (2017)
Journal Article
Hancock, S., Gaulton, R., & Danson, F. (2017). Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2017.2652140

A new generation of multi-wavelength lidars offer
the potential to measure the structure and biochemistry of
vegetation simultaneously, using range resolved spectra indices
to overcome the confounding effects in passive optical measurements.
Howe... Read More about Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation.