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2023
Journal article
Co‐design of a citizen science study: Unlocking the potential of eDNA for volunteer freshwater monitoring
1. Citizen science is increasingly being promoted as a means of gathering more data to help inform the management of ecosystems. Involving the participants in the design of data collection activities is a form of co-design often proposed by those calling for a translational ecology. 2. In addition, novel monitoring...Clarke, Stewart J. ; Long, Emily ; Biggs, Jeremy ; Bruce, Kat ; Weatherby, Anita …
freshwater, Land & Nature, citizen science, co-design, Catchment, and eDNA
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2015
Journal article
The coming and going of a marl lake: multi-indicator palaeolimnology reveals abrupt ecological change and alternative views of reference conditions
Eutrophication is the most pressing threat to highly calcareous (marl) lakes in Europe. Despite their unique chemistry and biology, comprehensive studies into their unimpacted conditions and eutrophication responses are underrepresented in conservation literature. A multi-indicator palaeolimnological study spanning ca. 1260-2009 was undertaken at Cunswick Tarn (UK), a small, presently eutrophic... -
2015
Journal article
Ecological sensitivity of marl lakes to nutrient enrichment: evidence from Hawes Water, UK
Highly calcareous (marl) lakes are infrequent but important freshwater ecosystems, protected under the EU Habitats and Species Directive. Chara lakes have been considered resistant to eutrophication owing to the self-stabilising properties of charophyte meadows. However, the opposite is suggested by the large-scale biodiversity declines in marl lake taxa in Europe,...Wiik, Emma ; Bennion, Helen ; Sayer, Carl D. ; Davidson, Thomas A. ; McGowan, Suzanne …
Marl lakes, Pigments, Macrophytes, Eutrophication, Hawes Water, and Palaeolimnology
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2015
Journal article
Towards a risk register for natural capital
Natural capital is essential for goods and services on which people depend. Yet pressures on the environment mean that natural capital assets are continuing to decline and degrade, putting such benefits at risk. Systematic monitoring of natural assets is a major challenge that could be both unaffordable and unmanageable without... -
2016
Conference paper (published)
Role of palaeoecology in describing the ecological character of wetlands
While it is acknowledged that changes in the condition of a wetland can be detected through contemporary monitoring programs, this paper explores the extent to which palaeoecological approaches can be used in concert with contemporary techniques to understand benchmark conditions, rates and direction of change. This is done within the...Finlayson, C. Max ; Clarke, Stewart J. ; Davidson, Nick C. ; Gell, Peter
monitoring, reference conditions, Ramsar, natural variability, wetlands, palaeoecology, and wise use
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2016
Conference paper (published)
Palaeoecology to inform wetland conservation and management: some experiences and prospects
Wetlands are an important social–ecological resource, being fundamentally important to many natural processes, human wellbeing and livelihoods. They also contain important stores of information in their sediments which are increasingly being used to improve conservation and environmental management outcomes. We describe how palaeoecology can inform understanding of longer-term processes in... -
2019
Journal article
A Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation in 2019
We present the results of our tenth annual horizon scan. We identified 15 emerging priority topics that may have major positive or negative effects on the future conservation of global biodiversity, but currently have low awareness within the conservation community. We hope to increase research and policy attention on these... -
2018
Journal article
Sedimentary macrofossil records reveal ecological change in English lakes: implications for conservation
Aquatic macrophytes play a key role in providing habitat, refuge and food for a range of biota in shallow lakes. However, many shallow lakes have experienced declines in macrophyte vegetation in recent decades, principally due to eutrophication. As changes in macrophyte composition and abundance can affect overall ecological structure and...Bennion, Helen ; Sayer, Carl D. ; Clarke, Stewart J. ; Davidson, Thomas A. ; Rose, Neil L. …
Conservation, Eutrophication, Macrophytes, Palaeoecology, Macrofossils, and Lakes