Academic Papers & Publications

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Grazing reduces bee abundance and diversity in saltmarshes by suppressing flowering of key plant species

Davidson, K.E., Fowler, M.S., Skov, M.W., Forman, D., Alison, J., Botham, M., Beaumont, N. and Griffin, J.N., 2020. Grazing reduces bee abundance and diversity in saltmarshes by suppressing flowering of key plant species. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 291, p.106760.

Agronomy

Incorporating Biodiversity into Biogeochemistry Models to Improve Prediction of Ecosystem Services in Temperate Grasslands: Review and Roadmap

Van Oijen, M.; Barcza, Z.; Confalonieri, R.; Korhonen, P.; Kröel-Dulay, G.; Lellei-Kovács, E.; Louarn, G.; Louault, F.; Martin, R.; Moulin, T.; Movedi, E.; Picon-Cochard, C.; Rolinski, S.; Viovy, N.; Wirth, S.B.; Bellocchi, G. Incorporating Biodiversity into Biogeochemistry Models to Improve Prediction of Ecosystem Services in Temperate Grasslands: Review and Roadmap. Agronomy 2020, 10, 259.

EJSS (European J Soil Sci)

Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators

Seaton, Fiona & Barrett, Gaynor & Burden, Annette & Creer, Simon & Fitos, E. & Garbutt, A. & Griffiths, R. & Henrys, Peter & Jones, Davey & Keenan, P. & Keith, Aidan & Lebron, I. & Maskell, L. & Pereira, M. & Reinsch, S. & Smart, Simon & Williams, B. & Emmett, B. & Robinson, David. (2020). Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators. European Journal of Soil Science. 10.1111/ejss.12958.

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity

Seaton, F.M., George, P.B., Lebron, I., Jones, D.L., Creer, S. and Robinson, D.A., 2020. Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, p.107766.

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Agri-environment effects on birds in Wales: Tir Gofal benefited woodland and hedgerow species

Dadam, D. and Siriwardena, G.M., 2019. Agri-environment effects on birds in Wales: Tir Gofal benefited woodland and hedgerow species. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 284, p.106587.

Applied Geography

Can computer game landscapes target new audiences for landscape quality assessment?

Swetnam, R.D. and Korenko, J., 2019. Can computer game landscapes target new audiences for landscape quality assessment?. Applied Geography, 113, p.102102.

Biological Conservation

Exploring relationships between land use intensity, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity to identify and monitor areas of High Nature Value farming

Maskell, L., G. Tordoff, D. Maxwell, P. Henrys, S. Smart, B.A. Emmett, J. Skates, M. Botham, G.M. Siriwardena, E. Tebbs, S. Jarvis, C. Rowland, D. Robinson. 2019. Exploring relationships between land use intensity, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity to identify and monitor areas of High Nature Value farming, Biological Conservation, 231:30-38.

Biorxiv

Beyond taxonomic identification: integration of ecological responses to a soil bacterial 16S rRNA gene database

Briony A. Jones, Tim Goodall, Paul George, Hyun Soon Gweon, Jeremy Puissant, Daniel Read, Bridget A. Emmett, David A. Robinson, Davey L. Jones, Robert I. Griffiths

https://doi.org/10.1101/843847

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/843847v1.full

Frontiers of Environmental Science

Primer and Database Choice Affect Fungal Functional but Not Biological Diversity Findings in a National Soil Survey

George, P.B., Creer, S., Griffiths, R.I., Emmett, B.A., Robinson, D.A. and Jones, D.L., 2019. Primer and database choice affect fungal functional but not biological diversity findings in a national soil survey. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, p.173.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00173

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00173/full

Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services

Greenhouse Gas Storage and Sequestration Function

Thomas A., Schulp C. (2019) Greenhouse Gas Storage and Sequestration Function. In: von Haaren C., Lovett A., Albert C. (eds) Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services. Landscape Series, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1681-7_14

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-024-1681-7_14

Nature Communications

Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems

George, P., D. Lallias, S. Creer, F. Seaton, J. Kenny, R. Eccles, R. Griffiths, I. Lebron, B. Emmett, D.A. Robinson, and D. Jones. 2019. Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems. Nature Communications 10 Article Number 1107.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09031-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09031-1

PLoS ONE

The design, launch and assessment of a new volunteer-based plant monitoring scheme for the United Kingdom

Pescott, OL ; Walker, KJ ; Harris, F ; New, H ; Cheffings, CM ; Newton, N ; Jitlal, M ; Redhead, J ; Smart, SM  ; Roy, DB

https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0215891

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0215891&type=printable

Remote Sensing

Evaluating Combinations of Temporally Aggregated Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, And Landsat 8 For Land Cover Mapping with Google Earth Engine

Carrasco, L., O’Neil, A.W., Morton, R.D. and Rowland, C.S., 2019. Evaluating combinations of temporally aggregated Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for land cover mapping with Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing, 11(3), p.288.

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030288

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/3/288

Science of The Total Environment

Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress

Seaton, F.M., Jones, D.L., Creer, S., George, P.B., Smart, S.M., Lebron, I., Barrett, G., Emmett, B.A. and Robinson, D.A., 2019. Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress. Science of The Total Environment.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.052

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719326130

Nature Microbiology

Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soil

Ramirez, Kelly S., Christopher G. Knight, Mattias Hollander, Francis Q. Brearley, Bede Constantinides, TE Anne Cotton, Si Creer, Thomas W. Crowther, John Davison, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Ellen Dorrepaal, David R. Elliott, Graeme Fox, Rob Griffiths, Chris Hale, Kyle Hartman, Ashley Houlden, David L. Jones, Eveline J. Krab, Fernando T. Maestre, Krista L. McGuire, Sylvain Monteux, Caroline H. Orr, Wim H van  der Putten, Ian S. Roberts, David A. Robinson, Jenny Rocca, Jennifer Rowntree, Klaus Schlaeppi, Matthew Shepherd, Brajesh K. Singh, Angela Straathof, Jennifer M. Talbot, Cécile Thion, Marcel van der Heijden, and Franciska T. de Vries. 2017. Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils. Nature microbiology 3, 189–196.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-017-0062-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-017-0062-x

Land Use Policy

A tale of two landscapes: Transferring landscape quality metrics from Wales to Iceland

Swetnam, R.D. and Tweed, F.S., 2018. A tale of two landscapes: transferring landscape quality metrics from Wales to Iceland. Land Use Policy, 76, pp.565-576.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.037

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837717311298?via%3Dihub

Ecohydrology

Diatoms as indicators of fine sediment stress

Jones JI, Douthwright TA, Arnold A, Duerdoth CP, Murphy JF, Edwards FK, Pretty JL. Diatoms as indicators of fine sediment stress. Ecohydrology. 2017;e1832. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1832.

https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1832

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.1832/full

Geoderma

Potential contribution of soil diversity and abundance metrics to identifying high nature value farmland (HNV)

D. Maxwell, D.A. Robinson, A. Thomas, B. Jackson, L. Maskell, D.L. Jones, B.A. Emmett, Potential contribution of soil diversity and abundance metrics to identifying high nature value farmland (HNV), Geoderma, Volume 305, 2017, Pages 417-432, ISSN 0016-7061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.05.049.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.05.049

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706117300654?via%3Dihub

Natural England Report

Appendix 3: Comparing contemporary GMEP and NPMS quadrats by broad habitat; a validation study using Welsh monitoring data

Staley, J.T., M. Lobley, M.E. McCracken, H. Chiswell, J.W. Redhead, S.M. Smart, O.L. Pescott, M. Jitlal, S.R. Amy, H.J. Dean, L. Ridding, R. Broughton and J.O. Mountford. In review. The environmental effectiveness of the Higher Level Stewardship scheme; Resurveying the baseline agreement monitoring sample to quantify change between 2009 and 2016. Natural England project ECM 6937.

New Journal of Botany

Changes in the frequency of common plant species across linear features in Wales from 1990 to 2016: implications for potential delivery of ecosystem services

Smart, S.M.; Henrys, P.A.; Norton, L.R.; Wallace, H.; Wood, C.M.; Williams, B.; Bunce, R.G.H.. 2017 Changes in the frequency of common plant species across linear features in Wales from 1990 to 2016: implications for potential delivery of ecosystem services. New Journal of Botany, 7 (2-3). 112-124.

https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408190

 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408190

Remote Sensing

National-scale high spatial resolution mapping of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity (ANPP) from field survey and Earth Observation data

Tebbs, Emma & S. Rowland, Clare & M. Smart, Simon & C. Maskell, Lindsay & R. Norton, Lisa. (2017). Regional-Scale High Spatial Resolution Mapping of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity (ANPP) from Field Survey and Landsat Data: A Case Study for the Country of Wales. Remote Sensing. 9. 801. 10.3390/rs9080801.

Remote Sensing - Methods in Ecology & Evolution

Regional-Scale High Spatial Resolution Mapping of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity (ANPP) from Field Survey and Landsat Data: A Case Study for the Country of Wales

Tebbs, E.J.; Rowland, C.S.; Smart, S.M.; Maskell, L.C.; Norton, L.R. Regional-Scale High Spatial Resolution Mapping of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity (ANPP) from Field Survey and Landsat Data: A Case Study for the Country of Wales. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 801.

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9080801

http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/8/801

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Evaluation of mesofauna communities as soil quality indicators in a national-level monitoring programme

George, P.B., Keith, A.M., Creer, S., Barrett, G.L., Lebron, I., Emmett, B.A., Robinson, D.A. and Jones, D.L., 2017. Evaluation of mesofauna communities as soil quality indicators in a national-level monitoring programme. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 115, pp.537-546.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.09.022

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071717305849

Ecosystem Services

Quantifying visual landscape quality in rural Wales: A GIS-enabled method for extensive monitoring of a valued cultural ecosystem service

R.D. Swetnam, S.K. Harrison-Curran, G.R. Smith, Quantifying visual landscape quality in rural Wales: A GIS-enabled method for extensive monitoring of a valued cultural ecosystem service, Ecosystem Services, 2016, ISSN 2212-0416

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.11.004

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041616304533

Science of the Total Environment

Comparing strengths and weaknesses of three ecosystem services modelling tools in a diverse UK river catchment

Sharps, K., Masante, D., Thomas, A., Jackson, B., Redhead, J., May, L., Prosser, H., Cosby, B., Emmett, B. and Jones, L., 2017. Comparing strengths and weaknesses of three ecosystem services modelling tools in a diverse UK river catchment. Science of the total environment, 584, pp.118-130.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.160

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716328492

Regional Environmental Change

Estimating the effect of nitrogen fertilizer on the greenhouse gas balance of soils in Wales under current and future climate

Abdalla, M., Richards, M., Pogson, M. et al. Reg Environ Change (2016) 16: 2357.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-0958-7

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-016-0958-7

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data

Isaac, Nick J.B.; van Strien, Arco J.; August, Tom A.; de Zeeuw, Marnix P.; Roy, David B.. 2014 Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5 (10). 1052-1060.

https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12254

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/2041-210X.12254

Aspects of Applied Biology

An integrated ecological, social and physical approach to monitoring environmental change and land management effects: the Wales Axis II Monitoring and Evaluation Programme

Emmett, B. A. (2013) An integrated ecological, social and physical approach to monitoring environmental change and land management effects: the Wales Axis II Monitoring and Evaluation Programme' . Aspects of Applied Biology, 118: 31-39.

https://gmep.wales/sites/default/files/EMMETT-AAB-118-2013.pdf