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2026

• Jones, O. D. et al. 2026. Estimating wastewater dilution using chemical markers and incomplete flow measurements: Application to normalisation of SARS-CoV-2 measurements. Journal of Water Process Engineering 92 110739. (10.1016/j.jwpe.2026.110739)
• Hadley, M. et al. 2026. Occurrence, patterns and previously overlooked sources of three veterinary ectoparasiticides in rural and urban Welsh rivers. Environmental Pollution 394 127713. (10.1016/j.envpol.2026.127713)
• Navarro Law, I. et al., 2026. The prevalence and acceptability of mesocosm studies submitted for macrophytes in pesticide risk assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 22 (2), pp.338-344. (10.1093/inteam/vjaf164)
• Allison, T. et al. 2026. Degradation of cellulose-based wet wipes marketed as ‘biodegradable’ in their receiving urban rivers. Environmental Pollution 388 127376. (10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127376)
• Kelly, L. A. et al., 2026. Measures for improving water quality to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss. Environmental Reviews 34 (10.1139/er-2025-0229)

2025

• Allison, T. et al. 2025. Cellulose-based wet wipes undergo limited degradation in river environments. Environmental Pollution 384 126971. (10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126971)
• Perry, W. B. et al. 2025. Quantitative insights into the spatio‐temporal variation of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) biomass in a river catchment using eDNA metabarcoding. Journal of Fish Biology (10.1111/jfb.70172)
• Tarring, E. C. et al. 2025. Toxicity of the water-soluble polymer PVP is dependent on molecular weight and feed concentration for a freshwater model species. Science of the Total Environment 983 179686. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179686)
• Allison, T. et al. 2025. Predicting flushed wet wipe emissions into rivers. Water Research 268 (Part B) 122733. (10.1016/j.watres.2024.122733)

2024

• Navarro Law, I. et al., 2024. The influence of abiotic factors on the distribution of macrophytes in small water bodies in temperate ecosystems. Limnological Review 24 (4), pp.616-636. (10.3390/limnolrev24040036)
• Knight, M. E. et al., 2024. National-scale antimicrobial resistance surveillance in wastewater: A comparative analysis of HT qPCR and metagenomic approaches. Water Research 262 121989. (10.1016/j.watres.2024.121989)
• Tarring, E. et al. 2024. Detection of polyvinylpyrrolidone in Daphnia magna: Development of a refractive index quantification method for water-soluble polymers in aquatic organisms. Science of the Total Environment 935 173428. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173428)
• Perry, W. B. et al. 2024. An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding. Nature Communications 15 (1) 4372. (10.1038/s41467-024-48640-3)
• Perry, W. B. et al. 2024. Cross-continental comparative experiences of wastewater surveillance and a vision for the 21st century. Science of the Total Environment 919 170842. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170842)
• Perry, W. B. et al. 2024. Addressing the challenges of combined sewer overflows. Environmental Pollution 343 123225. (10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123225)
• Larsen, S. et al., 2024. Climatic effects on the synchrony and stability of temperate headwater invertebrates over four decades. Global Change Biology 30 (1) e17017. (10.1111/gcb.17017)
• Tarring, E. C. et al. 2024. Water-soluble polymers: emerging contaminants detected, separated and quantified by a novel Gpc/Maldi-Tof method. Environmental Pollution 340 (1) 122888. (10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122888)

2023

• Allison, T. et al. 2023. Do flushed biodegradable wet wipes really degrade?. Science of the Total Environment 894 164912. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164912)
• Portela, A. P. et al., 2023. Environmental filtering and environmental stress shape regional patterns of riparian community assembly and functional diversity. Freshwater Biology 68 (8), pp.1428-1441. (10.1111/fwb.14138)
• Portela, A. P. et al., 2023. Riparian forest response to extreme drought is influenced by climatic context and canopy structure. Science of the Total Environment 881 163128. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163128)
• Hayes, L. et al. 2023. The occurrence and zoonotic potential of Cryptosporidium species in freshwater biota. Parasites and Vectors 16 209. (10.1186/s13071-023-05827-9)
• Schröter, M. et al., 2023. Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Ecosystems and People 19 (1) 2220913. (10.1080/26395916.2023.2220913)
• Portela, A. P. et al., 2023. Response-effect trait overlap and correlation in riparian plant communities suggests sensitivity of ecosystem functioning and services to environmental change. Science of the Total Environment 860 160549. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160549)

2022

• Pye, M. C. et al. 2022. Organic litter dynamics in headwater streams draining contrasting land uses. Hydrobiologia (10.1007/s10750-022-05084-4)
• Whelan, M. J. et al., 2022. Is water quality in British rivers "better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution"?. Science of the Total Environment 843 157014. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157014)
• Wilde, H. et al. 2022. Accounting for dilution of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples using physico-chemical markers. Water 14 (18) 2885. (10.3390/w14182885)
• Jones, L. et al., 2022. Can we model cultural ecosystem services, and are we measuring the right things?. People and Nature 4 (1), pp.166-179. (10.1002/pan3.10271)
• Eastwood, N. et al., 2022. The Time Machine framework: monitoring and prediction of biodiversity loss. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37 (2), pp.138-146. (10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.008)
• Perry, I. et al. 2022. Challenges to implementing environmental-DNA monitoring in Namibia. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9 773991. (10.3389/fenvs.2021.773991)

2021

• Casas-Mulet, R. et al. 2021. Negative effects of parasite exposure and variable thermal stress on brown trout (Salmo trutta) under future climatic and hydropower production scenarios. Climate Change Ecology 2 100039. (10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100039)
• Portela, A. P. et al., 2021. Regional planning of river protection and restoration to promote ecosystem services and nature conservation. Landscape and Urban Planning 211 104101. (10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104101)
• Gutierrez-Canovas, C. et al. 2021. Populations of high-value predators reflect the traits of their prey. Ecography 44 (5), pp.690-702. (10.1111/ecog.05438)
• Perkins, D. M. et al., 2021. Systematic variation in food web body-size structure linked to external subsidies. Biology Letters 17 (3) 20200798. (10.1098/rsbl.2020.0798)

2020

• Worthington, T. A. et al. 2020. Testing the ecosystem service cascade framework for Atlantic salmon. Ecosystem Services 46 101196. (10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101196)
• Stone, C. et al., 2020. Natural or synthetic – how global trends in textile usage threaten freshwater environments. Science of the Total Environment 718 134689. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134689)
• Jams, I. B. et al. 2020. Estimating the size distribution of plastics ingested by animals. Nature Communications 11 1594. (10.1038/s41467-020-15406-6)

2019

• Windsor, F. M. et al. 2019. A catchment-scale perspective of plastic pollution. Global Change Biology 25 (4), pp.1207-1221. (10.1111/gcb.14572)

2018

• Perkins, D. M. et al., 2018. Bending the rules: exploitation of allochthonous resources by a top-predator modifies size-abundance scaling in stream food webs. Ecology Letters 21 (12), pp.1771-1780. (10.1111/ele.13147)
• Larsen, S. et al., 2018. Lifting the veil: richness measurements fail to detect systematic biodiversity change over three decades. Ecology 99 (6), pp.1316-1326. (10.1002/ecy.2213)
• Seymour, M. et al., 2018. Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms. Communications Biology 1 4. (10.1038/s42003-017-0005-3)

2017

• Small, N. , Munday, M. and Durance, I. 2017. The challenge of valuing ecosystem services that have no material benefits. Global Environmental Change 44 , pp.57-67. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.03.005)
• Hildrew, A. G. , Durance, I. and Statzner, B. 2017. Persistence in the longitudinal distribution of lotic insects in a changing climate: a tale of two rivers. Science of the Total Environment 574 , pp.1294-1304. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.212)

2016

• Jackson, M. et al., 2016. Recommendations for the next generation of global freshwater biological monitoring tools. Advances in Ecological Research 55 , pp.615-636. (10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.08.008)
• Verberk, W. C. E. P. et al., 2016. Field and laboratory studies reveal interacting effects of stream oxygenation and warming on aquatic ectotherms. Global Change Biology 22 (5), pp.1769-1778. (10.1111/gcb.13240)
• Woodward, G. et al., 2016. The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 371 (1694) 20150274. (10.1098/rstb.2015.0274)
• Durance, I. et al. 2016. The challenges of linking ecosystem services to biodiversity. Advances in Ecological Research 54 , pp.87-134. (10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.003)

2015

• Mulder, C. et al., 2015. 10 years later: revisiting priorities for science and society a decade after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Advances in Ecological Research 53 , pp.1-53. (10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.005)
• Watts, G. et al., 2015. Climate change and water in the UK - past changes and future prospects. Progress in Physical Geography 39 (1), pp.6-28. (10.1177/0309133314542957)

2014

• Raffaelli, D. et al., 2014. Big Data and ecosystem research programmes. Advances in Ecological Research 51 , pp.41-77. (10.1016/B978-0-08-099970-8.00004-X)
• Morrissey, C. A. et al. 2014. Developmental impairment in eurasian dipper nestlings exposed to urban stream pollutants. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 33 (6), pp.1315-1323. (10.1002/etc.2555)

2013

• Merrix-Jones, F. L. et al., 2013. Spatial structure in the zooplankton of a newly formed and heavily disturbed urban lake. Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 183 (1), pp.1-14. (10.1127/1863-9135/2013/0459)
• Morrissey, C. et al. 2013. Eurasian dipper eggs indicate elevated organohalogenated contaminants persist in urban rivers. Environmental Science & Technology 47 (15), pp.8931-8939. (10.1021/es402124z)

2012

• Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2012. Understanding and managing climate change effects on river ecosystems. In: Boon, P. and Raven, P. eds. River Conservation and Management. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. , pp.107-121.

2011

• Gaotlhobogwe, M. , Laugharne, J. and Durance, I. 2011. The potential of multivariate analysis in assessing students' attitude to curriculum subjects. Educational Research 53 (1), pp.65-83. (10.1080/00131881.2011.552241)
• Maltby, E. et al., 2011. Freshwaters – openwaters, wetlands and floodplains. In: UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Technical Report. Cambridge: United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). , pp.295-360.
• Vaughan, I. P. et al. 2011. Student-centred experiments with stream invertebrates. Journal of Biological Education 45 (2), pp.106-111. (10.1080/00219266.2010.546007)

2010

• Clews, E. et al. 2010. Juvenile salmonid populations in a temperate river system track synoptic trends in climate. Global Change Biology 16 (12), pp.3271-3283. (10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02211.x)
• Durance, I. and Ormerod, S. J. 2010. Evidence for the role of climate in the local extinction of a cool-water triclad. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29 (4), pp.1367-1378. (10.1899/09-159.1)
• Ormerod, S. J. et al. 2010. Priority wetland invertebrates as conservation surrogates. Conservation Biology 24 (2), pp.573-582. (10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01352.x)

2009

• Durance, I. and Ormerod, S. J. 2009. Trends in water quality and discharge confound long-term warming effects on river macroinvertebrates. Freshwater Biology 54 (2), pp.388-405. (10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02112.x)
• Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2009. Restoration and recovery from acidification in upland Welsh streams over 25 years. Journal of Applied Ecology 46 (1), pp.164-174. (10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01587.x)

2007

• Durance, I. and Ormerod, S. J. 2007. Climate-change effects on upland stream macroinvertebrates over a 25-year period. Global Change Biology 13 (5), pp.942-957. (10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01340.x)
• Niggebrugger, K. et al., 2007. Applying landscape ecology to conservation biology: Spatially explicit analysis reveals dispersal limits on threatened wetland gastropods. Biological Conservation 139 (3-4), pp.286-296. (10.1016/j.biocon.2007.07.003)

2006

• Durance, I. , Lepichon, C. and Ormerod, S. J. 2006. Recognizing the importance of scale in the ecology and management of riverine fish. River Research and Applications 22 (10), pp.1143-1152. (10.1002/rra.965)

2004

• de Nooij, R. J. W. et al., 2004. BIO-SAFE: assessing the impact of physical reconstruction on protected and endangered species. River Research and Applications 20 (3), pp.299-315. (10.1002/rra.779)

2003

• Durance, I. and Baudry, J. 2003. The implication of past and present landscape patterns for biodiversity research: Introduction and overview. Landscape Ecology 18 (3), pp.223-225. (10.1023/A:1024405014396)
• Ernoult, A. , Bureau, F. and Durance, I. 2003. Patterns of organisation in changing landscapes: implications for the management of biodiversity. Landscape Ecology 18 (3), pp.239-251. (10.1023/A:1024457031235)

2002

• Durance, I. et al. 2002. A systems approach to river restoration: a case study in the lower Seine valley, France. River Research and Applications 18 (3), pp.239-247. (10.1002/rra.667)
• Leuven, R. S. E. W. and Durance, I. 2002. Riverine landscape dynamics and ecological risk assessment. Freshwater Biology 47 (4), pp.845-865. (10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00918.x)

2001

• Chabrerie, O. et al., 2001. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in wetlands: A case study in the estuary of the Seine River, France. Estuaries 24 (6), pp.1088-1096. (10.2307/1353020)
• Nebbache, S. et al., 2001. Turbidity and nitrate transfer in karstic aquifers in rural areas: The Brionne Basin case-study. Journal of Environmental Management 62 (4), pp.389-398. (10.1006/jema.2001.0444)

2000

• Alard, D. and Durance, I. 2000. Diversity patterns in grasslands along a landscape gradient in northwestern France. Journal of Vegetation Science 11 (2), pp.287-294. (10.2307/3236809)

1999

• Alard, D. and Durance, I. 1999. Factors controlling plant diversity in a rural landscape: a functional approach. Landscape and Urban Planning 46 (1-3), pp.29-39. (10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00044-4)

1998

• Alard, D. et al., 1998. Dynamique de la biodiversité dans un espace en mutation. Le cas des pelouses calcicoles de la basse vallée de Seine. Acta Oecologica 19 (3), pp.275-284. (10.1016/S1146-609X(98)80031-3)

1997

• Durance, I. and Alard, D. 1997. Agricultural landscape dynamics: A case study in the Odessa region, the Ukraine and a comparative analysis with the Brionne basin case study, France. Ekologia Bratislava 16 (3), pp.295-308.
• Durance, I. and Alard, D. 1997. Landscape and agricultural patterns in rural areas: a case study in the Brionne basin, Normandy, France. Journal of Environmental Management 50 (4), pp.335-349. (10.1006/jema.1997.0134)
• Durance, I. et al. 1997. Dynamics of rural landscapes and their main driving factors: A case study in the Seine Valley, Normandy, France. Landscape and Urban Planning 38 (1-2), pp.93-103. (10.1016/S0169-2046(97)00025-X)

1996

• Baudry, J. et al., 1996. Gestion de la biodiversite dans une reion d'elevage bovin: Les prairies permanentes du Pays d'Auge, France. Acta Botanica Gallica: Botany Letters 143 (4-5), pp.367-381. (10.1080/12538078.1996.10515733)