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Bayesian theory; Eptesicus; Nyctalus; Pipistrellus pipistrellus; autocorrelation; biodiversity; citizen science; data collection; models; surveys; wildlife; England; Scotland; Wales
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... Monitoring wildlife populations is essential if global targets to reverse biodiversity declines are to be met. Recent analysis of data from the UK’s long-term National Bat Monitoring Programme (NBMP) suggests stable or increasing population trends for many bat species, and these statistics help inform progress towards national biodiversity targets. However, although based on robust citizen science ...
Common Agricultural Policy; case studies; environmental policy; environmental science; stakeholders; England
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... This paper introduces four key groups of actors (armchair rewilders, pioneer farmers, policy entrepreneurs and guerrilla rewilders) whose actions are driving rewilding discourse, practice and policy in England. These groups were identified during a comparative case study of two English rewilding sites (the Avalon Marshes in Somerset and Wild Ennerdale in Cumbria). Research involved 49 interviews: ...
... Climate is a major evolutionary force in driving adaptive differentiation and plasticity in plant function. Xylem anatomy and hydraulic architecture are critical to water use, growth and responses of trees to drought and thus important in delimiting their ecological niches. How wood properties have been shaped through evolution by their climatic origins and the importance of plasticity for species ...
... In the UK, school food standards have looked to improve the nutritional profile of school food provision and the choices made; however, adolescents' choices tend to bias towards micronutrient poor and energy dense options. This study aimed to explore how adolescents make their school food choices, along with how they engage with their environments whilst selecting food. Seven focus group interview ...
... Objective: To explore food consumption and subsequent behavioural changes amongst PASC suffers associated with alterations in taste and smell. Design: A qualitative study involving five focus groups. Setting: Birmingham and Leicester, England, United Kingdom. Participants: Forty-seven Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 sufferers. Results: Shifts in taste and odour were very common with disgusting or ...
air; air pollution; air quality; asthma; athletic performance; climate change; distress; exercise; exposure duration; heat; human health; immune system; meteorology; nitrogen dioxide; ozone; relative humidity; temperature; wind speed; England
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... The short- and long-term impacts of air pollution on human health are well documented and include cardiovascular, neurological, immune system and developmental damage. Additionally, the irritant qualities of air pollutants can cause respiratory and cardiovascular distress. This can be heightened during exercise and especially so for those with respiratory conditions such as asthma. Meteorological ...
Bayesian theory; badgers; bovine tuberculosis; cattle; data collection; herds; issues and policy; monitoring; England
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... BACKGROUND: Since 2013, badger culling has been part of the UK Government's strategy for controlling bovine tuberculosis (bTB) within a high‐risk area (HRA) in England. Government surveillance data now enables an examination of bTB herd incidence and prevalence, its headline indicators, within and outside cull areas over the period 2009–2020. METHODS: Analysis compared herd incidence and prevalenc ...
COVID-19 infection; Homo sapiens; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; algorithms; amino acids; computer software; databases; genes; mutation; mutational analysis; nucleotides; pandemic; phylogeny; quality control; sequence alignment; viruses; China; England; Georgia; Western European region
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... The COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which started from China. It spread rapidly throughout the world and was later declared a pandemic by the WHO. Over the course of time, SARS-CoV-2 has mutated for survival advantages, and this led to multiple variants. Multiple studies on mutations identification in SARS-CoV2 have been published covering extensive sample areas. The purpose ...
capital; industrialization; land policy; land use; landscapes; markets; population density; population growth; private sector; railroads; urban areas; urbanization; England
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... In the industrialization that started in the 1830s in countries such as England and America, transportation networks, geographical locations and spatial size were taken as the basis in the selection of the industrial city. Within the scope of this approach, the industrial sector was created in the city periphery and the cities expanded spatially by being exposed to rapid job migration. The form of ...
environmental management; eutrophication; hypoxia; lakes; phosphorus; sediments; summer; viability; England
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... Innovative methods to combat internal loading issues in eutrophic lakes are urgently needed to speed recovery and restore systems within legislative deadlines. In stratifying lakes, internal phosphorus loading is particularly problematic during the summer stratified period when anoxia persists in the hypolimnion, promoting phosphorus release from the sediment. A novel method to inhibit stratificat ...
... Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants that have been linked to adverse health effects in wildlife and humans. Here, we report the presence of PFASs in Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) in England and Wales and their association with anthropogenic sources. The following 15 compounds were analyzed: 10 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs), 4 perfluoroalk ...
... BACKGROUND: Bacterial lower respiratory tract infections (bLRTIs) are common and potentially life threatening in cats and dogs. Antibiotic treatment is often initiated before the diagnosis of bLRTI; therefore improved knowledge of the aetiology and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of these infections is essential to inform empiric antibiotic choices. METHODS: A retrospective study of microbiolog ...
climate change; coastal zone management; coasts; fabrics; issues and policy; politics; society; storms; uncertainty; England
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... Coastal vulnerability and its physical, economic and social consequences at national and international scales is of high scientific, political and policy interest. Anthropogenic climate change and coastal erosion threaten the very fabric of a society. Indications, that coastal hazards are impacting diverse coastal areas severely across the world, and it is no longer a vague future threat that can’ ...
... Life cycle assessment is a multidisciplinary framework usually deployed to appraise the sustainability of various product or service supply-chains. Over recent decades, its use in the agri-food sector has risen sharply, and alongside this, a wide range of methodological advances have been generated. Spatial-life cycle assessment, defined in the current document as the interpretation of life cycle ...
... Geographic origin is directly linked to the quality and commercial value of bivalves. The globalization of the seafood trade and the increasing number of fraudulent practices in the bivalves industry has prompted consumers to become increasingly aware on the geographic origin of the seafood they consume. To enhance consumers' confidence and allow authorities to effectively enforce regulations and ...
COVID-19 infection; air pollution; chronic diseases; chronic exposure; hospitals; laboratory experimentation; mortality; nitrogen dioxide; particulates; public health; questionnaires; regression analysis; England
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... Individual-level studies with adjustment for important COVID-19 risk factors suggest positive associations of long-term air pollution exposure (particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide) with COVID-19 infection, hospitalisations and mortality. The evidence, however, remains limited and mechanisms unclear. We aimed to investigate these associations within UK Biobank, and to examine the role of underl ...
deer; humans; seroprevalence; tick-borne encephalitis; England
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... Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a neurotropic flaviviral disease. TBE was previously thought to be absent from the United Kingdom. We report the second probable case of United Kingdom-acquired TBE and demonstrate deer TBE-serocomplex seropositivity in the surrounding area, providing further evidence of the presence of TBE in England. ...
body mass index; diabetes; diastolic blood pressure; health surveys; hemoglobin; high density lipoprotein cholesterol; metabolism; nationalities and ethnic groups; nutrition; waist circumference; waist-to-height ratio; England
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... There is growing evidence that Body Mass Index (BMI) is unfit for purpose. Waist circumference (WC) indices appear to be the preferred alternative, although it is not clear which WC index is optimal at predicting cardio-metabolic risk (CMR) and associated health outcomes. We obtained a stratified random probability sample of 53,390 participants from the Health Survey for England (HSE), 2008–2018. ...
citizen participation; decision making; flood control; forests; habitats; humans; risk; risk management; society; stakeholders; water quality; England
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... Natural flood management (NFM) methods work with natural processes to reduce flood risk, while often providing additional benefits such as water quality improvement or habitat provision. Increasingly, the activity of an animal—beavers—is recognised to potentially provide flow attenuation, along with multiple benefits for the environment and society, but there can also be associated challenges. We ...
European Union; Northern Ireland; fur; fur farming; imports; laws and regulations; questionnaires; England; Scotland
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... Around 100 million animals are killed annually for the global fur trade, with 85% reared on fur farms and 15% trapped in the wild. Fur farming is banned across the United Kingdom (UK) under the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 in England and Wales and parallel legislation in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Despite the farming bans, the import and sale of fur products to the UK have continued, lar ...
bibliometric analysis; databases; educational research; veterinary education; England
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... Research of veterinary communication education is a relatively rare but important field, and its importance has been increasingly noticed recently. This study aims to describe the existing veterinary education research literature by adopting the systematic bibliometric approach. We conducted a comprehensive literature exploration on worldwide veterinary education and veterinary communication educa ...
aminoglycosides; antibiotic resistance; antibiotic resistance genes; beryllium; bioavailability; environment; multiple drug resistance; toxicity; England
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... Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) that can encode resistance traits in bacteria are found across the environment. While it is often difficult to discern their origin, their prevalence and diversity depends on many factors, one of which is their exposure to potentially toxic elements (PTE, i.e., metals and metalloids) in soils. Here, we investigated how ambient ARGs and mobile genetic elements (MG ...
... This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Fritillaria meleagris L. (Snake's Head Fritillary). The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: distribution, habitat, communities, responses to biotic factors, responses to environment, structure and physiology, phenology, floral and seed characters, herbivores and di ...
... This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Hammarbya paludosa (L.) Kuntze (bog orchid, bog adder's‐mouth orchid) (Malaxis paludosa (L.) Sw., Ophrys paludosa L.), that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: distribution, habitat, co ...
... This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Knautia arvensis (L.) Coult. (Field Scabious) that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: distribution, habitat, communities, responses to biotic factors, responses to environment, structu ...
biosecurity; fish industry; freshwater; introduced species; monitoring; ornamental fish; risk; stakeholders; supply chain; England
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... The freshwater and marine ornamental fish industry is a primary route of hazard introduction and emergence, including aquatic animal diseases and non‐native species. Prevention measures are key to reducing the risk of hazard incursion and establishment, but there is currently little understanding of the biosecurity practices and hazard responses implemented at post‐border stages of the ornamental ...
COVID-19 infection; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; biomarkers; disease transmission; environment; monitoring; population dynamics; population size; public health; sewage; wastewater; weather; England
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... Wastewater surveillance has been widely implemented for monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 during the global COVID-19 pandemic, and near-to-source monitoring is of particular interest for outbreak management in discrete populations. However, variation in population size poses a challenge to the triggering of public health interventions using wastewater SARS-CoV-2 concentrations. This is especially important ...
COVID-19 infection; compliance; economic recovery; education; models; public health; research; England
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... Non-compliance with social distancing (SD) measures clearly has negative effects on both public health and post-pandemic economic recovery. However, little is as yet known about people's views on and factors influencing their behavioral intentions toward SD measures. This study draws on moral disengagement theory and the norm-activation model to investigate mechanisms that promote or hinder compli ...
... Transfer parameters are key inputs for modeling radionuclide transfer in the environment and estimating risk to humans and wildlife. However, there are no data for many radionuclide-foodstuff/wildlife species combinations. The use of parameters derived from stable element data when data for radionuclides are lacking is increasingly common. But, do radionuclides and stable elements behave in a suff ...
... Candy‐striped spiders (Enoplognatha spp.; Araneae: Theridiidae) are among Britain's commonest theridiid spiders and are potential immigrant biocontrol agents of many pests in arable fields. Though the presence of these spiders in proximity to agriculture is dependent on the availability of suitable leaves for their egg deposition, their preference for different plant species and habitat types has ...
COVID-19 infection; behavior change; case studies; food waste; models; questionnaires; waste disposal; waste reduction; England
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... Data in England suggests that food waste is still being disposed into the black bin, also known as residual waste, despite continuous efforts to promote separate food waste collection and food waste reduction practices. Furthermore, it has been anecdotally reported that 18 to 30-year-olds have the highest propensity to generate large amounts of food waste and thus need to be urgently engaged in co ...
COVID-19 infection; compliance; elementary schools; school meals; England; Scotland
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... This paper explores changes to school food standards from 2010, free school meal provision during the COVID‐19 pandemic across the UK and potential implications for children's diets. To obtain information on UK school food policies and free school meal provision methods we reviewed several sources including news articles, policy documents and journal articles. School food is an important part of t ...
... The uppermost Pliensbachian (Margaritatus Zone) - upper Toarcian (Pseudoradiosa Zone) sediments (silty and variably calcareous claystones, marlstones, silty sandstones, and sandy limestones) recovered from the Kerr McGee 97/12–1 well were deposited in the Portland-Wight Basin. The foraminiferal assemblages of these sedimentary succession are dominated by calcareous forms of the suborder Lagenina a ...
COVID-19 infection; adults; behavior modification; career change; dogs; humans; pandemic; pet ownership; qualitative analysis; risk; social behavior; England
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... Reports suggest that dogs have experienced more quality time with their owners and have exhibited less separation-related behaviour during COVID-19. This study aims to define and explore the changes in the social behaviour of adult dogs, identify any perceived short- and long-term effects and identify the implications that future events may have due to the implementation and withdrawal of COVID-19 ...
North Atlantic Oscillation; climate; drought; dynamics; growth rings; England; English Channel; Northern European region; Wales
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... Northwestern Europe has experienced a trend of increasingly wet winters over the past 150 years, with few explanations for what may have driven this hydroclimatic change. Here we use the Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA), a tree-ring based reconstruction of the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI), to examine this wetting trend and place it in a longer hydroclimatic context. We fin ...
... New data on some fossil charcoal deposits from the British Isles is integrated into previous studies to provide an indication of our current understanding of the role of fire on land in the Pennsylvanian and also provide strategies for obtaining new information in the future.The nature and occurrence of fossil charcoal (often called fusain) in sediments and coals (often described as inertinite/fus ...
anaerobic digestion; biogas; biomass; carbon sequestration; case studies; energy; fluidized beds; gasification; hydrogen; hydrogen production; income; public transportation; raw materials; steam; England
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... This work presents techno-economic modelling of four thermochemical technologies that could produce over 22,000 tonnes/year of hydrogen from biomass for >2000 public transport buses in West Midlands region, UK. These included fluidised bed (FB) gasification, fast pyrolysis-FB gasification, fast pyrolysis-steam reforming, and steam reforming of biogas from anaerobic digestion (AD). Each plant was m ...
catenas; hydrograph; model validation; rivers; runoff; sediment transport; sediments; watersheds; England
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... Field-to-river flow of runoff and sediment in a lowland arable catchment in the south of England is explored from both field and modelling perspectives. Routes observed to be taken by flow and sediment on five study areas include many interactions between flow and ‘landscape elements’ (LEs), including those (field boundaries, paths, roads) of anthropogenic origin. We were able to satisfactorily re ...
... Even though reptiles are threatened worldwide, few studies address their conservation, especially snakes. The goal of our study was to measure the genetic structure of a widely distributed temperate reptile, the smooth snake Coronella austriaca using microsatellite markers in two different areas at the core (Alsace, north-eastern France) and at the edge (Wallonia, southern Belgium) of its range. W ...
administrative management; data collection; forest ecology; inventories; organic carbon; soil carbon; topsoil; woodlands; England
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... This study investigates changes in soil carbon under woodland combining data from the National Soil Inventory of England and Wales with data from the National Inventory of Woodlands and Trees to create a unique dataset with woodland management information at the sites where soil carbon was measured in 1980 and 2003. Three woodland management stages were compared: first rotation (i.e. recently plan ...
... Sedimentary organic pollution in the urban reaches of the Thames estuary is changing from fossil fuel hydrocarbons to emerging synthetic chemicals. De-industrialisation of London was assessed in three cores from Chiswick (Ait/Eyot) mud island using pharmaceuticals, faecal sterols, hydrocarbons (TPH, PAH), Black Carbon (BC) and organotins (TBT). These ranked in the order; BC 7590-30219 mg/kg, mean ...
catenas; floodplains; lead; rivers; sediments; uncertainty; watersheds; zinc; England
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... Chronological markers in fluvial sediments can provide useful information on geomorphic response to historic catchment disturbance, and help explain historic channel morphodynamics. We concentrate on the River Nent catchment in Northern England, which was heavily impacted by lead and zinc mining in the 18th and 19th centuries. We date a 2 m deep profile of fine (<2mm) floodplain sediments using or ...
ecosystems; environmental quality; issues and policy; marine debris; marine environment; plastics; recreation; surveys; willingness to pay; England; Ireland
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... Marine litter is a problem impacting the coasts and seas of the whole world. Whilst an increasing number of studies investigate the effects of marine litter on public welfare, most of the research to date considers it as a component of coastal environmental quality. This study specifically examines the preferences and willingness to pay of English and Irish respondents towards the removal and prev ...
... The impacts of a changing climate on current and future dementia burdens have not been widely explored.Time-series negative binomial regression analysis was used to assess acute associations between daily ambient temperature and counts of emergency admissions for dementia in each Government region of England, adjusting for season and day-of-week. Using the latest climate and dementia projections d ...
Apis mellifera; agricultural land; applied ecology; forage; issues and policy; land use; landscapes; nectar; pollinators; sucrose; summer; urbanization; England
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... Recent evidence suggests that flower‐rich areas within cities could play an important role in pollinator conservation, but direct comparison of floral resources within agricultural and urban areas has proved challenging to perform over large scales. Here we use the waggle dances of honeybees Apis mellifera L. to perform large‐scale landscape surveys at heavily urban or agricultural sites for a key ...
acidification; agricultural productivity; ammonia; data collection; environmental performance; eutrophication; farms; inventories; livestock; nitrates; phosphates; sediments; surveys; water quality; watersheds; England
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... Based on recent spatially aggregated June Agriculture Survey data and site-specific environmental data, information from common farm types in the East of England was sourced and collated. These data were subsequently used as key inputs to a mechanistic environmental modelling tool, the Catchment Systems Model, which predicts environmental damage arising from various farm types and their management ...
administrative management; cost effectiveness; models; privatization; water; water utilities; England
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... Performance assessments of water utilities are essential to protect the interests of citizens, because utilities operate under natural monopolies and their costs are recovered from customers through water tariffs. In this study, a four-error component model was applied to estimate cost efficiency (CE), persistent efficiency (PE) and transient efficiency (TE) for a sample of English and Welsh water ...
agroecology; biodiversity; ecosystems; exercise; land policy; land use; livestock; England
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... Growing concerns about the impacts of food systems have led to fierce debate over the pros and cons of different modes of production. In parallel, conservationists have debated “land-sparing” versus “land-sharing” as competing rationales for a land use policy that aims to halt biodiversity loss. As a contribution to these debates, we share research conducted in the South-East of England where cont ...
... Fish somatic growth is indeterminate and can be influenced by a range of abiotic and biotic variables. With climate change forecast to increase the frequency of warming and unusual discharge events, it is thus important to understand how these variables currently influence somatic growth and how that might differ for specific age-classes and/ or life stages. Here, we used a 17-year dataset from a ...
Chlamydomonas; eutrophication; flagellum; light microscopes; new genus; pH; snow; England; Norway; Sweden
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... Two novel Chlamydomonas-like species, belonging to the Moewusii clade, have been described. The first species inhabits eutrophic and neutral to basic pH waters in Sweden and England. It is easily recognizable under a light microscope due to its morphology (a small green prolate spheroidal shape with a large and truncated papilla at its anterior end, two equal flagella, a single lateral eyespot, a ...