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    Interacting impacts of hydrological changes and air temperature warming on lake temperatures highlight the potential for adaptive management

    Globally, climate warming is increasing air temperatures and changing river flows, but few studies have explicitly considered the consequences for lake temperatures of these dual effects, or the potential to m...

    Freya Olsson, Eleanor B. Mackay, Bryan M. Spears, Philip Barker, Ian D. Jones in Ambio (2024)

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    A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict

    Bryan M. Spears, Quillon Harpham, Emma Brown in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024)

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    Global food security threatened by potassium neglect

    Food security and healthy ecosystems are placed in jeopardy by poor potassium management. Six actions may prevent declines in crop yield due to soil potassium deficiency, safeguard farmers from potash price vo...

    Will J. Brownlie, Peter Alexander, Mark Maslin, Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles in Nature Food (2024)

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    Towards net-zero phosphorus cities

    Cities are central to improving natural resource management globally. Instead of reinventing the wheel for each interlinked sustainability priority, we suggest synergising with, and learning from existing net-...

    Geneviève S. Metson, Will J. Brownlie, Bryan M. Spears in npj Urban Sustainability (2022)

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    Concerns about global phosphorus demand for lithium-iron-phosphate batteries in the light electric vehicle sector

    Bryan M. Spears, Will J. Brownlie, Dana Cordell, Ludwig Hermann in Communications Materials (2022)

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    Global actions for a sustainable phosphorus future

    Food security and healthy freshwater ecosystems are placed at jeopardy by poor phosphorus management. Scientists are calling for transformation across food, agriculture, waste and other sectors — mobilized thr...

    Will J. Brownlie, Mark A. Sutton, David S. Reay, Kate V. Heal in Nature Food (2021)

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    Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems

    Climate and land-use change drive a suite of stressors that shape ecosystems and interact to yield complex ecological responses (that is, additive, antagonistic and synergistic effects). We know little about t...

    Sebastian Birk, Daniel Chapman, Laurence Carvalho in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2020)

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    Ecological resilience in lakes and the conjunction fallacy

    There is a pressing need to apply stability and resilience theory to environmental management to restore degraded ecosystems effectively and to mitigate the effects of impending environmental change. Lakes rep...

    Bryan M. Spears, Martyn N. Futter, Erik Jeppesen in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2017)

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    Erratum to: Assessing Pro-environmental Behaviour in Relation to the Management of Pollution from Private Sewage Systems

    Will J. Brownlie, Bryan M. Spears, Sandhya Patidar, Linda May, Susan Roaf in Human Ecology (2015)

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    Lessons learned from geoengineering freshwater systems

    Bryan M. Spears, Stephen C. Maberly in Nature Climate Change (2014)

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    Assessing the responses of aquatic macrophytes to the application of a lanthanum modified bentonite clay, at Loch Flemington, Scotland, UK

    Loch Flemington is a shallow lake of international conservation and scientific importance. In recent decades, its status has declined as a result of eutrophication and the establishment of non-native invasive ...

    Iain D. M. Gunn, Sebastian Meis, Stephen C. Maberly, Bryan M. Spears in Hydrobiologia (2014)

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    Intracellular Versus Extracellular Iron Accumulation in Freshwater Periphytic Mats Across a Mine Water Treatment Lagoon

    Despite the importance of periphyton–metal interactions in bioremediation schemes and in phosphorus (P) cycling, the processes controlling metal accumulation in periphytic mats are still poorly understood. Iro...

    Erin Letovsky, Kate V. Heal, Laurence Carvalho in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (2012)

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    The long-term (1979–2005) effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation on wind-induced wave mixing in Loch Leven (Scotland)

    We report on long-term covariation (1979–2005) between indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and wind speed and direction in Loch Leven. The effects of the observed variations in wind speed and direc...

    Bryan M. Spears, Ian D. Jones in Hydrobiologia (2010)

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    Sediment phosphorus cycling in a large shallow lake: spatio-temporal variation in phosphorus pools and release

    Sediment and water column phosphorus fractions were recorded monthly for one year (April 2004–April 2005) in a shallow lake recovering from nutrient pollution (Loch Leven, Scotland). Equilibrium phosphate conc...

    Bryan M. Spears, Laurence Carvalho, Rupert Perkins, Alex Kirika in Hydrobiologia (2007)

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    Hydrodynamics

    Few studies in the literature compare the sediment stability of depositional habits across marine, freshwater and brackish ecosystems. This is partly because there is conceptual difficulty in comparing differe...

    Prof. David M. Paterson, Bryan M. Spears in Sediment Dynamics and Pollutant Mobility i… (2007)

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    Sediment phosphorus cycling in a large shallow lake: spatio-temporal variation in phosphorus pools and release

    Sediment and water column phosphorus fractions were recorded monthly for one year (April 2004–April 2005) in a shallow lake recovering from nutrient pollution (Loch Leven, Scotland). Equilibrium phosphate conc...

    Bryan M. Spears, Laurence Carvalho, Rupert Perkins in Shallow Lakes in a Changing World (2007)