NRN-LCEE Research Publications

2018

• Neill, S.P., Angeloudis, A., Robins, P.E., Walkington, I., Ward, S., Masters, I., Lewis, M.J., Piano, M., Avdis, A., Piggott, M., Aggidis, G., Evans, P., Adcock, T.A., Zidonis, A., Ahmadian, R., Falconer, R. (2018). Tidal range energy resource and optimization - past perspectives and future challenges. Renewable Energy 127: 763-778. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.05.007
• Gordon, T.A.C., Harding, H.R., Clever, F.K., Davison, W., Montgomery, D.W. Weatherhead, R.C. et al. (2018). Fishes in a changing world: learning from the past to promote sustainability of fish populations. Journal of Fish Biology 92(3): 804-827. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13546  
• Robinson, C., Uren-Webster, T., Cable, J., James, J., Consuegra, S. Simultaneous detection of invasive signal crayfish, endangered white-clawed crayfish and the crayfish plague pathogen using environmental DNA. Biological Conservation (in press). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/291856 
• Gonzales-Mejia, A., Styles, D., Wilson, P., Gibbons, J. (2018). Metrics and methods for characterizing dairy farm intensification using farm survey data. PLOS One (in press).
• Ward, S.L., Robins, P.E., Lewis, M.J., Iglesias, G., Hashemi, M.R., Neill, S.P. (2018). Tidal stream resource characterisation in progressive versus standing wave systems. Applied Energy 220: 274-285. (in press).
• McKinley, E., Aller-Rojas, O., Hattam, C., Germond-Duret, C., Vicuña San Martín, I., Hopkins, C.R., Aponte, H., Potts, T. (2018) Charting the course for a Blue Economy in Peru: A Research Agenda. Environment, Development and Sustainability. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0133-z
• McKinley, E., Ballinger, R.C., Beaumont, N. (2018) Saltmarshes, ecosystem services, and an evolving policy landscape: A case study of Wales. Marine Policy 91: 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.021
• Ford, H., Healey, J.R., Markesteijn, L., Smith, A.R. (2018). How does grazing management influence the functional diversity of oak woodland ecosystems? A plant trait approach. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 258: 154-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.02.025
• Musolino, P., Mishuris, G. A nonlinear problem for the Laplace equation with a degenerating Robin condition. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (in press).
• Foote, A.D. (2018). Sympatric speciation in the genomic era. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 85-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.11.003
• Robins, P.E., Lewis, M.J., Freer, J., Cooper, D.M., Skinner, C.J., Coulthard, T.J. (2018). Improving estuary models by reducing uncertainties associated with river flows. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 207: 63-73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.02.015
• Masum, S.A., Thomas, H.R. (2018). Modelling coupled microbial processes in the subsurface: Model development, verification, evaluation and application. Advances in Water Resources 116:  1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.03.015
• Schanz, T., Tripathy, S., Sridharan, A. (2018). Volume change behaviour of swelling and non-swelling clays upon inundation with water and low dielectric constant fluid. Applied Clay Science 158: 219-225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2018.03.031 

• Guillou, N., Neill, S.P., Robins, P.E. (2018). Characterising the tidal stream power resource around France using a high-resolution harmonic database. Renewable Energy 123: 706-718. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.12.033

• Bonnaillie-Noël, V., Dalla Riva, M., Dambrine, M., Musolino, P. (2018). A Dirichlet problem for the Laplace operator in a domain with a small hole close to the boundary. Journal des Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpur.2018.01.004

2017

• Lanza de Cristoforis, M., Musolino, P. (2017). Two-parameter anisotropic homogenization for a Dirichlet problem for the Poisson equation in an unbounded periodically perforated domain. A functional analytic approach. Mathematische Nachrichten. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.201600414

• Lanza de Cristoforis, M., Musolino, P. (2017). Analytic dependence of a periodic analog of a fundamental solution upon the periodicity parameters. Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata , pp. 1-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-017-0715-7

• Williams, J.D.O., Gent, C.M.A., Fellgett, M.W., Gamboa, D. (2017). Impact of in situ stress and fault reactivation on seal integrity in the East Irish Sea Basin, UK. Marine and Petroleum Geology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.11.030

• Pagès, J.F., Smith, T.M., Tomas, F., Sanmartí, N., Boada, J., De Bari, H., Pérez, M., Romero, J., Arthur, R., Alcoverro, T. (2017). Contrasting effects of ocean warming on different components of plant-herbivore interactions. Marine Pollution Bulletin. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.036 

• Pawluk, R.J., Uren Webster, T.M., Cable, J., Garcia de Leaniz, C., Consuegra, S. (2017). Immune-related transcriptional responses to parasitic infection in a naturally inbred fish: roles of genotype and individual variation. Genome Biology and Evolution 10: 319-327. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx274

• Abdalla, M., Hastings, A., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L., Evans, C.D., Jones, M.B., Rees, R.M., Smith, P. (2018). Critical review of the impacts of grazing intensity on soil organic carbon storage and other soil quality indicators in extensively managed grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 253: 62-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.10.023

• Sanchez-Rodriguez, A.R., Hill, P.W., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L. (2017) Crop residues exacerbate the negative effects of extreme flooding on soil quality. Biology and Fertility of Soils 53: 751-765. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-017-1214-0

• Melendez, D., Marti, S., Pajor, E., Moya Fernandez, D., Gellatly, D., Janzen, E., Schwartzkopf-Genswein, K. (2017). Effect of timing of subcutaneous meloxicam administration on indicators of pain after knife castration of weaned calves. Journal of Animal Science 95(12): 5218–5229. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2527/jas2017.1978

• Melendez, D.M., Marti, S., Pajor, E., Moya, D., Heuston, C.E.M., Gellatly, D. Janzen, E.D., Schwartzkopf-Genswein, K.S. (2017). Effect of band and knife castration of beef calves on welfare indicators of pain at three relevant industry ages: I. Acute pain. Journal of Animal Science 95: 4352-4366. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2527/jas2017.1762

• S. Marti, S., Meléndez, D.M., Pajor, E.A., Moya, D., Heuston, C.E.M., Gellatly, D., Janzen, E.D., Schwartzkopf-Genswein, K.S. (2017). Effect of band and knife castration of beef calves on welfare indicators of pain at three relevant industry ages: II. Chronic pain. Journal of Animal Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2527/jas.2017.1763

• Xing, Y., Bosch, M., Spear, M., Donnison, I., Ormondroyd, G., Jones, P. (2017). Exploring Design Principles of Biological and Living Building Envelopes: What Can We Learn from Plant Cell Walls? Intelligent Building International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2017.1394808

• Righi, F., Simoni, M., Foskolos, A., Beretti, V., Sabbioni, A., Quarantelli, A. (2017). In vitro ruminal dry matter and neutral detergent fibre digestibility of common feedstuffs as affected by the addition of essential oils and their active compounds. Journal of Animal Feed Sciences 26: 204-212. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22358/jafs/76754/2017

• Styles, D., Gonzalez-Mejia, A., Moorby, J., Foskolos, A., Gibbons, J. (2017). Climate mitigation by dairy intensification depends on intensive use of spared grassland. Global Change Biology: 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13868
• Smith, H.C.M., Fairley, I., Robertson, B., Abusara, M., Masters, I. (2017). Wave resource variability: Impacts on wave power supply over regional to international scales. Energy Procedia 125: 240-249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.202
• Togneri, M., Jones, D., Neill, S., Lewis, M., Ward, S., Piano, M., Masters, I. (2017). Comparison of 4- and 5-beam acoustic Doppler current profiler configuration for measurement of turbulent kinetic energy. Energy Procedia 125: 260-267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.170
• Elasha, F., Mba, D., Togneri, M., Masters, I., Amaral Teixeira, J. (2017). A hybrid prognostic methodology for tidal turbine gearboxes. Renewable Energy 114: 1051-1061. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.07.093
• Piano, M., Neill, S.P., Lewis, M.J., Robins, P.E., Hashemi, M.R., Davies, A.G., Ward, S.L., Roberts, M.J. (2017). Tidal stream resource assessment uncertainty due to flow asymmetry and turbine yaw misalignment. Renewable Energy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.05.023 
• Goward Brown, A., Neill, S.P., Lewis, M.J. (2017). Tidal energy extraction in three-dimensional ocean models. Renewable Energy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.04.032
• Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Ladd, C., Malarkey, J., Skov, M. (2016). Soil stabilization linked to plant diversity and environmental context in coastal wetlands. Journal of Vegetation Science 27: 259-268. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12367
• Ford, H., Evans, B., van Klink, R., Skov, M., Garbutt, A. (2017). The importance of canopy complexity in shaping seasonal spider and beetle assemblages in saltmarsh habitats. Ecological Entomology 42: 145-155. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12373
• Ormondroyd G.A., Alfredsen G., Prabhakaran R.T.D., Curling S.F., Stefanowski B.K., Spear M.J., and Gobakken L.R. (2017). Assessment of the use of dynamic mechanical analysis to investigate initial onset of brown rot decay of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation 120: 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2017.02.002
• Dalla Riva, M., and Musolino, P. (2017). The Dirichlet problem in a planar domain with two moderately close holes. Journal of Differential Equations. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2017.04.006
• Qin, Y., Alves, T.M., Constantine, J., and Gamboa, D. (2017). The role of mass wasting in the progressive development of submarine channels (Espírito Santo Basin, SE Brazil). Journal of Sedimentary Research 87: 1-17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2017.18
• Lewis, M., Neill, S.P., Robins, P.E., Hashemi, M.R., and Ward, S. (2017). Characteristics of the velocity profile at tidal-stream energy sites. Renewable Energy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.096
• Neill, S.P., Vögler, A., Goward-Brown, A.J., Baston, S., Lewis, M.J., Gillibrand, P.A., Waldman, S., and Woolf, D.K. (2017). The wave and tidal resource of Scotland. Renewable Energy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.027
• Togneri, M., Lewis, M.J., Neill, S.P., and Masters, I. (2017). Comparison of ADCP observations and 3D model simulations of turbulence at a tidal energy site. Renewable Energy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.061
• Fairley I., Smith, H.C.M., Robertson, B., Abusara, M., and Masters, I. (2017). Spatio-temporal variation in wave power and implications for electricity supply. Renewable Energy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.075
• Boada, J., Arthur, R., Alonso, D., Pagès, J.F., Pessarrodona, A., Oliva, S., Ceccherelli, G., Piazzi, L., Romero, J., and Alcoverro, T. (2017). Immanent conditions determine imminent collapses: nutrient regimes define the resilience of macroalgal communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20162814. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2814
• Ballinger, R.C., and Dodds, W. (2017). Shoreline management plans in England and Wales: a scientific and transparent process? Marine Policy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.009
• Davidson, K.E., Fowler, M.S., Skov, M.W., Doerr, S., and Griffin, J.N. (2017). Livestock grazing alters multiple ecosystem properties and services in salt marshes: a meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: http://dx/doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12892
• He, Y., Jones, P., and Rayment, M. (2017). A simple parameterisation of windbreak effects on wind speed reduction and resulting thermal benefits to sheep. Agricultural & Forest Meteorology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.02.032
• Edmunds, M., Williams, A.J., Masters, I., and Croft, T.N. (2017). An enhanced disk averaged CFD model for the simulation of horizontal axis tidal turbines. Renewable Energy 101, 67-81. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.08.007
• Lewis, M.J., Angeloudis, A., Robins, P.E., Evans, P.S., and Neill, S.P. (2017). Influence of storm surge on tidal range energy. Energy 122: 25-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.01.068
• Xing, Y., Jones, P., and Donnison, I. (2017). Characterisation of Nature-based Solutions for the Built Environment. Sustainability 156441. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9010149

2016

• Ormondroyd, G.A. Curling, S.F. Mansour, E., and Hill, C.A.S. (2016). The water sorption characteristics and kinetics of different wool types. Journal of the Textile Institute. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00405000.2016.1224442
• Adams, J.M.M., Bleathman, G., Thomas, D., and Gallagher, J.A. 2016. The effect of mechanical pre-processing and different drying methodologies on bioethanol production using the brown macroalga Laminaria digitata (Hudson) JV Lamouroux. Journal of Applied Phycology . DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-016-1039-5
• Armstrong, S.B., Lazarus, E.D., Limber, P.W., Goldstein, E.B., Thorpe, C., and Ballinger, R.C. (2016). Indications of a positive feedback between coastal development and beach nourishment. Earth's Future, 4: 626–635. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000425
• Lazarus, E.D. (2016). Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology. Geophysical Research Letters, 43: 113–12,119. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071213
• Zangiabadi, E., Masters, I., Williams, A.J., Croft, T.N., Malki, R., Edmunds, M., Mason-Jones, A., and Horsfall, I. (2016). Computational prediction of pressure change in the vicinity of tidal stream turbines and the consequences for fish survival rate. Renewable Energy v. 101, pp. 1141-1156. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.09.063
• Wootton-Beard., P.C., Xing, Y., Prabhakaran, D.R.T., Robson, P., Bosch, M., Thornton, J.M., Ormondroyd, G.A., Jones, P., Donnison, I. (2016). Improving the impact of plant science on urban planning and design. Buildings 6: 48. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings6040048
• Kopecký, D., Harper, J., Bartoš, J., Gasior, D., Vrána, J., Hřibová, E., Boller, B., Ardenghi, N., Šimoníková, N., Doležel, J., and Humphreys M. (2016). An increasing need for productive and stress resilient Festulolium amphiploids: what can be learnt from the stable genomic composition of Festuca pratensis subsp. apennina (De Not.) Hegi?” Frontiers in Environmental Science.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2016.00066
• Guillou, N., Chapalain, G. and Neill, S.P. (2016). The influence of waves on the tidal kinetic energy resource at a tidal stream energy site. Applied Energy 180, 402-415.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.07.070

• Roche, R.C., Walker-Springett, K., Robins, P.E., Jones, J., Veneruso, G.,  Whitton, T.A., Piano, M., Ward, S.L., Duce, C.E., Waggitt, J.J., Walker-Springett, G.R., Neill, S.P., Lewis, M.J. and King, J.W. (2016). Research priorities for assessing potential impacts of emerging marine renewable energy technologies: Insights from developments in Wales (UK). Renewable Energy 99, 1327-1341.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.08.035
• Gunina, A., Smith, A.R., Godbold, D.L., Jones, D.L., and Kuzyakov, Y. (2016). Response of soil microbial community to afforestation with pure and mixed species. Plant and Soil.
  DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3073-0
• Tripathy, S., Al-Khyat, S., Cleall, P.J., Baille, W., and Schanz, T. (2016). Soil Suction Measurements of Unsaturated Soils with a Sensor Using Fixed-Matrix Porous Ceramic Discs. Indian Geotechnical Journal.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40098-016-0200-z
• Vick-Majors, T.J., Mitchell, A.C., Achberger, A.M., Christner, B.C., Dore, J.E., Michaud, A.B., Mikucki, J.A., Purcell, A.M., Skidmore, M.L., and Priscu, J.C. Physiological Ecology of Microorganisms in Subglacial Lake Whillans. (2016). Frontiers in Microbiology. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01705   
• Cable, J., Barber, I., Boag, B., Ellison, A.R., Morgan, E., Murray, K., Pascoe, E.L., Sait, S.M., Wilson, A.J., and Booth, M. Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0088

• Hashemi, M.R., Grilli, S.T.,Neill, S.P. (2016). A simplified method to estimate tidal current effects on the ocean wave power resource. Renewable Energy 96: 257-269.
  DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.04.073
• Gamboa, D., Alves, T.M. (2016). Bi-modal deformation styles in confined mass-transport deposits: Ex-amples from a salt minibasin in SE Brazil. Marine Geology, 379: 176–193.
  DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.06.003
• Rassner, S.M.E., Anesio, A.M., Girdwood, S.E., Hell, K., Gokul, J.K., Whitworth, D.E., Edwards A. (2016). Can the Bacterial Community of a High Arctic Glacier Surface Escape Viral Control? Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 956.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00956
• El-Naggar, M.M., Cable, J., Arafa, S.Z., El-Abbassy, S.A.,  Kearn, G.C. (2016). Scanning and transmission electron microscopy of the histopathological impact of Macrogyrodactylus clarii (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) on the gills of catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Folia Parasitologica 63: 017.  
  DOI: http://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2016.017
• Bakker, E.S., Wood, K.A., Pagès, J.F., Veen, G.F.C., Christianen, M.J.A., Santamaría, L., Nolet, B., Hilt, S. (2016). Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective. Aquatic Botany, in press.
  DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2016.04.008
• Marshall, A.H., Collins, R.P., Humphreys, M.W., and Scullion, J. (2016). A new emphasis on root traits for perennial grass and legume varieties with environmental and ecological benefits. Journal of Food and Energy Security, 5: 26-39.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fes3.78

• Hashemi, M.R., Spaulding, M.L., Shaw, A., Farhadi, H. and Lewis, M. (2016). An efficient artificial intelligence model for prediction of tropical storm surge. Natural Hazards.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2193-4

• Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Ladd, C., Malarkey, J. and Skov, M.W. (2016). Erosion stabilisation by vegetation: linked to environmental context and biodiversity in a coastal wetland. Journal of Vegetation Science.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12367
• Robins, P.E., Skov, M.W., Lewis, M.J., Giménez, L., Davies, A.G., Malham, S.K., Neill, S.P., McDonald, J.E., Whitton, T.A., Jackson, S.E. and Jago, C.F. (2016). Impact of climate change on UK estuaries: A review of past trends and potential projections. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 169: 119-135.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.12.016

2015

• Togneri, M., Masters, I. (2015). Micrositing variability and mean flow scaling for marine turbulence in Ramsey Sound, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40722-015-0036-0

• Lazarus E.D., Ellis M.A., Murray A.B., Hall D.M. (2015). An evolving research agenda for human–coastal systems, Geomorphology.
  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.07.043

Other publications

• Adams, J. (2016). An overview on seaweed uses in the UK: Past, present and future. Seaweed Resources, 36: 16-21.
• Ford, H., Smith, A., Pagella, T., Healey, J. (2016). Trees, water storage and flooding in upland agricultural landscapes: why do we need to know more? Forestry and Timber News.