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We seek to advance understanding of freshwater ecosystems such that they can be better protected and managed sustainably in a changing environment. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/research/researchcentresandservices/rivercommunity/

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Afon Gwy (River Wye) headwaters in Wales

Afon Gwy (River Wye) headwaters in Wales

River Etherow in the Peak District east of Manchester.

River Etherow in the Peak District east of Manchester.

Danby Beck in North York Moors.

Danby Beck in North York Moors.

Allt a Mharcaidh in the Cairngorms.

Allt a Mharcaidh in the Cairngorms.

Spent last week surveying plant communities living in streams across Britain as part of the long-running Upland Waters Monitoring Network (uwmn.uk) assessing impact of air pollution on freshwater ecosystems. We had all four seasons over the week!

07.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Biologist taking a sample of the macroinvertebrate community living in the stream bed, using a kick net.

Biologist taking a sample of the macroinvertebrate community living in the stream bed, using a kick net.

Delighted that the EU COST Action DNAqua-Net collaboration has once more borne fruit. We undertook a structured experiment across seven DNA labs to assess sources of uncertainity in metabarcoding for freshwater macroinvertebrate community assessment.
Open Access.
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

07.07.2025 13:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Oughton Brook

Oughton Brook

Mimram @ Panshanger

Mimram @ Panshanger

Adult mayfy (Ephemera)

Adult mayfy (Ephemera)

Gade downstream of Great Gaddesdon

Gade downstream of Great Gaddesdon

Glorious spring weather for sampling the chalkstreams of SE England! Plenty of water bubbling up out of the Chilterns despite the current dry spell.

14.05.2025 10:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Clockwise from top left: Tenthredo sawfly, mantid, cockroaches, dragonfly

Clockwise from top left: Tenthredo sawfly, mantid, cockroaches, dragonfly

NEWS: Despite fears about insect declines, we know very little about 99% of species globally 🌍📉.

Scientists are proposing a new approach to get a more complete picture of insect populations and analyse how they are responding to threats.

Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/some-i... 🧪

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04.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 67    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 0
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Working with colleagues at @lborouniversity.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social @zoologyotago.bsky.social we have shown that organic component of excess fine sediment in stream bed governs invertebrate community response.
Open Access paper now out in Freshwater Biology doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

27.03.2025 11:02 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Ready for a Night of Science @qmulse.bsky.social

20.02.2025 17:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK conservation goals insufficient to save ants and bees, says expert Science committee chair calls for monitored species to include groups such as moths, lice and hymenoptera

Guardian article covering the SI&T committee report

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

08.02.2025 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

UK parliament Science Innovation & Technology committee recommends that government needs a “clear strategy for sustaining long-term insect monitoring research”

committees.parliament.uk/publications...

08.02.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/rtbc...

04.02.2025 10:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Nets set in Arctic river to catch pink salmon smoults heading to sea

Nets set in Arctic river to catch pink salmon smoults heading to sea

Pink salmon smoults

Pink salmon smoults

Prof Iwan Jones will be at the Arctic Frontiers (arcticfrontiers.com) meeting this week in Tromsø, Norway to discuss ways to encourage scientific collaboration across and beyond the Arctic and to present our work on the pink salmon invasion of the Arctic. #ArcticFrontiers @qmulse.bsky.social 🧪🐟🐻‍❄️

28.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

Here is the original paper just out in Nature. The authors assessed freshwater fish, dragonflies, damselflies, crabs, crayfish and shrimps.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

09.01.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A quarter of freshwater animals threatened with extinction, finds major new study Scientists have assessed more than 23,000 species.

Read Prof Iwan Jones' commentary on a comprehensive assessment of the risk of extinction of freshwater species. theconversation.com/a-quarter-of...

09.01.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our poster is up! A cluster of GLiTRS posters can be found at A9. Enjoying #BES2024 so far.

11.12.2024 13:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please come and chat with us at the BES annual meeting next week. Learn about the work we are doing on the NERC-funded GLiTRS project

04.12.2024 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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