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22 - Riverflies
- Edited by Norman Maclean, University of Southampton
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- Silent Summer
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- 05 August 2012
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- 20 May 2010, pp 401-414
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Riverflies (mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies) have shown a serious decline in the United Kingdom over the past few decades, most of which has been identified by anglers. This decline has been attributed to a number of causes, including pollution, siltation, abstraction, poor land management, loss of aquatic weed and climatic changes. Whilst there is little quantitative data to demonstrate declines, two surveys have shown a serious decline in one mayfly species and a change in the life cycle of another. The mayfly parasite, Spiriopsis adipophila, new to the UK, could also be restricting the growth rates of certain mayfly species.
The Riverfly Partnership has brought together a large number of organisations with a common interest to conserve and protect riverfly populations. Working in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Anglers Monitoring Initiative (AMI) has been devised for anglers (and others) to check water quality by monitoring riverfly populations. This provides an alert of pollution events that may otherwise go undetected. One-day workshops give anglers the basic training to carry out this simple monitoring procedure and a fully funded PhD study on riverflies is planned to run from 2010.
Reintroductions and improvements to aquatic environments can also help to increase riverfly populations; the mayfly, Ephemera danica, was successfully reintroduced to the River Wey in Surrey and the River Wye in Derbyshire after two serious pollution incidents. […]
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- By Joanne R. Adler, David A. Alexander, Laurence Alison, Catherine C. Ayoub, Peter Banister, Anthony R. Beech, Amanda Biggs, Julian Boon, Adrian Bowers, Neil Brewer, Eric Broekaert, Paula Brough, Jennifer M. Brown, Kevin Browne, Elizabeth A. Campbell, David Canter, Michael Carlin, Shihning Chou, Martin A. Conway, Claire Cooke, David Cooke, Ilse Derluyn, Robert J. Edelmann, Vincent Egan, Tom Ellis, Marie Eyre, David P. Farrington, Seena Fazel, Daniel B. Fishman, Victoria Follette, Katarina Fritzon, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Nathan D. Gillard, Renée Gobeil, Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Lynsey Gozna, Don Grubin, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm, Guy Hall, Nathan Hall, Roisin Hall, Sean Hammond, Leigh Harkins, Grant T. Harris, Camilla Herbert, Robert D. Hoge, Todd E. Hogue, Clive R. Hollin, Lorraine Hope, Miranda A. H. Horvath, Kevin Howells, Carol A. Ireland, Jane L. Ireland, Mark Kebbell, Michael King, Bruce D. Kirkcaldy, Heidi La Bash, Cara Laney, William R. Lindsay, Elizabeth F. Loftus, L. E. Marshall, W. L. Marshall, James McGuire, Neil McKeganey, T. M. McMillan, Mary McMurran, Joav Merrick, Becky Milne, Joanne M. Nadkarni, Claire Nee, M. D. O’Brien, William O’Donohue, Darragh O’Neill, Jane Palmer, Adria Pearson, Derek Perkins, Devon L. L. Polaschek, Louise E. Porter, Charlotte C. Powell, Graham E. Powell, Martine Powell, Christine Puckering, Ethel Quayle, Vernon L. Quinsey, Marnie E. Rice, Randall Richardson-Vejlgaard, Richard Rogers, Louis B Schlesinger, Carolyn Semmler, G. A. Serran, Ralph C. Serin, John L. Taylor, Max Taylor, Brian Thomas-Peter, Paul A. Tiffin, Graham Towl, Rosie Travers, Arlene Vetere, Graham Wagstaff, Helen Wakeling, Fiona Warren, Brandon C. Welsh, David Wexler, Margaret Wilson, Dan Yarmey, Susan Young
- Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, London School of Economics and Political Science, Elizabeth A. Campbell, University of Glasgow
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- Book:
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
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- 06 July 2010
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- 29 April 2010, pp xix-xxiii
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