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Biodiversity net gain (2024)
Report
Wentworth, J. (2024). Biodiversity net gain. UK Parliament

Mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) is a new requirement in addition to existing biodiversity and wildlife planning policy. The 2019 impact assessment for the policy states that developers causing the most environmental damage should face the highe... Read More about Biodiversity net gain.

Invasiveness risks of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) in Great Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Pearson, L., Dodd, J. A., Davison, P., & Copp, G. H. (online). Invasiveness risks of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) in Great Britain. Management of Biological Invasions, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2025.16.1.06

Invasive species risk assessment tools are a vital means of identifying taxa likely to be introduced and cause adverse effects within a specified area, allowing for the preparation of targeted management strategies. Following the first report of the... Read More about Invasiveness risks of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) in Great Britain.

Minding the Gap for Biodiversity (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, J. (2024, April). Minding the Gap for Biodiversity. Presented at UK DNA Working Group Conference, Inverness, UK

Starting a Career as a Professional Ecologist: Tips from the Early Careers Special Interest Group (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Gabb, O., Bentley, R., Dodd, J., & Roberts, L. (2023). Starting a Career as a Professional Ecologist: Tips from the Early Careers Special Interest Group

The CIEEM Early Careers Special Interest Group (SIG) was set up in 2022 to support those in the first few years of their ecological and environmental careers. The purpose of this article is to provide advice to those who are looking to achieve their... Read More about Starting a Career as a Professional Ecologist: Tips from the Early Careers Special Interest Group.

Searching for the Wiggle Signal - using reference condition predictions to inform river restoration expectations (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, J. (2023, September). Searching for the Wiggle Signal - using reference condition predictions to inform river restoration expectations. Presented at Scientific Advances in River Restoration, Liverpool, UK

Macroinvertebrates are a commonly used group to invesgate the ecological response of a river to restoraon intervenon.
Reviews of the literature summarising the response of macroinvertebrates to river restoraon highlight variability in the strength... Read More about Searching for the Wiggle Signal - using reference condition predictions to inform river restoration expectations.

Searching for the Wiggle Signal - using reference condition predictions to inform river restoration expectations (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, J. (2023, June). Searching for the Wiggle Signal - using reference condition predictions to inform river restoration expectations. Paper presented at Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Macroinvertebrates are a commonly used group to investigate the ecological response of a river to restoration intervention. Reviews of the literature summarising the response of macroinvertebrates to river restoration highlight variability in the str... Read More about Searching for the Wiggle Signal - using reference condition predictions to inform river restoration expectations.

Strategic Design and Delivery of Integrated Catchment Restoration Monitoring: Emerging Lessons from a 12-Year Study in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Spray, C., Black, A., Bradley, D., Bromley, C., Caithness, F., Dodd, J., Hunt, J., MacDonald, A., Martinez Romero, R., McDermott, T., Moir, H., Quinn, L., Reid, H., & Robertson, H. (2022). Strategic Design and Delivery of Integrated Catchment Restoration Monitoring: Emerging Lessons from a 12-Year Study in the UK. Water, 14(15), Article 2305. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14152305

Despite growing interest in river and catchment restoration, including a focus on nature-based solutions, assessing effectiveness of restoration programmes continues to prove a challenge. The development of the Eddleston Water project, the Scottish G... Read More about Strategic Design and Delivery of Integrated Catchment Restoration Monitoring: Emerging Lessons from a 12-Year Study in the UK.

Invasiveness risks of naked goby, Gobiosoma bosc, to North Sea transitional waters (2022)
Journal Article
Dodd, J. A., Copp, G. H., Tidbury, H. J., Leuven, R. S., Feunteun, E., Olsson, K. H., Gollasch, S., Jelmert, A., O'Shaughnessy, K. A., Reeves, D., Brenner, J., & Verreycken, H. (2022). Invasiveness risks of naked goby, Gobiosoma bosc, to North Sea transitional waters. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 181, Article 113763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113763

In recent decades, gobies have dispersed or introduced from the Ponto-Caspian region of eastern Europe in a westerly direction to North American and western European waters. By contrast, the naked goby, Gobiosoma bosc, is the only known gobiid specie... Read More about Invasiveness risks of naked goby, Gobiosoma bosc, to North Sea transitional waters.

Effects of pile driving sound playbacks and cadmium co-exposure on the early life stage development of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (2022)
Journal Article
Stenton, C., Bolger, E., Michenot, M., Dodd, J., Wale, M., Briers, R., Hartl, M., & Diele, K. (2022). Effects of pile driving sound playbacks and cadmium co-exposure on the early life stage development of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 179, Article 113667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113667

There is an urgent need to understand how organisms respond to multiple, potentially interacting drivers in today’s world. The effects of the pollutants of anthropogenic sound (pile-driving sound playbacks) and waterborne cadmium were investigated ac... Read More about Effects of pile driving sound playbacks and cadmium co-exposure on the early life stage development of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus.

The Impact Of Shadow Flicker Or Pulsating Shadow Effect, Caused By Wind Turbine Blades, On Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar): Research Summary (2021)
Report
Dodd, J. A., & Briers, R. A. (2021). The Impact Of Shadow Flicker Or Pulsating Shadow Effect, Caused By Wind Turbine Blades, On Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar): Research Summary. Scotland’s Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW)

As the need for onshore wind energy expands, such climate adaptation measures may have unintended and potentially significant influences on how fish respond when situated next to rivers or streams. The aim of this project was to examine evidence of p... Read More about The Impact Of Shadow Flicker Or Pulsating Shadow Effect, Caused By Wind Turbine Blades, On Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar): Research Summary.

A comparison of trends in population size and life history features of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and anadromous and non-anadromous Brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a single catchment over 116 years (2021)
Journal Article
Adams, C. E., Honkanen, H. M., Bryson, E., Moore, I. E., MacCormick, M., & Dodd, J. A. (2022). A comparison of trends in population size and life history features of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and anadromous and non-anadromous Brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a single catchment over 116 years. Hydrobiologia, 849, 945-965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04751-2

We use a long time series of catch abundance from a recreational fishery over 116 years to look for population trends in Atlantic salmon, and anadromous (sea trout) and non-anadromous (brown) trout for a single catchment, Loch Lomond, west central Sc... Read More about A comparison of trends in population size and life history features of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and anadromous and non-anadromous Brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a single catchment over 116 years.

Best Practices for Monitoring and Assessing the Ecological Response to River Restoration (2021)
Journal Article
England, J., Angelopoulos, N., Cooksley, S., Dodd, J., Gill, A., Gilvear, D., Johnson, M., Naura, M., O’Hare, M., Tree, A., Wheeldon, J., & Wilkes, M. A. (2021). Best Practices for Monitoring and Assessing the Ecological Response to River Restoration. Water, 13(23), Article 3352. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233352

Nature-based solutions are widely advocated for freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration. As increasing amounts of river restoration are undertaken, the need to understand the ecological response to different measures and where measures are... Read More about Best Practices for Monitoring and Assessing the Ecological Response to River Restoration.

CD34+ progenitors are predictive of mortality and are associated with physical activity in cardiovascular disease patients (2021)
Journal Article
Muggeridge, D., Dodd, J., & Ross, M. D. (2021). CD34+ progenitors are predictive of mortality and are associated with physical activity in cardiovascular disease patients. Atherosclerosis, 333, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2021.07.004

Background and aims
Circulating progenitor cells (CPCs) play an important role in vascular repair and can influence cardiovascular (CV) health and longevity. Exercise is known to modulate these cells via mobilization from the bone marrow. The primar... Read More about CD34+ progenitors are predictive of mortality and are associated with physical activity in cardiovascular disease patients.

Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus (2021)
Journal Article
Præbel, K., Bean, C. W., Dodd, J. A., Etheridge, E. C., Gowans, A. R., Knudsen, R., Lyle, A. A., Maitland, P. S., Winfield, I. J., & Adams, C. E. (2021). Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(9), 2575-2585. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3623

The use of translocations to establish new or ‘refuge’ populations for species with high conservation value is controversial but widely used in conservation management. One of the risks of this approach is that an establishing population does not... Read More about Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus.

Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management (2021)
Journal Article
Downey, H., Amano, T., Cadotte, M., Cook, C. N., Cooke, S. J., Haddaway, N. R., Jones, J. P. G., Littlewood, N., Walsh, J. C., Abrahams, M. I., Adum, G., Akasaka, M., Alves, J. A., Antwis, R. E., Arellano, E. C., Axmacher, J., Barclay, H., Batty, L., Benítez‐López, A., Bennett, J. R., …Sutherland, W. J. (2021). Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(1), Article e12032. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12032

1. To be effective, the next generation of conservation practitioners and managers need to be critical thinkers with a deep understanding of how to make evidence-based decisions and of the value of evidence synthesis.

2. If, as educators, we do no... Read More about Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management.

First genetic evidence that invasive bullhead (Cottus L. 1758) in Scotland is of English origin and the difficulty of resolving the European Cottus species taxonomy (2020)
Journal Article
McLeish, J., Briers, R., Dodd, J., & Rueckert, S. (2020). First genetic evidence that invasive bullhead (Cottus L. 1758) in Scotland is of English origin and the difficulty of resolving the European Cottus species taxonomy. Journal of Fish Biology, 96(3), 617-630. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14247

The European bullhead (Cottus gobio) is widely distributed across Europe and within the UK is native to England and Wales, where it is protected under the Habitats Directive. In Scotland, however, the species is considered invasive and thriving popul... Read More about First genetic evidence that invasive bullhead (Cottus L. 1758) in Scotland is of English origin and the difficulty of resolving the European Cottus species taxonomy.

At what spatial scale should risk screenings of translocated freshwater fishes be undertaken – river basin district or climo-geographic designation? (2018)
Journal Article
Dodd, J., Vilizzi, L., Bean, C., Davison, P. I., & Copp, G. H. (2019). At what spatial scale should risk screenings of translocated freshwater fishes be undertaken – river basin district or climo-geographic designation?. Biological Conservation, 230, 122-130

To inform aquatic conservation policy and management decisions, translocated freshwater fish species, i.e. those native to part but not all of Great Britain (GB), were assessed with the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK) at two spa... Read More about At what spatial scale should risk screenings of translocated freshwater fishes be undertaken – river basin district or climo-geographic designation?.