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This is the sort of science that anyone can do. By taking part the public are doing real science – and the publication of this scientific paper is a demonstration of how seriously citizen science is now taken by the community of professional scientists.
Dr Michael Pocock, CEH
We have been challenged by other professional scientists as to whether ‘ordinary people’ can make accurate observations, suitable for real science. Of course they can – and we tested this in our study.
Dr Darren Evans, University of Hull
Our study shows that the different representations of terrestrial water cycle processes in global hydrological models are responsible for a much larger uncertainty in the response of hydrological drought to climate change than previously thought. We don’t know how much changed climate patterns will affect the frequency of low flows in rivers
Dr Christel Prudhomme
Our results clearly indicate that preservation of old-growth forests is vital for the conservation of specialist species. While the re-growth of forests following clearance is valuable in soaking up carbon, the biodiversity benefits will take a very long time to emerge.
Professor James Bullock, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Continued monitoring of the fish community of Bassenthwaite Lake will help us to understand what has happened and to inform appropriate conservation actions.
Dr Ian Winfield
“We can now show that cormorant numbers relate to the availability of natural resources over huge surface areas of Europe, and they are strongly influenced by natural and man-made events many hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away.”
Mennobart van Eerden, Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
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The Moth versus the Crowd - Tracking an alien invader of conker trees using people power

Publication of new scientific paper a demonstration of how seriously citizen science is now taken by the community of professional scientistsAn army of citizen scientists has helped the professionals understand how a tiny ‘alien’ moth is attacking the UK’s conker (horse-chestnut) trees, and showed that naturally-occurring pest controlling wasps are not able to restrict the moth’s impact. The study’s conclusions are published this week in the open access scientific journal PLOS ONE. No bigger than a grain of rice, the horse-chestnut leaf-mining moth has spread rapidly through England

Drought and climate change: an uncertain future?

Increase in global severity of hydrological drought - essentially the proportion of land under drought conditions - likely by the end of the 21st century, with systematically greater increases if no climate change mitigation policy is implementedDrought frequency may increase by more than 20% in some regions of the globe by the end of the 21st century, but it is difficult to be more precise as we don’t know yet how changes in climate will impact on the world’s rivers. The results come from a study, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which

Carbon storage recovers faster than plant biodiversity in re-growing tropical forests

Preservation of old-growth forests is vital for the conservation of specialist speciesA new study of re-growing tropical forests has concluded that plant biodiversity takes longer to recover than carbon storage following major disturbances such as clearance for farming. The findings, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, have important implications for conservation since there are now many re-growing forests in South and Central America. The new study is the first large-scale analysis of the recovery of both plant biodiversity and carbon pools in re-

Britain’s rarest freshwater fish reappears in Bassenthwaite Lake

Britain’s rarest freshwater fish, the Vendace, has made an unexpected reappearance in Bassenthwaite Lake in north-West England more than a decade after being declared ‘locally extinct’. A fish community survey of Bassenthwaite Lake which took place this autumn recorded a single young vendace specimen. The small size of the fish, only 54 mm in length, makes it likely to be an underyearling which hatched during the spring of this year. Dr Ian Winfield from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology led this autumn’s survey. He said, “This finding of a single vendace individual is a very

Europe-wide Studies Into Cormorant-Fishery Conflicts Published

Detailed findings from a major Europe-wide study into cormorant-fishery conflicts are published this week, providing one of the most detailed ecological and socio-economic investigations of these fish-eating birds, their impacts and implications for their management. Cormorant numbers across Europe have been increasing, particularly within the last three decades, for a range of reasons including protection from persecution, the effect of improved food sources, for example as a result of nutrient enrichment and fish farms, and changes in pollution levels. However, the enlarged

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