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List of works by Richard E. Brazier

2.10 Hillslope Soil Erosion Modeling

A Case Study of Uncertainty: Applying GLUE to EUROSEM

A conceptual framework for understanding semi-arid land degradation: ecohydrological interactions across multiple-space and time scales

A conceptual model for determining soil erosion by water

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A field methodology for quantifying phosphorus transfer and delivery to streams in first order agricultural catchments

A novel application of natural fluorescence to understand the sources and transport pathways of pollutants from livestock farming in small headwater catchments.

scientific article published on 24 January 2012

A perspective on the role of lowland, agricultural grasslands in contributing to erosion and water quality problems in the UK

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A sediment-specific family-level biomonitoring tool to identify the impacts of fine sediment in temperate rivers and streams

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A tiered risk-based approach for predicting diffuse and point source phosphorus losses in agricultural areas

scientific article published on 15 April 2005

A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 1. Background and model development

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A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 2. sensitivity and evaluation of Mahleran

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A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 3. Evaluating scaling characteristics ofMahleran

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Accelerated export of sediment and carbon from a landscape under intensive agriculture

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Advancing understanding of runoff and sediment transfers in agricultural catchments through simultaneous observations across scales

scientific article published in 2011

Aerial photography collected with a multirotor drone reveals impact of Eurasian beaver reintroduction on ecosystem structure

Allometric Relationships for Predicting Aboveground Biomass and Sapwood Area of Oneseed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma) Trees

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Alternative perspectives of the angling community on Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction in the River Otter Beaver Trial

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An assessment of the potential for Eurasian beavers to naturally colonise the Cairngorms National Park

scientific article published in February 2022

An investigation into the inputs controlling predictions from a diffuse phosphorus loss model for the UK; the Phosphorus Indicators Tool (PIT).

scientific article published on 19 March 2005

Antecedent conditions control carbon loss and downstream water quality from shallow, damaged peatlands.

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

Assessing catchment-scale erosion and yields of suspended solids from improved temperate grassland

scientific article published on 15 January 2010

Assessing multiple novel tracers to improve the understanding of the contribution of agricultural farm waste to diffuse water pollution

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Assessing the impact of peat erosion on growing season CO2 fluxes by comparing erosional peat pans and surrounding vegetated haggs

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Beaver dams attenuate flow: A multi‐site study

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Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

Biotic and Abiotic Changes in Ecosystem Structure over a Shrub-Encroachment Gradient in the Southwestern USA

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Carbon loss by water erosion in drylands: implications from a study of vegetation change in the south-west USA

Changes in ecosystem structure, function and hydrological connectivity control water, soil and carbon losses in semi-arid grass to woody vegetation transitions

scientific article published in 2013

Changes in hydrology and erosion over a transition from grassland to shrubland

scholarly article by Laura Turnbull et al published 2009 in Hydrological Processes

Comparing empirical models for sediment and phosphorus transfer from soils to water at field and catchment scale under data uncertainty

article published in 2012

Comparing fine‐scale structural and hydrologic connectivity within unimproved and improved grassland

Dealing with Uncertainty in Erosion Model Predictions

Developing an improved biomonitoring tool for fine sediment: Combining expert knowledge and empirical data

scientific article published in 2015

Drain blocking has limited short-term effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in a Molinia caerulea dominated shallow peatland

scientific article

Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally

preprint

Dryland, calcareous soils store (and lose) significant quantities of near-surface organic carbon

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 121 no. 4, April 2016

Ensemble evaluation of hydrological model hypotheses

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Equifinality and uncertainty in physically based soil erosion models: application of the GLUE methodology to WEPP-the Water Erosion Prediction Project-for sites in the UK and USA

scientific article published in 2000

Erosion and Sediment Transport: Finding Simplicity in a Complicated Erosion Model

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Eurasian beaver activity increases water storage, attenuates flow and mitigates diffuse pollution from intensively-managed grasslands.

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

Evaluating MODIS vegetation products using digital images for quantifying local peatland CO2 gas fluxes

Evaluating ecosystem goods and services after restoration of marginal upland peatlands in South-West England

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Evaluation of modelled spatially distributed predictions of soil erosion by water versus field-based assessments

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Exploring the causes of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence.

Exploring the dynamics of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence

scientific article published in November 2022

Fully integrated approach: an alternative solution of coupling a GIS and diffuse pollution models

scholarly article published 16 November 2013

Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems

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Growing season CO2 fluxes from a drained peatland dominated by Molinia caerulea

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High Temporal Resolution Monitoring of Multiple Pollutant Responses in Drainage from an Intensively Managed Grassland Catchment Caused by a Summer Storm

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How does drainage alter the hydrology of shallow degraded peatlands across multiple spatial scales?

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Hydrology, erosion and nutrient transfers over a transition from semi-arid grassland to shrubland in the South-Western USA: A modelling assessment

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Implications of model uncertainty for the mapping of hillslope-scale soil erosion predictions

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Improving engagement in managing reintroduction conflicts: learning from beaver reintroduction

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Intensive management in grasslands causes diffuse water pollution at the farm scale.

scientific article published on November 2014

Interactions Among Agricultural Production and Other Ecosystem Services Delivered from European Temperate Grassland Systems

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Is sediment delivery a fallacy?

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Is sediment delivery a fallacy? Reply

scientific article published in 2008

Linking environmental régimes, space and time: Interpretations of structural and functional connectivity

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Mainstreaming natural flood management: A proposed research framework derived from a critical evaluation of current knowledge

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Managing peatland vegetation for drinking water treatment

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Mapping landscape-scale peatland degradation using airborne lidar and multispectral data

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Mapping upland peat depth using airborne radiometric and lidar survey data

scholarly article by Naomi Gatis et al published February 2019 in Geoderma

Modeling fine-scale soil surface structure using geostatistics

Modelling Eurasian beaver foraging habitat and dam suitability, for predicting the location and number of dams throughout catchments in Great Britain

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Monitoring, modelling and managing beaver (Castor fiber) populations in the River Otter catchment, Great Britain

scientific article published in June 2022

Natural vs anthropogenic streams in Europe: History, ecology and implications for restoration, river-rewilding and riverine ecosystem services

journal article from 'Earth-Science Reviews' published in 2018

New approaches to the restoration of shallow marginal peatlands

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Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics during runoff events over a transition from grassland to shrubland in the south-western United States

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On the effects of improved cross-section representation in one-dimensional flow routing models applied to ephemeral rivers

Pathways of runoff and sediment transfer in small agricultural catchments

article published in 2009

Processes affecting transfer of sediment and colloids, with associated phosphorus, from intensively farmed grasslands: an overview of key issues

Processes affecting transfer of sediment and colloids, with associated phosphorus, from intensively farmed grasslands: erosion

Quantifying Submerged Deposited Fine Sediments in Rivers and Streams Using Digital Image Analysis

Quantifying riparian zone structure from airborne LiDAR: Vegetation filtering, anisotropic interpolation, and uncertainty propagation

Quantifying the spatial variability of soil physical and chemical properties in relation to mitigation of diffuse water pollution

scholarly article by Miriam Glendell et al published February 2014 in Geoderma

Renewed coexistence: learning from steering group stakeholders on a beaver reintroduction project in England

scientific article published on 03 December 2021

Reproducibility, open science and progression in soil erosion research. A reply to “Response to ‘National-scale geodata describe widespread accelerated soil erosion’ Benaud et al. (2020) Geoderma 271, 114378” by Evans and Boardman (2021)

article by Pia Benaud et al published November 2021 in Geoderma

Response to Hairsine's and Sander's ‘Comment on “A transport-distance based approach to scaling erosionrates”: Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Wainwrightet al.’

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Response to Kinnell's ‘Comment on “A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: III. Evaluating scaling characteristics of Mahleran”’

scientific article published in 2009

Rethinking the contribution of drained and undrained grasslands to sediment-related water quality problems.

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Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion

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Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion Reply

scientific article published in 2008

Scales and erosion

Scaling Soil Erosion Models in Space and Time

Scaling issues relating to phosphorus transfer from land to water in agricultural catchments

Sediment and nutrient storage in a beaver engineered wetland

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Sediment transfer and storage in dryland headwater streams

Simulated climate change impact on summer dissolved organic carbon release from peat and surface vegetation: implications for drinking water treatment.

scientific article

Slope Systems

Source Parameters for Moderate Earthquakes in the Zagros Mountains with Implications for the Depth Extent of Seismicity

scholarly article

Sources of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in a mixed land use catchment (Exe, UK)

scientific article published on 17 February 2019

Spatial patterns of scour and fill in dryland sand bed streams

Spatial variation in soil properties and diffuse losses between and within grassland fields with similar short-term management

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

Stable carbon isotope analysis of fluvial sediment fluxes over two contrasting C4-C3semi-arid vegetation transitions

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Standing proud: a response to ‘Soil-erosion models: where do we really stand?’ by Smith et al

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Streambed scour and fill in low-order dryland channels

Strong Correspondence in Evapotranspiration and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Between Different Eddy Covariance Systems Enables Quantification of Landscape Heterogeneity in Dryland Fluxes

scientific article published in 2022

Structure from motion photogrammetry in ecology: Does the choice of software matter?

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Sub-grid scale parameterization of hillslope runoff and erosion processes for catchment-scale models of semi-arid landscapes

Testing a novel sonar‐based approach for measuring water depth and monitoring sediment storage in beaver ponds

scientific article published on 23 November 2022

Testing the pressure-specific invertebrate index (PSI) as a tool for determining ecologically relevant targets for reducing sedimentation in streams

scientific article published on 22 November 2013

Testing the utility of structure-from-motion photogrammetry reconstructions using small unmanned aerial vehicles and ground photography to estimate the extent of upland soil erosion

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The Impacts of Grazing Animals on the Quality of Soils, Vegetation, and Surface Waters in Intensively Managed Grasslands

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art

The effect of drainage ditches on vegetation diversity and CO2fluxes in aMolinia caerulea-dominated peatland

The effect of drought on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release from peatland soil and vegetation sources

article published in 2017

Ultra-fine grain landscape-scale quantification of dryland vegetation structure with drone-acquired structure-from-motion photogrammetry

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Uncertainties in data and models to describe event dynamics of agricultural sediment and phosphorus transfer

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Understanding spatial variability of soil properties: a key step in establishing field- to farm-scale agro-ecosystem experiments.

scientific article published on October 2012

Understanding spatial variability of soil properties: a key step in establishing field- to farm-scale agro-ecosystem experiments†

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Understanding the influence of suspended solids on water quality and aquatic biota

scientific article published on 07 April 2008

Unravelling perceptions of Eurasian beaver reintroduction in Great Britain

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Upscaling understanding of nitrogen dynamics associated with overland flow in a semi-arid environment

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Use of carbon isotope analysis to understand semi-arid erosion dynamics and long-term semi-arid land degradation

scientific article published on June 2008

Using airborne thermal imaging data to measure near-surface hydrology in upland ecosystems

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Using artificial fluorescent particles as tracers of livestock wastes within an agricultural catchment

scientific article published on 14 January 2011

Using field sign surveys to estimate spatial distribution and territory dynamics following reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver to British river catchments

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Using genetic algorithms to calibrate a water quality model

scientific article published on 2 February 2007

What does airborne LiDAR really measure in upland ecosystems?

Wildlife tourism in reintroduction projects: Exploring social and economic benefits of beaver in local settings

Woody plant encroachment into grasslands leads to accelerated erosion of previously stable organic carbon from dryland soils

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