List of works by Carl D. Sayer

A 250 year comparison of historical, macrofossil and pollen records of aquatic plants in a shallow lake

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A multiproxy palaeolimnological study of climate and nutrient impacts on Esthwaite Water, England over the past 1200 years

scientific article

A new role for pond management in farmland bird conservation

A novel ‘triple drawdown’ method highlights deficiencies in invasive alien crayfish survey and control techniques

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

A review and meta-analysis of growth and life-history traits of a declining European freshwater fish, crucian carp Carassius carassius

Are rare species rare or just overlooked? Assessing the distribution of the freshwater bryozoan, Lophopus crystallinus

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Are the controls of species composition similar for contemporary and sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages? A study of 39 shallow lakes of contrasting trophic status

scholarly article

Assessing aquatic macrophyte community change through the integration of palaeolimnological and historical data at Loch Leven, Scotland

scholarly article

Assessing methods to improve benthic fish sampling in a stony headwater stream

scientific article

Assessing the impact of the threatened crucian carp (Carassius carassius) on pond invertebrate diversity - a comparison of conventional and molecular tools

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Back to the future: using palaeolimnology to infer long-term changes in shallow lake food webs

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Big Ben: a new wide-bore piston corer for multi-proxy palaeolimnology

scholarly article

Bimodality and alternative equilibria do not help explain long-term patterns in shallow lake chlorophyll-a

scientific article published on 25 January 2023

Catchment‐scale distribution, abundance, habitat use, and movements of European eel ( Anguilla anguilla L.) in a small UK river: Implications for conservation management

Centennial-scale changes to the aquatic vegetation structure of a shallow eutrophic lake and implications for restoration

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Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions

scientific article published on 14 February 2023

Changes in the diet of a recovering Eurasian otter population between the 1970s and 2010

article by David Almeida et al published January 2012 in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Combining contemporary ecology and palaeolimnology to understand shallow lake ecosystem change

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Comparing RADseq and microsatellites to infer complex phylogeographic patterns, an empirical perspective in the Crucian carp, Carassius carassius, L.

scientific article published on 12 March 2016

Connectivity and zebra mussel invasion offer short‐term buffering of eutrophication impacts on floodplain lake landscape biodiversity

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Consequences of Fish Kills for Long-Term Trophic Structure in Shallow Lakes: Implications for Theory and Restoration

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Consequences of pond management for chironomid assemblages and diversity in English farmland ponds

Conservation of aquatic landscapes: ponds, lakes, and rivers as integrated systems

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Coupled Hydrological/Hydraulic Modelling of River Restoration Impacts and Floodplain Hydrodynamics

Defining ecological and chemical reference conditions and restoration targets for nine European lakes

scholarly article

Defining reference conditions and restoration targets for lake ecosystems using palaeolimnology: a synthesis

scholarly article

Demonstrating the practical impact of publications in Aquatic Conservation – The case of crucian carp Carassius carassius in the East of England

Disentangling the effects of land use and geo-climatic factors on diversity in European freshwater ecosystems

scientific article published in January 2016

Does the fish–invertebrate–periphyton cascade precipitate plant loss in shallow lakes?

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Ecoacoustics as a novel tool for assessing pond restoration success: Results of a pilot study

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

Ecological influences on larval chironomid communities in shallow lakes: implications for palaeolimnological interpretations

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Ecological sensitivity of marl lakes to nutrient enrichment: evidence from Hawes Water, UK

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Erratum: Corrigendum: Rapid evolution of thermal tolerance in the water flea Daphnia

scientific article

Eutrophication erodes inter-basin variation in macrophytes and co-occurring invertebrates in a shallow lake: combining ecology and palaeoecology

scholarly article

Eutrophication homogenizes shallow lake macrophyte assemblages over space and time

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Freshwater Testate Amoebae (Arcellinida) Response to Eutrophication as Revealed by Test Size and Shape Indices

scientific article published in 2020

Genetic evidence challenges the native status of a threatened freshwater fish (Carassius carassius) in England. ⬇️

scientific article

Habitat heterogeneity enables spatial and temporal coexistence of native and invasive macrophytes in shallow lake landscapes

scientific article

Harnessing the potential of the multi-indicator palaeoecological approach: an assessment of the nature and causes of ecological change in a eutrophic shallow lake

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How effective are plant macrofossils as a proxy for macrophyte presence? The case of Najas flexilis in Scotland

scholarly article

Identifying from recent sediment records the effects of nutrients and climate on diatom dynamics in Loch Leven

scientific article published on 22 July 2011

Identifying sediment discontinuities and solving dating puzzles using monitoring and palaeolimnological records

scientific article

Improving the pollinator pantry: Restoration and management of open farmland ponds enhances the complexity of plant-pollinator networks

scientific article

Inferring past zooplanktivorous fish and macrophyte density in a shallow lake: application of a new regression tree model

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Large woody debris “rewilding” rapidly restores biodiversity in riverine food webs

scientific article published in 2017

Long-term dynamics of submerged macrophytes and algae in a small and shallow, eutrophic lake: implications for the stability of macrophyte-dominance

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Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

scientific article

Malacosporean myxozoans exploit a diversity of fish hosts

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Microbiotic signatures of the Anthropocene in marginal marine and freshwater palaeoenvironments

Microplastic burden in invasive signal crayfish (<i>Pacifastacus leniusculus</i>) increases along a stream urbanization gradient

scientific article published in 2023

Mission possible: diatoms can be used to infer past duckweed (lemnoid Araceae) dominance in ponds

scholarly article

Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Once a pond in time: employing palaeoecology to inform farmland pond restoration

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Ornamental lakes - an overlooked conservation resource?

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Palaeolimnological evidence for submerged plant loss in a floodplain lake associated with accelerated catchment soil erosion (Murray River, Australia)

scholarly article

Palaeolimnological records of shallow lake biodiversity change: exploring the merits of single versus multi-proxy approaches

scholarly article

Pond ecology and conservation: research priorities and knowledge gaps

scientific article

Prospects and challenges of environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring in freshwater ponds

Rapid decomposition of a cationic azo-initiator under microwave irradiation

Rapid evolution of thermal tolerance in the water flea Daphnia

Re-introduction of structurally complex wood jams promotes channel and habitat recovery from overwidening: Implications for river conservation

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry

scientific article published in 2022

Refining the palaeoecology of lacustrine testate amoebae: insights from a plant macrofossil record from a eutrophic Scottish lake

scholarly article

Relationships between fish feeding guild and trophic structure in English lowland shallow lakes subject to anthropogenic influence: implications for lake restoration

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Representation of fish communities by scale sub-fossils in shallow lakes: implications for inferring percid–cyprinid shifts

scholarly article

Response of Submerged Macrophyte Communities to External and Internal Restoration Measures in North Temperate Shallow Lakes

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Responses of fishes and lampreys to the re-creation of meanders in a small English chalk stream

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River–floodplain hydrology of an embanked lowland Chalk river and initial response to embankment removal

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Seasonal dynamics of macrophytes and phytoplankton in shallow lakes: a eutrophication-driven pathway from plants to plankton?

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Seasonal use of ponds as foraging habitat by Eurasian otter with description of an alternative handling technique for common toad predation

scientific article published in 2013

Sedimentary macrofossil records reveal ecological change in English lakes: implications for conservation

scholarly article

Shallow lake sediments provide evidence for metapopulation dynamics: a pilot study

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Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types

scientific article published in October 2022

Simulation of the hydrological impacts of climate change on a restored floodplain

TBT causes regime shift in shallow lakes

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

The anatomy of a Fenland roddon: sedimentation and environmental change in a lowland Holocene tidal creek environment

The application of palaeolimnology to evidence-based lake management and conservation: examples from UK lakes

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The coming and going of a marl lake: multi-indicator palaeolimnology reveals abrupt ecological change and alternative views of reference conditions

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The effectiveness of aquatic plants as surrogates for wider biodiversity in standing fresh waters

scientific article

The role of cladocerans in tracking long-term change in shallow lake trophic status

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The role of pond management for biodiversity conservation in an agricultural landscape

article published in 2012

The simultaneous inference of zooplanktivorous fish and macrophyte density from sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages: a multivariate regression tree approach

scholarly article by Thomas A. Davidson et al published March 2010 in Freshwater Biology

The ‘Pritchard Trap’: A novel quantitative survey method for crayfish

scientific article published on 08 June 2021

Towards better integration of ecology in palaeoecology: from proxies to indicators, from inference to understanding

scholarly article

Towards the conservation of crucian carp Carassius carassius: understanding the extent and causes of decline within part of its native English range

scientific article

Toxic metal enrichment and boating intensity: sediment records of antifoulant copper in shallow lakes of eastern England

scholarly article

Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management

scientific article

Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate diet and niche partitioning in the native European otter (Lutra lutra) and invasive American mink (Neovison vison)

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

When is the best time to sample aquatic macroinvertebrates in ponds for biodiversity assessment?

scientific article

Zooplankton as indicators in lakes: a scientific-based plea for including zooplankton in the ecological quality assessment of lakes according to the European Water Framework Directive (WFD)

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