All Stories

  1. Methane and carbon dioxide emissions from agricultural ponds are driven by physico-chemical and morphological characteristics

    Article • Inland Waters, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alan Law

  2. Wetland landscape transformation by beavers: responses of biodiversity and functional indicators at multiple scales

    Article • Landscape Ecology, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law

  3. Invasive non-native plants indirectly destabilise riverbanks

    Article • Biological Invasions, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law

  4. Towards improved accounting and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, December 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alan Law

  5. Beaver wetlands create a buzz and a flutter for pollinators

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  6. Lines in the landscape

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law

  7. Understanding the hydrological and landscape connectivity of lakes

    Article • Landscape Ecology, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law

  8. Flume experiments reveal how beaver dam characteristics influence pond depth regulation

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Law

  9. Landscape‐Scale Responses of Freshwater Biodiversity to Connectivity and Stressors

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  10. eDNA sampling reveals no negative effects of beaver recolonisation on the catchment-scale distribution of migratory fish

    Article • May 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alan Law

  11. The impact of beaver dams on distribution of waterborne Escherichia coli and turbidity in an agricultural landscape

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Law

  12. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology

    Article • BMC Biology, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law, Dr Michael S Rosenberg, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr Stefano Mammola

  13. Repeatable patterns in the distribution of freshwater biodiversity indicators across contrasting landscapes

    Article • Landscape Ecology, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law

  14. Optimising species detection probability and sampling effort in lake fish eDNA surveys

    Article • Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, July 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Alan Law, Jianlong Li

  15. New insights on habitat use by larval Northern Emerald dragonflies (Somatochlora arctica)

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law

  16. Tree felling by beaver promotes regeneration in riparian woodlands whilst increasing resource availability for deer

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Law

  17. Invertebrate responses to rewilding: a monitoring framework for practitioners

    Article • Restoration Ecology, May 2024, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  18. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology

    Article • October 2023, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Alan Law

  19. Will they be back? A framework to guide rare macrophyte conservation decisions in lakes

    Article • Restoration Ecology, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  20. Spatial and temporal variability in summertime dissolved carbon dioxide and methane in temperate ponds and shallow lakes

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, May 2023, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  21. How beavers affect riverine aquatic macroinvertebrates: a review

    Article • PeerJ, April 2022, PeerJ

    Dr Alan Law

  22. Pond ecology and conservation: research priorities and knowledge gaps

    Article • Ecosphere, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  23. Are beavers a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis?

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

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

    Article • Freshwater Biology, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  25. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of pond water as a tool to survey conservation and management priority mammals

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alan Law

  26. Rewilding wetlands: beaver as agents of within-habitat heterogeneity and the responses of contrasting biota

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alan Law

  27. Using ecosystem engineers as tools in habitat restoration and rewilding: beaver and wetlands

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Law

  28. Habitat engineering by beaver benefits aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem processes in agricultural streams

    Article • Freshwater Biology, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  29. Medium vs. short-term effects of herbivory by Eurasian beaver on aquatic vegetation

    Article • Aquatic Botany, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Law

  30. Beavers and lilies: selective herbivory and adaptive foraging behaviour

    Article • Freshwater Biology, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law

  31. Using coralline algae to understand historic marine cloud cover

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Law

  32. TEMPERATURE CONTROLS ON CORALLINE ALGAL SKELETAL GROWTH

    Article • Journal of Phycology, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Alan Law