Publications relating to the Colne estuary;

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Barak, N.A.-E. and Mason, C.F. (1989). Heavy metals in water, sediment and invertebrates from rivers in eastern England. Chemosphere 19, 1709-1714.

Barak, N.A.-E. and Mason, C.F. (1990). A survey of heavy metal levels in eels (Anguilla anguilla) in some rivers in East Anglia, England : the use of eels as pollution indicators. Internationale Revue fur die gesamte Hydrobiologie 75, 827- 833.

Barak, N.A.-E. and Mason, C.F. (1990). Mercury, cadmium and lead in eels and roach: the effects of size, season and locality on metal concentrations in flesh and liver. The Science of the Total Environment 92, 249-256.

Barak, N.A.-E. and Mason, C.F. (1990). Mercury, cadmium and lead concentrations in five species of freshwater fish from eastern England. The Science of the Total Environment 92, 257-263.

Daniel C. O. Thornton*†, Liang F. Dong, Graham J. C. Underwood and David B. Nedwell. (2006) Sediment-water inorganic nutrient exchange and nitrogen budgets in the Colne estuary (UK). Mar Ecol Progr Ser (in press).

Dong LF, Nedwell DB and Stott A (2006) Sources of nitrogen used for denitrification and nitrous oxide formation in sediments of the hypernutrified Colne, the nutrified Humber and the oligotrophic Conwy estuaries, United Kingdom. Limnol Oceanogr. 51: 545-557.

Dong LF, Nedwell DB, Colbeck I, Finch JW. (2004). Nitrous oxide emission from UK rivers and estuaries. Water Air and Soil Pollution. Focus 4:127-134.

Dong, L.F, Nedwell D.B., Underwood G. J. C., Thornton D.C.O. and Rusmana I. (2002) Nitrous oxide formation in the Colne estuary, England: the central role of nitrite.  Applied Environmental Microbiology. 68: 1240-1249.

Dong, L.F., Thornton, D.C.O, Nedwell, D.B. & Underwood, G.J.C. (2000) Denitrification in sediments of the River Colne estuary, England. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 203 : 109 -122.

Hanlon, A.R.M., Bellinger, B., Haynes, K., Xiao, G., Hofmann, T.A., Gretz, M. R., Ball, A.S., Osborn, A. M. and Underwood, G. J. C. (2006) Dynamics of EPS production and loss in an estuarine, diatom-dominated, microalgal biofilm over a tidal emersion immersion period. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51: 79-93.

Hinojosa-Garro, D., Mason, C.F. and Underwood, G.J.C. (2008). Macrophyte assemblages in ditches of coastal marshes in relation to land-use, salinity and water quality. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 172, 325-337.

Hofmann, T.A. and Mason, C.F. (2006). Importance of management on the distribution and abundance of Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) on coastal grazing marshes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 114, 397-406.

Jackson, D., Harkness, D.D., Mason, C.F. and Long, S.P. (1986). Spartina anglica as a carbon source for salt-marsh invertebrates : a study using delta 13C values. Oikos 46, 163-170.

Jackson, D., Long, S.P. and Mason, C.F. (1986). Net primary production, decomposition and export of Spartina anglica on a Suffolk salt-marsh. Journal of Ecology 74, 647-662.

Jackson, D., Mason, C.F. and Long, S.P. (1985). Macro-invertebrate populations and production on a salt marsh in east England dominated by Spartina anglica. Oecologia 65, 406-411.

Kocum, E., Nedwell, D.B., & Underwood, G.J.C. (2002) Regulation of phytoplankton primary production along a hypernutrified estuary. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.  231: 13-22. 

Kocum, E., Underwood, G.J.C., & Nedwell, D.B. (2002) Simultaneous measurement of phytoplankton primary productionn, nutrient and light availability along a turbid, eutrophic UK east coast estuary (the Colne Estuary). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.  231: 1-12.

Kondo R, Nedwell DB, Purdy KJ, Silva S de Q. (2004) Detection and enumeration of sulphate-reducing bacteria in estuarine sediments by competitive PCR. Geomicrobiology Journal 21:145-157.

Macdonald, S.M. and Mason, C.F. (2003). Essex otters – struggling in a hostile environment? British Wildlife 14, 153-158.

Macdonald, S.M. and Mason, C.F. (2003). The Otter (Lutra lutra) in Essex 1996-2002. Essex Naturalist 20, 159-176.

Mason, C.F. (1987). Mercury, lead and cadmium in muscle of British freshwater fish. Chemosphere 16, 901-906.

Mason, C.F. (1997). Association between Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus territories and birch in south-east England. Ibis 139, 411-412.

Mason, C.F. (2008). Winter use of urban amenity grasslands by Turnstones and other waders. British Birds 101, 95-96.

Mason, C.F. and Barak, N.A.-E. (1990). A catchment survey for heavy metals using the eel (Anguilla anguilla). Chemosphere 21, 695-699.

Mason, C.F. and Heath, D.J. and Gibbs, D.J. (1991). Invertebrate assemblages of Essex salt marshes and their conservation importance. Aquatic Conservation 1, 123-137.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (1990). The riparian woody plant community of regulated rivers in eastern England. Regulated Rivers, Research and Management 5, 159-166.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (1999). Estuarine feeding by Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria. Wildfowl 50, 205-207.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (1999). Habitat use by Lapwings and Golden Plovers in a largely arable landscape. Bird Study 46, 89-99.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (1999). Winter bird numbers and land-use preferences in an arable landscape in eastern England. Bird conservation International 9, 119-127.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (2000). Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra populations, landscape and land-use in an arable district of eastern England. Bird Conservation International 10,169-186.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (2000). Influence of landscape and land use on the distribution of breeding birds in farmland in eastern England. Journal of Zoology 251, 339-348.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (2000). Numbers of wintering waterbirds on rivers in eastern England. Wildfowl 51, 207-211. 

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (2002). The American Mink Mustela vison in Essex. Essex Naturalist 19, 95-99.

Mason, C.F. and Macdonald, S.M. (2005). The bird assemblage of coastal borrowdykes in relation to habitat features. Folia Zoologica 54, 393-300.

Mason, C.F., Ekins, G. and Ratford, J.R. (1997). PCB congeners, DDE, Dieldrin and mercury in eggs from an expanding colony of cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo). Chemosphere 34, 1845-1849.

Mason, C.F., Elliot, K.L. and Clelland, S. (1987). Landscape changes in a parish in Essex, Eastern England, since 1838. Landscape and Urban Planning 14, 201-209.

Mason, C.F., Hofmann, T.A. and Macdonald, S.M. (2006). The winter bird community of river corridors in eastern England in relation to habitat variables. Ornis Fennica 86, 73-85.

Mason, C.F., Underwood, G.J.C., Baker, N.B., Davey, P.A., Davidson, I., Hanlon, A., Long, S.P., Oxborough, K., Paterson, D.M. and Watson, A. (2003). The role of herbicides in the erosion of salt marshes in eastern England. Environmental Pollution 122, 41-49.

Nedwell DB, Dong LF, Sage AS, & Underwood GJC . (2002)  Variations of the nutrient loads to the mainland U.K. estuaries: correlation with catchment areas, urbanisation and coastal eutrophication. Estuar. Coastal Shelf Sci. 54: 951-970.

Nedwell DB, Embley TM and Purdy KJ. (2004) Sulphate reduction, methanogenesis and phylogenetics of the sulphate reducing bacterial communities along an estuarine gradient. Aquat Microb Ecol 37:209-217.

Nedwell DB,  Sage AS & Underwood GJC. (2002) Rapid assessment of macroalgal cover on estuarine intertidal sediments.  Science Total Environment. 285: 97-105.

Parr, L.B. and Mason, C.F. (2003). Long-term trends in water quality and their impact on macroinvertebrate assemblages in eutrophic lowland rivers. Water Research 37, 2969-2979.

Parr, L.B. and Mason, C.F. (2004). Causes of low oxygen in a lowland, regulated eutrophic river in eastern England. Science of the Total Environment 321, 273-286.

Perdikaki, K. and Mason, C.F. (1999). Impact of road run-off on receiving streams in eastern England. Water Research 33,1627-1633.

Pretty J N, Mason C F, Nedwell D B and Hine R E, Leaf S and Dils R. (2003). Environmental costs of freshwater eutrophication in England and Wales. Environmental Science and Technology 37(2), 201-208

Purdy KJ, Munson MA, Embley TM, and Nedwell DB. (2003). Use of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes to investigate function and phylogeny of sulphate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea in a UK estuary. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 44: 361-371.

Raffaelli, D.G. and Mason, C.F. (1981). Pollution monitoring with meiofauna, using the ratio of nematodes to copepods. Marine Pollution Bulletin 12, 158- 163.

Samuels, A.J. and Mason, C.F. (1997). Ecology of eutrophic waterbodies in a coastal grazing marsh. Hydrobiologia 346, 203-214.

Samuels, A.J. and Mason, C.F. (1998). Shrimps and eutrophication in the waterbodies of a coastal grazing marsh. Hydrobiologia 377, 195-199.

Smith, D.J. & Underwood, G.J.C. (1998) Exopolymer production by intertidal epipelic diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography 43: 1578 - 1591.

Smith. D.J. & Underwood, G.J.C. (2000) The production of extracellular carbohydrate exopolymers (EPS) by estuarine benthic diatoms: the effects of growth phase and light and dark treatment. J. Phycol. 36 321-333.

Thornton D.C.O., Dong, L.F., Underwood, G.J.C. and Nedwell, D.B. (2002) Factors affecting microphytobenthic biomass, species composition and production in the Colne estuary (UK) Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 27: 285-300

Thornton, D.C.O., Underwood, G.J.C., & Nedwell, D.B. (1999) Effect of illumination and emersion period on the exchange of ammonium across the sediment-water interface. Marine Ecology Progress Series 184: 11-20

Underwood G J. C. and Barnett M. (2006) What determines species composition in microphytobenthic biofilms? Functioning of microphytobenthos in estuaries. Proceedings of the Microphytobenthos symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2003. Ed. J. Kromkamp. pp 121-138. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Underwood, G.J.C. & Kromkamp, J. (1999) Primary production by phytoplankton and microphytobenthos in estuaries Advances in Ecological Research 29: 93 - 153

Underwood, G.J.C. & Smith, D.J. (1998a) Predicting epipelic diatom exopolymer concentrations in intertidal sediments from sediment chl. a Microbial Ecology 35: 116-125.

Underwood, G.J.C. &  Provot, L. (2000) Determining the environmental preferences of four estuarine epipelic diatom taxa - growth across a range of salinity, nitrate and ammonium conditions. Eur.  J. Phycol. 35: 173-182

Underwood, G.J.C. (2000)  Changes in microalgal species composition, biostabilisation potential and succession during saltmarsh restoration. In British Saltmarshes Eds.

Sherwood B.R., Gardiner B.G., & Harris T. publ. Linnean Society of London / Forrest Text. Cardigan. pp418. Chapter 9,  p143 - 154.

Wright, P. and Mason, C.F. (1999). Spatial and seasonal variation in heavy metals in the sediments and biota of two adjacent estuaries, the Orwell and Stour, in eastern England. The Science of the Total Environment 226,139-156

Books:

Long, S.P. and Mason, C.F. (1983). Saltmarsh Ecology. Blackie, Glasgow, 160pp.