Peter A. Henrys's research while affiliated with UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and other places

... After data collection by citizen scientists and data validation through experts, the results could be shared with local, regional, or national environmental agencies, such as the German Environment Agency (UBA) or the National Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity (NMZB). Integrated modelling approaches could be used to combine citizen science data with official monitoring data to better assess freshwater status and pressures (Jarvis et al. 2023). Based on these new, partly citizen science -driven insights, agencies could apply ecoregion-specific ecological criteria for stream health according to the WFD (e.g., at least status class II "good" for SPEAR pesticides and hydromorphology) and initiate more detailed field investigations or improvement measures together with local citizen science groups if these criteria are repeatedly not met (see von Gönner et al. 2023a, Stankiewicz et al. 2023. ...

... The paper by Blair and Henrys (2023) discusses the role of data science in the digital twins of the natural environment, focusing on how the resulting data models can work alongside the rich legacy of process models that exist in this domain. ...

... The concentrations of dissolved natural organic matter (DNOM) have increased in most northern freshwaters. This rise is attributed to several factors, including the reduced impact of acid rain [1], a warmer and wetter climate [2,3], and growing biomass [4,5], though not consistently [6]. Still, many acid-sensitive surface waters recovering from acid deposition are reverting from anthropogenic acidification to natural acidity [7], with the increased anionic charge from DNOM contributing considerably to the total anionic charge. ...

... We generate a base landcover map for Great Britain by combining the UKCEH Landcover Map (Morton et al. 2020) and crop map (Land Cover Plus: Crops; Upcott et al. 2023) for the year 2019 and overlaying the locations of priority habitats given in the Natural England Priority Habitat Inventory (Natural England 2014), followed by urban green spaces from OS Open Greenspace Map, surface water features from OS Open Rivers and OS District Map, multi-carriageway roads from OS Open Roads, and railways from OS District Map (Ordnance Survey 2022). In addition, we separate semi-natural grasslands and heathlands into upland (> 300m) and lowland sub-categories using the OS Terrain 50 dataset (Ordnance Survey 2022). ...

... Jupyter Notebook is an integrated development environment for R and Python that can function either on-or offline and allows for the blending of narrative text, mathematics, and executable code [7]. Jupyter Notebook is an open-source platform that provides an excellent learning environment for students and a better graphics interface than the original R platform [8]. Jupyter Notebook can improve the ability of graduate students in medical fields to learn epidemiological data analysis by providing an interactive and collaborative environment that allows for more efficient and effective learning [9]. ...

... Every individual farm is a unique combination of landscape and environmental context and management options implemented at multiple spatial and temporal scales. While it is possible to generalise farm types in terms of broad environmental constraints and farming systems (Goodwin et al., 2022;Rodríguez, van ...

... Precipitation chemistry data are crucial for our understanding of local and global atmospheric element cycling and for an assessment of corresponding anthropogenic impacts (Ahmed et al., 1990;Decina et al., 2019;Liotta et al., 2021;Riechelmann et al., 2022;Tso et al., 2022;Vet et al., 2014). Moreover, precipitation is the initial solvent or "titrant" in hydrogeochemical systems (Edmunds, 2010) and its major ion concentrations are required as input data for hydrochemical models (Christofi et al., 2020;Paukert et al., 2012;Solder and Jurgens, 2020). ...

... These data were collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field measurement programme in Wales Wood et al., 2021). In total, 300 individual 1 km squares were randomly selected from within land classification strata in proportion to their extent across Wales in order to be representative of the range of habitat types across Wales or targeted to areas with high potential for agri-environment scheme uptake (Wood et al., 2021). ...

... We matched site conditions to an area of intense agricultural production in the east of the UK with medium clay content soils. We simulated realistic cropping sequences for that region (defined as UKH level 1 NUTS 22 ) using a transition matrix describing the probability www.nature.com/scientificreports/ of growing a series of crops given the previous crop 23 . Our simulation was, therefore, relevant to the large central and south-eastern wheat growing areas in the UK that also experience high weed pressure, including from herbicide-resistant Alopecurus myosuroides 24 . ...

... Furthermore, soil pH affects the solubility of nutrients required by vegetation growth and the migration of nutrients in the soil, thus affecting the absorption of these elements by plants, vegetation growth and carbon storage (Ghiloufi and Chaieb 2021). In addition, Tipping et al (2021) found that soil pH also has an impact on plant species richness. In addition, human activities also make the uncertainty of vegetation carbon balance significantly increased. ...