Upland Environments Research Unit (UpERU)
Publications
2007
Pawson, R.R, Evans, M.G., Allott, T.E., (in review) Fluvial organic carbon flux from an eroding peatland catchment, southern Pennines, UK submitted to Hydrology and Earth System Science
Rothwell, J.J. and Lindsay JB. In Press. Mapping contemporary magnetic mineral
concentrations in peat soils using fine-resolution digital elevation data.
Catena.
Rothwell, J.J., Evans, M.G., Liddaman, L.C. and Allott, T.E.H. (2007) The role of wildfire and gully erosion in particulate Pb export from contaminated peatland catchments in the southern Pennines , U.K. Geomorphology Available online 8 January 2007
Evans, M. and Warburton, J. (2007 forthcoming) The Geomorphology of Upland Peat: Pattern, Process, Form. Blackwells, in the Royal Geographical Society Monograph series.
Rothwell, J.J. Evans, M.G., Lindsay, J.B. Allott, T.E.H. (2007). Scale-dependant spatial variability in peatland lead pollution in the southern Pennines, UK. Environmental Pollution. 145(1) 111-120
Lindsay JB, and Evans, MG. (in review) The influence of elevation error on the morphometrics of channel networks extracted from DEMs and the implications for hydrological modelling. Hydrological Processes.
Rothwell, J. J., Evans, M.G., Allott, T.E.H. (2007). Lead contamination of fluvial sediments in an eroding blanket peat catchment. Applied Geochemistry. 22(2) 446-459
Lindsay JB. Terrain parameterization in TAS GIS. Accepted for publication
in, Hengle, T, and Reuter , HI (ed) Terrain parameterization: Concepts,
Software, and Applications.
2006
Lindsay JB, Creed IF. 2006. Distinguishing between artefact and real
depressions in digital elevation data. Computers and Geosciences, 32(8):
1192-1204. doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.11.002.
Lindsay JB. 2006. Sensitivity of channel mapping techniques to uncertainty
in digital elevation data. International Journal of Geographical Information
Science, 20(6): 669-692.
Holden, J., Chapman, P., Evans, M., Hubaceck, K. Kay, P., and Warburton, J. (2006) Vulnerability of Organic Soils in England and Wales . Final technical report to DEFRA project SP0532
Holden, J., Evans, M.G., Burt, T.P., and Horton, M. (2006) Impact of land drainage on peatland hydrology. Journal of Environmental Quality, 35, 1764-1778
Evans, M. Warburton, J. and Yang, J. (2006) Sediment Budgets for Eroding Blanket Peat Catchments: Global and local implications of upland organic sediment budgets Geomorphology 79 (1-2) 45-57
Rothwell, J.J., Allott, T.E.H., Evans, M.G. 2006. Sediment-water interactions in an eroded and heavy metal contaminated peatland catchment, southern Pennines, UK. Water Air and Soil Pollution. Published online November DOI: 10.1007/s11267-006-9052-3
McMorrow, J., Aylen, J., Albertson, K., Cavan, G., Lindley, S., Handley, J. and Karooni, R. (2006a) Moorland Wildfires in the Peak District National Park, Peak District Case Study, Technical Report 3, Climate Change and the Visitor Economy, CCVE.
McMorrow, J. (2006) 'Using a web-based resource to prepare students for fieldwork: evaluating the Dark Peak Virtual Tour'. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 29 (2): 223-240.
2005
Evans, M. and Warburton, J. (2005) Sediment budget for an eroding peat moorland catchment in northern England Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30 557-577
Evans, M., Allott, T., Holden, J., Flitcroft, C. And Bonn, A. (2005) Understanding gully blocking in deep peat. Moors For the Future Report 4. Moors for the future, Castleton. 105p.
Rothwell, J.J., Robinson, S.G., Evans, M.G., Yang, J., Allott, T.E.H. (2005). Heavy metal release by peat erosion in the Peak District, southern Pennines, UK, Hydrological Processes 19 (15), 2973-2989.
Lindsay JB, Creed IF. 2005. Removal of artefact depressions from digital
elevation models: Towards a minimum impact approach. Hydrological Processes,
19(16): 3113-3126.
Lindsay JB, Creed IF. 2005. Sensitivity of digital landscapes to artefact
depressions in remotely-sensed DEMs. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
Sensing, 71(9): 1029-1036.
applications. Hydrological Processes, 19(5): 1123-1130.
2004
Heinrichs, M.L., Evans, M.G., Hebda, R.J., Walker, I.R., Palmer , S.L and Rosenberg, S.M. (2004) Holocene climatic change and landscape response at Cathedral Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. In press in Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 58(1) 123-139
Lindsay JB, Creed IF, Beall FD. Drainage basin morphometrics for depressional landscapes. Water Resources Research, 40: W09307, doi:10.1029/2004WR003322.
Lindsay JB, Creed IF. Drainage basin morphometrics for depressional landscapes. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 6: 03548.
McMorrow, J., Al-Roichdi, A, Evans, M.G. and Cutler, M.E. (2004) Estimation of physico-chemical properties of exposed upland peat from HyMap spectra. Paper presented at Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop, Bruges, 8 October 2004. Available online from: telsat.belspo.be/documents/bruhyp2004.html
McMorrow, J., Al-Roichdi, A, Evans, M.G. and Cutler, M.E. Variations in upland peat properties: analysis of hyperspectral data. Paper presented at the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoc) annual conference, Aberdeen, 7-10 September 2004.
Liddaman, L.C. J. McMorrow, J.M. and Evans, M.G. Eroding blanket peat: utilising pattern analysis to assess areal and scale dependence of upland landscape structures. Poster paper presented at Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoc) annual conference, Aberdeen, 7-10 September 2004.
Liddaman, L.C. The use of pattern analysis to assess the scale dependence of upland landscape structures in eroding blanket peat. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoc) Student meeting, Edinburgh, 1-2 April 2004
Evans, M. and Slaymaker, O. Patterns of Holocene sediment yield in the alpine / subalpine zone, Cascade Mountains, British Columbia. Geomorphology 61 209-224.
Liddaman, L. The use of pattern analysis to assess the scale dependence of upland landscape structures in eroding blanket peat. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoc) Student meeting, Edinburgh, 1-2 April 2004.
McMorrow, J.M., Cutler, M.E., Evans, M. and Al-Roichdi, A., Hyperspectral indices for characterising upland peat composition. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25 (2): 313 - 325.
2003
McMorrow, J.M., Al-Roichdi, A., Evans, M. and Cutler, M.E. The effect of moisture content and humification on the hyperspectral reflectance of peat Scales and Dynamics in Observing the Environment. Proc. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoc) Conference, Nottingham, 10-12 Sept 2003, CDROM, Nottingham: RSPSoc.
Al-Roichdi, A. McMorrow, J.M. and Evans, M.G. The effect of moisture content on peat reflectance: drying experiments using the ASD contact probe. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoc) Student meeting, Nottingham, 25 March 2003.
Warburton, J, Evans, M. and Johnson, R. Discussion of The extent of soil erosion in Upland England and Wales. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 219-223.
McMorrow, J.M., Evans, M., Cutler, M.E.J and Al-Roichdi, A. (2003) Towards hyperspectral indices of upland peat composition. Proc. NERC conference on Field Spectral Measurements, Southampton 15-16 April 2002 (invited paper).
2002
M.E.J. Cutler, J. McMorrow and M. Evans Remote sensing of upland peat erosion in the Southern Pennines. Northwest Geography.2(1): 20-30, available online.
McMorrow, J.M., Cutler, M.E., Evans, M. Synergy of HyMap and digital elevation data for the analysis of upland peat erosion patterns and composition. Final report to BNSC and NERC.
2001
Higgitt, D. Warburton, J. and Evans, M. Upland sediment systems, in Lee, M. and Higgitt, D. (eds) Millennium geomorphology, Wiley. Chichester.
Evans M.G. and Warburton, J. Transport and disperal of organic debris (peat blocks) in upland fluvial systems. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26(10) 1087-1103
2000
Evans, M. and Church, M.C. A new method for the analysis of error in lake-sediment-derived sediment yield estimates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 25 1257-1267.
Evans, M. Slope-channel linkages as a control on geomorphic sensitivity in alpine basins, Cascade Mountains, British Columbia, in Slaymaker O. (ed) Geomorphology Human Activity and Global Environmental Change Wiley, Chichester. p. 95-115.
Evans, M. and Church, M.C. A new method for the analysis of error in lake-sediment-derived sediment yield estimates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 25 1257-1267
1999
Evans, M.G., Burt, T.P., Holden, J. and Adamson, J.K. Runoff generation and water table fluctuations in blanket peat: evidence from U.K. data spanning the dry summer of 1995. Journal of Hydrology 221 141-160
Burt, T.P., Evans, M.G. and Warburton, J. Contemporary runoff and erosion in blanket peat catchments on the Moor House National Nature Reserve, in Tallis, J.H. and Meade, R. Patterned Mires and Mire Pools. proceedings of the British Ecological Society, Durham. p. 103-115.
1997
Evans, M. Temporal and spatial representativeness of alpine sediment yields: Cascade mountains, British Columbia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 22 287-295.
Evans, M. Pollen evidence for Neoglacial climate fluctuations in the southern Coast Mountains British Columbia. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 51(1) 81-92.
1986
McMorrow, J.M and E Hume (1986) Problems of applying multispectral classification to upland vegetation. Int. Archives Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing vol. 26, No 4, pp 610-620.
Hume, E. McMorrow, J.M. and Southey, J. (1986) Mapping semi-natural grassland communities from panchromatic aerial photographs and digital images at SPOT wavelengths. Int. Archives Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 26, No 4, pp 386-395.