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Overview

Adrian L. Collins is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom and has an extensive record of publications primarily within environmental and agricultural sciences. Their scholarly contributions focus on various aspects of environmental science, with a particular emphasis on soil, water, and sediment dynamics.

Collins has contributed to a body of research covering main fields of study such as:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their work often explores subfields including:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change

The main topics addressed in Collins's research include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Some of the frequent publication venues where Collins's work appears are:

  • CATENA
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Recent representative papers by Adrian L. Collins include:

  • Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes (2020), Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • Gully erosion spatial modelling: Role of machine learning algorithms in selection of the best controlling factors and modelling process (2020), Geoscience Frontiers
  • A novel ensemble computational intelligence approach for the spatial prediction of land subsidence susceptibility (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • A comparison of machine learning models for the mapping of groundwater spring potential (2020), Environmental Earth Sciences
  • Assessment of the interpretability of data mining for the spatial modelling of water erosion using game theory (2021), CATENA

Throughout their career, Collins has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Yusheng Zhang
  • Hari Ram Upadhayay
  • Simon Pulley
  • S. J. Granger
  • Micheal Stone

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • The impacts of fine sediment on riverine fish

    Paul Kemp;David Sear;Adrian Collins;Pamela Naden

  • THE IMPACT OF FINE SEDIMENT ON MACRO-INVERTEBRATES

    J. I. Jones;J. F. Murphy;A. L. Collins;A. L. Collins;D. A. Sear

  • Source type ascription for fluvial suspended sediment based on a quantitative composite fingerprinting technique

    A.L. Collins;D.E. Walling;G.J.L. Leeks

  • Selecting fingerprint properties for discriminating potential suspended sediment sources in river basins

    A.L Collins;D.E Walling

  • Documenting catchment suspended sediment sources: problems, approaches and prospects

    A. L. Collins;D. E. Walling

  • Using hysteresis analysis of high-resolution water quality monitoring data, including uncertainty, to infer controls on nutrient and sediment transfer in catchments

    Charlotte E M Lloyd;Jim E Freer;Penny J Johnes;A. L. Collins

  • Sediment source fingerprinting as an aid to catchment management: A review of the current state of knowledge and a methodological decision-tree for end-users

    A.L Collins;S. Pulley;I.D.L Foster;Allen Gellis

  • Apportioning catchment scale sediment sources using a modified composite fingerprinting technique incorporating property weightings and prior information

    A.L. Collins;D.E. Walling;L. Webb;P. King

  • USE OF COMPOSITE FINGERPRINTS TO DETERMINE THE PROVENANCE OF THE CONTEMPORARY SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOAD TRANSPORTED BY RIVERS

    A. L. Collins;D. E. Walling;G. J. L. Leeks

  • The catchment sediment budget as a management tool

    D.E. Walling;A.L. Collins

  • The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming

    Andrew Balmford;Tatsuya Amano;Harriet Bartlett;Dave Chadwick

  • Tracing suspended sediment and particulate phosphorus sources in catchments

    D.E. Walling;A.L. Collins;R.W. Stroud

  • The relationship between fine sediment and macrophytes in rivers

    J.I. Jones;A.L. Collins;A.L. Collins;P.S. Naden;D.A. Sear

  • Major agricultural changes required to mitigate phosphorus losses under climate change

    M. C. Ockenden;M. J. Hollaway;K. J. Beven;A. L. Collins

  • Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

    Adrian L. Collins;Martin Blackwell;Pascal Boeckx;Charlotte-Anne Chivers;Charlotte-Anne Chivers

  • Using unsupported lead-210 measurements to investigate soil erosion and sediment delivery in a small Zambian catchment

    D.E Walling;A.L Collins;H.M Sichingabula

  • Integrated assessment of catchment suspended sediment budgets: a Zambian example

    D. E. Walling;A. L. Collins;H. M. Sichingabula;G. J. L. Leeks

  • Technical Note: Testing an improved index for analysing storm discharge–concentration hysteresis

    Charlotte E M Lloyd;Jim E Freer;Penny J Johnes;A. L. Collins

  • Establishing fine-grained sediment budgets for the Pang and Lambourn LOCAR catchments, UK

    D.E. Walling;A.L. Collins;P.A. Jones;G.J.L. Leeks

  • Geophysical Research Abstracts

    Charlotte E M Lloyd;Jim E Freer;Penny J Johnes;A Collins

  • Sediment source tracing in a lowland agricultural catchment in southern England using a modified procedure combining statistical analysis and numerical modelling

    A.L. Collins;Y. Zhang;D. McChesney;D.E. Walling

Frequent Co-Authors

Desmond E. Walling
Desmond E. Walling University of Exeter
Ian D L Foster
Ian D L Foster Rhodes University
Penny J Johnes
Penny J Johnes University of Bristol
Pamela S. Naden
Pamela S. Naden University of Leeds
Jim Freer
Jim Freer University of Bristol
David Sear
David Sear University of Southampton
Graham J.L. Leeks
Graham J.L. Leeks UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Philip M. Haygarth
Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University
Kevin M. Hiscock
Kevin M. Hiscock University of East Anglia
Paul J. A. Withers
Paul J. A. Withers Lancaster University

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