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33
Citations
6343
World Ranking
7778
National Ranking
768

Overview

Mark E. Ledger is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant body of work in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Education. Their scholarly contributions also extend to Global and Planetary Change and Water Science and Technology.

Their research topics cover diverse areas including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Teacher Professional Development and Motivation, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, and the use of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Notable recent publications by Mark E. Ledger include:

  • Local contributions to beta diversity in urban pond networks: Implications for biodiversity conservation and management, 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • Low flow and heatwaves alter ecosystem functioning in a stream mesocosm experiment, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages?, 2024, Research Papers in Education
  • Leaf breakdown rates as a functional indicator were influenced by an invasive non-native invertebrate in urban ponds, 2021, Ecological Indicators
  • Extreme low-flow effects on riverine fauna: A perspective on methodological assessments, 2022, Ecohydrology

Mark E. Ledger frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, which includes Kieran Khamis, Thomas W. H. Aspin, Thomas J. Matthews, Gavin M. D. Williams, and Fredric M. Windsor.

Their research has been published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Diversity and Distributions, Research Papers in Education, The Science of The Total Environment, and Ecological Indicators.

Best Publications

  • Ecological networks--beyond food webs.

    Thomas C. Ings;José M. Montoya;José M. Montoya;Jordi Bascompte;Nico Blüthgen

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world

    Melanie Hagen;W. Daniel Kissling;Claus Rasmussen;Marcus A. M. De Aguiar

  • Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research

    Rebecca I.A. Stewart;Matteo Dossena;David A. Bohan;Erik Jeppesen

  • Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs

    Mark E. Ledger;Lee E. Brown;François K. Edwards;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner

  • The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems

    Guy Woodward;Núria Bonada;Lee E. Brown;Russell G. Death

  • Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate

    Guy Woodward;Jonathan P. Benstead;Oliver S. Beveridge;Julia Blanchard

  • Impact of simulated drought on ecosystem biomass production: an experimental test in stream mesocosms

    Mark E. Ledger;Francois K. Edwards;Lee E. Brown;Lee E. Brown;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner

  • Cheddar: analysis and visualisation of ecological communities in R

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Rob Emerson;Gareth B. Jenkins;Katrin Layer

  • BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

    Ulrich Brose;Lara Cushing;Eric L. Berlow;Tomas Jonsson

  • The ecology of acidification and recovery: changes in herbivore-algal food web linkages across a stream pH gradient.

    Mark Ledger;AG Hildrew

  • Temporal and spatial variation in the epilithic biofilm of an acid stream

    Mark E. Ledger;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Climate change impacts in multispecies systems: drought alters food web size structure in a field experiment.

    Guy Woodward;Lee E. Brown;Lee E. Brown;Francois K. Edwards;Lawrence N. Hudson

  • Disturbance frequency influences patch dynamics in stream benthic algal communities

    Mark E. Ledger;Rebecca M. L. Harris;Patrick D. Armitage;Alexander M. Milner

  • Extreme drought pushes stream invertebrate communities over functional thresholds.

    Thomas W. H. Aspin;Thomas W. H. Aspin;Kieran Khamis;Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner

  • Ecological effects of extreme climatic events on riverine ecosystems: insights from Australia

    Catherine Leigh;Alex Bush;Evan T Harrison;Susie Siew Yuen Ho

  • Extreme events in running waters

    Mark E. Ledger;Alexander M. Milner

  • Gene-to-ecosystem impacts of a catastrophic pesticide spill: testing a multilevel bioassessment approach in a river ecosystem

    Murray S. A. Thompson;Murray S. A. Thompson;Claire Bankier;Thomas Bell;Alex J. Dumbrell

  • Climate Change Impacts on Community Resilience. Evidence from a Drought Disturbance Experiment

    Mark E. Ledger;Rebecca M.L. Harris;Patrick D. Armitage;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner

  • Drought intensification drives turnover of structure and function in stream invertebrate communities

    Thomas W. H. Aspin;Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Kieran Khamis;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner

  • Food web complexity and allometric scaling relationships in stream mesocosms: implications for experimentation.

    Lee E. Brown;Lee E. Brown;Francois K. Edwards;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner;Guy Woodward

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander M. Milner
Alexander M. Milner University of Birmingham
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Lee E. Brown
Lee E. Brown University of Leeds
Nikolai Friberg
Nikolai Friberg Aarhus University
Daniel C. Reuman
Daniel C. Reuman University of Kansas
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham
Patrick D. Armitage
Patrick D. Armitage Freshwater Biological Association
Alan G. Hildrew
Alan G. Hildrew Queen Mary University of London
Mark Trimmer
Mark Trimmer Queen Mary University of London
Jeremy Biggs
Jeremy Biggs Oxford Brookes University

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