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Overview

Stephen P. Rice is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and primarily works within the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on various subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law related to environmental systems.

The main topics addressed in their work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Landslides and Related Hazards.

Stephen P. Rice has published multiple papers in a range of scientific journals. Notable recent publications are:

  • Signal crayfish burrowing, bank retreat and sediment supply to rivers: A biophysical sediment budget (2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
  • Why so skeptical? The role of animals in fluvial geomorphology (2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)
  • Avoidance and aggregation create consistent egg distribution patterns of congeneric caddisflies across spatially variable oviposition landscapes (2020, Oecologia)
  • Using Fractals to Describe Ecologically Relevant Patterns in Distributions of Large Rocks in Streams (2021, Water Resources Research)
  • A Link Between Plant Stress and Hydrodynamics? Indications From a Freshwater Macrophyte (2021, Water Resources Research)

The scientist frequently publishes in certain venues including Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, Water Resources Research, and Freshwater Biology.

Stephen P. Rice collaborates with several frequent coauthors such as Paul J. Wood, R. Mason, Matthew F. Johnson, Jill Lancaster, and Barbara J. Downes, indicating ongoing research partnerships and collective studies within their fields of interest.

Best Publications

  • Tributaries, sediment sources, and the longitudinal organisation of macroinvertebrate fauna along river systems

    Stephen P. Rice;Malcolm T. Greenwood;Christopher Joyce

  • Grain size along two gravel-bed rivers: statistical variation, spatial pattern and sedimentary links

    Stephen Rice;Michael Church

  • Automated Sizing of Coarse-Grained Sediments: Image-Processing Procedures

    David J. Graham;Ian Reid;Stephen P. Rice

  • Sampling surficial fluvial gravels; the precision of size distribution percentile sediments

    Stephen Rice;Michael Church

  • A transferable method for the automated grain sizing of river gravels

    David J. Graham;Stephen P. Rice;Ian Reid

  • Which tributaries disrupt downstream fining along gravel-bed rivers?

    Stephen Rice

  • Spatial heterogeneity of near‐bed hydraulics above a patch of river gravel

    Thomas Buffin-Bélanger;Stephen Rice;Ian Reid;Jill Lancaster

  • The nature and controls on downstream fining within sedimentary links

    Stephen Rice

  • Morphology and evolution of bars in a wandering gravel-bed river; lower Fraser river, British Columbia, Canada

    Stephen P. Rice;Michael Church;Colin L. Wooldridge;Edward J. Hickin

  • River confluences, tributaries and the fluvial network.

    Stephen P Rice;André G. Roy;Bruce L. Rhoads

  • Tributary control of physical heterogeneity and biological diversity at river confluences

    Stephen P Rice;Robert I Ferguson;Trevor B Hoey

  • Form and growth of bars in a wandering gravel-bed river.

    Michael Church;Stephen P. Rice

  • The Ecological Importance of Tributaries and Confluences

    Stephen P. Rice;Peter Kiffney;Correigh Greene;George R. Pess

  • Grain-size sorting within river bars in relation to downstream fining along a wandering channel

    Stephen P. Rice;Michael Church

  • Tributary connectivity, confluence aggradation and network biodiversity

    Stephen P. Rice

  • Experimentation at the interface of fluvial geomorphology, stream ecology and hydraulic engineering and the development of an effective, interdisciplinary river science

    Stephen P. Rice;Jill Lancaster;Paul Kemp

  • Spatial discontinuity and temporal evolution of channel morphology along a mixed bedrock-alluvial river, upper Drôme River, southeast France: Contingent responses to external and internal controls

    J. Toone;Stephen P. Rice;Hervé Piégay

  • Maximizing the accuracy of image-based surface sediment sampling techniques

    David J. Graham;Anne-Julia Rollet;Hervé Piégay;Stephen P. Rice

  • Longitudinal profiles in simple alluvial systems

    Stephen P. Rice;Michael Church

  • River system discontinuities due to lateral inputs : generic styles and controls.

    Robert I. Ferguson;Judith R. Cudden;Trevor B. Hoey;Stephen P. Rice

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Reid
Ian Reid Loughborough University
Jill Lancaster
Jill Lancaster University of Melbourne
Paul J. Wood
Paul J. Wood Loughborough University
Michael Church
Michael Church University of British Columbia
Barbara J. Downes
Barbara J. Downes University of Melbourne
Hervé Piégay
Hervé Piégay École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Trevor B. Hoey
Trevor B. Hoey Brunel University London
Jim H. Chandler
Jim H. Chandler Loughborough University
Bruce L. Rhoads
Bruce L. Rhoads University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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