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Overview

Susan Waldron is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, earth-surface processes, geochemistry and petrology, water science and technology, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including karst systems and hydrogeology, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, peatlands and wetlands ecology, hydrology and watershed management studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Earth's Future
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Biogeosciences

Susan Waldron has collaborated often with several coauthors, notably:

  • David M. Oliver
  • Si-Liang Li
  • Fu-Jun Yue
  • Larissa A. Naylor
  • Ying Zheng

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Rainfall and conduit drainage combine to accelerate nitrate loss from a karst agroecosystem: Insights from stable isotope tracing and high-frequency nitrate sensing" (2020, Water Research)
  • "High-frequency monitoring reveals how hydrochemistry and dissolved carbon respond to rainstorms at a karstic critical zone, Southwestern China" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Coupled hydrological and biogeochemical modelling of nitrogen transport in the karst critical zone" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Source availability and hydrological connectivity determined nitrate-discharge relationships during rainfall events in karst catchment as revealed by high-frequency nitrate sensing" (2023, Water Research)
  • "Chronic urban hotspots and agricultural drainage drive microbial pollution of karst water resources in rural developing regions" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)

Best Publications

  • Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis

    Stuart Bearhop;Stuart Bearhop;Colin E. Adams;Susan Waldron;Richard A. Fuller

  • Factors That Influence Assimilation Rates and Fractionation of Nitrogen and Carbon Stable Isotopes in Avian Blood and Feathers

    Stuart Bearhop;Susan Waldron;Stephen C. Votier;Robert W. Furness

  • Assortative Mating as a Mechanism for Rapid Evolution of a Migratory Divide

    Stuart Bearhop;Wolfgang Fiedler;Robert W. Furness;Stephen C. Votier

  • Runoff processes, stream water residence times and controlling landscape characteristics in a mesoscale catchment: An initial evaluation

    Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;P. Rodgers;S. Dunn

  • Stable isotope ratios indicate that body condition in migrating passerines is influenced by winter habitat.

    Stuart Bearhop;Geoff M. Hilton;Stephen C. Votier;Susan Waldron

  • Microscopy and elemental analysis characterisation of microplastics in sediment of a freshwater urban river in Scotland, UK

    Reina M. Blair;Susan Waldron;Vernon R. Phoenix;Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay

  • A forensic approach to understanding diet and habitat use from stable isotope analysis of (avian) claw material

    S. Bearhop;R. W. Furness;G. M. Hilton;S. C. Votier

  • Average daily flow of microplastics through a tertiary wastewater treatment plant over a ten-month period.

    Reina Maricela Blair;Susan Waldron;Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay

  • Wind farm and solar park effects on plant–soil carbon cycling: uncertain impacts of changes in ground‐level microclimate

    Alona Armstrong;Susan Waldron;Jeanette Whitaker;Nicholas J. Ostle

  • Stable isotopes indicate the extent of freshwater feeding by cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo shot at inland fisheries in England

    Stuart Bearhop;David R. Thompson;Susan Waldron;Ian. C. Russell

  • Conceptualization of runoff processes using a geographical information system and tracers in a nested mesoscale catchment

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;I. A. Malcolm

  • Using stable isotope tracers to assess hydrological flow paths, residence times and landscape influences in a nested mesoscale catchment

    P. Rodgers;P. Rodgers;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Micro- and Nanoplastic Pollution of Freshwater and Wastewater Treatment Systems

    Reina M. Blair;Susan Waldron;Vernon Phoenix;Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay

  • Ebullition of methane-containing gas bubbles from near-surface Sphagnum peat

    Andrew J. Baird;Clive W. Beckwith;Susan Waldron;J. M. Waddington

  • The trophic status of marine turtles as determined by stable isotope analysis

    BJ Godley;Thompson;S. Waldron;RW Furness

  • Combined stable isotope and gut contents analysis of food webs in plant‐dominated, shallow lakes

    J. Iwan Jones;Susan Waldron

  • Identifying migratory Salmo trutta using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios.

    Ian D. McCarthy;Susan Waldron

  • Variability in mercury concentrations of great skuas Catharacta skua: the influence of colony, diet and trophic status inferred from stable isotope signatures

    S. Bearhop;RA Phillips;Thompson;S. Waldron

  • The global influence of the hydrogen isotope composition of water on that of bacteriogenic methane from shallow freshwater environments

    Susan Waldron;J.M. Lansdown;E.M. Scott;A.E. Fallick

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Bearhop
Stuart Bearhop University of Exeter
Robert W. Furness
Robert W. Furness University of Glasgow
Jason Newton
Jason Newton University of Glasgow
Nick Ostle
Nick Ostle Lancaster University
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Si-Liang Li
Si-Liang Li Tianjin University
Mark H. Garnett
Mark H. Garnett University of Glasgow
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Colin E. Adams
Colin E. Adams University of Glasgow
Stephen C. Votier
Stephen C. Votier Heriot-Watt University

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