WILDCOMS publications

APHA GBWHP

Quarterly GB wildlife surveillance and emerging threats report July to December 2022. (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Quarterly GB wildlife surveillance and emerging threats report January to June 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

GB Wildlife Health Partnership Report July to December 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

PBMS

Lennon RJ, Isaac NJB, Shore RF, Peach WJ, Dunn JC, Pereira MG, et al. (2019) Using long-term datasets to assess the impacts of dietary exposure to neonicotinoids on farmland bird populations in England. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223093. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223093

PBMS

Shore, R.F., Taggart, M.A. 2019. Population level impacts of chemical contaminants on apex avian species. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health 11 65–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2019.06.007

PBMS

Movali, P. et al., 2019 [on line]  Progress on bringing together raptor collections in Europe for contaminant research and monitoring in relation to chemicals regulation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05340-6

PBMS

Whitlock, S.E., Pereira, M.G., Lane, J. Sleep, D., Shore, R.F., Arnold, K.E.  2019. Detecting fluoxetine and norfluoxetine in wild bird tissues and feathers. Environment International 126 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.083

PBMS

Sainsbury, K.A., Shore, R.F., Schofield, H., Croose, E., Campbell, R.D. and McDonald, R.A. Recent history, current status, conservation and management of native mammalian carnivore species in Great Britain. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12150

WIIS Scotland

Taylor MJ, Giela A, Sharp EA, Senior CC, Vyas DS.  2019.  A rapid multi-class, multi-residue UHPLC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of anticoagulant rodenticides, pesticides and veterinary medicines in wild animals, pets and livestock.  Analytical Methods. 11(8):1087-1101.

CSEMP

Maes at al., 2018. Below the surface: Twenty-five years of seafloor litter monitoring in coastal seas of North West Europe (1992–2017). Science of The Total Environment 630, 790-798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.245

CSEMP

Veiga et al., 2018. Enhancing social awareness and triggering co-responsibility about marine litter in Europe. 6th International Marine Debris Conference. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34939.21285.

PBMS

Woodcock et al., 2018. Neonicotinoid residues in UK honey despite European Union moratorium. PLoS ONE, 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189681

PBMS

Ridding et al., 2018. How dо pesticides get into honey? Environmental Science Journal for Teens. http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/uploads/5/4/2/8/54289603/pesticide_article.pdf

CSEMP

Maes at al., 2018. Below the surface: Twenty-five years of seafloor litter monitoring in coastal seas of North West Europe (1992–2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.245 

National Fish Tissue Archive

Su et al., 2018. Multimedia fate and transport simulation of perfluorooctanoic acid/perfluorooctanoate in an urbanizing area. Science of The Total Environment, 643, 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.156

National Fish Tissue Archive

Hanamoto et al., 2018. The different fate of antibiotics in the Thames River, UK, and the Katsura River, Japan. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25 (2), 1903-1913. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0523-z

National Fish Tissue Archive

Johnson et al., 2018. Which commonly monitored chemical contaminant in the Bohai region and the Yangtze and Pearl rivers of China poses the greatest threat to aquatic wildlife? Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 37 (4), 1115-1121. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4042

CSEMP

Hartley et al., 2018. Exploring public views on marine litter in Europe: Perceived causes, consequences and pathways to change. Marine Pollution Bulletin 133, 945-955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.05.061

APHA/Garden Wildlife Health

Duff, P., Mitchell, S., Weaver, C. and Lawson, B. Wildlife mass mortality events associated with harsh winter weather. Veterinary Record 182, 628-629. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.k2413

PBMS

Whitlock, S.E., Pereira, M.G., Shore, R.F., Lane, J., Arnold, K.E. 2018. Environmentally relevant exposure to an antidepressant alters courtship behaviours in a songbird. Chemosphere 211, 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.07.074

IoZ/PBMS

Sainsbury, Katherine A.; Shore, Richard F.; Schofield, Henry; et al. 2018. Long-term increase in secondary exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides in European polecats Mustela putorius in Great Britain. Environmental pollution 236, 689-698. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.02.004

PBMS

Shore R.F. 2018 Rodenticides: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  In The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, vol. 5: (eds. D.A. DellaSala and M.I. Goldstein,). Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 155-160, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09993-6

PBMS

Shore, R.F. & Courdassier, M. 2018. Primary exposure and effects in non-target animals. In Anticoagulant rodenticides and wildlife. (eds. N.W.  Van den Brink, J.E. Elliott, R.F. Shore and B.A. Rattner, B.A.). Springer International Publishing, pp. 135-157.  ISBN: 978-3-319-64377-9, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64377-9

PBMS

Van den Brink, N.W., Elliott, J.E., Shore, R.F., Rattner, B.A.. 2018. Anticoagulant rodenticides and wildlife. (eds. N.W.  Van den Brink, J.E. Elliott, R.F. Shore and B.A. Rattner, B.A). Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-9.  ISBN: 978-3-319-64377-9, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64377-9

PBMS

Molenaar, F. Jaffe, J.E. Carter, I., Barnett, E.A., Shore, R.F, Rowcliffe J.M., Sainsbury, A.W. 2017. Poisoning of reintroduced red kites (Milvus milvus) in England. European Journal of Wildlife Research 63  94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-017-1152-z

PBMS

Heys, K.A., Shore, R.F., Pereira, M.G., Martin, F.L.  2017. Vibrational biospectroscopy characterises biochemical differences between cell types used for toxicological investigations and identifies alterations induced by environmental contaminants.  Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 36 3127–3137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.3890

PBMS

Heys, K.A., Shore, R.F., Pereira, M.G. and Martin, F.L. Levels of Organochlorine Pesticides Are Associated with Amyloid Aggregation in Apex Avian Brains. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017, 51, 8672−8681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b00840

CUOP

Smallbone et al., 2017. East-West Divide: temperature and land cover drive spatial variation of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) from England and Wales. Parasitology. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1017/S0031182017000865 

IoZ

Bobadilla et al. 2017. Using Qualitative Disease Risk Analysis for Herpetofauna Conservation Translocations Transgressing Ecological and Geographical Barriers. Ecohealth 14: S47-S60. doi: 10.1007/s10393-015-1086-4 

GWH

Brown et al, 2017. Bringing back a healthy buzz? Invertebrate parasites and reintroductions: a case study in bumblebees. Ecohealth 14: S74-S83. doi: 10.1007/s10393-015-1093-5 

GWH

Franklinos et al., 2017. Emerging fungal pathogen Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in wild European snakes. Scientific reports, 7. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03352-1

Fish Tissue Archive

Johnson et al, 2017. An alternative approach to risk rank chemicals on the threat they pose to the aquatic environment, Science of the Total Environment, 599-600. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.039

Fish Tissue Archive

Johnson and Chen 2017. Does exposure to domestic wastewater effluent (including steroid estrogens) harm fish populations in the UK? Science of the Total Environment 589. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.142

Fish Tissue Archive

Lu et al. 2017. Persistent Organic Pollutants in sediment and fish in the River Thames Catchment (UK). Science of the Total Environment 576. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.067 

CSEMP

Maes et al. 2017. Microplastics Baseline Surveys at the Water Surface and in Sediments of the North-East Atlantic, Frontiers in Marine Science, 4. doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00135

CSEMP

Maes et al. 2017. A rapid-screening approach to detect and quantify microplastics based on fluorescent tagging with Nile Red, Scientific Reports, 7. doi:10.1038/srep44501

Scottish Raptor Health Study

Peniche et al. 2017. Protecting free-living dormice: molecular identification of cestode parasites in captive dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) destined for reintroduction. Ecohealth 14. doi:10.1007/s10393-016-1108-x

APHA

Rideout et al. 2017. Which Parasites Should We Be Most Concerned About in Wildlife Translocations? Ecohealth 14. doi:10.1007/s10393-016-1132-x 

APHA

Vaughan-Higgins et al. 2017. Biosecurity for translocations: cirl bunting (Emberiza cirlus), Fisher’s estuarine moth (Gortyna borelii lunata), short-haired bumblebee (Bombus subterraneus) and pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) translocations as case studies. Ecohealth 14. doi:10.1007/s10393-016-1150-8

Fish Tissue Archive

Zhang et al. 2017. The relative risk and its distribution of endocrine disrupting chemicals, pharmaceuticals and personal care products to freshwater organisms in the Bohai Rim, China, Science of the Total Environment, 590-591. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.011

Fish Tissue Archive

Zhang et al. 2017.Which persistent organic pollutants in the rivers of the Bohai Region of China represent the greatest risk to the local ecosystem? Chemosphere. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.137

Fish Tissue Archive

Johnson et al, 2017. Linking changes in antibiotic effluent concentrations to flow, removal and consumption in four different UK sewage treatment plants over four years. Environmental Pollution, 220 (B). 919-926. 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.10.077

UKCSIP

Law and Jepson 2017. Europe’s insufficient pollutant remediation. Science 10.1126/science.

PBMS

Strong et al., 2017. Subtle effects of environmental stress observed in the early life stages of the Common frog, Rana temporaria. Scientific Reports 7:44438. doi:10.1038/srep44438. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep44438#supplementary-information

APHA

Duff, J.P., Barlow, A.M., Breed, A.C., Duncan, D., Holmes, J.P. and Irvine, R.M. (2016) Feature Article: Wildlife Disease Surveillance by the Animal and Plant Health Agency. In Practice. Bulletin of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) Issue 91, March 2016, pp 7-11. http://www.cieem.net/

APHA

GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership Quarterly Reports 2016. Link to reports

CSIP

Jepson, P.D. and Law, R.J. (2016) Persistent pollutants, persistent threats:  Polychlorinated biphenyls remain a major threat to marine apex predators. Science 352: 1388-1389. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf9075. Science

CSIP

Jepson, P.D., Deaville, R., Barber, J. L., Aguilar À., Borrell A., et al.  (2016) PCB pollution still impacts populations of orca and other dolphins in European waters.  Sci. Rep. 6, 18573; doi: 10.1038/srep18573. Scientific Reports

WIIS Scotland  

Ruiz-Suárez et al. (2016) Rate of exposure of a sentinel species, invasive American mink (Neovison vison) in Scotland, to anticoagulant rodenticides. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.109 (In press). Science of The Total Environment

National fish tissue archive

Juergens, Monika D.; Crosse, John; Hamilton, Patrick B.; Johnson, Andrew C.; Jones, Kevin C.. 2016 The long shadow of our chemical past – high DDT concentrations in fish near a former agrochemicals factory in England. Chemosphere, 162. 333-344. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.07.078. Chemosphere

National fish tissue archive

Lu, Q.; Futter, M.N.; Nizzeto, L.; Bussi, G.; Juergens, M.D.; Whitehead, P.G.. 2016 Fate and transport of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the River Thames catchment – insights from a coupled multimedia fate and hydrobiogeochemical transport model. Science of the Total Environment. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.029. Science of the Total Environment

PBMS

Elliott, John E.; Rattner, Barnett A.; Shore, Richard F.; van den Brink, Nico W.. 2016 Paying the pipers: mitigating the impact of anticoagulant rodenticides on predators and scavengers. BioScience, 66 (5). 401-407. 10.1093/biosci/biw028. BioScience

PBMS

Espín, S.; García-Fernández, A.J.; Herzke, D.; Shore, R.F.; van Hattum, B.; Martínez-López, E.; Coeurdassier, M.; Eulaers, I.;Fritsch, C.; Gómez-Ramírez, P.; Jaspers, V.L.B.; Krone, O.; Duke, G.; Helander, B.; Mateo, R.; Movalli, P.; Sonne, C.; van den Brink, N.W.. 2016 Tracking pan-continental trends in environmental contamination using sentinel raptors — what types of samples should we use? Ecotoxicology, 25 (4). 777-801. 10.1007/s10646-016-1636-8. Ecotoxicology

CSEMP

Concentrations of mercury and other trace elements in porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (2016) E.E. Manuel Nicolaus,Victoria A. Bendall, Thi P.C. Bolam, Thomas Maes, Jim R. Ellis. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.07.047. Marine Pollution Bulletin

APHA

Breed et al., 2015. Annual Report on surveillance for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in Member States of the European Union in 2014. APHA Annual report

APHA

GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership Quarterly Reports 2015. Link to reports

CSIP

Brownlow, A., Baily, J., Dagleish, M., Deaville, R., Foster, G., Jensen, S-K., Krupp, E., Law, R., Penrose, R., Perkins, M., Read, F. and Jepson, P.D. (2015) Investigation into the long-finned pilot whale mass stranding event, Kyle of Durness, 22nd July 2011. Report to Defra and Marine Scotland. Link to report

CSIP

Murphy, S., Barber, JL, Learmonth, JA, Read, FL, Deaville, R, Perkins MW, Brownlow A, Davison, N, Penrose, R, Pierce, GP, Law RL and Jepson, P.D. (2015) Reproductive failure in UK harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena: legacy of pollutant exposure? PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131085. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.013108. PLoS ONE

CSIP

Papachlimitzou A., Losada S., Barber J.L., Bersuder P., Deaville R., Brownlow A, Penrose R., Jepson P.D. and Law R.J. (2015) Organophosphorus flame retardants (PFRs) and plasticisers in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded or bycaught in the UK during 2012. Marine Pollution Bulletin 98:328-34. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.06.034. Marine Pollution Bulletin

PBMS

Shore, R.F., Pereira M.G., Potter, E.D. and Walker. L.A.  2015.  Monitoring rodenticide residues in wildlife.  InRodent pests and their Control, (eds, A.P. Buckle and R.H. Smith), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, CAB International, pp. 346-365.  ISBN: 978 1 84593 817 8. Rodent Pests and their Control

PBMS

Smith, R.H. & Shore, R.F. 2015.  Environmental effects of rodenticides.  In Rodent pests and their Control.(eds,  A.P. Buckle and R.H. Smith), Wallingford, Oxfordshire,  CAB International. pp. 330-345. ISBN: 978 1 84593 817 8. Rodent Pests and their Control

PBMS

Strong, R.J., Pereira, M.G., Shore, R.F., Henrys, P.A., Pottinger, T.G. (2015). Feather corticosterone content in predatory birds in relation to body condition and hepatic metal concentration.  Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 247 47-55 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.03.002. General and Comparative Endocrinology

National Fish Tissue Archive

Jurgens MD, Chaemfa C, Hughes D, Johnson AC, Jones KC. PCB and organochlorine pesticide burden in eels in the lower Thames River (UK). Chemosphere 118 (2015) 103-111 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653514008352. Science Direct

National Fish Tissue Archive

Lu, Qiong; Johnson, Andrew C.; Juergens, Monika D.; Sweetman, Andy; Jin, Li; Whitehead, Paul. 2015 The distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the River Thames catchment under the scenarios of climate change. Science of the Total Environment, 533. 187-195. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.084. Science of the Total Environment

PBMS

Shore RF, Taggart MA, Smits J, Mateo R, Richards NL, Fryday S. 2014.  Detection and drivers of exposure and effects of pharmaceuticals in higher vertebrates. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 369: 20130570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0570. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Scciety B

PBMS

Gómez-Ramírez, P., Shore, R.F., van den Brink, N.W., van Hattum, B., Bustnes, J.O., Duke, G., Fritsch, C., García-Fernández, A., Helander, B.O., Jaspers, V., Krone, O., Martínez-López, E., Mateo, R., Movalli, P., Sonne, C. 2014.  An overview of existing raptor contaminant monitoring activities in Europe. Environment International 67 12-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.02.004. Environment International

PBMS

Pereira, M. Gloria; Murk, A.J.; Van den Berg, H; Walker, Lee A.; Shore, Richard F.. 2014 How much do PCB toxic equivalents account for PHAH toxicity in predatory birds? Environmental Pollution, 193. 240-246.10.1016/j.envpol.2014.07.004. Environmental Pollution

National Fish Tissue archive

Jurgens MD, Chaemfa C, Hughes D, Johnson AC, Jones KC. PCB and organochlorine pesticide burden in eels in the lower Thames River (UK). Chemosphere 118 (2015) 103-111. Chemosphere

APHA

European Food Safety Authority, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2014. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A subtype H5N8. (2014) EFSA Journal . 12(12) 3941, 32 pp.  doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3941.  EFSA Journal

APHA

Simons RRL, Gale P, Horigan V, Snary EL and Breed AC. (2014) Potential for introduction of bat-borne zoonotic viruses into the EU. Viruses. 6 (5) 2084 -  2121. Viruses

APHA

Von Dobschuetz S, De Nardi M, Harris K, Munoz O, Breed AC, Wieland B, Dauphin G, Lubroth J and Stark K. (2014) Influenza surveillance in animals: What is our capacity to detect emerging influenza viruses with zoonotic potential? Epidemiology and Infection. Epub ahead of print. Epidemiology and Infection

APHA

GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership Quarterly Reports 2014. Link to reports

CSIP

Wilson SC, Eybatov TM, Amano M, Jepson PD, Goodman SJ (2014) The Role of Canine Distemper Virus and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Mortality Patterns of Caspian Seals (Pusa caspica). PLoS ONE 9(7): e99265. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099265. PLoS ONE

CSIP    

Brownlow A., Baily J., Dagleish M., Davison N., Deaville R. Foster G., Gajdosechova Z., Jensen S-K. , Jepson P.D., Krupp E., McGovern B., Morell M., Penrose R., Perkins M., Read F. (2014) Investigation into the long-finned pilot whale mass stranding event, Pittenweem, Fife, 2nd September 2012. Final report to Marine Scotland, Scottish Government, September 2014.   

SEPA

Working together through WILDCOMS, Feature in SEPAView, The magazine of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Sue Bowers. Sepa View

AHVLA

Serological confirmation of SBV infection in wild British deer. Veterinary Record 172 (16) 429. Barlow A; Green P; Banham T; Healy N 2013. Veterinary Record

AHVLA

Enteric nematodes and Sarcina-like bacteria in a brown long-eared bat (letter).Veterinary Record 172 (19) 508. Barlow A; Wills D; Harris E. Veterinary Record

AHVLA

Wild birds carry similar Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains to those found in domestic animals and livestock. Research in Veterinary Science 95 (1) 45-48. Horton RA; Wu G; Speed K; Kidd S; Davies R; Coldham NG; Duff JP. Research in Veterinary Science

AHVLA

Epidemiological perspectives on West Nile virus surveillance in wild birds in Great Britain. Epidemiology and Infection 141 (06) 1134-1142. Brugman VA; Horton DL; Phipps LP; Johnson N; Cook AJC; Fooks AR; Breed AC. Research in Veterinary Science

AHVLA

Rabies in Iraq: trends in human cases 2001–2010 and characterisation of animal rabies strains from Baghdad. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 7 (2): e2075. Horton DL; Ismail MZ; Siryan ES; Wali ARA; Ab-dulla HE; Wise E; Voller K; Harkness G; Marston DA; MCelhinney LM; Abbas SF; Fooks AR. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

AHVLA

Targeted surveillance for Usutu virus in British birds (2005–2011). Veterinary Record 172 (1) 17. Horton DL; Lawson B; Egbetade A; Jeffries C; Johnson N; Cunningham AA; Fooks AR. Veterinary Record

AHVLA

Molecular epidemiology of bat lyssaviruses in Europe. Zoonoses and Public Health 60 (1) 35-45. MCelhinney LM; Marston DA; Leech S; Freuling CM; Van Der Poel WH; Echevarria J; Vazquez-Moron S; Horton DL; Muller T; Fooks AR. Zoonoses and Public Health 

CUOP

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in England and Wales. Parasites & Vectors 2013, 6:75 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-75 Chadwick E.A., Cable J., Chinchen A., Francus J., Kean E.F., Paul S.C., Perkins S.E., Sherrard-Smith E., Wilkinson C., Forman D.W.(2013). Parasites & Vectors

Fish Tissue Archive

The presence of EU priority substances mercury, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorobutadiene and PBDEs in wild fish from four English rivers. Sci Tot Env. Volumes 461–462, 1 September 2013, Pages 441–452 Jurgens MD, Johnson AC, Jones KC, Hughes D, Lawlor AJ.. Science of The Total Environment

PBMS

Key factors affecting liver PBDE concentrations in sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus). Environmental Pollution 177 171-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.02.006 Crosse, J.D., Shore, R.F., Jones, K.C., Pereira, M.G. 2013. Envionmental Pollution

PBMS

Eurasian dipper eggs indicate elevated organohalogenated contaminants in urban rivers. Environmental Science and Technology, 47, 8931-8939. Christy A. Morrissey, David W.G.Stanton, M. Glória Pereira, Jason Newton, Isabelle Durance,Charles R. Tyler, and Steve J. Ormerod. Environmental Science and Technology

CSIP

Alternative flame retardants, Dechlorane Plus and BDEs in the blubber of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded or bycaught in the UK during 2008. Environment International 60, 81–88. Law R.J; Sara Losada; Jonathan L Barber; Philippe Bersuder; Rob Deaville; Andrew Brownlow; Rod Penrose; Paul D Jepson. Environment International

CSIP

What caused the UK’s largest common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) mass stranding event? PLoS ONE 8(4): e60953. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060953 Jepson P.D., Deaville R., Acevedo-Whitehouse K., Barnett, J., Brownlow A., Brownell Jr, R.L., Clare F.C, Davison N.C., Law R.J., Loveridge J., Macgregor S.K., Morris S., Murphy S., PenroseR., Perkins M.W., PinnE.,  Seibel, H., Siebert, U., SierraE., Simpson V., Tasker M.L., Tregenza N.,  Cunningham A.A. and Fernández A. PLoS ONE

CSIP

A review of the short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the North-east Atlantic: distribution, ecology and conservation status. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review,  2013, 51, 193-280 Murphy, Sinead, Pinn, E., and Jepson, P.D. Oceanography and Marine Biology

CSIP

The null hypothesis and the analysis of stranding anomalies of harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, in the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay PLOS ONE 8(4): e62180. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062180 Peltier, H., Dabin, W., Daniel, P., Deaville, R., Haelters, J., Jensen, L.F., Jepson P.D., Keijl, G.O., Siebert U., Van Canneyt, O., Ridoux, V. PLOS ONE

CSIP

First indication of gas embolism in a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in German waters. (2013)European Journal Wildlife Research 59:441–444. doi 10.1007/s10344-013-0700-4. Siebert, U., Jepson, P.D. and Wohlsein, P. European Journal Wildlife Research

CSIP

Pathology and causes of death of stranded cetaceans in Canary Islands (1999-2005) Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 103: 87-99. (2013) Arbelo, M., Espinosa De Los Monteros, A.; Herráez, P., Jepson, P.D., Fernández, A. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

CSIP

Organochlorine pesticides and chlorobiphenyls in the blubber of bycaught female common dolphins from England and Wales. Marine Pollution Bulletin 69: 238-242. (2013) Law RJ; Bersuder P; Barry J; Barber J; Deaville R; Barnett J; Jepson PD. Marine Pollution Bulletin

CSIP

Criteria and Case Definitions for Serious Injury and Death of Marine Mammals Caused by Anthropogenic Trauma: Underwater Entrapment, Chronic Entanglement, Sharp and Blunt Vessel, and Gunshot. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms doi: 10.3354/dao02566 (2013) Moore M., Van der Hoop, J., Barco S., Costidis A., Gulland F.M.D., Jepson P.D., Moore K., McLellan W. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

WIIS - Scotland

Monitoring agricultural rodenticide use and secondary exposure of raptors in Scotland. Ecotoxicology DOI:10.1007/s10646-013-1074-9 (2013) Hughes, J., E. Sharp, M. J. Taylor, L. M. Melton, and G. Hartley. Ecotoxicology

WIIS - Scotland

A liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of multiple pesticide residues involved in suspected poisoning of non-target vertebrate wildlife, livestock and pets. Analytical Methods 5, no. 1 (2013): 248-259. Taylor, M. J., L. M. Melton, E. Sharp, and J. E. Watson. Analytical Methods

AHVLA

Echinococcus multilocularis in an imported captive European beaver (Castor fiber) in Great Britain (doi: 10.1136/vr.d4673) Barlow A.M., Gottstein B., Mueller N. Veterinary Record

AHVLA

Cryptosporidium baileyi in wild red grouse with ‘bulgy eye’. Veterinary Record, 170 (23) , pp. 603-604.(2012) Coldwell L., Caldow G., Holliman A., Mearns R., Errington H., Giles M., Willoughby K., Wood A. Veterinary Record

AHVLA

An Evaluation of Wild Bird Avian Influenza Surveillance in Great Britain. Avian Diseases: December 2012, Vol. 56, No. 4s1, pp. 986-991.Andrew C. Breed, Richard M. Irvine, Daisy Duncan, David Rae, Lucy Snow, Alasdair J. C. Cook, and Ian H. Brown. Avian Diseases

AHVLA

Unusual mortality of Pinnipeds in the UK associated with helical (corkscrew) injuries. Aquatic Mammals 2012, 38(3), 229-240, DOI 10.1578/AM.38.3.2012.229 Bexton, S., Thompson, D., Brownlow,A., Barley, J., Milne, R. and Bidewell, C. Aquatic Mammals

CUOP

Abiotic and Biotic Factors Associated with Tick Population Dynamics on a Mammalian Host: Ixodes hexagonus Infesting Otters, Lutra lutra. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47131. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047131 (2012) Sherrard-Smith E, Chadwick E, Cable J. PLoS ONE

DRAHS

The emergence of squirrelpox in Ireland.  Animal Conservation doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00570.x. McInnes CJ, Coulter L, Dagleish MP, Deane D, Gilray J, Percival A, Willoughby K, Scantlebury M,  Marks M, Graham D, Everest DJ, McGoldrick M, Rochford J, McKay F, Sainsbury AW 2012. Animal Conservation

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Long-term trends in PBDEs in sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) eggs indicate sustained contamination of UK terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Science and Technology, 46 (24). 13504-13511. DOI: 10.1021/es303550f (2012) Crosse, John D.; Shore, Richard F.; Wadsworth, Richard A.; Jones, Kevin C.; Pereira, M. Glória. Environmental Science and Technology

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Alterations in the infrared spectral signature of avian feathers reflect potential chemical exposure: a pilot study comparing two sites in Pakistan. Environment International 48 39-46. (2012) Llabjani, V., Malik, R.N., Trevisan, J., Hoti, V., Ukpebor, J., Shinwari, Z.K., Moeckel, C., Jones, K.C., Shore, R.F., Martin, F. Environment International

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Rodenticide exposure in wood mouse and house mouse populations on farms and potential secondary risk to predators. Ecotoxicology  21 1325-1332 DOI:10.1007/s10646-012-0886-3. (2012) Tosh, D.G., McDonald, R.A., Bearhop, S., Llewellyn, N. R., Montgomery, W.I., Shore, R.F. Ecotoxicology

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Crosse, John D.; Shore, Richard F.; Jones, Kevin C.; Pereira, M. Gloria. 2012 Long term trends in PBDE concentrations in gannet (Morus bassanus) eggs from two UK colonies. Environmental Pollution, 161. 93-100. 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.10.003. Environmental Pollution

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Tosh, David G.; McDonald, Robbie A.; Bearhop, Stuart; Llewellyn, Neville R.; Montgomery, W. Ian; Shore, Richard F.. 2012 Rodenticide exposure in wood mouse and house mouse populations on farms and potential secondary risk to predators.Ecotoxicology, 21 (5). 1325-1332. 10.1007/s10646-012-0886-3. Ecotoxicology

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Butyltin compounds in liver of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the UK prior to and following the ban on the use of tributyltin in antifouling paints (1992-2005 & 2009) Marine Pollution Bulletin 64: 2576–2580. (2012) Law R.J., Bolam T., James D, Barry J, Deaville R, Reid RJ, Penrose R and Jepson P.D. Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Contaminants in cetaceans from UK waters: status as assessed within the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme from 1990 to 2008.  Marine Pollution Bulletin 64: 1485-1494. (2012) Law, Robin J; Jon Barry; Jonathan L Barber; Philippe Bersuder; Rob Deaville; Robert J Reid; Andrew Brownlow; Rod Penrose; James Barnett; Jan Loveridge; Brian Smith; Paul D Jepson. Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London - Biological Sciences 279: 1041-1050. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2088 Hooker, S.K., A. Fahlman, M.J. Moore, N. Aguilar de Soto, Y. Bernaldo de Quirós, A.O. Brubakk, D.P. Costa, A.M. Costidis, S. Dennison, K.J. Falke, A. Fernandez, M. Ferrigno, J.R. Fitz-Clarke, M.M. Garner, D.S. Houser, P.D. Jepson, D.R. Ketten, P.H. Kvadsheim, P.T. Madsen, N.W. Pollock, D.S. Rotstein, T.K. Rowles, S.E. Simmons, W. Van Bonn, P.K. Weathersby, M.J. Weise, T.M. Williams, and P.L. Tyack.  (2012). Biological Sciences

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Phenotypic and genetic divergence among harbour porpoise populations associated with habitat regions in the North Sea and adjacent seas.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02461.x.De Luna CJ, Goodman SJ, Thatcher O, Jepson PD, Andersen L, Tolley K, Hoelzel AR (2012). Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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Investigating links between polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure and thymic involution and thymic cysts in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Marine Pollution Bulletin 64: 2168-2176. (2012) Yap, X., Deaville, R., Perkins, M.W., Penrose, R., Law, R.J., and Jepson, P.D. Marine Pollution Bulletin
 

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Echinococcus multiocularis in an imported captive European beaver (Castor fiber) in Great Britain. Veterinary Record 169 (13) 339. Barlow AM; Gottstein B; Mueller N. Veterinary Record

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Generalised alopecia associated with demodicosis in wild roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) (letter). Veterinary Record 168 (14) 387. Barlow AM; Wood R. The Veterinary Journal

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Systemic mucormycosis in a hooded seal (Cystophora cristata). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 42 (2) 338-341. Barnett JEF; Davison NJ; Thornton SM; Riley P; Cooper T; Wessels ME. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 

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Mass mortality of great crested newts (Triturus cristatus) on ground treated with road salt (letter). Veterinary Record 168 (10) 282.Duff JP; Colvile K; Foster J; Dumphreys N. Veterinary Record

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Water bird mortality associated with freezing winter weather and disease (letter). Veterinary Record 168 (22) 593. Duff JP; Holliman A; Hateley G; Irvine RM; Wight A; Williamson S. Veterinary Record

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Diagnosis of red squirrel viral infections.Squirrel April 2011, 11. Everest D

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Rotavirus in a wild English red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) identified by electron microscopy (letter). Veterinary Record 169 (6) 160. Everest DJ; Duff JP; Higgins RJ. Environmental Pollution

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Does small mammal prey guild affect the exposure of predators to anticoagulant rodenticides? Environmental Pollution 159 3106-3112. D.G. Tosh, R.A. McDonald, S. Bearhop, N.R. Lllewellyn, S. Fee, E.A. Sharp, E.A. Barnett, R.F. Shore http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2011.03.028. Environmental Pollution

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Methodology for in situ gas sampling, transport and laboratory analysis of gases from stranded cetaceans. Scientific Reports 1 doi:10.1038/srep00193. Bernaldo de Quirós, Yara, Óscar González-Díaz, Pedro Saavedra, Manuel Arbelo, Eva Sierra, Simona Sacchini,Paul D. Jepson, Sandro Mazzariol, Giovanni Di Guardo &Antonio Fernández. Scientific Reports

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Infection with Brucella ceti and high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops  truncatus) stranded in southwest England.  Veterinary Record doi: 10.1136/vr.d2714. Davison, N.J., Perrett, L.L., Law, R.J., Dawson, C.E., Stubberfield, E.J., Monies, R.J., Deaville, R. and Jepson, P.D. Veterinary Record

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Levels and trends of BDEs in blubber of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the UK, 1992 – 2008 Environmental Science & Technology 44, 4447–4451. Law, R.J., Jon Barry, Philippe Bersuder, Jon Barber, Rob Deaville, Robert J. Reid and Paul D. Jepson  (2010)/ Environmental Science & Technology

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Assessing the effect of persistent organic pollutants on reproductive parameters in small cetaceans in the eastern North Atlantic. J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., 42: 153–173. Murphy, S., G.J. Pierce, R.J. Law, P. Bersuder, P.D. Jepson, J.A. Learmonth, M. Addink,W. Dabin, M.B. Santos, R. Deaville,A.F. Zuur, B.N. Zegers, A. Mets, E. Rogan,  V. Ridoux, R.J. Reid, C. Smeenk, T. Jauniaux, A. López, J.M. Alonso Farré, A.F. González, A. Guerra, M. García-Hartmann, S.P. Northridge, C. Lockyer & J.P. Boon  (2010). J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci.

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Chlorobiphenyls in the blubber of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the UK: levels and trends 1991-2005  Marine Pollution Bulletin 60, 470-473. Law R.J., Philippe Bersuder, Jon Barry, Rob Deaville, Robert J. Reid and Paul D. Jepson  (2010). Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Retrospective detection by negative contrast electron microscopy of faecal viral particles in free-living wild red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) with suspected enteropathy in Great Britain.  Veterinary Record 167: 1007-1010. Everest DJ, Stidworthy MF, Milne EM, Meredith AL, Chantrey J, Shuttleworth C, Blackett T, Butler H, Wilkinson M, Sainsbury AW 2010. Veterinary Record

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Shore, R.F.; Pereira, M.G.; Walker, L.A.; Thompson, D.R.. 2011 Mercury in Nonmarine Birds and Mammals. In: Beyer, W.Nelson; Meador, James P., (eds.) Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition.Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press, 609 -624.

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Leslie, Heather A.; Leonard, Pim E.G.; Shore, Richard F.; Walker, Lee A.; Bersuder, Philippe R.C.; Morrison, Steve; Allchin, Colin R.; de Boer, Jacob. 2011 Decabromodiphenylether and hexabromocyclododecane in wild birds from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands: screening and time trends. Chemosphere, 82. 88-95. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.09.073. Chemosphere

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Tosh, D.G.; McDonald, R.A.; Bearhop, S.; Lllewellyn, N.R.; Fee, S.; Sharp, E.A.; Barnett, E.A.; Shore, R.F.. 2011 Does small mammal prey guild affect the exposure of predators to anticoagulant rodenticides? Environmental Pollution, 159 (10). 3106-3112. 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.03.028. Environmental Pollution

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Thomas, Philippe J.; Mineau, Pierre; Shore, Richard F.; Champoux, Louise; Martin, Pamela A.; Wilson, Laurie K.; Fitzgerald, Guy; Elliott, John E.. 2011 Second generation anticoagulant rodenticides in predatory birds: probabilistic characterisation of toxic liver concentrations and implications for predatory bird populations in Canada. Environment International, 37 (5). 914-920. 10.1016/j.envint.2011.03.010. Environment International