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Books

Plesinski, K, Radeki-Pawlik, A, Galia, T and Gibbins, C. (2021). Block ramp hydraulic structures in mountain streams and rivers: Design considerations, flow hydraulics and eco-geomorphic processes. Boguki Publishing, Poznan. 270 pp

Recent Conference Papers

Chong, X.Y., Lum, X.Y., Batalla, R.J., Vericat, D., Lechner, A.M., Lee, K.S.P., Teo, F.Y., Gibbins, C. Interactive Effects of Damming, Forest Loss and Climate Change on the Hydrology of the Baleh River, Malaysia. Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress—From Snow To Sea. 19–24 June 2022, Granada, Spain
doi:10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221279

Journal Papers

Zieritz, A., Lee, P. S., Eng, W. W. H., Lim, S. Y., Sing, K. W., Chan, W. N., Loo, J. S., Mahadzir, F. N., Ng, T. H., Yeo, D. C., Gan, L. X., Gan, J. Y., Gibbins, C., Zoqratt, M. Z. H., & Wilson, J-J (2022). DNA metabarcoding unravels unknown diversity and distribution patterns of tropical freshwater invertebrates. Freshwater Biology, 00, 1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13926

 

Lourdes, K.T., Hamel, P., Gibbins, C.N., Susani, R., Ahzar, B., and Lechner, A. (2022). Planning for green infrastructure using multiple urban ecosystem service models and multicriteria analysis. Landscape and Urban Planning 226 (2022) 104500.   https://doi.org/10.1016/jlanurbplan.2022.104500

 

Chen H. L., Selvam, S.B., Ting K. N., T., Tshai, K.W., and Gibbins, C.N. (2022). Relative contributions of different local sources to riverborne microplastic in a mixed landuse area within a tropical catchment. Environmental Research 21.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.112972

 

Lee, K.S., Chen, H.L., Ng, Y.S., Maul, T., Gibbins, C.N., Ting, K-N., Amer M., and Camara, M. (2022). U-Net skip-connection architectures for the automated counting of microplastics. Neural Comput & Applic https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06876-w

 

Shamsul Anuar, N. A. ., Pang, L.-Y., Selvam, S. B., Gibbins, C. N. ., & Kang Nee, T. (2022). Polyethylene microplastics adversely affect airway patency. Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.28916/lsmb.6.1.2022.93

Teo, H.C., Hill, M.J., Lechner, A.M., Fan, Y.T. and Gibbins, C.N. (2021). Landscape-scale Remote Sensing and Classification of Lentic Habitats in a Tropical City. Wetlands 41, 95 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01491-w

 

Chen, H.L., Bannir Selvam, S., Ting Kang Nee, and Gibbins, C.N. (2021). Microplastic pollution in freshwater systems in South East Asia: Contamination levels, sources and ecological impacts. Environmental Science and Pollution Control. Published online August 2021. https://rdcu.be/ct2ic 

 

Chen, H.L., Gibbins, C.N, Bannir-Selva, S. and Ting, KN. (2021) Spatio-temporal variation in microplastic along a rural to urban transition in a tropical river. Environmental Pollution. 289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117895 

 

Pang, L.-Y., Sonagara, S., Oduwole, O., Gibbins, C., & Kang Nee, T. (2021). Microplastics - an emerging silent menace to public health. Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.28916/lsmb.5.1.2021.72 

   

Tiang, D.C.F., Morris, A., Bell, M., Gibbins, C. N and Lechner, AM. 2021. Ecological connectivity in fragmented agricultural landscapes and the importance of scattered trees and small patches. Ecol Process 10, 20 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-021-00284-7 

 

Chong, X.Y., Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J., Teo, F.Y., Lee, K.S.P, and Gibbins, C.N. (2021). A review of the impacts of dams on the hydromorphology of tropical rivers. Science of the Total Environment, [online] Volume 794 (2021), p. 148686. 

 

Chong, X.Y., Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J., Teo, F.Y., Lee, K.S.P, and Gibbins, C.N. A framework for Hydrological characterisation to support Functional Flows (HyFFlow): Application to a tropical river. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, [online] Volume 36 (2021), p. 100838. 

Blackburn, J., Comte, J-C., Foster, G and Gibbins, C. (2021).  Hydrogeological controls on the flow regime of an ephemeral temperate stream flowing across an alluvial fan. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.125994

Ang, M., Arts, D, Crawford, D., Labatos, B.V.  Jr., Ngo Duc Khanh, Owen, J.R., Gibbins, CN and Lechner, E.M. (2021). Socio-environmental land cover time-series analysis of mining landscape using Google Earth Engine and web-based mapping.  Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100458 

Lourdes KT, Gibbins CN, Hamel P, Sanusi R, Azhar B, Lechner AM. A Review of Urban Ecosystem Services Research in Southeast Asia. Land. 2021; 10(1):40.  https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010040 

Batalla, Ramon; Gibbins, Christopher; Alcazar, Jorge; Brasington, James; Buendia, Cristina; Garcia, Celso; Llena, Manel; Lopez, Raul; Palau, Antonio; Rennie, Colin; Wheaton Joe; Vericat, Damian. (2020). Hydropeaked rivers need attention. Environmental Research Letters.  ERL-109854.R1. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abce26/meta 

 

Alex M. Lechner, Rachel L. Gomes, Lucelia Rodrigues, Matthew J. Ashfold, Sivathass Bannir Selvam, Ee Phin Wong, Christopher M. Raymond, Alexandra Zieritz, Kong Wah Sing, Peter Moug, Lawal Billa, Saut Sagala, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Karen Lourdes, Badrul Azhar, Ruzana Sanusi, Christopher D. Ives, Yu-Ting Tang, David T. Tan, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Tapan Kumar Nath, Nur Aliya Binti Sabarudin, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Natalie M. Gulsrud, Mark Schuerch, Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Mark G. Macklin, Chris Gibbins; Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia. Blue-Green Systems 1 January 2020; 2 (1): 331–351. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.014

Zieritz, A., Chan, W.N., McGowan, S. et al. High rates of biodeposition and N-excretion indicate strong functional effects of mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in certain anthropogenic tropical freshwater habitats. Hydrobiologia (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04464-y

Xu, Y., Chan, F.K.S., He, J., Johnson, M., Gibbins, C., Kay, P., Stanton, T., Xu, Y., Li, G., Feng, M. and Paramor, O., 2020. A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: Recommendations and insights. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, pp.1-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2020.1801308

 

Marteau, B, Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D, and Batalla, R.J (2020) Geomorphological response to system-scale river rehabilitation I: Sediment supply from a reconnected tributary. River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3683

 

Marteau, B, Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D, and Batalla, R.J (2020) Geomorphical response to system-scale river rehabilitation II: Main-stem channel adjustments following reconnection of an ephemeral tributary. River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3683

Chen, H L., Nath, K.T, Chong, F, Foo, V., Gibbins, C.N., Lechner, AM. (2020) The plastic waste problem in Malaysia: Management, recycling and disposal of local and global plastic waste. SN Applied Sciences 3 (437) 1-15.  

 

Soulsby, C, J.C. Comte, J. Geris, C.N. Gibbins and D. Tetzlaff.  (2020). Hydrology at Aberdeen – thinking about water locally and globally. Scottish Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2019.1695894

Béjar, M, Gibbins, C, Vericat, D, Batalla, RJ. (2020). Influence of habitat heterogeneity and bed surface complexity on benthic invertebrate diversity in a gravel‐bed river. River Res Applic. 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3554

Papadopoulos, K, Nikora, V., Vowinckel, B., Cameron, S., Jain, R., Stewart, M., Gibbins C. and  Fröhlich, J. (2019). Double-averaged kinetic energy budgets in flows over mobile granular beds: insights from DNS data analysis. Journal of Hydraulic Research DOI: 10.1080/00221686.2019.1661291

 

Biggs, H. J., V. I. Nikora, C. N. Gibbins, S. M. Cameron, K. Papadopoulos, M. Stewart, S. Fraser, D. Vettori, M. Savio, M. T. O’Hare, M. Kucher and D. M. Hicks (2019). Flow interactions with an aquatic macrophyte: a field study using stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Journal of Ecohydraulics.  https://doi.org/10.1080/24705357.2019.1606677

 

Plesinski,K., C. N. Gibbins & A. Radecki-Pawlik (2019): Effects of interlocked carpet ramps on upstream movement of brown trout Salmo trutta in an upland stream, Journal of Ecohydraulics, DOI: 10.1080/24705357.2019.1581102

 

Papadopoulos, K., Nikora, V., Cameron, S, Stewart, M. and Gibbins, C.N. (2019). Spatially-averaged flows over mobile rough beds: Equations for the second-order velocity moments. Journal of Hydraulic Research.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2018.1555559

 

Papadopoulos, K., Nikora, V., Vowinckel, B., Cameron, S., Stewart, M., Gibbins, C.N., & Fröhlich, J. (2019). Mean kinetic energy balance in flows over mobile granular beds: application of the double-averaging methodology to DNS data. Journal of Hydraulic Research.  doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2018.1555559

 

H. J. Biggs, V. I. Nikora, C. N. Gibbins, S. Fraser, K. Papadopoulos, D. R. Green, and D. M. Hicks (2018).  Coupling aerial and hydraulic surveys to understand the geometric characteristics and spatial distribution of aquatic macrophytes. Ecohydrology Vol 3 (1), 45-58. DOI: 10.1080/24705357.2018.1466666

 

Biggs, H.J., Nikora, V.I., Gibbins, C.N., Cameron, S.M., Papadopoulos, K., Fraser, S., Stewart, M., Vettori, D., Savio, M., Green, D.R., Hicks, D.M. (2018). Characterisation of aquatic vegetation: from the statistics of macrophyte patch sizes to highly-resolved flow structure. Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Bejar, M., Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J. and Gibbins, C.N. (2018).  Variation in flow and suspended sediment transport in a montane river affected by hydropeaking and instream mining. Geomorphology. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.03.001

 

Marteau, B, Batalla, R.J., Vericat, D., Gibbins, C.N. (2018). Asynchronicity of fine sediment supply and its effects on transport and storage in a regulated river. Journal of Soils and Sediments.  doi.org/10.1007/s11368-017-1911-1

 

Marteau, B, Batalla, R.J., Vericat, D., Gibbins, C.N. (2017). The importance of a small ephemeral tributary for sediment dynamics in a main-stem river. River Research and Applications.  10.1002/rra.3177

 

Bejar, M., Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D and Batalla, R.J. (2017). Effects of suspended sediment transport on invertebrate drift.  River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra. DOI: 10.1002/rra.31463146

 

Marteau, B., Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J., and Green, D. (2017).  Photogrammetry aids river restoration. Geomatics World 25(3). 14-17.

 

Garcia, C., Gibbins, C.N., Pardo, I. and Batalla, R.J. (2017) Long-term flow change threatens invertebrate diversity in temporary streams: evidence from an island.  Science of the Total Environment. Early online at  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.119

 

Marteau, B, Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J., Gibbins, C.N. and Green, D.R. (2017) Application of automatic digital photogrammetry to river restoration. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4086

 

Papadopoulos, K., Nikora, V., Cameron, S., Biggs, H., and Gibbins, C.N. (2016). Time-averaged hydrodynamic equations for mobile-bed conditions. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. pp. 1-9.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Batalla, R.J, Vericat, D and Buendia, C. (2016). Which variables should be used to link invertebrate drift to river hydraulic conditions?  Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 87: 191-205

 

Gibbins, C.N. Grant, J., Malcolm, I.A. and Soulsby, C. (2016). Influence of groundwater chemistry on hyporheic invertebrate assemblages is revealed by fine-scale sampling. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 187: 207-221.

 

Gibbins, C.N. (2015). Coupling physical to biological processes: the ecological significance of channel hydraulics and fluvial dynamics. In: Rowinski, P.M. and Radecki-Pawlik, A. Rivers: physical, fluvial and environmental processes.  Springer (GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences Series), pp. 479-497. 

 

Millidine, K.J., Malcolm, I.A., McCartney, A., Gibbins, C.N and Fryer, R.J. (2015).  The influence of wind farm development on the hydrochemistry and ecology of an upland stream.  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 187: 518. DOI 10.1007/s/10661-015-4750-9

 

Buendía, C., Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J. and Gibbins, C.N. (2015). Temporal dynamics of sediment transport and in-channel storage in a highly erodible catchment.  Land Degradation and Development. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2348

 

Quinlan, E. Malcolm, I.A., and Gibbins, C.N. (2014). Spatio-temporal variability of dissolved oxygen within the shallow subsurface zone of a freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) bed. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 185, 281-294.

 

Quinlan, E., Batalla, R.J., Vericat, D., and Gibbins, C.N (2014).  Impacts of small scale flow regulation on an ecologically important upland river.  Environmental Management.  DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0423-7.

 

Quinlan, E., Gibbins, C.N., Malcolm, I.A., Batalla, R.J., Vericat, D, and Hastie, L. (2014).  A review of the physical habitat requirements and research priorities needed to underpin conservation of the endangered freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1002/acq.2484.

 

Malcolm, I. A., Gibbins, C.N, Fryer, R.J. Keay, J. Tetzlaff, D. and Soulsby, C. (2014). The influence of forestry on acid impacts and recovery: insights from long-term hydrochemical and invertebrate data. Ecological Indicators  37, 317-329

 

Buendía, C., Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D. and Batalla, R.J. (2013).  Effects of flow and fine sediment dynamics on spatial and temporal turnover of stream invertebrate assemblages. Ecohydrology  7, 1105-1123

 

Buendia, C., Gibbins, C.N, Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J. (2013).  Reach and catchment scale influences on invertebrate assemblages in a river with naturally high fine sediment loads. Limnologia 42, 362-370

 

Buendia, C., Gibbins, C.N, Vericat, D., Batalla, R.J. and Douglas, A. (2013).  Detecting the structural and functional impacts of fine sediment on stream invertebrates.  Ecological Indicators 25, 184-196.

 

Imholt, C., Soulsby, C., Malcolm, I.A., Gibbins, C.N. (2012). Influence of contrasting riparian forest cover on stream temperature dynamics in salmonid spawning and nursery streams.  Ecohydrology DOI: 10.1002/eco.1291

 

Millidine, K., Malcolm, I. A., Gibbins, C. and Fryer, R. (2012). The influence of canalisation on juvenile salmonid habitat.  Ecological Indicators 23, 262-273

 

Malcolm, I.A. Gibbins, C.N., Moir, H.J. Soulsby, C. and Tetzlaff, D. (2012). The influence of hydrology and hydraulics on salmonids between spawning and emergence: implications for the management of flows in regulated rivers.  Fisheries Management and Ecology. 19, 464-476.

 

Smith, M., Vericat, D. and Gibbins, C.N. (2012).  Through-water terrestrial laser scanning of gravel beds at the plot scale.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.  37, 411-421

 

Buendía; C., Gibbins, C.N.,Vericat, D., López-Tarazón, J.A. and Batalla, R.J. (2012) . Influence of naturally high fine sediment loads on aquatic insect larvae in a montane river.  Scottish Geographical Journal 127, 315-334.

 

Soulsby, C., Grant J., Gibbins, C.N and Malcolm, I. (2012). Spatial and temporal variability in Atlantic salmon spawning habitat in braided river channels: a preliminary assessment. Aquatic Sciences, 74, 571-586.

 

Imholt, C., Soulsby, C., Malcolm, I.A., Hrachowitz, M., Gibbins, C.N., Langan, S., and Tetzlaff, D. (2011).  Influence of scale on thermal characteristics in a large montane river basin.  River Research and Applications. 29, 403-419

 

Wheaton, J. Gibbins, C.N., Wainwright, J., Larsen, L and McElroy, B. (2011). Multiscale feedbacks in eco-geomorphology. Geomorphology 126, 265-268.

 

Imholt, C., Malcolm, I.A., Bacon, C., Gibbins, C.N., Soulsby C., and Miles, M. (2011).  Does diurnal temperature variability affect growth in juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar? Journal of Fish Biology,  78, 436-448.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D, and Batalla, R.J. (2010). Invertebrate drift-velocity relations and the limits imposed by substrate stability and benthic density.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29(3), 945-958.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Batalla, R.J and Vericat, D.  (2010). Invertebrate drift and benthic exhaustion during disturbance: response of mayflies to increasing shear stress and river-bed instability.  River Research and Applications 26, 499-510.

 

Imholt C., Gibbins C.N., Malcolm I.A., Langan S. and Soulsby C. (2010). Influence of riparian cover on stream temperatures and the growth of the mayfly Baetis rhodani in an upland stream. Aquatic Ecology. 44: 669-678.

 

Moir, H.J., Gibbins, C.N., Buffington J.M., Webb J and Soulsby, C. (2009). A new method to identify the fluvial regimes used by spawning salmonids.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 1404-1408.  

 

Vericat, D., Batalla, R. and Gibbins, C.N.  2008. Sediment entrainment and exhaustion from patches of fine material in a gravel-bed river. Water Resources Research 44, 1-15 (DOI:10.1029/2008WR007028).

 

Vericat, D., Batalla, R. and Gibbins, C.N.  2008. Initiation of sediment movement in areas of fine material: measurements and experiments.  Revista C&G. 22, 51-62.

 

Tetzlaff, D., Gibbins, C.N., Soulsby, C., Bacon, P.J., and Youngson, A.F. 2008. Influence of hydrological regimes on the pre-spawning immigration of Atlantic Salmon. River Research and Applications 24, 528-542

 

Gibbins, C.N., Vericat, D. and Batalla, R.J. 2007.  When is stream invertebrate drift catastrophic? Freshwater Biology 52, 2369-2384.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Batalla, R.J and Vericat, D.  2007. Shaking and moving: sediment movement triggers mass drift of invertebrates Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64, 1-5.

 

Vericat, D., Batalla, R. and Gibbins, C.N.  2007. A new tool to study links between sediment transport and invertebrate drift.  Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 88 (41) 410. 

 

Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C., Bacon, P.J., Youngson, A.F., Gibbins, C.N. and Malcolm, I.A. 2007. Connectivity between landscapes and riverscapes – a unifying theme in integrating hydrology and ecology in catchment science? Hydrological Processes. 21, 1385-1389.

 

Jackson, H., Gibbins, C.N. and Soulsby, C. 2007. Role of discharge and temperature variation in determining invertebrate community structure in a regulated river. River Research and Applications 23, 651-669.

 

Moir, H.J., Gibbins, C.N., Soulsby, C and Webb, J. 2006. Discharge and hydraulic interactions in contrasting channel morphologies and their influence on site utilisation by spawning Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63, 2567-2585.

 

Moir, H.J., Gibbins, C.N., Soulsby, C and Webb, J. 2005. PHABSIM modelling of Atlantic salmon spawning habitat in an upland stream: testing the influence of habitat suitability indices on model output. River Research and Applications 21, 1021-1034.

 

Soulsby, C., Malcolm, I.A., Youngson, A.F., Tetzlaff, D., Gibbins, C.N. & Hannah, D.M. 2005. Groundwater–surface water interactions in upland Scottish rivers: hydrological, hydrochemical and ecological implications.  Scottish Journal of Geology, 41 (1): 39-49.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Scott, E., Soulsby, C. and McEwan, I. 2005. The relationship between sediment mobilisation and the entry of Baetis mayflies into the drift in a laboratory flume.  Hydrobiologia, 533, 115-122

 

D. Tetzlaff, C. Soulsby, A. Youngson, C.N. Gibbins, P. Bacon, I. Malcolm, and S. Langan, 2005. Variability in stream discharge and temperature: a preliminary assessment of the implications for juvenile and spawning Atlantic salmon.  Hydrology and Earth Systems Science, 9 (3) 193-208.

 

D. Tetzlaff, C. Soulsby, C.N. Gibbins, A. Youngson, and P. Bacon, 2005.  An approach to assessing hydrological influences on feeding opportunities in juvenile Atlantic salmon: a case study of two contrasting years in small nursery stream.  Hydrobiologia 549, 65-77.

 

Rodgers, P., Soulsby, C., Petry, J., Malcolm, I, Gibbins, C.N. and Dunn, S. 2004. Groundwater-surfacewater interactions in a braided river: a tracer-based assessment. Hydrological Processes 18, 1315-1332.

 

Moir, H.J., Gibbins, C.N., Soulsby, C and Webb, J.  2004. Linking channel geomorphic characteristics to spatial patterns of spawning activity and discharge use by Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in two upland Scottish streams. Geomorphology 60 (1-2), 21-35.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Moir, H., Webb, J.H. and Soulsby, C. 2002. Assessing discharge use by spawning Atlantic salmon: a comparison of discharge electivity indices and PHABSIM simulations. River Research and Applications, 18, 383-395.

 

Soulsby, C., Gibbins, C.N., Wade, A.J., Smart, R and Helliwell, R. 2002. Water quality in the Scottish Uplands: A hydrological perspective on catchment hydrochemistry, Science of the Total Environment, 294, 73-94.

 

MacNeil, C., Dick, J.T.A., Bigsby, E., Elwood, R.W, Montgommery, W.I., Gibbins, C.N. and Kelly, D.W. 2002. The validity of the gammarus:asellus ratio as an index of organic pollution: abiotic and biotic influences.  Water Research 36, 74-84.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Dilks, C.F, Malcolm, R., Soulsby, C. and Juggins, S.  2001. Invertebrate communities and hydrological variation in Cairngorm mountain streams.  Hydrobiologia, 462, 205-219.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Jeffries, M.J., Soulsby, C. and Acornley, R.M.  2001. Developing ecologically acceptable flow regimes for regulated rivers: A case study of Kielder reservoir and the Kielder water transfer system.  Fisheries Management and Ecology, 8, 463-485.

 

Soulsby, C., Malcolm, R. and Gibbins, C.N. 2001. Seasonality, water quality trends and their ecological implications in four streams in the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland.  Hydrology and Earth Systems Science, 5 (3), 433-450.

 

Webb, J., Gibbins, C.N., Moir, H. and Soulsby, C. 2001. Flow requirements of spawning Atlantic salmon in an upland stream: implications for water resource management. Journal of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management 15: No. 1, 1-8.

 

Gibbins, C.N. and Acornley, R.M. 2000.  Salmonid habitat modelling studies and their contribution to the development of an ecologically acceptable release policy for Kielder Reservoir, North-east England.  Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 16: 203-224.

 

Gibbins, C. N., Jeffries, M.J., and Soulsby, C. 2000. Impacts of an inter-basin water transfer: distribution and abundance of Micronecta poweri (Insecta: Corixidae) in the River Wear, North-east England.  Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 10: 103-115

 

Soulsby, C., Gibbins, C.N. and Robins, T. 1999.  The use of inter-basin water transfers as a flexible water resource during drought: the Kielder scheme in North-east England.  Journal of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, 13: 213-223.

 

Gibbins, C.N. and Heslop, J. 1998.  An evaluation of water transfers as a mechanism for augmenting salmonid and grayling habitat in the River Wear, North-east England. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 14: 357-382. 

 

Gibbins, C.N. and Moxon, J. 1998  Calopteryx splendens (Insecta: Odonata) at edge-of-range sites in North-east England.  J. Brit. Drag. Soc. 14: 33-45.

Recent Consultancy and Project Reports

Marteau, B, Gibbins, C.N., Batalla, R.J. and Vericat, D. (2018). Good practice in managing riverbank instability and erosion.  Report to WWF Malaysia.  July 2018. 54 pp.

 

Marteau, B, Gibbins, C.N., Batalla, R.J. and Vericat, D. (2018). Hydrological and Geomorphological analysis of the Upper Trusan River to assess remediation for riverbank integrity. Report to WWF Malaysia.  July 2018. 119 pp.

 

Marteau, B, Gibbins, C.N., Batalla, R.J. and Vericat, D. (2018). Geomorphological evolution and ecological response of the River Ehen to the reconnection of a headwater tributary. Final report to the Environment Agency and United Utilities. July 2018. 46 pp.

 

Gibbins, C.N., Marteau, B, Batalla, R.J and Vericat, D. (2015).  Fine sediment in the River Ehen.  NW Environment Agency.  Northern Rivers Institute, September 2015. 10 pp.

 

Gibbins, C.N. and Quinlan, E. (2014).  Eco-geomorphological dynamics of the river Ehen prior to its restoration. Report undertaken in behalf of NW Environment Agency.  Northern Rivers Institute, April 2014. 28pp.

Opinion Piece

Chen, H.L., Nath, T.K., Chong, S.H., Gibbins, C.N., and Foo, V. (2021). Challenges to plastic recycling in Malaysia, The Vibes. August 2021, https://www.thevibes.com/articles/opinion/33943/challenges-to-plastic-recycling-in-malaysia-hui-ling-chen-tapan-kumar-nath-chris-gibbins-alex-m-lechner-siewhui-chong-vernon-foo 

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