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Publications
International refereed journals
Rouquette, JR, Posthumus, H, Gowing, DJG, Tucker, G, Dawson, QL, Hess, TM, Morris, J (2009)
Valuing nature-conservation interests on agricultural floodplains. Journal of Applied Ecology,
46, 289-296
Araya, Y.N., Gowing, D.J.G. and Silvertown, J. (2009) Variation in δ13C among species and sexes in
the family Restionaceae along a fine-scale hydrological gradient. Submitted to Austral Ecology.
Stevens, C.J., Maskell, L.C., Smart, S.M., Caporn, S.J.M., Dise, N.B. and Gowing, D.J.G (2009)
Identifying indicators of atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts in acid grasslands. Biological
Conservation (in press)
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G. and Wallace, H.L. (2009) Available soil phosphorus in semi-natural
grasslands: assessment methods and community tolerances. Biological Conservation, 142, 10741083
Thompson, J.R., Gavin, H., Refsgaard, A., Refstrup Sorenson, H. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2009) Modelling
the hydrological impacts of climate change on UK lowland wet grassland. Wetland Ecology and
Management.(in press)
Stevens C, Dise N.B., Gowing D.J.G. and Mountford J.O. (2009) Regional trends in soil acidification
and metal mobilisation related to acid deposition. Environmental Pollution 157, 313–319
Herbst, M., Rosier, P.T.W., Mc Neill, D.D., Harding, R.J and Gowing, D.J.G. (2008) Seasonal
variability of interception evaporation from the canopy of a mixed deciduous forest. Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, 148, 1655-1667.
Herbst, M., Roberts, J.M., Rosier, P.T.W., Taylor, M.E. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2008) Edge effects and
forest water use: A field study in a mixed deciduous woodland Forest Ecology and Management,
250, 176-186.
Herbst, M., Rosier, P.T.W., Morecroft, M.D. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2008) Comparative measurements of
transpiration and canopy conductance in two mixed deciduous woodlands differing in structure
and species composition. Tree Physiology, 28, 959-970.
Herbst, M., Roberts, J.M., Rosier, P.T.W. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2007) Seasonal and interannual
variability of canopy transpiration of a hedgerow in southern England. Tree Physiology, 27, 321333.
Herbst, M., Roberts, J.M., Rosier, P.T.W. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2007) Measuring and modelling the
rainfall interception loss by hedgerows in southern England. Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology. 141, 244-256
*Stevens C, Dise N.B., Gowing D.J.G. and Mountford J.O. (2006). Loss of forb diversity in relation to
nitrogen deposition in the UK: regional trends and potential controls. Global Change Biology,
12, 1823–1833
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Whalley, W.R., Clark, L.J., Gowing, D.J.G., Cope, R.E., Lodge, R.J. and Leeds-Harrison, P.B. (2006)
Does soil strength play a role in wheat yield losses caused by soil drying. Plant and Soil, 280,
279-290.
*Silvertown, J., Dodd, M. E., Gowing, D. J.G., Lawson, C., and McConway, K. J. (2006). Phylogeny
and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87, S39-S49.
Silvertown, J., McConway, K., Gowing, D.J.G., Dodd, M.E., Fay, M., Joseph, J. and Dolphin, K. (2006)
Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 273, 39-44.
Morris J, Hess T M, Gowing D J G, Leeds-Harrison P B, Bannister N, Vivash R M N and Wade M
(2005). A framework for integrating flood defence and biodiversity in washlands in England.
International Journal of River Basin Management, 3, 1-11.
Whalley, W.R., Leeds-Harrison, P.B., Clark L. J. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2005). Use of effective stress to
predict the penetrometer resistance of unsaturated agricultural soils. Soil and Tillage Research.
84, 18-27.
Clark, L.J., Gowing, D.J.G, Lark, R. M., Leeds-Harrison, P.B., Miller, A.J., Wells, D.M., Whalley W.R
&. Whitmore A.P (2005) Sensing the physical and nutritional status of the root environment in
the field: a review of progress and opportunities. Journal of Agricultural Science, 143, 347-358.
*Stevens, C., Dise, N.B., Mountford, J.O. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2004) The impact of atmospheric
nitrogen deposition on the species richness of grassland. Science, 303, 1876-1879.
*Barber, K.R., Leeds-Harrison, P.B., Lawson, C.S and Gowing D.J.G. (2004) The effect of hydrology
on soil aeration status in a lowland wet grassland. Hydrological Processes, 18, 329-341.
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G. and Bullock, R. (2003) Influence of seed mixture and hydrological regime
on the establishment of a diverse grassland sward at a site with high phosphorus availability.
Restoration Ecology, 11, 424-435.
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G. and Loveland, P (2003) Chemical amelioration of high phosphorus
availability in soil to aid the restoration of species-rich grassland. Ecological Engineering, 19,
297-304.
*Silvertown, J. Dodd, M. and Gowing,D.J.G. (2001). Phylogeny and niche structure of meadow plant
communities. Journal of Ecology, 89, 428-435.
Fermor, P.M., Hedges, P.D., Gilbert, J.C. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2001) Reedbed evapotranspiration rates
in England. Hydrological Processes, 15, 621-631.
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G., Higginbottom, P.R.G. and Godwin, R.J. (2000) The habitat creation
model: A decision-support system to assess the viability of converting arable land into seminatural habitat. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 28, 67-85.
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Morris, J., Gowing, D.J.G., Mills, J. and Dunderdale, J.A.L. (2000) Reconciling agricultural, economic
and environmental objectives: The case of recreating wetlands in the Fenland area of Eastern
England. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 79, 245-257.
*Silvertown, J., Dodd, M.E., Gowing, D.J.G. and Mountford J.O. (1999). Hydrologically-defined niches
reveal a basis for species richness in plant communities. Nature, 400, 61-63.
Swetnam, R. D., Mountford, J. O., Armstrong, A. C., Gowing, D.J.G., Brown, N. J., Manchester, S. J.,
Treweek, J. R (1998). Spatial relationships between site hydrology and the occurrence of
grassland of conservation importance: a risk assessment with GIS. Journal of Environmental
Management, 54, 189-203.
Brown, N.J., Swetnam, R.D., Treweek, J.R. Mountford, J.O., Caldow, R.W.G., Manchester, S.J., Stamp,
T.R., Gowing, D.J.G., Soloman, D.R., Armstrong, A.C. and Veitch, N. (1998). Issues in GIS
development: adapting to research and policy needs for management of wet grasslands in an
Environmentally Sensitive Area. International Journal of Geographical Information Science,
12, 465-478.
Trejo, C.L., Gowing, D.J.G. and Davies, W.J. (1993). Control of leaf growth and physiology: a link
between climatic and edaphic effects. Current Topics in Plant Physiology, 10, 48-56.
Tardieu, F., Zhang, J. and Gowing, D.J.G. (1993). Stomatal control by both [ABA] in the xylem sap and
leaf water status: a test of a model for droughted or ABA-fed field-grown maize. Plant, Cell and
Environment, 16, 413-420.
Gowing, D.J.G., Jones, H.G. and Davies, W.J. (1993). Xylem-transported abscisic acid: the relative
importance of its mass and its concentration in the control of stomatal aperture. Plant, Cell and
Environment, 16, 453-459.
*Gowing, D.J.G., Davies, W.J., Trejo, C.L. and Jones, H.G. (1993). Xylem-transported chemical
signals and the regulation of plant growth and physiology. Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London, Series B, 341, 41-47.
Fleming, A.J., Gowing, D.J.G. and Hanke, D.E. (1991). The level of abscisic acid in the root tip of
runner bean seedlings: implications for the ABA-uptake carrier. Journal of Plant Physiology,
138; 717-721.
*Gowing, D.J.G., Davies, W.J. and Jones H.G. (1990). A positive root-sourced signal as an indicator of
soil drying in apple, Malus x domestica Borkh. Journal of Experimental Botany, 41; 1535-1540.
Other refereed publications
Gowing, D.J.G., Davies, S.J.M., Denny, H., Edwards, N.R., Gauci, V., Gillman, M.P., Halliday, T.R.
and Stevens, C.J. (2008) Ecosystems. Open University. 72pp. ISBN 978-0-7492-1924-6.
Posthumus, H., Rouquette, J., Morris, J., Hess, T.M., Gowing, D.J., and Dawson, Q.L. (2008) Integrated
land and water management in floodplains in England. In: Flood Risk Management: Research
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and Practice. Samuels, P., Huntingdon, S., Allsop, W. and Harrop, J. (eds.) CRC Press /
Balkema, ISBN 978-0-415-48507-4.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Mountford, J.O. (2007) Water management in wet grasslands. In: High Value
Grassland. Ed. J.J. Hopkins. British Grassland Society Occasional Symposium No. 38.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2006) The importance of hydrological regime for the meadow plant communities of
seasonally flooded grassland. In: Land Use, Ecology and Conservation in the Lower Derwent
Valley. Ed. T. Milsom. PLACE, York.
Clark L.J., Whalley W.R., Gowing D.J.G., Leeds-Harrison P.B. (2005) Soil strength as a constraint to
the growth of wheat. In: Roots and the soil Environment II. Aspects of Applied Biology, 73, 1926. The Association of Applied Biologists.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2005) The vegetation of water meadows. In: Water Meadows . M.Everard (ed).
Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing, Otley. ISBN 0-9550740-0-2.
Stevens, C. J., Dise, N. B., Gowing, D. J. G., Mountford, J. O. (2004) Decline in species richness in acid
grasslands along a gradient of nitrogen deposition. In 'Controlling N flows and losses'. Eds: D. J.
Hatch, D. Chadwick, S. C. Jarvis, J. A. Roker. Wageningen Academic Publishers, The
Netherlands. pp 88-89.
Gowing, D.J.G., Bennett, S.W, Dise, N., Gillman, M.P.and Smith, S.G. (2003). Environmental Science
in the Field. The Open University. 94 pp. ISBN 0 7492 5835 7.
Miller A.J., Wells D.M., Braven J., Ebdon L., Le Goff T., Clark L.J., Whalley W.R., Gowing D.J.G.,
and Leeds-Harrison P.B. (2003) Novel sensors for measuring soil nitrogen, water availability
and strength. BCPC International Congress Crop Science & Technology, Congress
Proceedings, 1107-1114.
Davies, W.J. and Gowing, D.J.G. (1999). Plant responses to small perturbations in soil water status. In:
Physiological Plant Ecology. M. Press J. Scholes and M. Barker (eds). British Ecological
Society Symposium Volume 39, 67-89.
Gowing, D.J.G., Spoor, G. and Mountford, J.O. (1998). The influence of minor variations in
hydrological regime on the composition of wet-grassland plant communities. In: European
Lowland Wet Grasslands: Biodiversity, Management and Restoration. Eds. C Joyce and M
Wade. Wiley, Chichester. pp. 217-227.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Spoor, G. (1998). The effect of water table depth on the distribution of plant
species in lowland wet grassland. In: UK Floodplains. Eds R Bailey, P Jose and B Sherwood.
Westbury. pp. 185-196.
Gowing, D.J.G, Youngs, E.G., Gilbert, J.C. and Spoor, G. (1998). Predicting the effect of change in
water regime on plant communities. In: Hydrology in a changing environment. Vol. I. H.
Wheater and C Kirby (eds.) John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. pp. 473-483.
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Spoor G., & Gowing D.J.G. (1998) Quantification of water regime requirements of wet grassland flora.
In: 7th International Drainage Symposium on Drainage in the 21st Century - Food Production
and the Environment, 621-628.
Mountford, J.O., Tallowin, J.R.B., Sparks, T.H., Gowing, D.J.G., Manchester, S.J., Rose, S.C., Treweek,
J.R., Gilbert, J.C. and Armstrong, A.C. (1997). Experimental and monitoring studies of the use
of raised water-levels for grassland rehabilitation in Lowland ESAs. In: Grassland Management
in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas. R.D. Sheldrick (ed.) British Grassland Society,
Occasional Symposium No. 32.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Youngs, E.G. (1997). The effect of the hydrology of a Thames flood meadow on its
vegetation. In: Floodplain Rivers: hydrological processes and ecological significance (ed.
A.R.G. Large). British Hydrological Society occasional paper No.8, pp 69-80.
Spoor, G. and Gowing, D.J.G. (1996). Reconciling water management needs for agriculture and wetland
conservation. Proceedings of 6th Drainage Workshop (Ljubljana). International Committee for
Irrigation and Drainage. pp 354-361.
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G., Spoor, G. and Mountford, J.O. (1996). Quantifying the hydrological
requirements of plants as a tool for the water management of wet grassland. In: Problems of
environmental development in rural areas. Vol. 10 Ecological aspects of environmental
development. Warsaw Agricultural University. pp 283-294.
Gowing, D.J.G, Morris, J., Spoor, G and Dunderdale, J.A.L. (1994). Reconciling water-regime
requirements for environmental and agricultural management. In: Integrated River Basin
Development, eds. C Kirby and WR White, Wiley, Chichester.
Zhang, J., Gowing, D.J.G. and Davies, W.J. (1990). ABA as a root signal in root to shoot
communication of soil drying. In Importance of root to shoot communication in the responses to
environmental stress, pp. 163-173. British Society for Plant Growth Regulation, Monograph no.
21.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Davies W.J. (1989). Root growth when water supply is limited. In Roots and the
soil environment, pp. 33-40. Aspects of applied biology series, no. 22. The Association of
Applied Biologists.
Research and Consultancy reports
Daldorph, P., Gowing, D.J.G. and Pryce, A. (2006) Assessment of the impact of flooding on Portholme.
Report to the Environment Agency, Peterborough.
Daldorph, P. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2006) Phosphorus enrichment of the Ouse Washes – investigations
for Stage 4 Review of Consents. Report to the Environment Agency, Peterborough.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2005) A preliminary botanical survey of the Oxford Meads. Report to the
Environment Agency, Reading.
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Gowing, D.J.G. and Youngs, E.G. (2005) The requirements of Apium repens – an ecohydrological
assessment. Report to the Environment Agency (Thames Region), Reading.
Gowing, D.J.G., Lawson, C.S., Barber, K.R and Youngs, E.G., (2005) Response of grassland plant
communities to altered hydrological management. Final report to DEFRA (Conservation
Management Division,) London. Project BD1321
White, S., Gowing, D.J.G., Deeks, L., Freeman, M., Dodd, M.E. and Holden, A. (2005) Identifying
sources of phosphorus to the floodplain meadows at Cricklade. Report to the Environment
Agency, Wallingford.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Dodd, M.E. (2005) Oxley Mead SSSI, Milton Keynes – botanical baseline surveys,
2000-2005. Report prepared for Westbury Homes(Holdings) Ltd., Northampton
Gowing, D.J.G. (2005) Estimating the contribution of flood-deposited sediments to the nutrient budget
of floodplain meadows in the Thames Valley. Report to the Environment Agency (Thames
Region), Wallingford.
Dixon, A. and Gowing , D.J.G. (2004) Farmoor Drought Permit - Oxford Meadows Monitoring. Report
to Thames Water plc, Reading.
Whalley, W.R., Gowing, D.J.G., Clarke, L. and Lodge, R. (2004). Sensing the physical and nutritional
status of the root growth environment. Report to Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs, London. Project no. AR0913.
Wheeler, B.D., Gowing, D.J.G., Shaw, S.C., Mountford, J.O. and Money, R.P. (2004) Ecohydrological
guidelines for lowland wetland plant communities (Eds. Brooks, A.W., Jose, P.V. and Whiteman,
M.I.) Environment Agency (Anglian Region), Peterborough.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Dodd, M.E. (2004). Nutrients deposited in sediment on the floodplain of the Lower
Derwent and their influence on plant community composition. Report to WS Atkins Ltd. Leeds.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2003). The Moors, Bishop’s Waltham – Botanical Surveys, 2001/2002. Report to
Environment Agency and Hampshire County Council, Winchester.
Gowing, D.J.G., Lawson, C.S., Youngs, E.G., Barber, K.R., Prosser, M.V., Wallace, H., Rodwell, J.S.,
Mountford, J.O. and Spoor, G. (2002). The water-regime requirements and the response to
hydrological change of grassland plant communities. Final report to DEFRA (Conservation
Management Division,) London. Project BD1310.
Gowing, D.J.G., Tallowin, J.R.B., Dise, N.B., Goodyear, J., Dodd, M.E. and Lodge, R.J. (2002) A review
of the ecology, hydrology and nutrient dynamics of floodplain meadows in England. English
Nature Research Report 446. Peterborough.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Dodd, M.E. (2001) Oxley Mead SSSI, Milton Keynes – Botanical baseline survey.
Report prepared for Westbury Homes Ltd., Northampton.
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Souch, C.A., Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G., Hess, T.M. and Fiorini, E (2000). Anglian region joint study
on water resources availability for wetland creation. Report to the Environment Agency
(Anglian Region, Peterborough), English Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds, Sandy.
Gowing, D.J.G, (2000). Impact of various abstraction scenarios upon North Meadow SAC. Report
prepared for Environment Agency (Thames Region), Wallingford.
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G. and Youngs, E.G. (2000) Blackwater Valley SSSI: Hydrological
investigations and management recommendations to conserve MG5 grassland communities.
Report to English Nature (Thames and Chilterns Team, Newbury).
Gilbert, J.C. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2000) Assessment of interactions between vegetation and hydrology in
Knebworth Woods SSSI, Hertfordshire. Report to Friends of the Earth, Stevenage.
Gilbert, J.C., Gowing, D.J.G. and Spoor, G. (1999) Botanical assessment and ecological mitigation
advice – Shalford to Munstead pipeline. Report to Thames Water plc, Guildford.
Gowing, D.J.G and Gilbert, J.C. (1999) Wetland translocation at Warstone – Hydrological
characterisation. Report to Andrews Ward Associates, Ecological Consultants, Huntingdon
Spoor, G., Gilbert, J.C. and Gowing, D.J.G. (1999). Conservation of peat soils on the Somerset Levels
and Moors. Part 4. Safeguarding peat soils. Water level management recommendations to
conserve peat soils. Research Report to English Nature, Taunton.
Gowing, D.J.G, Gilbert, J.C. and Youngs, E.G. (1998). Hydrological Assessment of Molinia-Juncus
pastures at Rhos Llawr Cwrt NNrR/cSAC. Contract Science Report no. 273. Countryside
Council for Wales, Bangor.
Gowing, D.J.G. (1998). Oxley Mead SSSI – moisture retention properties of the soil. Report prepared
for Weeks Technical Services, Maidstone.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Gilbert, J.C. (1999). Hydrological monitoring of meadows at Stanford End, Berks.
Report to English Nature (Thames and Chilterns Team), Newbury.
Ward, D.E, Holmes, N.T.H., Andrews, J.H., Gowing, D.J.G. and Kirby, P. (1998) Environmental
guidelines for vegetation management in channel and on banks. Environment Agency R&D
technical report W135, Bristol.
Spoor, G., Gowing, D.J.G., Hann, M.J. and Gilbert, J.C. (1997). Holme Fen NNR: Bog Restoration
Feasibility Study. Report to English Nature, Peterborough.
Gowing, D.J.G., Gilbert, J.C., Mountford, J.O. and Youngs, E.G. (1997). The hydrology/ecology
relationship of grassland at Elmlea Meadows, Cerney Wick Farm, Glos. Report to Hills
Aggregates Ltd., Marlborough.
Gowing, D.J.G., Gilbert, J.C. and Spoor, G. (1997). Conservation of peat soils on the Somerset Levels
and Moors. Parts 2 and 3. Research Report to English Nature, Taunton.
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Gowing, D.J.G, Gilbert, J.C., Youngs, E.G. and Spoor, G. (1997). Water regime requirements of the
native flora - with particular reference to ESAs. Final report to Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, London. Project BD0209.
Morris, J., Weatherhead, E.K., Knox, J., Gowing, D.J.G., Dunderdale, J.A.L., Green, C. and Tunstall, S.
(1997). Practical implications of introducing tradeable permits for water abstraction. Cranfield
University and Middlesex University. Report to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,
Sandy.
Gilbert, J.C., Hann, M.J. and Gowing, D.J.G (1997) Ham Wall Water Management and Drainage Study.
Report to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy.
Spoor, G., Gowing, D.J.G. and Gilbert, J.C. (1996). A quantitative approach to water level management
planning for complex sites. In: 31st MAFF Conference for River and Coastal Engineers.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Flood Defence Division, London. 1.1.1-1.1.10
Morris, J., Mills, J., Dunderdale, J., Gowing, D., Burton, R., Gilbert, J. and Spoor, G. (1996) Wet Fens
for the Future: Feasibility Study 2 - A study of the economic and social implications of creating
new wetlands in Fenland. Report to Cambridgeshire County Council.
Hann, M., Gilbert, J., Spoor, G., Gowing, D. and Ward, D. (1996) Easton Valley, Part of Benacre to
Easton Bavents SSSI: Water Level Management Plan and Enhancement Proposals Report to the
Environment Agency.
Gowing, D.J.G. (1996). Examination of the potential impacts of alternative management regimes in the
Somerset Levels and Moors ESA. Report to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Environmentally Sensitive Areas Division, London.
Gilbert, J.C., Higginbottom, P.R.G., Gowing, D.J.G., Bradley, R.I., Kerr, D.M., Leeds-Harrison, P.B.,
Spoor, G. and Godwin, R.J. (1996). The habitat creation model: a model to assess the viability
of converting arable land into semi-natural habitat. Report to the Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, London. Project CSA 2373
Spoor, G. and Gowing, D.J.G. (1995). Defining conservation requirements for water level management
plans. ADA Gazette, Autumn 1995, p 40.
Gowing, D.J.G., Spoor, G., Mountford, J.O. and Youngs, E.G. (1994). The water-regime requirements
of lowland wet-grassland plants. Report to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Flood
and Coastal Defence Division, London.
Spoor, G., Morris, J., Gowing, D.J.G., Hill, D., Mountford, J.O. and Eversham, B.C. (1993). Northmoor
core wetland - Implementation options. Report to National Rivers Authority (South Western
Region), Bridgwater.
Gowing, D.J.G. (1993). Predicting the effect of changes in the water regime on wet-grassland flora.
Flood and Coastal Defence, 3, 5.
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Gowing, D.J.G., Jones, H.G. and Davies, W.J. (1991). An attempt to mimic the root signal of trees in
drying soil with abscisic acid. Journal of Experimental Botany, 42 (suppl.); 15.
Gowing, D.J.G., (1991). The sensing of drying soil by roots, and the involvement of abscisic acid as a
signal. PhD thesis. Lancaster University.
Unpublished conference papers
Stevens, C.J., Dise, N.B., Gowing, D.J. (2008) Biodiversity of European grasslands – the impact of
atmospheric nitrogen deposition (BEGIN). British Ecological Society Annual Meeting. Imperial
College, London, September 2008.
Rouquette, J.R., Gowing, D.J., Tucker, G., Posthumus, H., Dawson, Q.L., Hess, T., Morris, J. (2008)
Evaluating alternative land use options in rural floodplains. British Ecological Society Annual
Meeting. Imperial College, London, September 2008.
Mountford, J.O., Gowing, D.J.G. and Tallowin, J.R.B. (2006) A fragile resource with multifunctional
values - wet species-rich mesotrophic grassland: insights from a multidisciplinary study in the
UK. 1st European Congress of Conservation Biology, Eger, Hungary, August 2006
Araya, Y.N., Gowing, D.J.G. and Dise, N.B. (2004) Influence of small changes in water regime on
competitive interaction of meadow plants. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting.
Lancaster September 2004.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Lawson, C.S. (2004) Response of wet meadow vegetation to natural fluctuations in
hydrology. 7th Intecol international wetlands conference. Utrecht. July 2004.
Araya, Y.N., Gowing, D.J.G. and Dise, N.B. (2004) Integrating hydrology and nutrient availability to
explain plant distributions in species-rich wet meadows. 7th Intecol international wetlands
conference. Utrecht. July 2004.
Morris, J., Hess, T.M., Gowing, D.J.G., Leeds-Harrison, P.B., Bannister, N., Wade M. and Vivash R.M.
(2004) Combining flood management and biodiversity objectives: theory and practice. 7th Intecol
international wetlands conference. Utrecht. July 2004.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Mountford, J.O. (2004) Plant communities and water tables in wet grasslands. At:
Integrating wetland hydrology and ecology in the UK. British Hydrological Society. London,
March 2004.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2003). Washland habitats and their water-regime requirements. At: “Integrated
washland management.” A joint English Nature/Defra workshop. Cranfield University at Silsoe.
April 2003.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2003) The water regime of floodplain meadows. Presentation to the Environment
Group. Brighton University. October 2003.
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Gowing, D.J.G. (2002). The importance of hydrological regime for the meadow plant communities of
seasonally flooded grassland. At: “Land use, ecology and conservation of the Lower Derwent
Valley.” York St John College, York. May 2002.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Lawson, C.S. (2001) Linking hydrology and ecology: creating a predictive
framework for wet- grassland management and restoration. At: Defra workshop on wet
grassland management. Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. September 2001.
Gowing, D.J.G. (2001). Water requirements for wetland restoration. At: Silsoe annual graduate
symposium. Cranfield University. March 2001.
Gilbert, J.C. and Gowing, D.J.G. (2000) The role of phosphorus in successful habitat restoration. At:
Annual meeting of the Society for Ecological Restoration. Liverpool, September 2000.
Gowing, D.J.G. (1999). The impact of water-table behaviour on plant community composition in wet
grasslands. At: Modelling surface/groundwater interaction – low flows, ecology and wetlands.
British Hydrological Society, London, February 1999.
Mountford, J.O., Gowing, D.J.G., Barratt, D.R. and Sparks, T.H. (1998). Raised water levels as a tool in
restoring wet grasslands within areas of conservation importance. At: 2nd International
Conference on Restoration Ecology. Groningen, August 1998.
Gowing, D.J.G. and Spoor, G. (1998). Design criteria for water regimes in restored meadows. At: 2nd
International Conference on Restoration Ecology. Groningen, August 1998.
Gowing, D.J.G., Gilbert, J.C., Mountford, J.O., Sparks, T.H. and Spoor, G. (1997). Plant species’
response to soil-water regime in hay meadows. At: Winter Meeting of the British Ecological
Society, Warwick University, December 1997.
Gowing, D.J.G. (1994). The role of abscisic acid in mediating the plant's response to nutrient
deficiency. International Symposium on Plant Nutrition, Grasmere, April 1994. Rank Prize
Funds.
Gowing, D.J.G., Spoor, G. and Mountford, J.O. (1993). Determining the water-regime preferences of
wet-grassland flora. At: "MAFF Conference of River and Coastal Engineers", Loughborough,
July 1993. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, London.
Spoor G., Gowing, D.J.G., and Mountford, J.O. (1993). Quantification of water-regime requirements of
ditch-bank and wet-grassland flora. "Conservation and management of drainage system habitat".
Nottingham, September 1993. International Centre of Landscape Ecology.
Gowing, D.J.G., Jones, H.G. and Davies, W.J. (1991). Stomatal responses to abscisic acid arriving in
the transpiration stream. At: "Abscisic acid: physiology and biochemistry". Birmingham, April,
1991. Society for Experimental Biology.
Gowing, D.J.G., Davies, W.J. and Jones H.G. (1991). An immunological method for measuring abscisic
acid metabolism in leaves. At: "Plant growth substances as stress modulators" - International
Workshop. Halle, F.R.G., July, 1991. Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology.
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