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Richard Chadd

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Richard Chadd FLS (died 5 November 2021) was a British ecologist and biologist.[1]

Biography

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Chadd was a freshwater ecologist. He worked as a senior environmental monitoring officer with the Environment Agency.[2] He was an active member and recorder with the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, serving as its recorder of fresherwater invertebrates from 2003 onwards and as its president in both 2005 and 2020.[1] At the time of his death he was a board member of the Freshwater Biological Association[3] and of The Riverfly Partnership.[4] Chadd was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Select publications

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  • Dunbar, M.J., Pedersen, M.L., Cadman, D., Extence, C., Waddingham, J., Chadd, R., and Larsen, S.E. 2010. "River discharge and local-scale physical habitat influence macroinvertebrate LIFE scores". Freshwater Biology 55: 226-242. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02306.x
  • Dunbar, M.J., Warren, M., Extence, C., Baker, L., Cadman, D., Mould, D.J., Hall, J. and Chadd, R. 2010. "Interaction between macroinvertebrates, discharge and physical habitat in upland rivers". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20: S31-S44. doi:10.1002/aqc.1089
  • Mathers, K.L., Chadd, R.P., Dunbar, M.J., Extence, C.A., Reeds, J., Rice, S.P., and Wood, P.J. 2016. "The long-term effects of invasive signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) on instream macroinvertebrate communities", Science of the Total Environment 556: 207-2018.
  • Chadd, R. and Eversham, B. 2010. "Other invertebrates", in Maclean, N. (ed) Silent Summer: The State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press.
  • Chadd, R. 2010 "Assessment of Aquatic Invertebrates", in Biological Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats, 63-72.

References

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  1. ^ a b Porter, Phil; Faulkner, Annette (2022). "Richard Chadd: An Appreciation". The Lincolnshire Naturalist. 30 (3): 122.
  2. ^ "Press release: New stronghold for endangered crayfish in Lincolnshire". Environment Agency. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Foreword" (PDF). FBA News. No. 81. Winter 2021. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Richard Chadd" (PDF). The Riverfly Partnership Newsletter. November 2021.