The redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus; hereafter redclaw), native to northern
Australia and southern New Guinea, is among the largest freshwater decapods. It matures …

Human activities such as industrialisation, urbanisation and agriculture have adversely
impacted terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Water pollutants such as heavy metals and …

Biological invasions are numerous in fresh waters around the world. At least hundreds of
freshwater species have been moved outside of their native ranges by vectors such as …

Food webs in nature have multiple, reticulate connections between a diversity of consumers
and resources. Such complexity affects web dynamics: it first spreads the direct effects of …

Small invertebrates are function-ally important in many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
(Wilson 1992, Freckman et al. 1997, Palmer et al. 1997, Postel and Carpenter 1997). In …

Biological invasions are one of the most important ecological disturbances that threaten
native biodiversity. An expected increase in the rate of species extinction will have major …

This study quantifies the flow of energy and biomass from a productive marine system to a
relatively unproductive terrestrial system. Biomass from marine food webs (here, the Gulf of …

A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and
ponds). As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book is on …

Interactions between natural selection and environmental change are well recognized and
sit at the core of ecology and evolutionary biology. Reciprocal interactions between ecology …

Nonnative crayfish have been widely introduced and are a major threat to freshwater
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Despite documentation of the ecological effects of …