Fresh waters and estuaries of the Great Barrier Reef catchment: Effects and management of anthropogenic disturbance on biodiversity, ecology and connectivity

RG Pearson, NM Connolly, AM Davis, JE Brodie - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the literature on the ecology, connectivity, human impacts and management of
freshwater and estuarine systems in the Great Barrier Reef catchment (424,000 km 2), on …

Climate change and its implications for Australia's freshwater fish

JR Morrongiello, SJ Beatty, JC Bennett… - Marine and …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
Freshwater environments and their fishes are particularly vulnerable to climate change
because the persistence and quality of aquatic habitat depend heavily on climatic and …

Trophic resources and emergent food web attributes in rivers of the Lake Victoria Basin: a review with reference to anthropogenic influences

FO Masese, ME McClain - Ecohydrology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The ecology of Lake Victoria and rivers draining its 180 000 km2 basin has
changed over the past century in response to growing anthropogenic influences that have …

Productivity and connectivity in tropical riverscapes of northern Australia: ecological insights for management

NE Pettit, RJ Naiman, DM Warfe, TD Jardine… - Ecosystems, 2017 - Springer
Flow regimes are fundamental to sustaining ecological characteristics of rivers worldwide,
including their associated floodplains. Recent advances in understanding tropical river …

Omnivory and opportunism characterize food webs in a large dry-tropics river system

ML Blanchette, AM Davis, TD Jardine… - Freshwater …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
We analyzed basal sources, trophic levels, and connectance in dry-season food webs on 4
rivers in the upper Burdekin catchment in the dry tropics of northeastern Australia. The …

Temporal variation of imidacloprid concentration and risk in waterways discharging to the Great Barrier Reef and potential causes

MSJ Warne, RDR Turner, AM Davis, R Smith… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The widely used neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid has emerged as a significant risk to
surface waters and the diverse aquatic and terrestrial fauna these ecosystems support …

Urbanisation affects the diet and feeding selectivity of the invasive guppy Poecilia reticulata

MJM Ganassin, A Frota, CM Muniz… - … of Freshwater Fish, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The process of urbanisation is increasing the frequency and magnitude of fluctuations in the
availability of food resources for fish. In this study, we investigated whether the diet and prey …

Partitioning of food resources by four abundant, co-occurring elasmobranch species: relationships between diet and both body size and season

E Sommerville, ME Platell, WT White… - Marine and …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
The present study has tested statistically the hypothesis that the diets of four abundant and
co-occurring elasmobranch species differ and change with body size and season and has …

Widespread omnivory and low temporal and spatial variation in the diet of fishes in a hydrologically variable northern Australian river

BJ Pusey, AH Arthington, B Stewart‐Koster… - Journal of Fish …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the trophic ecology of freshwater fishes (22 species in 15 families) in a
wet and dry tropical Australian river of high intra‐annual and interannual hydrological …

Swimming performance and ecomorphology of the Iberian barbel Luciobarbus bocagei (Steindachner, 1864) on permanent and temporary rivers

CM Alexandre, BR Quintella, AF Ferreira… - … of Freshwater Fish, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial variability in streamflow characteristics is responsible for a large range of habitat
variations to which fish are adapted through life‐cycle strategies and morphological …