Aquatic biodiversity in the Mediterranean climate rivers of southwestern Australia

PM Davies, BA Stewart - Hydrobiologia, 2013 - Springer
Southwestern Australia is recognised as a global biodiversity hotspot, characterised by high
diversity and endemism of vascular terrestrial plants. However, the significance of its …

The southern hemisphere lampreys (Geotriidae and Mordaciidae)

AK Miller, C Baker, JC Kitson, JL Yick… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Lampreys are jawless fishes (Cyclostomata) that are distributed antitropically around the
world. Of the three extant lamprey clades (Petromyzontidae, Geotriidae, and Mordaciidae) …

[PDF][PDF] Introduced freshwater fishes in a global endemic hotspot and implications of habitat and climatic change.

SJ Beatty, DL Morgan - BioInvasions Record, 2013 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Introductions of alien freshwater fish species into the Mediterranean-climatic South-west
Coast Drainage Division of Australia have impacted a highly endemic (≈ 82%) yet …

Glochidia ecology in wild fish populations and laboratory determination of competent host fishes for an endemic freshwater mussel of south-western Australia

MW Klunzinger, SJ Beatty, DL Morgan… - Australian Journal of …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Glochidia (parasitic larvae) of freshwater mussels generally require a fish as a host.
Westralunio carteri Iredale, 1934 (Bivalvia: Hyriidae), the only freshwater mussel found in …

Using species distribution modelling to identify 'coldspots' for conservation of freshwater fishes under a changing climate

BA Stewart, BM Ford, JA Benson - … Conservation: Marine and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Like other Mediterranean regions, south‐western Australia is predicted to experience an
increase in temperature and drought conditions as a result of climate change, leading to …

What factors influence fin‐nipping damage by the invasive Gambusia holbrooki (Poeciliidae) on native fishes in riverine systems?

SJ Beatty, KO Lear, MG Allen, AJ Lymbery… - Freshwater …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gambusia holbrooki is arguably the most widely introduced and ecologically damaging
freshwater fish in the world. Although aspects of its aggressive behaviour have been studied …

Age and growth in the Australian freshwater mussel, Westralunio carteri, with an evaluation of the fluorochrome calcein for validating the assumption of annulus …

MW Klunzinger, SJ Beatty, DL Morgan… - Freshwater …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Growth and longevity of freshwater mussels (Unionida) are important for defining life-history
strategies and assessing vulnerability to human impacts. We used mark–recapture and …

[图书][B] Adapting to climate change: a risk assessment and decision making framework for managing groundwater dependent ecosystems with declining water levels

JM Chambers, G Nugent, B Sommer… - 2013 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
The objective of this research was to develop and test a risk assessment and
decisionmaking framework for managing groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) with …

[PDF][PDF] The tropical South American cichlid, Geophagus brasiliensis in Mediterranean climatic south-western Australia

SJ Beatty, DL Morgan, J Keleher, MG Allen… - Aquatic …, 2013 - researchgate.net
Abstract The highly endemic (82%) freshwater fishes of south-western Australia are
imperiled due to severe habitat and water quality declines and impacts of introduced …

Macroecological relationships reveal conservation hotspots and extinction‐prone species in A ustralia's freshwater fishes

MC Le Feuvre, T Dempster, JJ Shelley… - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We (1) investigate the relationship between range size and body size for all Australian
freshwater fish,(2) test whether this relationship changes with dispersal capacity,(3) assess …