Wim Bovill

A novel method reveals how channel retentiveness and stocks of detritus (CPOM) vary among streams differing in bed roughness

William D Bovill, Barbara J Downes, PS Lake

Journal article  |  2020  |  Freshwater Biology

1. Coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM) is a fundamental resource in freshwater streams, providing food, shelter and habitat f..

Estimation of surface dead fine fuel moisture using automated fuel moisture sticks across a range of forests worldwide

Jane G Cawson, Petter Nyman, Christian Schunk, Gary J Sheridan, Thomas J Duff, Kelsy Gibos, William D Bovill, Marco Conedera, Gianni B Pezzatti, Annette Menzel

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Wildland Fire

Field measurements of surface dead fine fuel moisture content (FFMC) are integral to wildfire management, but conventional measure..

Corrigendum to: Estimation of surface dead fine fuel moisture using automated fuel moisture sticks across a range of forests worldwide

Jane G Cawson, Petter Nyman, Christian Schunk, Gary J Sheridan, Thomas J Duff, Kelsy Gibos, William D Bovill, Marco Conedera, Gianni B Pezzatti, Annette Menzel

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Wildland Fire

Field measurements of surface dead fine fuel moisture content (FFMC) are integral to wildfire management, but conventional measure..

Variations in fecundity over catchment scales: Implications for caddisfly populations spanning a thermal gradient

William D Bovill, Barbara J Downes, Jill Lancaster

Journal article  |  2019  |  FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Population sizes of stream insects depend on the number of eggs that enter the benthos. Densities of oviposited eggs have been lin..

Species-specific prevalence of mermithid parasites in populations of six congeneric host caddisflies of Ecnomus McLachlan, 1864 (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae)

William Bovill, Jill Lancaster

Journal article  |  2017  |  Aquatic Insects

Mermithid nematodes are entomophagous parasites and, despite being present in diverse aquatic insects, studies of caddisflies acti..

A fresh approach reveals how dispersal shapes metacommunity structure in a human-altered landscape

Barbara J Downes, Jill Lancaster, Alena Glaister, William D Bovill

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

To understand species losses from disturbed landscapes, it is important to distinguish the effects of degraded environmental condi..

Caddisfly egg mass morphology mediates egg predation: potential costs to individuals and populations

William D Bovill, Barbara J Downes, Jill Lancaster

Journal article  |  2015  |  FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Egg predation is seldom considered in life-history studies of freshwater insects, but could be an important source of mortality wi..

Effectiveness of automated fuelsticks for predicting the moisture content of dead fuels in Eucalyptus forests

W Bovill, S Hawthorne, J Radic, C Baillie, A Ashton, P Noske, P Lane, G Sheridan

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  21ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION (MODSIM2015)

The fuel moisture content (FMC) of forest litter strongly affects fire ignition and behaviour, and is a key factor in planning whe..

Measurement of topographic controls on the moisture content of surface fuels in south east Australian forests

Petter Nyman, Craig Baillie, William Bovill, Patrick Lane, Kevin Tolhurst, Tom Duff, Gary Sheridan

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  21ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION (MODSIM2015)

Prediction of fuel moisture content (FMC) is important for estimating the rate of spread of wildfires, the ignition probability of..

Effectiveness of automated fuelsticks for planning prescribed burns: a preliminary evaluation of fuel moisture data from a trial monitoring network.

W Bovill, J Radic, A Ashton, P LANE, G Sheridan

Conference Proceedings  |  2015