Jian Yen

Lifetime movement history is associated with variable growth of a potamodromous freshwater fish

Joshua S Barrow, Jian DL Yen, John D Koehn, Brenton P Zampatti, Jason D Thiem, Zeb Tonkin, Arron Strawbridge, John R Morrongiello

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Directional or stabilising selection should drive the expression of a dominant movement phenotype within a population. Widespread ..

Underlying trends confound estimates of fish population responses to river discharge

Jian DL Yen, Jim R Thomson, Jarod P Lyon, Wayne M Koster, Adrian Kitchingman, Scott Raymond, Kasey Stamation, Zeb Tonkin

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Conservation management of freshwater ecosystems often focuses on mitigating or reversing the negative effects of altered patterns..

Elevated river discharge enhances the immigration of juvenile catadromous and amphidromous fishes into temperate coastal rivers

Frank Amtstaetter, Jian DL Yen, Robin Hale, Wayne Koster, Justin O'Connor, Ivor Stuart, Zeb Tonkin

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Anthropogenic alterations to river flow regimes threaten freshwater biodiversity globally, with potentially disproportionate impac..

Assessing the accuracy of density-independent demographic models for predicting species ranges

Matthew H Holden, Jian DL Yen, Natalie J Briscoe, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Peter A Vesk, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOGRAPHY

Accurately predicting species ranges is a primary goal of ecology. Demographic distribution models (DDMs), which correlate underly..

Using multiple sources during reintroduction of a locally extinct population benefits survival and reproduction of an endangered freshwater fish

Maiko L Lutz, Zeb Tonkin, Jian DL Yen, Glen Johnson, Brett A Ingram, Joanne Sharley, Jarod Lyon, David G Chapple, Paul Sunnucks, Alexandra Pavlova

Journal article  |  2020  |  EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS

Through using different sources, population reintroductions can create genetically diverse populations at low risk of harmful inbr..

Increasing early life growth of hatchery-reared freshwater fish can improve stocking outcomes

Joshua S Barrow, Jian DL Yen, John D Koehn, John R Morrongiello

Journal article  |  2020  |  MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Stock enhancement is an important tool used to rebuild depleted fish populations or enhance recreational fishing. Hatchery-reared ..

Ecological and life-history traits may say little about birds' vulnerability to high-amplitude climatic fluctuations

Ralph Mac Nally, Gregory FB Horrocks, Joanne M Bennett, Jian DL Yen, Katherine E Selwood, James R Thomson, Hania Lada

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Species-specific ‘resistance’ to impacts, such as accelerated climate change, and ‘resilience’ (if pressures are released), have i..

Plant resprouting: How many sprouts and how deep? Flexible modelling of multi-species experimental disturbances

Peter A Vesk, Jian DL Yen

Journal article  |  2019  |  PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Plants can respond to damage through regrowth from meristematic tissue, commonly concentrated in buds. Knowledge of the distributi..

Lifetime Fitness Costs of Inbreeding and Being Inbred in a Critically Endangered Bird

Katherine A Harrisson, Michael JL Magrath, Jian DL Yen, Alexandra Pavlova, Neil Murray, Bruce Quin, Peter Menkhorst, Kimberly A Miller, Karina Cartwright, Paul Sunnucks

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reduced fitness as a result of inbreeding is a major threat facing many species of conservation concern [1-4]. However, few case s..

Influence of climate on individual tree growth and carbon sequestration in native-tree plantings

Hania Lada, Jian DL Yen, Shaun C Cunningham, Katherine E Selwood, Phillip Falcke, Jarrod C Hodgson, Ralph Mac Nally

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Native ecosystems face challenges of past and ongoing human actions, including vegetation clearance and climate change arising fro..