Evaluating Barriers to Aquatic Invertebrate Dispersal: Weirs and Tributaries in the Montane Rivers of the Australian Alps

Just add water: rapid assembly of new communities in previously dry riverbeds, and limited long-distance effects on existing communities

Andrew J Brooks, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Benjamin Wolfenden

2020-11-11

Barriers preventing species from dispersing to a location can have a major influence on how communities assemble. Dispersal succes..

Evaluating barriers to dispersal: weirs and tributaries in the montane rivers of the Australian Alps

Andrew John Brooks

2020-01-01

Dispersal involves the movement of individuals between established populations or colonisation of uninhabited areas and is a key o..

Just add water. Rapid assembly of new communities below decommissioned diversion weirs, and limited long-distance effects on existing communities

Andrew Brooks, Ben Wolfenden, Barbara Downes, Jill Lancaster

2019-01-01

Conference presentation at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society annual meeting, 2019

Barriers to dispersal: The effect of a weir on stream insect drift

AJ Brooks, B Wolfenden, BJ Downes, J Lancaster

2018-12-01

Dams and weirs degrade river ecosystems, reducing diversity and altering the assemblage composition of aquatic biota. These struct..

Do pools impede drift dispersal by stream insects?

AJ Brooks, B Wolfenden, BJ Downes, J Lancaster

2017-09-01

Drift of stream insects is one of the most ubiquitous forms of downstream dispersal and thought to be a key factor influencing the..