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List of works by Barbara Downes

A New Method for Characterizing Surface Roughness and Available Space in Biological Systems

scientific article published in 1995

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

scientific article published in 2016

A landscape-scale field experiment reveals the importance of dispersal in a resource-limited metacommunity

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

A test of the preference-performance hypothesis with stream insects: selective oviposition affects the hatching success of caddisfly eggs

scientific article published in 2013

Aquatic versus Terrestrial Insects: Real or Presumed Differences in Population Dynamics?

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Avoidance and aggregation create consistent egg distribution patterns of congeneric caddisflies across spatially variable oviposition landscapes

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

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

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published in 2014

Celebrating women conducting research in freshwater ecology … and how the citation game is damaging them

Changes in male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider (Araneae: Araneidae)

Competition between mobile species using patchy resources: an example from a freshwater, symbiotic assemblage

scientific article published on 01 February 1991

Dispersal of organisms in a patchy stream environment under different settlement scenarios

scientific article published in 2000

Dispersal traits may reflect dispersal distances, but dispersers may not connect populations demographically

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Does dispersal control population densities in advection-dominated systems? A fresh look at critical assumptions and a direct test

scientific article published on 13 October 2009

Drifting or walking? Colonisation routes used by different instars and species of lotic, macroinvertebrate filter feeders

Environmental constraints on oviposition limit egg supply of a stream insect at multiple scales.

scientific article published on 30 January 2010

Environmental cues or conspecific attraction as causes for egg mass aggregation in hydrobiosid caddisflies

article by Paul Reich et al published 15 November 2010 in Hydrobiologia

Estuarine geomorphology and low salinity requirement for fertilisation influence spawning site location in the diadromous fish, Galaxias maculatus

scholarly article by Andy Hicks published in January 2010

Experimental evidence for physical cues involved in oviposition site selection of lotic hydrobiosid caddis flies

scientific article published on 22 May 2003

Flow regulation reduces native plant cover and facilitates exotic invasion in riparian wetlands

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Flow-related disturbance in streams: an experimental test of the role of rock movement in reducing macroinvertebrate population densities

From Insects to Frogs, Egg–Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes

scientific article published in 2021

Guild structure in water mites (Unionicola spp.) inhabiting freshwater mussels: choice, competitive exclusion and sex.

scientific article published in October 1986

Habitat structure, resources and diversity: the separate effects of surface roughness and macroalgae on stream invertebrates.

scientific article published in June 2000

How do we know about resilience? An analysis of empirical research on resilience, and implications for interdisciplinary praxis

Hydrological controls on oviposition habitat are associated with egg‐laying phenology of some caddisflies

Is settlement at small spatial scales by diadromous fishes from the Family Galaxiidae passive or active in a small coastal river?

scholarly article by Robin Hale published in January 2009

Itinerant, nomad or invader? A field experiment sheds light on the characteristics of successful dispersers and colonists

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Large-scale variation in life history traits of the widespread diadromous fish, Galaxias maculatus, reflects geographic differences in local environmental conditions

scholarly article by Nicole C. Barbee published in January 2011

Lasting effects of maternal behaviour on the distribution of a dispersive stream insect.

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Linking landscape patterns of resource distribution with models of aggregation in ovipositing stream insects

scientific article published in 2003

Multiyear resource enrichment creates persistently higher species diversity in a landscape‐scale field experiment

scientific article published in 2021

Population densities and density-area relationships in a community with advective dispersal and variable mosaics of resource patches

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Recruitment of marine invertebrates: the role of active larval choices and early mortality.

scientific article published in September 1982

Restoration ecology in flowing waters — problems and prospects

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

Scale and the detection of land-use effects on morphology, vegetation and macroinvertebrate communities of grassland streams

Separating natural responses from experimental artefacts: habitat selection by a diadromous fish species using odours from conspecifics and natural stream water.

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Spatial and temporal variation in recruitment and its effects on regulation of parasite populations.

scientific article

Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion

article

THE EFFECT OF HYDROLOGICAL DISTURBANCE ON THE IMPACT OF A BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE PREDATOR

scientific article

The independent and interactive effects of fine sediment and flow on benthic invertebrate communities characteristic of small upland streams

The influence of geomorphology and environmental conditions on stratification in Intermittently Open/Closed Estuaries

scientific article published in 2023

Using multi-scale species distribution data to infer drivers of biological invasion in riparian wetlands

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What’s in a site? Variation in lotic macroinvertebrate density and diversity in a spatially replicated experiment

scientific article published in 2000