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(Further) links from rocks to plants

scholarly article

<i>Freshwater Biology</i>– looking back, looking forward

scientific article published in 2007

A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels

scientific article

A test of the ideal free distribution with unequal competitors

scientific article published in 1988

A trait-based framework for stream algal communities

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

A truce with neutral theory: local deterministic factors, species traits and dispersal limitation together determine patterns of diversity in stream invertebrates

scientific article published in March 2006

Abundance, diversity, and structure of freshwater invertebrates and fish communities: An artificial neural network approach

scholarly article by Sebastien Brosse et al published March 2001 in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

An Appraisal of the Patch Dynamics Concept in Stream and Marine Benthic Communities Whose Menbers Are Highly Mobile

scientific article published in 1989

Assessment of the Environmental Risk Posed by an Exotic Fish: The Proposed Introduction of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) to New Zealand

scientific article

Can biological traits of stream invertebrates help disentangle the effects of multiple stressors in an agricultural catchment?

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

Climate warming and agricultural stressors interact to determine stream macroinvertebrate community dynamics.

scientific article

Climate warming and agricultural stressors interact to determine stream periphyton community composition.

scientific article

Community structure in some southern English streams: the influence of physicochemical factors

scientific article published in 1983

Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams

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Comparative dietary analysis of a recently described fish species complex (Galaxiidae) in a New Zealand river

scientific article published in 1998

Comparison of structural and functional approaches to determining landuse effects on grassland stream invertebrate communities

Competition for space between introduced brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and a native galaxiid (Galaxias vulgaris Stokell) in a New Zealand stream

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Competition for space by predators in streams: field experiments on a net-spinning caddisfly

scientific article published in 1988

Contrasting predation risks presented by introduced brown trout and native common river galaxias in New Zealand streams

Diet of the crayfishParanephrops zealandicusin bush and pasture streams: Insights from stable isotopes and stomach analysis

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Distribution of four recently discovered galaxiid species in the Taieri River, New Zealand: the role of macrohabitat

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Distribution of the New Zealand crayfishParanephrops zealandicusin relation to stream physico‐chemistry, predatory fish, and invertebrate prey

article

Do different predators affect distance, direction, and destination of movements by a stream mayfly?

scientific article published in 1998

Ecological determinants of parasite acquisition by exotic fish species

article

Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems

book by Michael Begon, Colin Townsend and John Harper

Ecology: individuals, populations, and communities

digital supplement to a book published in 1996

Effects of a natural flood disturbance on species richness and beta diversity of stream benthic diatom communities

scientific article published in 2017

Effects of temperature and water calcium concentration on growth, survival and moulting of freshwater crayfish, Paranephrops zealandicus

Energy availability, spatial heterogeneity and ecosystem size predict food-web structure in streams

scientific article published on 07 December 2004

FLOOD DISTURBANCE REGIMES INFLUENCE RAINBOW TROUT INVASION SUCCESS AMONG FIVE HOLARCTIC REGIONS

scientific article

Finding a niche

scientific article published in Nature

Flood Disturbance Regimes Influence Rainbow Trout Invasion Success among Five Holarctic Regions

article by Kurt D. Fausch et al published October 2001 in Ecological Applications

Foraging in a patchy environment by a predatory net-spinning caddis larva: A test of optimal foraging theory

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Foraging strategies and co-existence in a seasonal environment

scientific article published on 01 January 1979

Fragmented Population Structure in a Native New Zealand Fish: An Effect of Introduced Brown Trout?

scientific article

Functional significance of crayfish in stream food webs: roles of omnivory, substrate heterogeneity and sex

scientific article published in 2002

Habitat-Specific Nitrogen Dynamics in New Zealand Streams Containing Native or Invasive Fish

Impacts of freshwater invaders at different levels of ecological organisation, with emphasis on salmonids and ecosystem consequences

scholarly article by Kevin S. Simon published in June 2003

Impacts of riparian afforestation on stream biofilms: An exotic forest‐native grassland comparison

scholarly article

Individual and combined effects of fine sediment and glyphosate herbicide on invertebrate drift and insect emergence: a stream mesocosm experiment

scientific article published in 2016

Individual and combined effects of fine sediment and the herbicide glyphosate on benthic macroinvertebrates and stream ecosystem function

article published in 2013

Individual and combined effects of fish predation and bed disturbance on stream benthic communities: a streamside channel experiment

scientific article published in 2012

Individual, Population, Community, and Ecosystem Consequences of a Fish Invader in New Zealand Streams

scientific article published in 2003

Interactions between fish, grazing invertebrates and algae in a New Zealand stream: a trophic cascade mediated by fish-induced changes to grazer behaviour?

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Introduced brown trout alter native acanthocephalan infections in native fish

scientific article

Invasion biology and ecological impacts of brown trout Salmo trutta in New Zealand

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Invertebrate Predation on Patchy and Mobile Prey in Streams

scientific article published in 1991

Invertebrate community responses to land use at a broad spatial scale: trait and taxonomic measures compared in New Zealand rivers

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Investigating anti‐predator behaviour in three genetically differentiated populations of non‐rnigratory galaxiid fishes in a New Zealand river

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

John Lander Harper. 27 May 1925—22 March 2009

scientific article published on 30 June 2021

Landuse intensity in stream catchments affects the benthic food web: consequences for nutrient supply, periphyton C:nutrient ratios, and invertebrate richness and abundance

scientific article published in September 2012

Land‐use influences on New Zealand stream communities: Effects on species composition, functional organisation, and food‐web structure

scientific article published in 2004

Light, nutrients and grazing interact to determine diatom species richness via changes to productivity, nutrient state and grazer activity

scientific article published in March 2009

Light, nutrients and grazing interact to determine stream diatom community composition and functional group structure

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Local disturbance history and habitat parameters influence the microdistribution of stream invertebrates

scientific article published in 2006

Long-term effects of local disturbance history on mobile stream invertebrates

scientific article

Longitudinal pattern in detritivore communities of acid streams: A consideration of alternative hypotheses

scientific article published in 1984

Macroinvertebrate responses along broad stressor gradients of deposited fine sediment and dissolved nutrients: a stream mesocosm experiment

scientific article published in 2012

Molecular characterization of Giardia isolates from calves and humans in a region in which dairy farming has recently intensified

scientific article published on 20 June 2008

Multiple stressors in agricultural streams: a mesocosm study of interactions among raised water temperature, sediment addition and nutrient enrichment

scientific article

Native fish avoid parasite spillback from multiple exotic hosts: consequences of host density and parasite competency

On the defence strategy of Physa fontinalis (L.), a freshwater pulmonate snail

scientific article published on 01 July 1980

Parasite spillback: a neglected concept in invasion ecology?

scientific article published on August 2009

Parthenogenetic lizards as vertebrate systems.

scientific article

Parthenogenetic reptiles: new subjects for laboratory research

scientific article published on March 15, 1977

Patterns of benthic algae and cyanobacteria along twin-stressor gradients of nutrients and fine sediment: a stream mesocosm experiment

scientific article published in 2013

Predators and Prey in a Patchy Environment: A Freshwater Study

scientific article published in 1982

Prevalence of Giardia and Cryptosporidium spp in calves from a region in New Zealand experiencing intensification of dairying

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Pure and applied - the end of the divide

scientific article

Quantifying Disturbance in Streams: Alternative Measures of Disturbance in Relation to Macroinvertebrate Species Traits and Species Richness

scientific article published on 08 May 2006

ROLES OF CRAYFISH: CONSEQUENCES OF PREDATION AND BIOTURBATION FOR STREAM INVERTEBRATES

scientific article published in 2004

Recently planted vegetation strips reduce Giardia runoff reaching waterways

scientific article

Reciprocal interactions between roach, <i>Rutilus rutilus</i>, and zooplankton in a small lake: Prey dynamics and fish growth and recruitment1

scientific article published in 1986

Reconceptualizing synergism and antagonism among multiple stressors.

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Relative competence of native and exotic fish hosts for two generalist native trematodes

scientific article published on 02 April 2013

Reproductive biology, species status and taxonomic relationships of four recently discovered galaxiid fishes in a New Zealand river

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Resistance, resilience, and patchiness of invertebrate assemblages in native tussock and pasture streams in New Zealand after a hydrological disturbance

Resource Partitioning by Two Freshwater Invertebrate Predators with Contrasting Foraging Strategies

scientific article published in 1979

Responses of stream fish populations to farming intensity and water abstraction in an agricultural catchment

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Responses of stream macroinvertebrates and ecosystem function to conventional, integrated and organic farming

scientific article published in 2010

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

Scale-dependence of land use effects on water quality of streams in agricultural catchments

Scales and Causes of Patchiness in Stream Invertebrate Assemblages: Top-down Predator Effects?

scientific article published in 1997

Scientific uncertainty and the assessment of risks posed by non-native freshwater fishes

Sedimentation effects on the benthos of streams and estuaries: a cross-ecosystem comparison

scientific article published in 2011

Size‐related impacts of introduced brown trout on the distribution of native common river galaxias

Social behavior in the freshwater pulmonate snail Biomphalaria glabrata (Say)

scientific article published on 01 December 1973

Spatial and temporal patterns of Campylobacter contamination underlying public health risk in the Taieri River, New Zealand

scientific article published in September 2003

Spatial distribution of zooplankton in a shallow eutrophic lake, with a discussion of its relation to fish predation

scientific article published in 1988

Species traits in relation to a habitat templet for river systems

scientific article published on 30 May 2006

Species traits in relation to temporal and spatial heterogeneity in streams: a test of habitat templet theory

scientific article published on 02 November 2003

Stepping in Elton's footprints: a general scaling model for body masses and trophic levels across ecosystems

scientific article published on 27 December 2010

Strategic aspects of time allocation in the ecology of a freshwater pulmonate snail

scientific article published in June 1975

Stream communities along a catchment land-use gradient: subsidy-stress responses to pastoral development

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Stream community structure in relation to spatial and temporal variation: a habitat templet study of two contrasting New Zealand streams

scientific article published in 1993

Stream flow and predation effects on the spatial dynamics of benthic invertebrates

scientific article published in 1990

Synergistic effects of glyphosate formulation and parasite infection on fish malformations and survival

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The Distribution of Two Predators and their Prey in an Iron Rich Stream

scientific article published in 1976

The Effect of Seasonal Variation on the Community Structure and Food-Web Attributes of Two Streams: Implications for Food-Web Science

scientific article published on 02 February 2007

The Patch Dynamics Concept of Stream Community Ecology

scientific article published on 08 May 2006

The cost of copepod reproduction: increased susceptibility to fish predation

scientific article published on 01 December 1983

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

scientific article published on 10 March 2023

The impact of introduced brown and rainbow trout on native fish: the case of Australasia

article by Todd A. Crowl et al published September 1992 in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

The influence of light level on the functional response of a zooplanktonivorous fish

scientific article published on 01 June 1982

The influence of scale and geography on relationships between stream community composition and landscape variables: description and prediction

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The influence of substrate on the functional response of Plectrocnemia conspersa (Curtis) larvae (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae)

scientific article published on 01 January 1977

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis, refugia, and biodiversity in streams

scientific article published in 1997

The retention of woody debris structures in a small stream following a large flood

scholarly article

The sublittoral macrobenthic community composition of Lough Hyne, Ireland

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Theoretical habitat templets, species traits, and species richness: a synthesis of long-term ecological research on the Upper Rhone River in the context of concurrently developed ecological theory

scientific article published on 30 May 2006

Trophic cascades in streams: effects of nutrient enrichment on autotrophic and consumer benthic communities under two different fish predation regimes

Trophic cascades in streams: effects of nutrient enrichment on autotrophic and consumer benthic communities under two different fish predation regimes

scientific article published in 2000

Umweltschäden

Understanding the combined influence of fine sediment and glyphosate herbicide on stream periphyton communities

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Using native riparian barriers to reduce Giardia in agricultural runoff to freshwater ecosystems

scientific article published on 27 April 2010

Ökologie

scholarly article