UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury

Dr Helen Warburton

Contact

Department: School of Biological Sciences ; School of Earth and Environment

Email: helen.warburton@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Beatrice Tinsley Rm 424

Language: English

About

Research / Creative works

Fields of Research

Food web ecology
Freshwater ecosystems, including streams and lakes/ponds
Predator-prey interactions
connections between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems
Restoration

Researcher Summary

My research focuses on understanding the structure and dynamics of communities with the aim of testing and developing ecological theory that is fundamental for the effective management of ecosystems.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Ecology ; Freshwater Ecology

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Barrett IC., McIntosh AR., Febria CM., Graham SE., Burdon FJ., Pomeranz JPF. and Warburton HJ. (2022) Integrative analysis of stressor gradients reveals multiple discrete trait-defined axes underlie community assembly. Ecosphere 13(7) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4164. (Journal Articles)

Gladstone-Gallagher RV., Tylianakis J., Yletyinen J., Dakos V., Douglas EJ., Greenhalgh S., Hewitt J., Hikuroa D., Lade S. and Le Heron R. (2022) Social-ecological connections across land, water, and sea demand a reprioritization of environmental management.. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 10(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00075. (Journal Articles)

Greig HS., McHugh PA., Thompson RM., Warburton HJ. and McIntosh AR. (2022) Habitat size influences community stability. Ecology 103(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3545. (Journal Articles)

Barrett IC., McIntosh AR., Febria CM. and Warburton HJ. (2021) Negative resistance and resilience: Biotic mechanisms underpin delayed biological recovery in stream restoration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1947) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0354. (Journal Articles)

Fraley KM., Warburton HJ., Jellyman PG., Kelly D. and McIntosh AR. (2021) The influence of pastoral and native forest land cover, flooding disturbance, and stream size on the trophic ecology of New Zealand streams. Austral Ecology 46(5): 833-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13028. (Journal Articles)

Hogsden K., O’Brien S., Bartlett S., Warburton H., Devlin H., Collins K., Febria C., Goeller B., McIntosh A. and Harding J. (2021) Riparian plant species offer a range of organic resources to stream invertebrate communities through varied leaf breakdown rates. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2021.2005637. (Journal Articles)

Meijer CG., Warburton HJ. and McIntosh AR. (2021) Disentangling the multiple effects of stream drying and riparian canopy cover on the trophic ecology of a highly threatened fish. Freshwater Biology 66(1): 102-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13620. (Journal Articles)

Moore TP., Febria CM., McIntosh AR., Warburton HJ. and Harding JS. (2021) Benthic Invertebrate Indices Show No Response to High Nitrate-Nitrogen in Lowland Agricultural Streams. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 232(7) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05169-1. (Journal Articles)

White BE., McIntosh AR., Febria CM. and Warburton HJ. (2021) The potential role of biotic interactions in stream restoration. Restoration Ecology 29(5) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.13396. (Journal Articles)

Boddy NC., Fraley KM., Warburton HJ., Jellyman PG., Booker DJ., Kelly D. and McIntosh AR. (2020) Big impacts from small abstractions: The effects of surface water abstraction on freshwater fish assemblages. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 30(1): 159-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3232. (Journal Articles)

Collins KE., Febria CM., Devlin HS., Hogsden KL., Warburton HJ., Goeller BC., McIntosh AR. and Harding JS. (2020) Trialling tools using hand-weeding, weed mat and artificial shading to control nuisance macrophyte growth at multiple scales in small agricultural waterways. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 54(3): 512-526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2020.1722185. (Journal Articles)

Febria CM., Bayfield M., Collins KE., Devlin HS., Goeller BC., Hogsden KL., Warburton HJ., Harding JS. and McIntosh AR. (2020) Partnerships generate co-benefits in agricultural stream restoration (Canterbury, New Zealand). Case Studies in the Environment 4(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2020.1229632. (Journal Articles)

Fraley KM., Warburton HJ., Jellyman PG., Kelly D. and McIntosh AR. (2020) Do body mass and habitat factors predict trophic position in temperate stream fishes? Freshwater Science 39(3): 000-000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/709131. (Journal Articles)

Collins KE., Febria CM., Warburton HJ., Devlin HS., Hogsden KL., Goeller BC., McIntosh AR. and Harding JS. (2019) Evaluating practical macrophyte control tools on small agricultural waterways in Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 53(2): 182-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2018.1487454. (Journal Articles)

Eveleens RA., McIntosh AR. and Warburton HJ. (2019) Interactive community responses to disturbance in streams: disturbance history moderates the influence of disturbance types. Oikos 128: 1170-1181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.05868. (Journal Articles)

Goeller BC., Febria CM., Warburton HJ., Hogsden KL., Collins KE., Devlin HS., Harding JS. and McIntosh AR. (2019) Springs drive downstream nitrate export from artificially-drained agricultural headwater catchments. Science of the Total Environment 671: 119-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.308. (Journal Articles)

Meijer CG., Warburton HJ., Harding JS. and McIntosh AR. (2019) Shifts in population size structure for a drying-tolerant fish in response to extreme drought. Austral Ecology 44(4): 658-667. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12709. (Journal Articles)

Pomeranz JPF., Warburton HJ. and Harding JS. (2019) Anthropogenic mining alters macroinvertebrate size spectra in streams. Freshwater Biology 64(1): 81-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13196. (Journal Articles)

Fraley KM., Warburton HJ., Jellyman PG., Kelly D. and McIntosh AR. (2018) Responsiveness of fish mass–abundance relationships and trophic metrics to flood disturbance, stream size, land cover and predator taxa presence in headwater streams. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 27(4): 999-1014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eff.12410. (Journal Articles)

McIntosh A., McHugh PA., Plank MJ., Jellyman PG., Warburton H. and Greig HS. (2018) Capacity to support predators scales with habitat size. Science Advances 4(7) eaap7523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap7523. (Journal Articles)

O'Brien JM., Warburton HJ., Elizabeth Graham S., Franklin HM., Febria CM., Hogsden KL., Harding JS. and McIntosh AR. (2017) Leaf litter additions enhance stream metabolism, denitrification, and restoration prospects for agricultural catchments. Ecosphere 8(11) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2018. (Journal Articles)

McHugh PA., Thompson RM., Greig HS., Warburton HJ. and McIntosh AR. (2015) Habitat size influences food web structure in drying streams. Ecography 38(7): 700-712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01193. (Journal Articles)

Warburton H. (2015) The Role of Body Size in Predator-prey Interactions and Community Structure. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)

Research Groups

Freshwater Ecology Research Group (FERG)