UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury

Miss Helen Janet Warburton

Contact

Department: Biological Sciences

Email: helen.warburton@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695212

Office: Julius von Haast Rm 331

Language: English

About

Research / Creative works

Projects

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

Atkinson CL., Parr TB., van Ee BC., Knapp DD., Winebarger M., Madoni KJ. and Haag WR. (2020) Length-mass equations for freshwater unionid mussel assemblages: Implications for estimating ecosystem function. Freshwater Science 39(3): 377-390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708950. (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)

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)

Meijer CG., Warburton HJ. and McIntosh AR. (2020) Disentangling the multiple effects of stream drying and riparian canopy cover on the trophic ecology of a highly threatened fish. Freshwater Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13620. (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)

Research Projects

Reigniting healthy resilience: Using functional traits to achieve stream restoration