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Dr Jonathan Tonkin

Contact

Department: School of Biological Sciences

Email: jonathan.tonkin@canterbury.ac.nz

Office: Julius von Haast - Room 331

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works

Researcher Summary

For more details, please see https://tonkinlab.org

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Biodiversity/Conservation; Ecology; Freshwater Ecology

Prizes and Awards

  • New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society Early Career Researcher Award ( 2018 - present )

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Chapters
  • Tonkin J. (2022) Climate Change and Extreme Events in Shaping River Ecosystems. In Tockner K; Mehner T (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition) (2 ed.): 653-664.Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819166-8.00140-7.
Additional Publications
  • Datry T., Truchy A., Olden JD., Busch MH., Stubbington R., Dodds WK., Zipper S., Yu S., Messager ML. and Tonkin JD. (2023) Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks. BioScience 73(1): 9-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac098.
  • Grigoropoulou A., Hamid SA., Acosta R., Akindele EO., Al-Shami SA., Altermatt F., Amatulli G., Angeler DG., Arimoro FO. and Aroviita J. (2023) The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(5): 642-655. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13648.
  • Halpern BS., Boettiger C., Dietze MC., Gephart JA., Gonzalez P., Grimm NB., Groffman PM., Gurevitch J., Hobbie SE. and Komatsu KJ. (2023) Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science. Ecosphere 14(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4342.
  • Koerich G., Fraser CI., Lee CK., Morgan FJ. and Tonkin JD. (2023) Forecasting the future of life in Antarctica. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38(1): 24-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.07.009.
  • Lewis ASL., Rollinson CR., Allyn AJ., Ashander J., Brodie S., Brookson CB., Collins E., Dietze MC., Gallinat AS. and Juvigny-Khenafou N. (2023) The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(3): 746-756. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13955.
  • Li Z., Tonkin JD., Meng X., Liu Z., Zhang J., Chen X., Xie Z. and Heino J. (2022) Seasonal variation in the metacommunity structure of benthic macroinvertebrates in a large river-connected floodplain lake. Ecological Indicators 136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108662.
  • Maasri A., Jähnig SC., Adamescu MC., Adrian R., Baigun C., Baird DJ., Batista-Morales A., Bonada N., Brown LE. and Cai Q. (2022) A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research. Ecology Letters 25(2): 255-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13931.
  • Mouton TL., Leprieur F., Floury M., Stephenson F., Verburg P. and Tonkin JD. (2022) Climate and land-use driven reorganisation of structure and function in river macroinvertebrate communities. Ecography 2022(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06148.
  • Mouton TL., Stephenson F., Torres LG., Rayment W., Brough T., McLean M., Tonkin JD., Albouy C. and Leprieur F. (2022) Spatial mismatch in diversity facets reveals contrasting protection for New Zealand's cetacean biodiversity. Biological Conservation 267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109484.
  • Stein ED., Horne AC., Tharme RE. and Tonkin J. (2022) Editorial: Environmental flows in an uncertain future. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1070364.
  • Abernethy EF., Muehlbauer JD., Kennedy TA., Tonkin JD., Van Driesche R. and Lytle DA. (2021) Hydropeaking intensity and dam proximity limit aquatic invertebrate diversity in the Colorado River Basin. Ecosphere 12(6) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3559.
  • Graham EB., Averill C., Bond-Lamberty B., Knelman JE., Krause S., Peralta AL., Shade A., Smith AP., Cheng SJ. and Fanin N. (2021) Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.588940.
  • Jähnig SC., Baranov V., Altermatt F., Cranston P., Friedrichs-Manthey M., Geist J., He F., Heino J., Hering D. and Hölker F. (2021) Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 8(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1506.
  • Koerich G., Costa GB., Sissini MN., Ortiz CL., Canever BF., Oliveira W., Tonkin JD. and Horta PA. (2021) Physiology, niche characteristics and extreme events: Current and future habitat suitability of a rhodolith-forming species in the Southwestern Atlantic. Marine Environmental Research 169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105394.
  • Lamy T., Wisnoski NI., Andrade R., Castorani MCN., Compagnoni A., Lany N., Marazzi L., Record S., Swan CM. and Tonkin JD. (2021) The dual nature of metacommunity variability. Oikos 130(12): 2078-2092. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.08517.
  • Li Z., Chen X., Jiang X., Tonkin JD., Xie Z. and Heino J. (2021) Distance decay of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a mountain river network: Do dispersal routes and dispersal ability matter? Science of the Total Environment 758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143630.
  • Patrick CJ., Anderson KE., Brown BL., Hawkins CP., Metcalfe A., Saffarinia P., Siqueira T., Swan CM., Tonkin JD. and Yuan LL. (2021) The application of metacommunity theory to the management of riverine ecosystems. WIREs Water 8(6): e1557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1557.
  • Record S., Voelker NM., Zarnetske PL., Wisnoski NI., Tonkin JD., Swan C., Marazzi L., Lany N., Lamy T. and Compagnoni A. (2021) Novel Insights to Be Gained From Applying Metacommunity Theory to Long-Term, Spatially Replicated Biodiversity Data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.612794.
  • Tonkin JD., Olden JD., Merritt DM., Reynolds LV., Rogosch JS. and Lytle DA. (2021) Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19(6): 326-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2348.
  • Li F., Tonkin JD. and Haase P. (2020) Local contribution to beta diversity is negatively linked with community-wide dispersal capacity in stream invertebrate communities. Ecological Indicators 108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105715.
  • Li M., Liu J., Tonkin JD., Shen J., Xiao N. and Wang J. (2020) The effects of abiotic and biotic factors on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of stream epilithic bacteria around Qiandao Lake. Aquatic Sciences 82(4) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00027-020-00746-8.
  • Mouton TL., Tonkin JD., Stephenson F., Verburg P. and Floury M. (2020) Increasing climate-driven taxonomic homogenization but functional differentiation among river macroinvertebrate assemblages. Global Change Biology 26(12): 6904-6915. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15389.
  • Sundar S., Heino J., Roque FDO., Simaika JP., Melo AS., Tonkin JD., Gomes Nogueira D. and Silva DP. (2020) Conservation of freshwater macroinvertebrate biodiversity in tropical regions. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 30(6): 1238-1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3326.
  • Haase P., Pilotto F., Li F., Sundermann A., Lorenz AW., Tonkin JD. and Stoll S. (2019) Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities. Science of the Total Environment 658: 1531-1538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.234.
  • Jourdan J., Plath M., Tonkin JD., Ceylan M., Dumeier AC., Gellert G., Graf W., Hawkins CP., Kiel E. and Lorenz AW. (2019) Reintroduction of freshwater macroinvertebrates: challenges and opportunities. Biological Reviews 94(2): 368-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12458.
  • Pilotto F., Tonkin JD., Januschke K., Lorenz AW., Jourdan J., Sundermann A., Hering D., Stoll S. and Haase P. (2019) Diverging response patterns of terrestrial and aquatic species to hydromorphological restoration. Conservation Biology 33(1): 132-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13176.
  • Rogosch JS., Tonkin JD., Lytle DA., Merritt DM., Reynolds LV. and Olden JD. (2019) Increasing drought favors nonnative fishes in a dryland river: evidence from a multispecies demographic model. Ecosphere 10(4) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2681.
  • Tiegs SD., Costello DM., Isken MW., Woodward G., McIntyre PB., Gessner MO., Chauvet E., Griffiths NA., Flecker AS. and Acuña V. (2019) Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. Science Advances 5(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav0486.
  • Tonkin JD., Poff NLR., Bond NR., Horne A., Merritt DM., Reynolds LV., Olden JD., Ruhi A. and Lytle DA. (2019) Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future. Nature 570(7761): 301-303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01877-1.
  • Yuan T., Vadde KK., Tonkin JD., Wang J., Lu J., Zhang Z., Zhang Y., McCarthy AJ. and Sekar R. (2019) Urbanization impacts the physicochemical characteristics and abundance of fecal markers and bacterial pathogens in surface water. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(10) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101739.
  • Dalu T., Magoro ML., Tonkin JD., Human LRD., Perissinotto R., Deyzel SHP., Adams JB. and Whitfield AK. (2018) Assessing phytoplankton composition and structure within micro-estuaries and micro-outlets: a community analysis approach. Hydrobiologia 818(1): 177-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3605-0.
  • Haase P., Tonkin JD., Stoll S., Burkhard B., Frenzel M., Geijzendorffer IR., Häuser C., Klotz S., Kühn I. and McDowell WH. (2018) The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity. Science of the Total Environment 613-614: 1376-1384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.111.
  • Jourdan J., O'Hara RB., Bottarin R., Huttunen KL., Kuemmerlen M., Monteith D., Muotka T., Ozoliņš D., Paavola R. and Pilotto F. (2018) Effects of changing climate on European stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis. Science of the Total Environment 621: 588-599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.242.
  • Li F., Tonkin JD. and Haase P. (2018) Dispersal capacity and broad-scale landscape structure shape benthic invertebrate communities along stream networks. Limnologica 71: 68-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2018.06.003.
  • Tonkin JD., Altermatt F., Finn DS., Heino J., Olden JD., Pauls SU. and Lytle DA. (2018) The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways. Freshwater Biology 63(1): 141-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13037.
  • Tonkin JD., Death RG., Muotka T., Astorga A. and Lytle DA. (2018) Do latitudinal gradients exist in New Zealand stream invertebrate metacommunities? PeerJ 2018(5) http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4898.
  • Tonkin JD., Heino J. and Altermatt F. (2018) Metacommunities in river networks: The importance of network structure and connectivity on patterns and processes. Freshwater Biology 63(1): 1-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13045.
  • Tonkin JD., Merritt DM., Olden JD., Reynolds LV. and Lytle DA. (2018) Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2(1): 86-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0379-0.
  • Wetzel FT., Bingham HC., Groom Q., Haase P., Kõljalg U., Kuhlmann M., Martin CS., Penev L., Robertson T. and Saarenmaa H. (2018) Unlocking biodiversity data: Prioritization and filling the gaps in biodiversity observation data in Europe. Biological Conservation 221: 78-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.024.
  • Wetzel FT., Schmeller DS., Bingham HC., Groom Q., Haase P., Kõljalg U., Kuhlmann M., Martin CS., Penev L. and Robertson T. (2018) Real gaps in European bird monitoring: A reply to Voříšek et al.. Biological Conservation 225: 247-248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.07.002.
  • Dalu T., Wasserman RJ., Tonkin JD., Alexander ME., Dalu MTB., Motitsoe SN., Manungo KI., Bepe O. and Dube T. (2017) Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highland streams: An exploration using multivariate analysis. Science of the Total Environment 601-602: 1340-1348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.023.
  • Dalu T., Wasserman RJ., Tonkin JD., Mwedzi T., Magoro ML. and Weyl OLF. (2017) Water or sediment? Partitioning the role of water column and sediment chemistry as drivers of macroinvertebrate communities in an austral South African stream. Science of the Total Environment 607-608: 317-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.267.
  • Höckendorff S., Tonkin JD., Haase P., Bunzel-Drüke M., Zimball O., Scharf M. and Stoll S. (2017) Characterizing fish responses to a river restoration over 21 years based on species’ traits. Conservation Biology 31(5): 1098-1108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12908.
  • Jähnig SC., Tonkin JD., Gies M., Domisch S., Hering D. and Haase P. (2017) Severity multipliers as a methodology to explore potential effects of climate change on stream bioassessment programs. Water (Switzerland) 9(4) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9040188.
  • Lytle DA., Merritt DM., Tonkin JD., Olden JD. and Reynolds LV. (2017) Linking river flow regimes to riparian plant guilds: A community-wide modeling approach. Ecological Applications 27(4): 1338-1350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.1528.
  • McMullen LE., De Leenheer P., Tonkin JD. and Lytle DA. (2017) High mortality and enhanced recovery: modelling the countervailing effects of disturbance on population dynamics. Ecology Letters 20(12): 1566-1575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12866.
  • Stoll S., Hormel N., Früh D. and Tonkin JD. (2017) Effects of Chaetogaster limnaei limnaei (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) on freshwater snail communities. Hydrobiologia 785(1): 101-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2909-1.
  • Tonkin JD., Bogan MT., Bonada N., Rios-Touma B. and Lytle DA. (2017) Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity. Ecology 98(5): 1201-1216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1761.
  • Tonkin JD., Tachamo Shah RD., Shah DN., Hoppeler F., J�hnig SC. and Pauls SU. (2017) Metacommunity structuring in Himalayan streams over large elevational gradients: the role of dispersal routes and niche characteristics. Journal of Biogeography 44(1): 62-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12895.
  • Hoppeler F., Tachamo Shah RD., Shah DN., Jähnig SC., Tonkin JD., Sharma S. and Pauls SU. (2016) Environmental and spatial characterisation of an unknown fauna using DNA sequencing – an example with Himalayan Hydropsychidae (Insecta: Trichoptera). Freshwater Biology 61(11): 1905-1920. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12824.
  • Leps M., Sundermann A., Tonkin JD., Lorenz AW. and Haase P. (2016) Time is no healer: Increasing restoration age does not lead to improved benthic invertebrate communities in restored river reaches. Science of the Total Environment 557-558: 722-732. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.120.
  • Stoll S., Breyer P., Tonkin JD., Früh D. and Haase P. (2016) Scale-dependent effects of river habitat quality on benthic invertebrate communities - Implications for stream restoration practice. Science of the Total Environment 553: 495-503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.126.
  • Tonkin JD., Arimoro FO. and Haase P. (2016) Exploring stream communities in a tropical biodiversity hotspot: biodiversity, regional occupancy, niche characteristics and environmental correlates. Biodiversity and Conservation 25(5): 975-993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1101-2.
  • Tonkin JD., Heino J., Sundermann A., Haase P. and Jähnig SC. (2016) Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities. Freshwater Biology 61(5): 607-620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12728.
  • Tonkin JD., Stoll S., Jähnig SC. and Haase P. (2016) Anthropogenic land-use stress alters community concordance at the river-riparian interface. Ecological Indicators 65: 133-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.037.
  • Tonkin JD., Stoll S., Jähnig SC. and Haase P. (2016) Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic-floodplain system. Oikos 125(5): 686-697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.02717.
  • Tonkin JD., Stoll S., Jähnig SC. and Haase P. (2016) Elements of metacommunity structure of river and riparian assemblages: Communities, taxonomic groups and deconstructed trait groups. Ecological Complexity 25: 35-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2015.12.002.
  • Chappell EM., Webb DS., Brown AJ. and Tonkin JD. (2015) A preliminary survey of altitudinal variation in two ground wētā species, Hemiandrus maculifrons (Walker) and Hemiandrus pallitarsis (Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Entomologist 38(1): 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2014.922234.
  • Jähnig SC., Shah DN., Tachamo Shah RD., Li F., Cai Q., Sundermann A., Tonkin JD. and Stendera S. (2015) Community–environment relationships of riverine invertebrate communities in central Chinese streams. Environmental Earth Sciences 74(8): 6431-6442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4466-8.
  • Leps M., Tonkin JD., Dahm V., Haase P. and Sundermann A. (2015) Disentangling environmental drivers of benthic invertebrate assemblages: The role of spatial scale and riverscape heterogeneity in a multiple stressor environment. Science of the Total Environment 536: 546-556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.083.
  • Shah DN., Tonkin JD., Haase P. and Jähnig SC. (2015) Latitudinal patterns and large-scale environmental determinants of stream insect richness across Europe. Limnologica 55: 33-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2015.11.001.
  • Tonkin JD., Brown A. and Chappell EM. (2015) Small-scale patch complexity, benthic invertebrate colonisation and leaf breakdown in three headwater streams in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 49(2): 159-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2014.980748.
  • Tonkin JD., Shah DN., Kuemmerlen M., Li F., Cai Q., Haase P. and Jähnig SC. (2015) Climatic and catchment-scale predictors of Chinese stream insect richness differ between taxonomic groups. PLoS ONE 10(4) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123250.
  • Tonkin JD., Sundermann A., Jähnig SC. and Haase P. (2015) Environmental controls on river assemblages at the regional scale: An application of the elements of metacommunity structure framework. PLoS ONE 10(8) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135450.
  • Chappell EM., Webb DS. and Tonkin JD. (2014) Notes on sexual size dimorphism, sex ratio and movements of adult ground weta Hemiandrus maculifrons (Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Entomologist 37(2): 83-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2013.856377.
  • David BO., Tonkin JD., Taipeti KWT. and Hokianga HT. (2014) Learning the ropes: Mussel spat ropes improve fish and shrimp passage through culverts. Journal of Applied Ecology 51(1): 214-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12178.
  • Tonkin JD. (2014) Drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure in unmodified streams. PeerJ 2014(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.465.
  • Tonkin JD. and Death RG. (2014) The combined effects of flow regulation and an artificial flow release on a regulated river. River Research and Applications 30(3): 329-337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rra.2650.
  • Tonkin JD., Death RG. and Barquín J. (2014) Periphyton control on stream invertebrate diversity: Is periphyton architecture more important than biomass? Marine and Freshwater Research 65(9): 818-829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF13271.
  • Tonkin JD., Jähnig SC. and Haase P. (2014) The rise of riverine flow-ecology and environmental flow research. Environmental Processes 1(3): 323-330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40710-014-0024-8.
  • Tonkin JD., Stoll S., Sundermann A. and Haase P. (2014) Dispersal distance and the pool of taxa, but not barriers, determine the colonisation of restored river reaches by benthic invertebrates. Freshwater Biology 59(9): 1843-1855. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12387.
  • Tonkin JD. and Death RG. (2013) Macroinvertebrate drift-benthos trends in a regulated river. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 182(3): 231-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/1863-9135/2013/0404.
  • Tonkin JD. and Death RG. (2013) Scale dependent effects of productivity and disturbance on diversity in streams. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 182(4): 283-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/1863-9135/2013/0402.
  • Tonkin JD., Death RG. and Barquín J. (2013) Productivity-diversity relationships for stream invertebrates differ geographically. Aquatic Ecology 47(1): 109-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10452-013-9429-0.
  • Tonkin JD., Death RG. and Collier KJ. (2013) Do productivity and disturbance interact to modulate macroinvertebrate diversity in streams? Hydrobiologia 701(1): 159-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1248-0.
  • Schwendel AC., Death RG., Fuller IC. and Tonkin JD. (2012) A new approach to assess bed stability relevant for invertebrate communities in upland streams. River Research and Applications 28(10): 1726-1739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rra.1570.
  • Tonkin JD. and Death RG. (2012) Consistent effects of productivity and disturbance on diversity between landscapes. Ecosphere 3(11): art108-art108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/es12-00243.1.
  • Tonkin JD., Wright LAH. and David BO. (2012) Mussel spat ropes assist redfin bully Gobiomorphus huttoni passage through experimental culverts with velocity barriers. Water 4(3): 683-689. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w4030683.
  • Tonkin JD., Wright LAH. and David BO. (2012) Mussel Spat Ropes Assist Redfin Bully Gobiomorphus huttoni Passage through Experimental Culverts with Velocity Barriers. Water 4(3): 713-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w4030713.
  • Collier KJ., Aldridge BMTA., Hicks BJ., Kelly J., Macdonald A., Smith BJ. and Tonkin J. (2009) Ecological values of Hamilton urban streams (North Island, New Zealand): Constraints and opportunities for restoration. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 33(2): 177-189.
  • Tonkin JD., Death RG. and Joy MK. (2009) Invertebrate drift patterns in a regulated river: Dams, periphyton biomass or longitudinal patterns? River Research and Applications 25(10): 1219-1231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rra.1213.

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