Tuesday, 3rd December Australian Society for Limnology Congress 2013

• Invasion ecology – from stream theory to conservation practice - Colin Townsend

• River metabolism and biofilm response to flooding and allochthonous carbon inputs in a lowland river - Robert Cook
• Fungal community dynamics and leaf litter decomposition in Australian alpine streams - Stephanie G Suter
• Root-zones of wetland plants - hot spots for nitrogen removal? - Mike Grace
• Spatial variation of biogeochemical tracers across an arid-zone catchment - Jordan Iles
• Assessing the impact of multiple stressors on wetland ecosystem function - Teresa J Mackintosh
• Evaluation of a Dissolved Oxygen sensor network recently installed to improve monitoring of low oxygen levels in environmental and natural flows within the Riverina and Sunraysia areas of NSW. - Gerhard Schulz

• Do freshwater metacommunities in the Arid Zone function as meta-food webs? - Clarissa Barbosa
• CONTRASTING REFUGE USE AS A RESPONSE TO DRYING BY AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES IN SEMI-ARID AND TEMPERATE CREEKS - Sylvia Hay
• Meta-population dynamics in zooplankton communities: untangling the role of parasites, predators, and food availability - Amanda Valois
• Microrefuges for invertebrates in a wetland in response to drying. - Scott R Strachan
• Identifying Climate Change refuges for freshwater biodiversity across Australia - Cassandra James

• Landscape-scale hazards to wetlands: pressure characterisation - Bill Senior
• Assessing the Impact of Longwall Coal Mining on the Hydrology of Upland Swamps of the Woronora Plateau, New South Wales - Martin Krogh
• Tasmanian wetlands – a reference condition approach for wetland assessment using macroinvertebrates. - Toni Furlonge
• A comparison of remote camera and on-ground detection methods for determining water bird species presence - Kelsie Redman
• Extreme events and the increasing risk of contamination of urban waterways and wetlands - Jenny A Davis
• Integration of wetlands into the Hydrogeological Landscapes Framework for the southern tablelands of southeast NSW - Alison Cowood

• Can the freshwater bivalve Hyridella depressa be used as a bioindicator to evaluate the health status of the mine polluted Molonglo River, New South Wales, Australia? - Chamani P.M. Marasinghe Wadige
• Five benefits of incorporating DNA-barcode data into research and monitoring programs. - Michael Shackleton
• Developing a Species At Risk (SPEAR) index, a trait-based biomonitoring approach, to detect the impact of low flows on south-east Australian rivers - Daniela P Cortez

• The status of free flowing rivers in Australia - Janet Stein
• Predicting ecological responses to dry season water extraction in rivers of the wet/dry tropics – setting the research and monitoring agenda - Alison King
• Prioritising the conservation management of Great Artesian Basin desert springs. - Nick Murphy
• Ecological connectivity and environmental flows: thresholds for reconnection of wetlands and channels - Kim M Jenkins
• Can Extreme Hydrological Events Rejuvenate Reservoir GHG Emissions? - Brad Sherman
• Development of an Integrated Ecosystem Condition Assessment to meet the challenges of adaptive management - Ben Gawne

• Fair Dinkum Estuarine Zooplankton: hydrology, ecology and the vital planktonic-benthic link - Gina Newton
• Trophic shifts in south-east Australian coastal rivers: A Bayesian Belief Network Approach. - Karlie McDonald
• Variability in ephemeral systems affects assessments of macro-invertebrate communities. - Claire Sellens
• Resistance traits revealed: macroinvertebrates hang tough when the plug is pulled. - Edwin Chester
• Who do you think you are? The New Zealand origin of Australian Potamopyrgus antipodarum, an invasive freshwater snail - Adrian Dusting
• Rest is for the tiny: The effects of temperature and photoperiod on the termination of dormancy in microfauna of the Ovens Floodplain. - Isobel Colson

• Promoting connectivity fuels food-webs downstream of floodplain forests - Rochelle Petrie
• Assessment of post-flood recovery of frog populations in the mid and lower Lachlan Catchment  - Carmen Amos
• Validating an ecosystem response model: assessing model performance under wet and dry conditions - Rebecca E Lester
• Influence of flow regime on the structure of freshwater communities - Sally Hladyz
• Development of an algal response model to evaluate water quality and stream condition and configure consumptive flow in the MacKenzie River, south-east Australia - Ehsan Atazadeh
• Examination of River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) condition in relation to river flow in Victoria, Australia - Aidan Kereopa

Chairs: Samantha Capon & Jane Roberts

If you are interested in this topic please register with the session chairs; Sam Capon (s.capon@griffith.edu.au) and Jane Roberts (jroberts@netspeed.com.au).

The aim of this session will be to draft a synthesis paper on the status of black box populations, the species and the floodplain woodlands it forms. A programme and pre-conference questionnaire will be distributed prior to the conference. 

• Joining the dots: connecting downscaled climate projections, hydrology, ecosystem values, and management frameworks to conserve biodiversity in freshwaters - Leon A Barmuta
• Engineered Options for Improving Fish Habitat - Lisa Evans
• The Waterbug App:  Taxonomic keys and novel technologies, striking a balance between unwieldy and frivolous. - John Gooderham
• Climate change?  River regulation has more impact on water bugs! - Anne Watson
• Cryptic Crays: Monitoring Murray River Crayfish in the ACT - Katie Ryan
• Persistence and connectivity of fish populations in the extreme arid environment of the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia - Ashley L Murphy
• Measuring the stream ecosystem service benefits of riparian revegetation - Elliot Picone
• Mapping the Moira Grass: the decline of Pseudoraphis spinescens grasslands at Barmah Forest - Lyndsey Vivian
• Determining the hydro-ecological effects of abstraction in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia - Sally E Maxwell
• Planning for the Future: Mobile Targets Under Climate Change - Alex Bush
• Hydrological connectivity and ecological functional processes in inland floodplain wetlands: nutrient and carbon cycling - Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
• Ecological resilience in a water supply stream as a result of significant habitat and geomorphic shift from several major storm events up to approximately a 1:100 year ARI event - Joshua P Cox
• Exposure-dose-response frame work for the assessment of sediment lead toxicity in the freshwater bivalve- Hyridella depressa - Chamani P.M. Marasinghe Wadige
• Evaluating barriers to aquatic invertebrate dispersal: weirs and tributaries in the montane rivers of the Australian Alps - Andrew Brooks
• Small wings, big country: Using genetics to explore dispersal of aquatic insects in the Australian arid zone - Emma Razeng
• Desert goby (Chlamydogobius eremius) behaviours in arid Australian waterholes: intraspecific variability in boldness and movement behaviours - Nicholas P Moran
• To pass or not to pass? Testing fishway passage in the ACT. - Matthew Beitzel
• Understanding the impacts of water extraction on ecosystem structure and function in remnant river pools. - Mathew Birch
• Sources of carbon supporting fish recruitment in regulated and unregulated floodplain rivers - Luke McPhan

• Biogeochemical responses to hydrological cycles in streams of the Pilbara region, northwest Australia - Andre R Siebers
• Evaluating potential indicators of altered flow regimes in the Murray Darling Basin using a disturbance gradient approach - Stephen Balcombe
• Allelopathic effect of the invasive Elodea canadensis on two species of cyanobacteria - Fariba Moslih Pakdel
• Is prolonged waterlogging killing Victoria's faunal emblems? - Joe Greet
• Groundwater depth thresholds for tree condition - Jarrod Kath
• The ecological response of insectivorous bats to coastal lagoon degradation - Bradley K Clarke-Wood

• Nocturnal food webs: partitioning of prey resources between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems by a high level predator of floodplain habitats  - Rachel V. Blakey
• The disturbance trifecta –drought, fire and flood effects on macroinvertebrate communities in a catchment with pine and native forest land-use. - Anthea R Florance
• Aquatic organic carbon dynamics in massively altered landscapes: Past, present and future. - Darren P Giling
• Variations in seasonal flow timing, duration and depth affect riparian vegetation production and community composition in a semi arid floodplain - Rebecca Durant
• Fencing and flooding, change and stability: short-term effects in riparian coolibah woodlands - Jane Roberts
• Linking distribution, morphology and reproductive maturity of adult caddisflies with flight activity in the riparian zone - Joshua J Grubb
• Processes of nutrient removal in riparian zones in sandy soils. - Peter O'Toole

Please also refer to the abstract in the previous session.

• Micro-scale trophic relationships in floodplain river systems - Claire Sives
• Modelling wetland condition in Victoria - Phil Papas