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A/PROF BARBARA DOWNES



Contact Details

Organization: Resource Management and Geography
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/downes.html
Work: 8344 9152
Room: 221
Level: 02
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Adelaide University 31-Dec-1980
Honours degree Adelaide University 31-Dec-1981
Master of Science Florida State University 31-Dec-1986
Doctor of Philosophy Florida State University 31-Dec-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Ecological Society of Australia Ordinary 01-Jan-1988
Member Ecological Society of America Regular 01-Jan-1987

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Diadromous stream fishes: a model system for investigating sources of variation in recruitment Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
The role of larval settlement cues in influencing recruitment variability of the common jollytail, Galaxias maculatus Principal Supervisor ANZ EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEE COMPANY LTD Postgraduate Student Research Grants (HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH FUND) 27/05/2004
FLOWS AND AQUATIC PLANTS: AN HISTORICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Chief Investigator LAND & WATER AUST LWA Environmental Water Allocation 14/10/2005
Response of indigenous and non-indigenous plant species to changes in flooding regimes of ephemeral floodpalian wetlands along the Murray River Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/01/2006
Resource patchiness, dispersal and species co-occurrence: an experimental and levels-of-evidence approach in some lowland streams Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
THE ROLE OF THE EGG STAGE IN THE REGULATION OF AQUATIC INSECT POPULATIONS IN THE STREAMS OF THE STRATHBOGIE RANGES Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/10/2008

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1991-1993

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Is settlement at small spatial scales by diadromous fishes from the family Galaxiidae passive or active in a small coastal river?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Marine and Freshwater Research
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 971-975
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  • Separating natural responses from experimental artefacts: habitat selection by a diadromous fish species using odours from conspecifics and natural stream water
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Oecologia
    Volume: 159
    Page numbers: 679-687
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • What is the Spatial Structure of Stream Insect Populations? Dispersal Behaviour at different Life-history Stages
    Year: 2008
    Book: Aquatic Insects- Challenges to Populations
    Publisher: CABI Publishing(Wallingford)
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Journal Articles

  • Habitat selection as a source of inter-specific differences in recruitment of two diadromous fish species
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 2145-2157
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Reports

  • Remote sensing of rivers: A potential contribution to the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Rivers Audit
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Murray-Darling Basin Commission
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Biofilm and flow regimes: developing a biological monitoring program for the Nymboida River, northern NSW
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 5th Australian Stream Management Conference:Australian rivers: making a difference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 5th Australian Stream Management Conference: Australian rivers: making a difference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 419-424
    Publisher: Charles Sturt University(Wagga Wagga)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Monitoring experiences from downunder - the importance of deciding a priori what constitutes a significant environmental change
    Year: 2006
    Book: Biological monitoring of rivers: applications and perspectives
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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Journal Articles

  • Effects of sand sedimentation on the macroinvertebrate fauna of lowland streams: are the effects consistent?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 144-160
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  • Quantifying abrasion of stable substrata in streams: a new disturbance index for epilithic biota
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Hydrobiologia
    Volume: 559
    Page numbers: 443-453
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  • The effects of potential larval supply, settlement and post-settlement processes on the distribution of two species of filter-feeding caddisflies
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 717-729
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Drifting or walking? Colonisation routes used by different instars and species oflotic, macroinvertebrate filter feeders
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Marine and Freshwater Research
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 815-824
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Regrowth or dispersal? Recovery of a freshwater red alga following disturbance at the patch scale
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 526-536
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Measuring the effect of river rehabilitation for fishes: logistical constraints on experimental design
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 299-305
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Freshwater Ecology
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Changes in male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider (Araneae: Araneidae)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Behaviour
    Volume: 141
    Page numbers: 1197-1210
    Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
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  • Relating larval distributions to patterns of oviposition: evidence from lotic hydrobiosid caddisflies
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 1423-1436
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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  • Scale and the detection of land-use effects on morphology, vegetation and macroinvertebrate communities of grassland streams
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 448-462
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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  • Spatial point analysis of available and exploited resources
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecography
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 94-102
    Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard(Copenhagen)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Effects of flow regulation on disturbance frequencies and in-channel bryophytes and macroalgae in some upland streams
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Rivers Research and Applications
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 27-42
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • Experimental evidence for physical cues involved in oviposition site selection of lotic hydrobiosid caddis flies
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Oecologia
    Volume: 136
    Page numbers: 465-475
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Linking landscape patterns of resource distribution with models of aggregation in ovipositing stream insects
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Animal Ecology
    Volume: 72
    Page numbers: 969-978
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • The distribution of aquatic invertebrate egg masses in relation to physical characteristics of oviposition sites at two Victorian upland streams
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 1497-1513
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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  • The independent and interactive effects of fine sediment and flow on benthic invertebrate communities characteristic of small upland streams
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Freshwater Biology
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 455-465
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Monitoring Ecological ImpactsConcepts and practice in flowing waters
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • The effect of hydrological disturbance on the impact of a benthic invertebrate predator
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Ecology
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 628-642
    Publisher: Ecological Society of America(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2001

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