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Overview

Alan G. Hildrew is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to ecology and nature and landscape conservation as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers key topics including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology

Hildrew has contributed to multiple publications, predominantly appearing in the journal Freshwater Biology. A notable recent paper is titled "Bernhard Statzner: Introducing a virtual special issue marking the contributions of an outstanding freshwater biologist," published in 2021 in Freshwater Biology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sylvain Dolédec
  • Nicolas Lamouroux
  • Vincent H. Resh
  • Knut Ola Aamodt
  • Skuja Agnija

This network of coauthors reflects interdisciplinary cooperation within environmental science and ecology-related studies.

Best Publications

  • Species traits in relation to a habitat templet for river systems

    Colin R. Townsend;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems

    Stephen James Ormerod;M. Dobson;A. G. Hildrew;C. R. Townsend

  • Body‐size determinants of niche overlap and intraguild predation within a complex food web

    Guy Woodward;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern and Process.

    P. S. Giller;A. G. Hildrew;D. G. Raffaelli

  • Field Experiments on the Drifting, Colonization and Continuous Redistribution of Stream Benthos

    Colin R. Townsend;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Community structure in some southern English streams: the influence of physicochemical factors

    Colin R. Townsend;Alan G. Hildrew;Jeanette Francis

  • Flow Refugia and the Microdistribution of Lotic Macroinvertebrates

    Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Delivering on a promise: integrating species traits to transform descriptive community ecology into a predictive science

    W. C. E. P. Verberk;W. C. E. P. Verberk;C. G. E. van Noordwijk;C. G. E. van Noordwijk;A. G. Hildrew;A. G. Hildrew

  • Dispersal of adult aquatic insects in catchments of differing land use

    Ian Petersen;Z. Masters;A. G. Hildrew;Stephen James Ormerod

  • Biomonitoring of Human Impacts in Freshwater Ecosystems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Nikolai Friberg;Núria Bonada;David C. Bradley;Michael J. Dunbar

  • River rehabilitation and fish populations: assessing the benefit of instream structures

    J. L. Pretty;S. S. C. Harrison;D. J. Shepherd;C. Smith

  • Quantification and Resolution of a Complex, Size-Structured Food Web

    Guy Woodward;Dougie C. Speirs;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Food web structure in riverine landscapes

    Guy Woodward;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Patchiness, species interactions and disturbance in the stream benthos

    A.G. Hildrew

  • Characterizing In-stream Flow Refugia

    Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

  • A test of resource limitation among shredding detritivores in low order streams in southern England

    Mike Dobson;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Emergence and lateral dispersal of adult Plecoptera and Trichoptera from Broadstone Stream, U.K.

    Irene Petersen;Julie H. Winterbottom;Stuart Orton;Nikolai Friberg

  • Body size : the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems

    Alan G Hildrew;David Raffaelli;Veronica Edmonds-Brown

  • The boundaries of river systems: the metazoan perspective

    J. V. Ward;G. Bretschko;M. Brunke;D. Danielopol

  • Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern and Process

    J.M. Elliott;P.S. Giller;A.G. Hildrew;D.G. Raffaelli

  • Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process. The 34th Symposium of the British Ecological Society with the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, University College, Cork, 1992.

    Paul S. Giller;A. G. Hildrew;D. G. Raffaelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin R. Townsend
Colin R. Townsend University of Otago
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Jonathan Grey
Jonathan Grey Lancaster University
Mark Trimmer
Mark Trimmer Queen Mary University of London
Jill Lancaster
Jill Lancaster University of Melbourne
Don Monteith
Don Monteith Lancaster University
Bernhard Statzner
Bernhard Statzner Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Richard A. Nichols
Richard A. Nichols Queen Mary University of London
Stephen James Ormerod
Stephen James Ormerod Cardiff University
Mark E. Ledger
Mark E. Ledger University of Birmingham

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