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Overview

Angus R. McIntosh is a researcher affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to several subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and water science and technology.

The scope of their research covers a range of topics within environmental science. Key areas include:

  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Isotope analysis in ecology

McIntosh has published multiple papers in respected scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Climate-change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study" (2021) published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Centring Indigenous knowledge systems to re-imagine conservation translocations" (2020) published in People and Nature
  • "Negative resistance and resilience: biotic mechanisms underpin delayed biological recovery in stream restoration" (2021) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A comparative study of odorants for gas escape detection of natural gas and hydrogen" (2021) published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "Engaging Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Environmental Management Could Alleviate Scale Mismatches in Social-Ecological Systems" (2020) published in BioScience

The frequent publication venues for McIntosh's research are:

  • Freshwater Biology
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • People and Nature
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Collaboration has been a significant part of their career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Helen J. Warburton
  • D. Dudley Williams
  • Jon S. Harding
  • Jonathan D. Tonkin
  • Brandon C. Goeller

McIntosh's research outputs contribute to the understanding of aquatic ecosystems, conservation biology, and environmental management through interdisciplinary approaches. The work often involves both biological and ecological modeling aspects to address contemporary environmental challenges in New Zealand and beyond.

Best Publications

  • The impact of introduced brown and rainbow trout on native fish: the case of Australasia

    Todd A. Crowl;Colin R. Townsend;Angus R. Mcintosh

  • Interactions between fish, grazing invertebrates and algae in a New Zealand stream: a trophic cascade mediated by fish-induced changes to grazer behaviour?

    Angus R. McIntosh;Colin R. Townsend

  • Habitat loss drives threshold response of benthic invertebrate communities to deposited sediment in agricultural streams.

    Francis J. Burdon;Angus R. McIntosh;Jon S. Harding

  • Fitness and community consequences of avoiding multiple predators

    Barbara L. Peckarsky;Angus R. McIntosh

  • VARIATION IN MAYFLY SIZE AT METAMORPHOSIS AS A DEVELOPMENTAL RESPONSE TO RISK OF PREDATION

    Barbara L. Peckarsky;Barbara L. Peckarsky;Brad W. Taylor;Brad W. Taylor;Angus R. McIntosh;Angus R. McIntosh;Mark A. McPeek

  • Dual influences of ecosystem size and disturbance on food chain length in streams

    Peter A. McHugh;Angus R. McIntosh;Phillip G. Jellyman

  • Disturbance, resource supply, and food‐web architecture in streams

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  • Barriers to the recovery of aquatic insect communities in urban streams

    Tanya J. Blakely;Jon S. Harding;Angus R. Mcintosh;Michael J. Winterbourn

  • Habitat- and size-related variations in exotic trout impacts on native galaxiid fishes in New Zealand streams

    Angus R McIntosh

  • PREDATOR CHEMICALS INDUCE CHANGES IN MAYFLY LIFE HISTORY TRAITS: A WHOLE-STREAM MANIPULATION

    Barbara L. Peckarsky;Angus R. McIntosh;Angus R. McIntosh;Brad W. Taylor;Brad W. Taylor;Jonas Dahl;Jonas Dahl

  • Interpopulation variation in mayfly antipredator tactics: differential effects of contrasting predatory fish

    Angus R. McIntosh;Colin R. Townsend

  • A global analysis of terrestrial plant litter dynamics in non-perennial waterways

    T. Datry;A. Foulquier;R. Corti;D. von Schiller

  • Criteria determining behavioural responses to multiple predators by a stream mayfly

    Angus R. McIntosh;Barbara L. Peckarsky

  • Competition for space between introduced brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and a native galaxiid (Galaxias vulgaris Stokell) in a New Zealand stream

    A. R. McIntosh;C. R. Townsend;T. A. Crowl

  • Riparian shading mitigates stream eutrophication in agricultural catchments

    Teresa K. Burrell;Jonathan M. O’Brien;S. Elizabeth Graham;Kevin S. Simon

  • Extrapolating from Individual Behavior to Populations and Communities in Streams

    Barbara L. Peckarsky;Scott D. Cooper;Angus R. McIntosh

  • Simulating rewetting events in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: A global analysis of leached nutrients and organic matter

    Oleksandra Shumilova;Oleksandra Shumilova;Oleksandra Shumilova;Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Thibault Datry;Daniel von Schiller

  • The influence of predatory fish on mayfly drift: extrapolating from experiments to nature

    Angus R. Mcintosh;Angus R. Mcintosh;Barbara L. Peckarsky;Barbara L. Peckarsky;Brad W. Taylor;Brad W. Taylor

  • The impact of trout on galaxiid fishes in New Zealand

    Angus R. McIntosh;Peter A. McHugh;Nicholas R. Dunn;Jane M. Goodman

  • Top-down and bottom-up processes in grassland and forested streams

    Per Nyström;Per Nyström;Angus R. McIntosh;Michael J. Winterbourn

  • Contrasting predation risks presented by introduced brown trout and native common river galaxias in New Zealand streams

    Angus R. McIntosh;Colin R. Townsend

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara L. Peckarsky
Barbara L. Peckarsky University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jon S. Harding
Jon S. Harding University of Canterbury
Dominik Zak
Dominik Zak Aarhus University
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Michael J. Winterbourn
Michael J. Winterbourn University of Canterbury
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Colin R. Townsend
Colin R. Townsend University of Otago
Nathan J. Waltham
Nathan J. Waltham James Cook University
Christiane Zarfl
Christiane Zarfl University of Tübingen

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