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6597
National Ranking
520

Overview

Barbara J. Downes is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia, with a research focus centered primarily in environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, insect science, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects within freshwater and aquatic ecology, emphasizing fish ecology and management studies, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, hydrology and sediment transport processes, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, and plant and animal studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Freshwater Biology
  • Oecologia
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Water Resources Research
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

They have co-authored work with several researchers, notable among them:

  • Jill Lancaster
  • Stephen P. Rice
  • Rebecca E. Lester
  • William D. Bovill
  • Georgia Dwyer

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • From Insects to Frogs, Egg-Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes (2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • Terrestrial-aquatic transitions: Local abundances and movements of mature female caddisflies are related to oviposition habits but not flight capability (2020, Freshwater Biology)
  • Avoidance and aggregation create consistent egg distribution patterns of congeneric caddisflies across spatially variable oviposition landscapes (2020, Oecologia)
  • Using Fractals to Describe Ecologically Relevant Patterns in Distributions of Large Rocks in Streams (2021, Water Resources Research)
  • A novel method reveals how channel retentiveness and stocks of detritus (CPOM) vary among streams differing in bed roughness (2020, Freshwater Biology)

Best Publications

  • Recruitment of marine invertebrates: the role of active larval choices and early mortality

    Michael J. Keough;Barbara J. Downes

  • Monitoring Ecological Impacts - Concepts and practice in flowing waters

    Barbara J. Downes;Leon A. Barmuta;Peter G. Fairweather;Daniel P. Faith

  • HABITAT STRUCTURE AND REGULATION OF LOCAL SPECIES DIVERSITY IN A STONY, UPLAND STREAM

    Barbara J. Downes;P. S. Lake;E. S. G. Schreiber;Alena Glaister

  • Spatial variation in the distribution of stream invertebrates: implications of patchiness for models of community organization

    Barbara J. Downes;P.S. Lake;E.S.G. Schreiber

  • Flow regulation reduces native plant cover and facilitates exotic invasion in riparian wetlands

    Jane A. Catford;Barbara J. Downes;Christopher J. Gippel;Peter A. Vesk

  • Habitat structure, resources and diversity: the separate effects of surface roughness and macroalgae on stream invertebrates

    B. J. Downes;P. S. Lake;E. S. G. Schreiber;A. Glaister

  • The independent and interactive effects of fine sediment and flow on benthic invertebrate communities characteristic of small upland streams

    Nicholas R. Bond;Barbara J. Downes

  • Linking the hydraulic world of individual organisms to ecological processes: Putting ecology into ecohydraulics

    Jill Lancaster;Barbara Jayne Downes

  • Back to the future: little‐used tools and principles of scientific inference can help disentangle effects of multiple stressors on freshwater ecosystems

    Barbara J. Downes

  • Scale and the detection of land-use effects on morphology, vegetation and macroinvertebrate communities of grassland streams

    Colin R. Townsend;Barbara J. Downes;Kathi Peacock;Chris J. Arbuckle

  • Changes in male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider (Araneae: Araneidae)

    Anne C. Gaskett;Marie E. Herberstein;Barbara J. Downes;Mark A. Elgar

  • Habitat structure and invertebrate assemblages on stream stones: A multivariate view from the riffle

    Barbara J. Downes;P. S. Lake;E. S. G. Schreiber

  • What’s in a site? Variation in lotic macroinvertebrate density and diversity in a spatially replicated experiment

    Barbara J. Downes;Jeremy S. Hindell;Nick R. Bond

  • Scales and frequencies of disturbances: rock size, bed packing and variation among upland streams

    Barbara J Downes;Phillip S Lake;Alena Glaister;James A Webb

  • How do we know about resilience? An analysis of empirical research on resilience, and implications for interdisciplinary praxis

    Barbara J Downes;Fiona Miller;Jon Barnett;Alena Glaister

  • Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion

    Jane A. Catford;Jane A. Catford;Jane A. Catford;William K. Morris;Peter A. Vesk;Christopher J. Gippel

  • Spatial point pattern analysis of available and exploited resources

    Jill Lancaster;Barbara Jayne Downes

  • A new method for characterizing surface roughness and available space in biological systems

    G. D. Sanson;R. Stolk;B. J. Downes

  • Scaling of colonization processes in streams: Parallels and lessons from marine hard substrata

    Barbara J. Downes;Michael J. Keough

  • Experimental evidence for physical cues involved in oviposition site selection of lotic hydrobiosid caddis flies

    Paul Reich;Barbara J. Downes

  • Introduction to Aquatic Insects

    Jill Lancaster;Barbara J Downes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jill Lancaster
Jill Lancaster University of Melbourne
Phillip Spencer Lake
Phillip Spencer Lake Monash University
Michael J. Keough
Michael J. Keough University of Melbourne
Peter G. Fairweather
Peter G. Fairweather Flinders University
Leon A. Barmuta
Leon A. Barmuta University of Tasmania
Bruce D. Mapstone
Bruce D. Mapstone CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Daniel P. Faith
Daniel P. Faith Australian Museum
Paul Reich
Paul Reich Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Nick Bond
Nick Bond La Trobe University
Stephen P. Rice
Stephen P. Rice Newcastle University

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