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Bruce C. Chessman is a researcher affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia, specializing in environmental science. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change, with contributions also touching on virology and animal science and zoology.

Their research topics are centered around turtle biology and conservation, amphibian and reptile biology, fish ecology and management, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, avian ecology and behavior, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Chessman has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Austral Ecology
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Australian Journal of Zoology

Some of the recent papers authored by Bruce C. Chessman include:

  • "On a razor's edge: Status and prospects of the critically endangered Bellinger River snapping turtle, Myuchelys georgesi" (2020), published in Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • "Behavioural thermoregulation by Australian freshwater turtles: interspecific differences and implications for responses to climate change" (2020), published in Australian Journal of Zoology
  • "Introduced red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) driving Australian freshwater turtles to extinction? A critical evaluation of the evidence" (2021), published in Pacific Conservation Biology
  • "What's wrong with the Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS)?" (2021), published in Marine and Freshwater Research
  • "Ecological studies of freshwater turtles in south-eastern Australia" (2021), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chessman include:

  • Darren P. Fielder
  • Philip Spark
  • Gerry McGilvray
  • Shane Ruming
  • Louise M. Streeting

Best Publications

  • Rapid assessment of rivers using macroinvertebrates: A procedure based on habitat-specific sampling, family level identification and a biotic index

    Bruce C. Chessman

  • PREDICTING DIATOM COMMUNITIES AT THE GENUS LEVEL FOR THE RAPID BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF RIVERS

    Bruce Chessman;IvoR. Growns;Julie Currey;Nicola Plunkett-Cole

  • New sensitivity grades for Australian river macroinvertebrates

    Bruce C. Chessman

  • Regime shifts, thresholds and multiple stable states in freshwater ecosystems; a critical appraisal of the evidence.

    Samantha J. Capon;A. Jasmyn J. Lynch;Nick Bond;Bruce C. Chessman;Bruce C. Chessman

  • Climatic changes and 13‐year trends in stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in New South Wales, Australia

    Bruce C. Chessman

  • Measuring the impact of sewage effluent on the macroinvertebrate community of an upland stream: The effect of different levels of taxonomic resolution and quantification

    Ian A. Wright;Bruce C. Chessman;Peter G. Fairweather;Lee J. Benson

  • Bioassessment without reference sites: use of environmental filters to predict natural assemblages of river macroinvertebrates

    Bruce C. Chessman;Meredith J. Royal

  • Scaling biodiversity responses to hydrological regimes

    Robert J. Rolls;Robert J. Rolls;Jani Heino;Darren S. Ryder;Bruce C. Chessman

  • Bioassessment of streams with macroinvertebrates: effect of sampled habitat and taxonomic resolution

    Bruce Chessman;Simon Williams;Colin Besley

  • Identifying species at risk from climate change Traits predict the drought vulnerability of freshwater fishes

    Bruce C. Chessman

  • Influence of sample quantification and taxonomic resolution on the ordination of macroinvertebrate communities from running waters in Victoria, Australia

    R Marchant;LA Barmuta;BC Chessman

  • Linking geomorphic character, behaviour and condition to fluvial biodiversity: implications for river management

    Bruce C. Chessman;Kirstie A. Fryirs;Gary J. Brierley

  • Rapid assessment of Australian rivers using macroinvertebrates: cost and efficiency of 6 methods of sample processing

    Jane E. Growns;Bruce C. Chessman;Jean E. Jackson;David G. Ross

  • Towards diagnostic biotic indices for river macroinvertebrates

    Bruce C. Chessman;Paul K. McEvoy

  • Dietary studies of aquatic insects from two Victorian rivers

    Bruce C. Chessman

  • Objective derivation of macroinvertebrate family sensitivity grade numbers for the SIGNAL biotic index: Application to the Hunter River system, New South Wales

    Bruce C. Chessman;Jane E. Growns;Amanda R. Kotlash

  • Relationships between lotic macroinvertebrate traits and responses to extreme drought

    Bruce C. Chessman;Bruce C. Chessman

  • A diatom species index for bioassessment of Australian rivers

    Bruce C. Chessman;Nina Bate;Peter A. Gell;Peter A. Gell;Peter Newall

  • Effects of water sample preservation and storage on nitrogen and phosphorus determinations: implications for the use of automated sampling equipment

    Amanda R. Kotlash;Bruce C. Chessman

  • Limiting nutrients for periphyton growth in sub-alpine, forest, agricultural and urban streams

    Bruce C. Chessman;Primrose E. Hutton;Joanne M. Burch

Frequent Co-Authors

Leon A. Barmuta
Leon A. Barmuta University of Tasmania
Simon M. Mitrovic
Simon M. Mitrovic University of Technology Sydney
Arthur Georges
Arthur Georges University of Canberra
Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Peter Gell
Peter Gell Federation University Australia
Kirstie Fryirs
Kirstie Fryirs Macquarie University
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Piet F. M. Verdonschot Wageningen University & Research
Anthony J. Jakeman
Anthony J. Jakeman Australian National University
Michael R. Gillings
Michael R. Gillings Macquarie University
Ralf B. Schäfer
Ralf B. Schäfer University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - RPTU

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