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David L. Morgan

David L. Morgan

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4633
World Ranking
7385
National Ranking
574

Overview

David L. Morgan is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Pharmacology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to fish ecology and management, with key areas of interest including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Marine and Fisheries Research, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, and Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior.

David L. Morgan's recent publications include:

  • "Big trouble for little fish: identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction" (2020), published in Pacific Conservation Biology
  • "Divergent field metabolic rates highlight the challenges of increasing temperatures and energy limitation in aquatic ectotherms" (2020), published in Oecologia
  • "One panel to rule them all: DArTcap genotyping for population structure, historical demography, and kinship analyses, and its application to a threatened shark" (2020), published in Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Burrowing behavior protects a threatened freshwater mussel in drying rivers" (2020), published in Hydrobiologia
  • "Respirometer in a box: development and use of a portable field respirometer for estimating oxygen consumption of large-bodied fishes" (2020), published in Journal of Fish Biology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • S.J. Beatty
  • Karissa O. Lear
  • Alan J. Lymbery
  • Brendan C. Ebner
  • Travis Fazeldean

David L. Morgan has contributed multiple papers to various publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Marine Biology
  • Biological Conservation
  • Hydrobiologia

Best Publications

  • Co-invaders: The effects of alien parasites on native hosts

    Alan J. Lymbery;Mikayla Morine;Hosna Gholipour Kanani;Stephen J. Beatty

  • Distribution and impacts of introduced freshwater fishes in Western Australia

    David L. Morgan;Howard S. Gill;Mark G. Maddern;Stephen J. Beatty

  • Distribution, identification and biology of freshwater fishes in south-western Australia

    D.L. Morgan;H.S. Gill;I.C. Potter

  • Freshwater fish introductions in mediterranean-climate regions: Are there commonalities in the conservation problem?

    S. M. Marr;M. P. Marchetti;Julian D. Olden;Emili García-Berthou

  • Distribution, biology and likely impacts of the introduced redfin perch (Perca fluviatilis) (Percidae) in Western Australia

    David L. Morgan;Simon J. Hambleton;Howard S. Gill;Stephen J. Beatty

  • Freshwater Sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 (Chondrichthyes : Pristidae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

    Dean C. Thorburn;David L. Morgan;Andrew J. Rowland;Howard S. Gill

  • Ontogenetic depth partitioning by juvenile freshwater sawfish (Pristis microdon: Pristidae) in a riverine environment

    Jeff M. Whitty;David L. Morgan;Stirling C. Peverell;Dean C. Thorburn

  • A global assessment of freshwater fish introductions in mediterranean-climate regions.

    Sean M. Marr;Julian D. Olden;Fabien Leprieur;Ivan Arismendi

  • Variation in Life History of Land-Locked Lacustrine and Riverine Populations of Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns 1842) in Western Australia

    Andrew Chapman;David L. Morgan;Stephen J. Beatty;Howard S. Gill

  • Using remote underwater video to estimate freshwater fish species richness

    Brendan Craig Ebner;Brendan Craig Ebner;D. L. Morgan

  • Undersea constellations: The global biology of an endangered marine megavertebrate further informed through citizen science

    Bradley M. Norman;Jason A. Holmberg;Zaven Arzoumanian;Samantha D. Reynolds

  • Population genetic structure and genetic diversity of three critically endangered Pristis sawfishes in Australian waters

    Nicole M. Phillips;Jennifer A. Chaplin;David L. Morgan;Stirling C. Peverell

  • Role of life history strategy in the colonisation of Western Australian aquatic systems by the introduced crayfish Cherax destructor Clark, 1936

    Stephen Beatty;David Morgan;Howard Gill

  • Leaving the fish bowl: the ornamental trade as a global vector for freshwater fish invasions

    Farrah T. Chan;Stephen J. Beatty;Allan S. Gilles;Jeffrey E. Hill

  • Big trouble for little fish: Identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction

    Mark Lintermans;Hayley M. Geyle;Stephen Beatty;Culum Brown

  • Salinity tolerances of endemic freshwater fishes of south-western Australia: implications for conservation in a biodiversity hotspot

    Stephen J. Beatty;David L. Morgan;Mahmoud Rashnavadi;Alan J. Lymbery

  • Fish fauna of the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia - including the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Ngarinyin, Nyikina and Walmajarri Aboriginal names

    David L. Morgan;Mark G. Allen;Patsy Bedford;Mark Horstman

  • Is the Mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki (Poeciliidae), a major threat to the native freshwater fishes of south-western Australia?

    H.S. Gill;S.J. Hambleton;D.L. Morgan

  • Implications of climate change for potamodromous fishes

    Stephen J. Beatty;David L. Morgan;Alan J. Lymbery

  • Parasites of native and exotic freshwater fishes in south-western Australia.

    A. J. Lymbery;M. Hassan;M. Hassan;D. L. Morgan;S. J. Beatty

  • Are vertical migrations driven by circadian behaviour? Decoupling of activity and depth use in a large riverine elasmobranch, the freshwater sawfish ( Pristis pristis )

    Adrian C. Gleiss;David L. Morgan;Jeff M. Whitty;James J. Keleher

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan J. Lymbery
Alan J. Lymbery Murdoch University
Adrian C. Gleiss
Adrian C. Gleiss Murdoch University
Bradley James Pusey
Bradley James Pusey University of Western Australia
Ian C. Potter
Ian C. Potter Murdoch University
Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra
Peter Davies
Peter Davies French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
David A. Crook
David A. Crook Charles Darwin University
Mark Lintermans
Mark Lintermans University of Canberra
Richard G. Pearson
Richard G. Pearson James Cook University
Mark J. Kennard
Mark J. Kennard Griffith University

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