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Overview

Gerard P. Closs is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand and is an active researcher in the field of Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on various aspects of ecology, particularly related to aquatic environments and fish biology.

The main fields of study for Closs include Environmental Science with an emphasis on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Pollution. Their research contributions cover several topics including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior.

Closs has published in multiple venues, with a concentration in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Ecology Of Freshwater Fish, Diversity, Marine and Freshwater Research, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Frequent co-authors in Closs's research include Malcolm Reid, Matt G. Jarvis, Christoph D. Matthaei, П. Б. Михеев, and Travis Ingram.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Closs include:

  • Morphological Convergence and Divergence in Galaxias Fishes in Lentic and Lotic Habitats (2020), published in Diversity
  • Straying of brown trout in the catchment of a large New Zealand river evaluated by otolith microchemistry (2021), published in Ecology Of Freshwater Fish
  • Phenotypically Induced Intraspecific Variation in the Morphological Development of Wetland and Stream Galaxias gollumoides McDowall and Chadderton (2020), published in Diversity
  • Life history plasticity affects the population structure and distribution of the widespread migratory fish Galaxias brevipinnis (2020), published in Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Agricultural Land-Use Legacy, The Invasive Alga Didymosphenia geminata and Invertebrate Communities in Upland Streams with Natural Flow Regimes (2020), published in Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Structure of an Intermittent-Stream Food Web

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  • Arthropod morphospecies versus taxonomic species: a case study with Araneae, Coleoptera, and Lepidoptera

    José G. B. Derraik;Gerard P. Closs;Katharine J. M. Dickinson;Philip Sirvid

  • Behavioural responses of a south‐east Australian floodplain fish community to gradual hypoxia

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  • Hydrological disturbance benefits a native fish at the expense of an exotic fish.

    F. Leprieur;M. A. Hickey;C. J. Arbuckle;G. P. Closs

  • Drought, differential mortality and the coexistence of a native and an introduced fish species in a south east Australian intermittent stream

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  • Otolith microchemistry of two amphidromous galaxiids across an experimental salinity gradient: A multi-element approach for tracking diadromous migrations

    Andy S. Hicks;Gerard P. Closs;Stephen E. Swearer

  • Behavior of a stream-dwelling fish before, during, and after high-discharge events

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  • Life-history plasticity in amphidromous and catadromous fishes: a continuum of strategies

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  • Conservation of freshwater fishes

    Gerard P. Closs;Martin Krkosek;Julian D. Olden

  • Life histories of closely related amphidromous and non‐migratory fish species: a trade‐off between egg size and fecundity

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  • Diel activity and home range size in relation to food supply in a drift-feeding stream fish

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  • Morphospecies and Taxonomic Species Comparison for Hymenoptera

    José G. B. Derraik;José G. B. Derraik;John W. Early;Gerard P. Closs;Katharine J. M. Dickinson

  • Seasonal variation in diel activity and microhabitat use of an endemic New Zealand stream‐dwelling galaxiid fish

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  • Relationships between land use and stream invertebrate community structure in a South Island, New Zealand, coastal stream catchment

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  • Spatial scale and benthic community organisation in the littoral zones of large oligotrophic lakes: potential for cross‐scale interactions

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  • Challenges and opportunities for fish conservation in dam-impacted waters

    Julian D. Olden

  • Migration as an escape from parasitism in New Zealand galaxiid fishes

    Robert Poulin;Gerard P. Closs;Adrian W. T. Lill;Andy S. Hicks

  • Anti-predator response of naive and experienced common bully to chemical alarm cues

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  • Non‐diadromous recruitment in coastal populations of common bully (Gobiomorphus cotidianus)

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  • Long-term growth and movement in relation to food supply and social status in a stream fish

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  • Is diel activity determined by social rank in a drift-feeding stream fish dominance hierarchy?

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  • Fragmentation, connectivity and fish species persistence in freshwater ecosystems

    Keith B. Gido;James E. Whitney;Joshuah S. Perkin;Thomas F. Turner

  • Evaluation of visible implant elastomer for individual marking of small perch and common bully

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  • Niche partitioning and the effect of interspecific competition on microhabitat use by two sympatric galaxiid stream fishes

    S. K. Crow;S. K. Crow;G. P. Closs;J. M. Waters;D. J. Booker

  • Redesigning a curriculum for inquiry: an ecology case study

    R. A. Spronken-Smith;R. Walker;K. J. M. Dickinson;G. P. Closs

  • Hydroelectric development and translocation of Galaxias brevipinnis: a cloud at the end of the tunnel?

    Jonathan M Waters;Michael Shirley;Gerard P Closs

  • Lake and species specific patterns of non-diadromous recruitment in amphidromous fish: The importance of local recruitment and habitat requirements

    Andy S. Hicks;Matt G. Jarvis;Bruno O. David;Jonathan M. Waters

  • Effects of fine sediment addition and removal on stream invertebrates and fish: a reach-scale experiment

    Javad Ramezani;Lasse Rennebeck;Gerard P. Closs;Christoph D. Matthaei

  • Invertebrate survey of a modified native shrubland, Brookdale Covenant, Rock and Pillar Range, Otago, New Zealand

    José G. B. Derraik;Barbara I. P. Barratt;Phil Sirvid;Roderick P. Macfarlane

  • Stream ecosystem health outcomes of providing information to farmers and adoption of best management practices

    Heather M Rhodes;Gerard P Closs;Colin R Townsend

  • Does social status within a dominance hierarchy mediate individual growth, residency and relocation?

    Abbas Akbaripasand;Martin Krkosek;P. Mark Lokman;Gerard P. Closs

  • Why are freshwater fish so threatened

    Gerard P. Closs;Paul L. Angermeier;William R. T. Darwall;Stephen R. Balcombe

  • Morphological and genetic analysis of Galaxias 'southern' and G. gollumoides: interspecific differentiation and intraspecific structuring

    S. K. Crow;J. M. Waters;G. P. Closs;G. P. Wallis

  • Climate change and freshwater ecosystems in Oceania: An assessment of vulnerability and adaptation opportunities

    Kim Jenkins;R.T. Kingsford;G.P. Closs;Benjamin Wolfenden

  • Microhabitat use by longfin eels in New Zealand streams with contrasting riparian vegetation

    T. L. Broad;C. R. Townsend;G. P. Closs;D. J. Jellyman

  • Multiple scales and the relationship between density and spatial aggregation in littoral zone communities

    Rick J. Stoffels;Gerard P. Closs;Carolyn W. Burns

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc D. Norman
Marc D. Norman Australian National University
Jonathan M. Waters
Jonathan M. Waters University of Otago

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