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6328
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498

Overview

Leon A. Barmuta is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across multiple subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Water Science and Technology.

The research topics addressed in their work span Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Leon A. Barmuta has published several recent papers in notable venues. Some of these include:

  • "Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Endangered Australian top predator is frequently exposed to anticoagulant rodenticides," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Research supporting restoration aiming to make a fragmented landscape 'functional' for native wildlife," 2021, Ecological Management & Restoration
  • "Human activities shape global patterns of decomposition rates in rivers," 2024, Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Barmuta include:

  • Anne Watson
  • Menna E. Jones
  • Bernadette C. Proemse
  • Luz Boyero
  • Ricardo Albariño

Publication venues where Barmuta has appeared often include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Monitoring Ecological Impacts - Concepts and practice in flowing waters

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

  • Habitat structural complexity mediates the foraging success of multiple predator species.

    Danielle M. Warfe;Leon A. Barmuta

  • A global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;Mark O. Gessner;Mark O. Gessner;Leon A. Barmuta

  • An ecologically useful classification of mean and near‐bed flows in streams and rivers

    J. A. Davis;L. A. Barmuta

  • Habitat structural complexity mediates food web dynamics in a freshwater macrophyte community

    Danielle M. Warfe;Leon A. Barmuta

  • Quantifying Spatial Heterogeneity in Streams

    Scott D. Cooper;Leon Barmuta;Orlando Sarnelle;Kim Kratz

  • Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia’s tropical savannas

    Lily Leahy;Sarah M. Legge;Sarah M. Legge;Katherine Tuft;Hugh W. McGregor;Hugh W. McGregor

  • Diet overlap and relative abundance of sympatric dasyurid carnivores: a hypothesis of competition

    Menna E. Jones;Leon A. Barmuta

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global study.

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;Cang Hui;Cang Hui;Mark O. Gessner;Mark O. Gessner

  • Global patterns of stream detritivore distribution: implications for biodiversity loss in changing climates

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;David Dudgeon;Verónica Ferreira

  • Quantifying habitat structure: surface convolution and living space for species in complex environments

    Danielle Warfe;L. Barmuta;S. Wotherspoon

  • NICHE DIFFERENTIATION AMONG SYMPATRIC AUSTRALIAN DASYURID CARNIVORES

    Menna E. Jones;Leon A. Barmuta

  • 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

  • Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude

    Luz Boyero;Manuel A. S. Graca;Alan M. Tonin;Javier Perez

  • Top carnivore decline has cascading effects on scavengers and carrion persistence.

    Calum X Cunningham;Christopher N Johnson;Christopher N Johnson;Leon A Barmuta;Tracey Hollings;Tracey Hollings

  • Habitat patchiness and macrobenthic community structure in an upland stream in temperate victoria australia

    L. A. Barmuta

  • Upstream heterogeneous zones: small stream systems structured by a lack of competence?

    John P. R. Gooderham;Leon A. Barmuta;Peter E. Davies

  • Interaction Between the Effects of Substratum, Velocity and Location on Stream Benthos: an Experiment

    Leon A. Barmuta

  • Does clearfell, burn and sow silviculture mimic the effect of wildfire? A field study and review using litter beetles

    Susan C. Baker;Susan C. Baker;Alastair M.M. Richardson;Alastair M.M. Richardson;Owen D. Seeman;Leon A. Barmuta

  • Monitoring Ecological Impacts

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

  • New Zealand stream invertebrates: ecology and implications for management

    Leon Barmuta

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. Fairweather
Peter G. Fairweather Flinders University
Bruce D. Mapstone
Bruce D. Mapstone CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Barbara J. Downes
Barbara J. Downes University of Melbourne
Michael J. Keough
Michael J. Keough University of Melbourne
Daniel P. Faith
Daniel P. Faith Australian Museum
Phillip Spencer Lake
Phillip Spencer Lake Monash University
Luz Boyero
Luz Boyero University of the Basque Country
Christopher N. Johnson
Christopher N. Johnson University of Tasmania
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Menna E. Jones
Menna E. Jones University of Tasmania

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