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Mark J. Kennard

Mark J. Kennard

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
10280
World Ranking
3463
National Ranking
270

Overview

Mark J. Kennard is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a considerable emphasis on nature and landscape conservation as well as ecology. Their work extends to water science and technology, global and planetary change, and aquatic science.

Their research topics encompass various aspects of fish ecology and management studies, fish biology and ecology studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, hydrology and watershed management studies, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and geophysics and gravity measurements.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Mark J. Kennard include:

  • The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time-bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019-2020 Australian megafires, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions, 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • Big trouble for little fish: identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction, 2020, Pacific Conservation Biology
  • A national-scale dataset for threats impacting Australia's imperiled flora and fauna, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Human disturbance and long-term changes in fish taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in the Yellow River, China, 2020, Hydrobiologia

Mark J. Kennard frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Gavin L. Butler
  • Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo
  • Michael M. Douglas
  • Mark Lintermans
  • Christopher E. Ndehedehe

Their research has been published extensively in journals such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biological Conservation

Best Publications

  • Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australia

    Bradley James Pusey;Mark James Kennard;Angela Arthington

  • Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management

    Mark James Kennard;Mark James Kennard;Bradley James Pusey;Bradley James Pusey;Julian D. Olden;Stephen John Mackay

  • Measuring benefits of protected area management: trends across realms and research gaps for freshwater systems.

    Vanessa M. Adams;Samantha A. Setterfield;Michael M. Douglas;Mark J. Kennard

  • Conservation biogeography of freshwater fishes: recent progress and future challenges

    Julian D. Olden;Mark James Kennard;Fabien Leprieur;Pablo A. Tedesco

  • A framework for hydrologic classification with a review of methodologies and applications in ecohydrology

    Julian D. Olden;Mark James Kennard;Bradley James Pusey

  • Are alien fish a reliable indicator of river health

    Mark James Kennard;Angela Arthington;Bradley James Pusey;B.D. Harch

  • Integration of science and monitoring of river ecosystem health to guide investments in catchment protection and rehabilitation

    Stuart Bunn;E. G. Abal;M. J. Smith;S. C. Choy

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of hydrologic metrics for ecohydrological studies

    Mark James Kennard;Mark James Kennard;Stephen John Mackay;Bradley James Pusey;Bradley James Pusey;Julian D. Olden

  • Are large‐scale flow experiments informing the science and management of freshwater ecosystems?

    Julian D. Olden;Christopher P. Konrad;Theodore S. Melis;Mark James Kennard

  • Climate change and its implications for Australia's freshwater fish

    John R. Morrongiello;John R. Morrongiello;John R. Morrongiello;Stephen J. Beatty;James C. Bennett;James C. Bennett;David A. Crook;David A. Crook

  • Species invasions and the changing biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes

    Julian D. Olden;Mark James Kennard;Bradley James Pusey

  • Large-scale Flow Experiments for Managing River Systems

    Christopher P. Konrad;Julian D. Olden;David A. Lytle;Theodore S. Melis

  • The ‘wet–dry’ in the wet–dry tropics drives river ecosystem structure and processes in northern Australia

    D. M. Warfe;N. E. Pettit;P.M. Davies;Bradley James Pusey

  • Environmental flow requirements of fish in Lesotho rivers using the DRIFT methodology

    Angela Arthington;Johan L. Rall;Mark James Kennard;Bradley James Pusey

  • Intercontinental Comparison of Fish Life History Strategies along a Gradient of Hydrologic Variability

    Julian D. Olden;Mark James Kennard

  • Challenges and opportunities in implementing managed relocation for conservation of freshwater species.

    Julian D. Olden;Mark James Kennard;Joshua J. Lawler;N. LeRoy Poff

  • Integrating multidirectional connectivity requirements in systematic conservation planning for freshwater systems

    Virgilio Hermoso;Mark J. Kennard;Simon Linke

  • Multiscale effects of flow regime and habitat and their interaction on fish assemblage structure in eastern Australia

    Mark James Kennard;Julian D. Olden;Angela Arthington;Bradley James Pusey

  • CLASSIFICATION OF FLOW REGIMES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW ASSESSMENT IN REGULATED RIVERS: THE HUAI RIVER BASIN, CHINA

    Y. Zhang;A. H. Arthington;S. E. Bunn;S. Mackay

  • Bayesian network models for environmental flow decision making in the Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia

    Terence U. Chan;Barry T. Hart;Mark James Kennard;Bradley James Pusey

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley James Pusey
Bradley James Pusey University of Western Australia
Michael M. Douglas
Michael M. Douglas University of Western Australia
Angela Arthington
Angela Arthington Griffith University
Julian D. Olden
Julian D. Olden University of Washington
Virgilio Hermoso
Virgilio Hermoso Griffith University
Nick Bond
Nick Bond La Trobe University
Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
Simon Linke
Simon Linke CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Vanessa M. Adams
Vanessa M. Adams University of Tasmania
Fran Sheldon
Fran Sheldon Griffith University

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