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Overview

Mark Lintermans is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several core topics:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology

Mark Lintermans has authored significant papers, including:

  • Impact of 2019-2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction, 2025, Nature
  • Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • 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

Their published work frequently appears in venues such as Biological Conservation, Marine and Freshwater Research, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Frequent collaborators in their research include John C. Z. Woinarski, Sarah Legge, Nick S. Whiterod, David G. Chapple, and Stephen T. Garnett. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary engagement within ecology and conservation science fields.

Best Publications

  • Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat

    Michelle Ward;Ayesha I. T. Tulloch;Ayesha I. T. Tulloch;James Q. Radford;Brooke A. Williams

  • Methods to maximise recovery of environmental DNA from water samples.

    Rheyda Hinlo;Dianne Gleeson;Mark Lintermans;Elise Furlan

  • Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin: an introductory guide

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  • Human‐assisted dispersal of alien freshwater fish in Australia

    Mark Lintermans

  • Severe consequences of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity of an endangered Australian freshwater fish: A call for assisted gene flow

    Alexandra Pavlova;Luciano Bellagamba Beheregaray;Rhys Coleman;Dean M Gilligan

  • 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

  • One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction

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  • An environmental DNA-based method for monitoring spawning activity: a case study, using the endangered Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica)

    Jonas Bylemans;Jonas Bylemans;Elise M. Furlan;Elise M. Furlan;Christopher M. Hardy;Prudence McGuffie;Prudence McGuffie

  • Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers

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  • Recolonization by the mountain galaxias Galaxias olidus of a montane stream after the eradication of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    Mark Lintermans

  • The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

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  • A strategy to rehabilitate fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin, south-eastern Australia

    John D. Koehn;Mark Lintermans

  • The effectiveness of non-native fish removal techniques in freshwater ecosystems: a systematic review

    Trina Rytwinski;Jessica J. Taylor;Lisa A. Donaldson;J. Robert Britton

  • Continental-scale assessment reveals inadequate monitoring for threatened vertebrates in a megadiverse country

    Benjamin Scheele;Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;Wade Blanchard;Stephen Garnett

  • Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;John C.Z. Woinarski;Ben C. Scheele;Stephen T. Garnett

  • How to ensure threatened species monitoring leads to threatened species conservation

    Natasha M. Robinson;Ben C. Scheele;Sarah Legge;Darren M. Southwell

  • Preventing and controlling non-native species invasions to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss

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  • Twenty-five essential research questions to inform the protection and restoration of freshwater biodiversity

    Meagan Harper;Hebah S. Mejbel;Dylan Longert;Robin Abell

  • Alien salmonids in Australia: Impediments to effective impact management, and future directions

    Jean E. Jackson;Tarmo A. Raadik;Mark Lintermans;Michael Hammer

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

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

  • Monitoring riverine fish communities through eDNA metabarcoding: determining optimal sampling strategies along an altitudinal and biodiversity gradient

    Jonas Bylemans;Dianne M. Gleeson;Mark Lintermans;Christopher M. Hardy

  • The Asian fish tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi, in Australian freshwater fishes.

    A. D. M. Dove;T. H. Cribb;S. P. Mockler;M. Lintermans

  • Local stream habitat variables predicted from catchment scale characteristics are useful for predicting fish distribution

    James Mugodo;Mark James Kennard;Peter Liston;Sue Nichols

  • Identifying the Influence of Channel Morphology on Physical Habitat Availability for Native Fish: Application to the Two-spined Blackfish (Gadopsis bispinosus) in the Cotter River, Australia.

    Ian Maddock;Martin Thoms;Katarina Jonson;Fiona Dyer

  • Conservation and Management

    Mark Lintermans

  • A Strategy to Rehabilitate Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin, South-Eastern Australia

    Mark Lintermans

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
Mark J. Kennard
Mark J. Kennard Griffith University
John C. Z. Woinarski
John C. Z. Woinarski Charles Darwin University
Stephen T. Garnett
Stephen T. Garnett Charles Darwin University
Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Dianne M. Gleeson
Dianne M. Gleeson University of Canberra
Richard P. Duncan
Richard P. Duncan University of Canberra
Christopher J. Fulton
Christopher J. Fulton Australian National University
Ben C. Scheele
Ben C. Scheele Australian National University

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