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Overview

Martin C. Thoms is affiliated with the University of New England in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on topics within ecology, water science, and landscape conservation. The main areas of study include hydrology and sediment transport processes, fish ecology and management studies, hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, soil erosion and sediment transport, water resources management and optimization, and isotope analysis in ecology.

The scientist's work has been published in several notable academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • River Research and Applications
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Anthropocene

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Martin C. Thoms reflect a strong focus on river systems, environmental flows, and adaptive water management. These include:

  • Report of the River Murray scientific panel on environmental flows: River Murray - Dartmouth to Wellington and the Lower Darling River (2023), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Reflexive learning in adaptive management: A case study of environmental water management in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia (2020), published in River Research and Applications
  • Heterogeneity of ecosystem function in an "Anthropocene" river system (2020), published in Anthropocene
  • Land Use Effects on Sediment Nutrient Processes in a Heavily Modified Watershed Using Structural Equation Models (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • Interplay of geomorphology and hydrology drives macroinvertebrate assemblage responses to hydropeaking (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Martin C. Thoms has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent coauthors including Michael D. Delong, Melissa Parsons, Jason A. DeBoer, Ian C. Fuller, and Terry J. Hillman.

The scientist's research spans several subfields of Environmental Science, particularly:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science

Throughout their career, Martin C. Thoms has contributed to understanding complex ecosystem functions and environmental water management in river systems, with particular emphasis on the Murray Darling Basin and related aquatic environments.

Best Publications

  • The riverine ecosystem synthesis : Biocomplexity in river networks across space and time

    James H. Thorp;Martin C. Thoms;Michael D. Delong

  • What is river health

    Richard H. Norris;Martin C. Thoms

  • Flow variability in dryland rivers: boom, bust and the bits in between

    Stuart E. Bunn;Martin C. Thoms;Stephen K. Hamilton;Samantha J. Capon

  • Floodplain–river ecosystems: lateral connections and the implications of human interference

    Martin C. Thoms

  • Environmental effects of flow regulation on the lower river Murray, Australia

    K. F. Walker;M. C. Thoms

  • The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis: Toward Conceptual Cohesiveness in River Science

    James H. Thorp;Martin C. Thoms;Michael D. Delong

  • An assessment of the ecological impacts of inter-basin water transfers, and their threats to river basin integrity and conservation

    Bryan R. Davies;Martin Thoms;Michael Meador

  • Spatial and temporal variation in fish-assemblage structure in isolated waterholes during the 2001 dry season of an arid-zone floodplain river, Cooper Creek, Australia

    Angela Arthington;Stephen Richard Balcombe;Glenn Wilson;Martin C. Thoms

  • Water resource development and hydrological change in a large dryland river: the Barwon–Darling River, Australia

    M.C Thoms;F Sheldon;F Sheldon

  • A framework for interdisciplinary understanding of rivers as ecosystems

    E.S.J Dollar;C.S James;K.H Rogers;Martin Thoms

  • Linking Ecosystem Services, Rehabilitation, and River Hydrogeomorphology

    James H. Thorp;Joseph E. Flotemersch;Michael D. Delong;Andrew Fowler Casper

  • Prediction and assessment of local stream habitat features using large‐scale catchment characteristics

    Nerida M. Davies;Richard H. Norris;Martin C. Thoms

  • Dryland Rivers: Their Ecology, Conservation and Management

    B. R. Davies;M. C. Thoms;K. F. Walker;J. H. O'Keeffe

  • Persistence of aquatic refugia between flow pulses in a dryland river system (Cooper Creek, Australia)

    Stephen K. Hamilton;Stuart E. Bunn;Martin C. Thoms;Jonathan C. Marshall

  • Fish assemblages of an Australian dryland river: abundance, assemblage structure and recruitment patterns in the Warrego River, Murray-Darling Basin

    Stephen R. Balcombe;Angela H. Arthington;Neal D. Foster;Martin C. Thoms

  • An ecosystem approach for determining environmental water allocations in Australian dryland river systems: the role of geomorphology

    Martin Thoms;Fran Sheldon

  • Identifying spatial and temporal patterns in the hydrological character of the Condamine–Balonne river, Australia, using multivariate statistics

    Martin C. Thoms;Melissa Parsons

  • Lowland rivers: an Australian introduction

    Martin C. Thoms;Fran Sheldon;Fran Sheldon

  • ESTABLISHING THE CONDITION OF LOWLAND FLOODPLAIN RIVERS : A PALAEO-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH

    M. C. Thoms;R. W. Ogden;M. A. Reid

  • Introduction to the Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis

    James H. Thorp;Martin C. Thoms;Michael D. Delong

  • Scales of macroinvertebrate distribution in relation to the hierarchical organization of river systems

    Melissa Parsons;Martin C. Thoms;Richard H. Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Fran Sheldon
Fran Sheldon Griffith University
James H. Thorp
James H. Thorp University of Kansas
Richard H. Norris
Richard H. Norris University of Canberra
Angela Arthington
Angela Arthington Griffith University
Keith F. Walker
Keith F. Walker University of Adelaide
Jon Olley
Jon Olley Griffith University
Geoffrey E. Petts
Geoffrey E. Petts University of Westminster
Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
David Gilvear
David Gilvear Plymouth University
Paul J. Wood
Paul J. Wood Loughborough University

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