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Overview

Paul Humphries is affiliated with Charles Sturt University in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science, with a primary focus on nature and landscape conservation and ecology. Their research spans several interrelated subfields, including global and planetary change, aquatic science, and general health professions.

The scientist's recent published work covers a diverse range of topics related to aquatic and environmental sciences. Notable papers include:

  • "Mortality events resulting from Australia's catastrophic fires threaten aquatic biota" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Fragmentation of lateral connectivity and fish population dynamics in large rivers" (2022, Fish and Fisheries)
  • "Loss of Earth's old, wise, and large animals" (2024, Science)
  • "Flood ecology" (2024, BioScience)
  • "Hyriid mussels (Unionoida) enhance benthic organic matter and meiofauna densities in a temperate Australian river" (2021, Freshwater Biology)

Their research largely concentrates on fish ecology and management, fish biology and ecology, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology. Additional interests include hydrology and sediment transport processes, flood risk assessment and management, as well as marine and fisheries research.

Paul Humphries has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Nicole McCasker
  • R. Keller Kopf
  • Jennifer Bond
  • Dirk Spennemann
  • Rick J. Stoffels

The researcher has contributed to publications across multiple venues. Their most frequent publication outlet is OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University. Other venues include Freshwater Biology, Fish and Fisheries, Science, and BioScience.

In addition to journal articles, Paul Humphries has published a book titled The Life and Times of the Murray Cod (2023) with CSIRO Publishing, contributing to the documentation of native fish species and their environmental contexts.

Best Publications

  • Fish, Flows and Flood Plains: Links between Freshwater Fishes and their Environment in the Murray-Darling River System, Australia

    Paul Humphries;Alison J. King;John D. Koehn

  • Fish recruitment on floodplains: the roles of patterns of flooding and life history characteristics

    Alison J King;Paul Humphries;Phillip S Lake

  • River regulation and fish larvae: variation through space and time

    Paul Humphries;Paul Humphries;Luciano G. Serafini;Alison J. King;Alison J. King

  • Fish, Flows and Flood Plains: Links between Freshwater Fishes and their Environment in the Murray-Darling River System, Australia

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  • Drought and aquatic ecosystems: an introduction

    Paul Humphries;Paul Humphries;Darren S. Baldwin

  • Fish larvae and the management of regulated rivers

    Paul Humphries;Phillip S Lake

  • Historical Impacts on River Fauna, Shifting Baselines, and Challenges for Restoration

    Paul Humphries;Kirk O. Winemiller

  • The River Wave Concept: Integrating River Ecosystem Models

    Paul Humphries;Hubert Keckeis;Brian Finlayson

  • Spawning time and early life history of Murray cod, Maccullochella peelii peelii (Mitchell) in an Australian river

    Paul Humphries

  • Anthropocene Baselines: Assessing Change and Managing Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Aquatic Ecosystems

    R. Keller Kopf;C. Max Finlayson;Paul Humphries;Neil C. Sims

  • The influence of spatial scale and habitat arrangement on diel patterns of habitat use by two lowland river fishes

    David A. Crook;David A. Crook;Alistar I. Robertson;Alison J. King;Alison J. King;Paul Humphries;Paul Humphries

  • Patterns and processes in the drift of early developmental stages of fish in rivers: a review

    Aaron Lechner;Hubert Keckeis;Paul Humphries

  • Aquatic macrophytes, macroinvertebrate associations and water levels in a lowland Tasmanian river

    Paul Humphries

  • Confronting the risks of large-scale invasive species control.

    R. Keller Kopf;Dale G. Nimmo;Paul Humphries;Lee J. Baumgartner

  • The fish community in the shallows of a temperate australian estuary: Relationships with the aquatic macrophyte Ruppia megacarpaand environmental variables

    Paul Humphries;Ian C. Potter;Neil R. Loneragan

  • Flow-related patterns in abundance and composition of the fish fauna of a degraded Australian lowland river

    Paul Humphries;Paul Brown;John Douglas;Andrew Pickworth

  • Historical Indigenous use of aquatic resources in Australia's Murray‐Darling Basin, and its implications for river management

    Paul Humphries

  • Hydraulic forces impact larval fish drift in the free flowing section of a large European river

    Aaron Lechner;Hubert Keckeis;Elisabeth Schludermann;Paul Humphries

  • Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes

    Paul Humphries;Keith Walker

  • Creating a disturbance : manipulating slackwaters in a lowland river.

    Paul Humphries;Paul Humphries;Robert A. Cook;Adam J. Richardson;Luciano G. Serafini

  • Riverscape recruitment: A conceptual synthesis of drivers of fish recruitment in rivers

    Paul Humphries;Alison J King;Nicole McCasker;R. Keller Kopf

  • Relationship between the habitat and diet of three species of atherinids and three species of gobies in a temperate Australian estuary

    P. Humphries;I. C. Potter

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison J. King
Alison J. King Charles Darwin University
Ian C. Potter
Ian C. Potter Murdoch University
Phillip Spencer Lake
Phillip Spencer Lake Monash University
Keith F. Walker
Keith F. Walker University of Adelaide
Helmut Habersack
Helmut Habersack BOKU University
Nick Bond
Nick Bond La Trobe University
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
David A. Crook
David A. Crook Charles Darwin University
Alain Vanderplasschen
Alain Vanderplasschen University of Liège
Ross M. Thompson
Ross M. Thompson University of Canberra

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