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6519
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Overview

Peter Gell is affiliated with Federation University Australia and focuses on research within Environmental Science, contributing extensively to this field with 67 publications. Their work spans several key subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research addresses various scientific topics, mainly concentrating on Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Peter Gell has published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to Marine and Freshwater Research, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Forest Ecology and Management, Pacific Conservation Biology, and BIO Web of Conferences.

Some of their recent notable papers include the following:

  • Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience, 2021, Anthropocene
  • Community structure and ecological responses to hydrological changes in benthic algal assemblages in a regulated river: application of algal metrics and multivariate techniques in river management, 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Application of portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometer for rapid field based determination of TCE in soil vapour and groundwater, 2020, Environmental Technology & Innovation
  • The carbon stock potential of the restored mangrove ecosystem of Pasarbanggi, Rembang, Central Java, 2023, Marine Environmental Research
  • Continuing the discussion about ecological futures for the lower Murray River (Australia) in the Anthropocene, 2021, Marine and Freshwater Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include C. Max Finlayson, Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati, Keely Mills, Nick C. Davidson, and Lindsey Gillson.

Best Publications

  • Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

    Andrea J. Reid;Andrew K. Carlson;Irena F. Creed;Erika J. Eliason

  • A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands

    Ellen R. Herbert;Paul Boon;Amy J. Burgin;Scott C. Neubauer

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Regime shifts, thresholds and multiple stable states in freshwater ecosystems; a critical appraisal of the evidence.

    Samantha J. Capon;A. Jasmyn J. Lynch;Nick Bond;Bruce C. Chessman;Bruce C. Chessman

  • Diatom-inferred salinity in palaeolakes: An indirect tracer of climate change

    Françoise Gasse;Philip Barker;Peter A. Gell;Sherilyn C. Fritz

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

    Nathalie Dubois;Nathalie Dubois;Émilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

  • The use of diatoms to assess past and present water quality

    M. A. Reid;J. C. Tibby;D. Penny;P. A. Gell

  • When trends intersect: The challenge of protecting freshwater ecosystems under multiple land use and hydrological intensification scenarios

    Jenny A. Davis;Anthony P. O'Grady;Allan P. Dale;Angela H. Arthington

  • The status of wetlands and the predicted effects of global climate change: the situation in Australia

    C Finlayson;Jennifer Davis;Peter Gell;Richard Kingsford

  • The Development of a Diatom Database for Inferring Lake Salinity, Western Victoria, Australia: Towards a Quantitative Approach for Reconstructing Past Climates

    Peter A. Gell

  • Seasonal and interannual variations in diatom assemblages in Murray River connected wetlands in north-west Victoria, Australia

    Peter A. Gell;Ian R. Sluiter;Jennie Fluin

  • Accessing limnological change and variability using fossil diatom assemblages, south‐east Australia

    Peter A Gell;John Tibby;Jennie Fluin;Paul Joseph Leahy

  • A diatom species index for bioassessment of Australian rivers

    Bruce C. Chessman;Nina Bate;Peter A. Gell;Peter A. Gell;Peter Newall

  • Social-ecological systems in the Anthropocene: The need for integrating social and biophysical records at regional scales

    JA Dearing;B Acma;S Bub;FM Chambers

  • The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

    Martin A Williams;John R Prescott;John Chappell;Donald Adamson

  • Tareena Billabong – a palaeolimnological history of an ever-changing wetland, Chowilla Floodplain, lower Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

    Peter A. Gell;Sorell Bulpin;Peter Wallbrink;Gary Hancock

  • An Illustrated Guide to Common Stream Diatom Species from Temperate Australia

    J. Sonneman;A. Sincock;J. Fluin;M. Reid

  • Palaeolimnological evidence for the independent evolution of neighbouring terminal lakes, the Murray Darling Basin, Australia

    Jennie Fluin;Peter Gell;Deborah Haynes;John Tibby

  • The Role of Substrate Type on Benthic Diatom Assemblages in the Daly and Roper Rivers of the Australian Wet/Dry Tropics

    Simon A. Townsend;Peter A. Gell

  • Anthropogenic acceleration of sediment accretion in lowland floodplain wetlands, Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

    Peter Gell;Jennie Fluin;John Tibby;Gary Hancock

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems

    Nathalie Dubois;Emilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

Frequent Co-Authors

John Tibby
John Tibby University of Adelaide
Gary Hancock
Gary Hancock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
C. Max Finlayson
C. Max Finlayson Charles Sturt University
Richard W. Battarbee
Richard W. Battarbee University College London
Suzanne McGowan
Suzanne McGowan University of Nottingham
Roger J. Flower
Roger J. Flower University College London
Neil L. Rose
Neil L. Rose University College London
Keith F. Walker
Keith F. Walker University of Adelaide
Jasmine E. Saros
Jasmine E. Saros University of Maine
Helen Bennion
Helen Bennion University College London

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