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Phillip Spencer Lake

Phillip Spencer Lake

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
16805
World Ranking
3384
National Ranking
261

Overview

Phillip Spencer Lake is affiliated with Monash University in Australia, where their research mainly focuses on environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental chemistry.

Lake's research topics cover various aspects of hydrology and sediment transport processes, fish ecology and management studies, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications, including two notable papers:

  • A novel method reveals how channel retentiveness and stocks of detritus (CPOM) vary among streams differing in bed roughness (2020, Freshwater Biology)
  • A large-scale field experiment across six rivers illustrates how the effects of resource enrichment are context dependent (2023, Oecologia)

Frequent co-authors on their research include William D. Bovill, Barbara J. Downes, Nick Bond, Paul Reich, and Rhys A. Coleman.

Lake's research findings have appeared in venues such as Freshwater Biology and Oecologia.

Best Publications

  • Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts

    E Bernhardt;Margaret Palmer;J Allan;G Alexander

  • Standards for ecologically successful river restoration

    M.A. Palmer;E.S. Bernhardt;J. D. Allan;P.S. Lake

  • Disturbance, patchiness, and diversity in streams

    Phillip S Lake

  • Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters

    Phillip S Lake

  • Invasional 'meltdown' on an oceanic island

    Dennis Jefferie O'Dowd;Peter T Green;Phillip S Lake

  • Linking ecological theory with stream restoration

    Phillip Spencer Lake;Nicholas Restall Bond;Paul Reich

  • Monitoring Ecological Impacts - Concepts and practice in flowing waters

    Barbara J. Downes;Leon A. Barmuta;Peter G. Fairweather;Daniel P. Faith

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

    Alison J King;Paul Humphries;Phillip S Lake

  • The ecology of two intermittent streams in Victoria, Australia.: III. Temporal changes in faunal composition

    A.J. Boulton;P.S. Lake

  • Local habitat restoration in streams: Constraints on the effectiveness of restoration for stream biota

    Nicholas Restall Bond;Phillip S Lake

  • HABITAT STRUCTURE AND REGULATION OF LOCAL SPECIES DIVERSITY IN A STONY, UPLAND STREAM

    Barbara J. Downes;P. S. Lake;E. S. G. Schreiber;Alena Glaister

  • Spatial variation in the distribution of stream invertebrates: implications of patchiness for models of community organization

    Barbara J. Downes;P.S. Lake;E.S.G. Schreiber

  • Fish larvae and the management of regulated rivers

    Paul Humphries;Phillip S Lake

  • Energy and nutrient fluxes from rivers and streams into terrestrial food webs

    Andrea Alleyne Ballinger;Phillip Spencer Lake

  • On the maturing of restoration: Linking ecological research and restoration

    Phillip S Lake

  • Global Change and the Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Impacts on Linkages between Above-Sediment and Sediment Biota

    Phillip S Lake;Margaret A Palmer;Peter Biro;Jonathan Cole

  • Habitat structure, resources and diversity: the separate effects of surface roughness and macroalgae on stream invertebrates

    B. J. Downes;P. S. Lake;E. S. G. Schreiber;A. Glaister

  • Characterizing fish-habitat associations in streams as the first step in ecological restoration

    Nicholas Restall Bond;Phillip S Lake

  • FORECASTING NEW ZEALAND MUDSNAIL INVASION RANGE: MODEL COMPARISONS USING NATIVE AND INVADED RANGES

    Sarina Edlyn Loo;Ralph Charles Mac Nally;Phillip Spencer Lake

  • Ecological risk to aquatic systems from salinity increases

    Barry T. Hart;P. S. Lake;J. Angus Webb;Michael R. Grace

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara J. Downes
Barbara J. Downes University of Melbourne
Leon A. Barmuta
Leon A. Barmuta University of Tasmania
Peter G. Fairweather
Peter G. Fairweather Flinders University
Daniel P. Faith
Daniel P. Faith Australian Museum
Bruce D. Mapstone
Bruce D. Mapstone CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Michael J. Keough
Michael J. Keough University of Melbourne
Nick Bond
Nick Bond La Trobe University
Paul Reich
Paul Reich Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Ralph Charles Mac Nally
Ralph Charles Mac Nally University of Canberra
Margaret A. Palmer
Margaret A. Palmer University of Maryland, College Park

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