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Overview

Robert M. McDowall was affiliated with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. Their academic work contributed primarily to the Arts and Humanities, with specific focus on subfields including Museology, Language and Linguistics, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their research topics included Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, and Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding cultural phenomena and literary expressions.

McDowall published in venues such as Գիտական աշխատություններ, which featured their paper titled "Childlore And Children's Folklore In The Uk And In Armenia (Historical and Current Perspective)" in 2021.

  • Childlore And Children's Folklore In The Uk And In Armenia (Historical and Current Perspective), 2021, Գիտական աշխատություններ

Their collaborations included working with Hasmik Matikyan, with whom they co-authored at least one publication.

  • Hasmik Matikyan

Best Publications

  • Aquatic productivity and the evolution of diadromous fish migration.

    Mart R. Gross;Ronald M. Coleman;Robert M. McDowall

  • New Zealand freshwater fishes: A natural history and guide

    R. M. McDowall

  • Diadromy in fishes : migrations between freshwater and marine environments

    R. M. McDowall

  • On amphidromy, a distinct form of diadromy in aquatic organisms

    R M McDowall

  • Crying wolf, crying foul, or crying shame: alien salmonids and a biodiversity crisis in the southern cool-temperate galaxioid fishes?

    R. M. McDowall

  • The evolution of diadromy in fishes (revisited) and its place in phylogenetic analysis

    R.M. McDowall

  • The galaxiid fishes of New Zealand

    R M Mcdowall

  • Diadromy in Fishes

    Boyd E. Kynard;Robert M. McDowall

  • New Zealand Freshwater Fishes

    P. L. Cadwallader;R. M. McDowall

  • Diadromy: Origins and Definitions of Terminology

    R. M. Mcdowall

  • Impacts of Introduced Salmonids on Native Galaxiids in New Zealand Upland Streams: A New Look at an Old Problem

    R. M. McDowall

  • The galaxiid fishes of South America

    R. M. McDOWALL

  • Generalized Tracks and Dispersal in Biogeography

    R. M. McDowall

  • Accumulating evidence for a dispersal biogeography of southern cool temperate freshwater fishes

    R. M. McDowall

  • New Zealand freshwater fishes: A guide and natural history

    R. M. McDowall

  • Jordan’s and other ecogeographical rules, and the vertebral number in fishes

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  • Why be amphidromous: expatrial dispersal and the place of source and sink population dynamics?

    R. M. McDowall

  • Interactions of the Native and Alien Faunas of New Zealand and the Problem of Fish Introductions

    R. M. McDowall

  • Different kinds of diadromy: Different kinds of conservation problems

    R. M. McDowall

  • Gamekeepers for the nation: the story of New Zealand's acclimatisation societies 1861-1990

    Rm. McDowall

  • Isozyme analysis of Galaxias species (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) from the Taieri River, South Island, New Zealand: a species complex revealed

    Richard M. Allibone;Todd A. Crowl;Jean M. Holmes;Tania M. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Waters
Jonathan M. Waters University of Otago
Graham P. Wallis
Graham P. Wallis University of Otago
Brent Alloway
Brent Alloway University of Auckland
Christopher P. Burridge
Christopher P. Burridge University of Tasmania
Mark V. H. Wilson
Mark V. H. Wilson Colorado College
Mart R. Gross
Mart R. Gross University of Toronto
Dave Craw
Dave Craw University of Otago
Todd A. Crowl
Todd A. Crowl Florida International University
Colin R. Townsend
Colin R. Townsend University of Otago

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