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Simon M. Mitrovic is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, particularly focusing on aquatic ecosystems and related disciplines. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics within aquatic environments, covering aspects such as:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Simon M. Mitrovic's recent publications illustrate these research interests through studies on ecological impacts and environmental processes. Notable papers include:

  • Wastewater effluents cause microbial community shifts and change trophic status (2021) published in Water Research
  • Enchytraeus crypticus Avoid Soil Spiked with Microplastic (2020) published in Toxics
  • The effect of varied dam release mechanisms and storage volume on downstream river thermal regimes (2020) published in Limnologica
  • Assessment of the causes and solutions to the significant 2018-19 fish deaths in the Lower Darling River, New South Wales, Australia (2021) published in Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Micronutrients as growth limiting factors in cyanobacterial blooms; a survey of freshwaters in South East Australia (2021) published in Aquatic Sciences

The main publication venues where Simon M. Mitrovic frequently contributes include:

  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Water Research
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Conservation Physiology
  • Harmful Algae

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research. Frequently co-authoring with several researchers, the most common collaborators are:

  • Jordan A. Facey
  • James N. Hitchcock
  • Craig A. Boys
  • Laura E. Michie
  • Kenneth J. Rodgers

Best Publications

  • Use of flow management to mitigate cyanobacterial blooms in the Lower Darling River, Australia

    Simon M. Mitrovic;Lorraine Hardwick;Forugh Dorani

  • Microplastic pollution in estuaries across a gradient of human impact

    James N. Hitchcock;Simon M. Mitrovic

  • Critical flow velocities for the growth and dominance of Anabaena circinalis in some turbid freshwater rivers.

    S. M. Mitrovic;R. L. Oliver;C. Rees;L. C. Bowling

  • Tropical cyanobacterial blooms: a review of prevalence, problem taxa, toxins and influencing environmental factors

    Maxine A.D. Mowe;Simon M. Mitrovic;Richard P. Lim;Ambrose Furey

  • Bioaccumulation and harmful effects of microcystin-LR in the aquatic plants Lemna minor and Wolffia arrhiza and the filamentous alga Chladophora fracta.

    Simon M. Mitrovic;Orla Allis;Ambrose Furey;Kevin J. James

  • Wastewater effluents cause microbial community shifts and change trophic status.

    J.E. Ruprecht;S.C. Birrer;K.A. Dafforn;K.A. Dafforn;S.M. Mitrovic

  • Anatoxin-a elicits an increase in peroxidase and glutathione S-transferase activity in aquatic plants

    S. M. Mitrovic;S. Stephan Pflugmacher;K. J. James;A. Furey

  • A Review of the Effect of Trace Metals on Freshwater Cyanobacterial Growth and Toxin Production

    Jordan A Facey;Simon C Apte;Simon M Mitrovic

  • Development of blooms of Cyclotella meneghiniana and Nitzschia spp. (Bacillariophyceae) in a shallow river and estimation of effective suppression flows

    Simon M. Mitrovic;Bruce C. Chessman;Alec Davie;Estelle L. Avery

  • Amnesic shellfish poisoning toxins in bivalve molluscs in Ireland

    Kevin J. James;Marion Gillman;Mónica Fernández Amandi;Américo López-Rivera

  • Phytoplankton co-limitation by nitrogen and phosphorus in a shallow reservoir: progressing from the phosphorus limitation paradigm

    Stefanie Müller;Simon M. Mitrovic

  • Longitudinal trends in river functioning: patterns of nutrient and carbon processing in three Australian rivers.

    Wade Lynton Hadwen;Wade Lynton Hadwen;Christy Susan Fellows;Christy Susan Fellows;Douglas P. Westhorpe;Douglas P. Westhorpe;Gavin N. Rees;Gavin N. Rees

  • UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING BASELINE ISOTOPIC VARIABILITY IN RUNNING WATERS

    Timothy D Jardine;Wade L Hadwen;Stephen K Hamilton;Sally Hladyz

  • Urban beaches are environmental hotspots for antibiotic resistance following rainfall

    Richard L. Carney;Maurizio Labbate;Nachshon Siboni;Kaitlin A. Tagg

  • Rising temperatures may increase growth rates and microcystin production in tropical Microcystis species

    Maxine A.D. Mowe;Cristina Porojan;Feras Abbas;Simon M. Mitrovic;Simon M. Mitrovic

  • Responses of Estuarine Bacterioplankton, Phytoplankton and Zooplankton to Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Inorganic Nutrient Additions

    James N. Hitchcock;Simon M. Mitrovic;Tsuyoshi Kobayashi;Douglas P. Westhorpe

  • Linking fish tolerance to water quality criteria for the assessment of environmental flows: A practical method for streamflow regulation and pollution control.

    Changsen Zhao;Shengtian Yang;Junguo Liu;Changming Liu

  • Production of β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) and Its Isomers by Freshwater Diatoms.

    Jake P. Violi;Jordan A. Facey;Simon M. Mitrovic;Anne Colville

  • Prevalence of β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) and its isomers in freshwater cyanobacteria isolated from eastern Australia.

    Jake P. Violi;Simon M. Mitrovic;Anne Colville;Brendan J. Main

  • Detection of the suspected neurotoxin β-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) in cyanobacterial blooms from multiple water bodies in Eastern Australia

    Brendan J. Main;Lee C. Bowling;Matthew P. Padula;David P. Bishop

  • How benthic diatoms within natural communities respond to eight common herbicides with different modes of action.

    Rebecca J. Wood;Simon M. Mitrovic;Richard P. Lim;Ben J. Kefford

  • Different resource limitation by carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus between base flow and high flow conditions for estuarine bacteria and phytoplankton

    James N. Hitchcock;Simon M. Mitrovic

  • Independent Assessment of the 2018–19 fish deaths in the lower Darling

    R Vertessy;D Barma;L Baumgartner;N Bond

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Lim
Richard P. Lim University of Technology Sydney
Darren C. J. Yeo
Darren C. J. Yeo National University of Singapore
Ambrose Furey
Ambrose Furey Munster Technological University
Darren S. Baldwin
Darren S. Baldwin Charles Sturt University
Fran Sheldon
Fran Sheldon Griffith University
Nick Bond
Nick Bond La Trobe University
Katherine A. Dafforn
Katherine A. Dafforn Macquarie University
Ben J. Kefford
Ben J. Kefford University of Canberra
Justin R. Seymour
Justin R. Seymour University of Technology Sydney
Daniel L. Roelke
Daniel L. Roelke Texas A&M University

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