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D-Index
87
Citations
40757
World Ranking
540
National Ranking
51

Overview

Stuart E. Bunn is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has a research focus within the broad domain of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Aquatic Science, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics are diverse, with a strong emphasis on Fish Ecology and Management Studies. Other main subjects of study include Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Water resources management and optimization, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

Among the frequent publication venues where Stuart E. Bunn's research appears are:

  • Freshwater Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Ecological Indicators

Stuart E. Bunn has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Ben Stewart-Koster
  • Martin J. Kainz
  • Fen Guo
  • Christopher E. Ndehedehe
  • Johan Rockström

Their recent published papers reflect engagement with global and urgent environmental issues, including:

  • "Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan," 2020, BioScience
  • "Safe and just Earth system boundaries," 2023, Nature
  • "Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet," 2021, Earth's Future
  • "Achieving a nature- and people-positive future," 2022, One Earth
  • "A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health-Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations," 2024, The Lancet Planetary Health

Best Publications

  • Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Peter B. McIntyre;Peter B. McIntyre;M. O. Gessner;D. Dudgeon

  • Basic principles and ecological consequences of altered flow regimes for aquatic biodiversity.

    Stuart E. Bunn;Angela H. Arthington

  • The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards

    N. Leroy Poff;Brian D. Richter;Angela H. Arthington;Stuart E. Bunn

  • THE CHALLENGE OF PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW RULES TO SUSTAIN RIVER ECOSYSTEMS

    Angela H. Arthington;Stuart E. Bunn;N. LeRoy Poff;Robert J. Naiman

  • Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan.

    David Tickner;Jeffrey J Opperman;Robin Abell;Mike Acreman

  • Lipid corrections in carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses: comparison of chemical extraction and modelling methods

    John M. Logan;Timothy D. Jardine;Timothy J. Miller;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Ecosystem measures of river health and their response to riparian and catchment degradation

    S. E. Bunn;P. M. Davies;T. D. Mosisch

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Sources of organic carbon supporting the food web of an arid zone floodplain river

    Stuart Bunn;Peter M. Davies;Michelle Anne Winning

  • Effects of acid washing on stable isotope ratios of C and N in penaeid shrimp and seagrass: Implications for food-web studies using multiple stable isotopes

    S. E. Bunn;N. R. Loneragan;M. A. Kempster

  • Flow variability in dryland rivers: boom, bust and the bits in between

    Stuart E. Bunn;Martin C. Thoms;Stephen K. Hamilton;Samantha J. Capon

  • The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

    Angela H. Arthington;Anik Bhaduri;Stuart E. Bunn;Sue E. Jackson

  • How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems

    Michael T. Brett;Stuart E. Bunn;Sudeep Chandra;Aaron W. E. Galloway

  • Legitimizing fluvial ecosystems as users of water: An overview

    Robert J. Naiman;Stuart Bunn;Christer Nilsson;Geoffrey E. Petts

  • Erratum: Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

    C. J. Vörösmarty;P. B. McIntyre;M. O. Gessner;D. Dudgeon

  • River flows and estuarine ecosystems: Implications for coastal fisheries from a review and a case study of the Logan River, southeast Queensland

    N.R. Loneragan;S.E. Bunn

  • Are mangroves and seagrasses sources of organic carbon for penaeid prawns in a tropical Australian estuary? A multiple stable-isotope study

    N. R. Loneragan;S. E. Bunn;D. M. Kellaway

  • When the river runs dry: human and ecological values of dry riverbeds

    Alisha L Steward;Daniel von Schiller;Klement Tockner;Jonathan C Marshall

  • What sources of organic carbon drive food webs in billabongs? A study based on stable isotope analysis

    Stuart E. Bunn;Paul I. Boon

  • Comparative Evaluation of Environmental Flow Assessment Techniques: Review of Methods

    A. H. Arthington;S.O. Brizga;B.J. Pusey;R.O. McCosker

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Jardine
Timothy D. Jardine University of Saskatchewan
Jane M. Hughes
Jane M. Hughes Griffith University
Fran Sheldon
Fran Sheldon Griffith University
Michael M. Douglas
Michael M. Douglas University of Western Australia
Stephen K. Hamilton
Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University
Neil E. Pettit
Neil E. Pettit University of Western Australia
Mark J. Kennard
Mark J. Kennard Griffith University
Michele A. Burford
Michele A. Burford Griffith University
Angela Arthington
Angela Arthington Griffith University
Bradley James Pusey
Bradley James Pusey University of Western Australia

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