Dr Lu explains new research that suggests aquatic plants play a role in toxic algal blooms
Does the die-back of aquatic plants enhance algal blooms that contaminate drinking water?
New fellow to explore how toxic metals reshape frog metamorphosis
We are excited to be hosting a new Discovery Early Career Researcher Award recently awarded to Dr Chantal Lanctôt by the Australian Research Council. Dr Lanctôt began her productive career in ecotoxicology at the University of Ottawa. She comes to the Australian Rivers Institute via Central Queensland University, where she was recently awarded her PhD, for [...]
New funding to predict cumulative impacts on coastal ecosystems
A new project aims to help manage coastal ecosystems that are threatened by cumulative impacts
Fire alters soil nutrients
Fire has unexpected impacts on nutrients cycling in soils
Knowledge, Culture, Ecologies conference, Chile
Sarah Laborde is off to Chile next week. She will first visit colleagues at the University of Concepcion, where she will give a talk in the Department of Geography on her current collaboration with Sue Jackson, river ecologists and Traditional Owners of the Fitzroy River around the cultural dimensions of river flows. She will then be in [...]
When streams dry, do important ecological processes still occur?
The sediment beneath a rivers surface can be a ‘hotspot’ of organic carbon decomposition, even when the surface water dries“ explains Dr Ryan Burrows.
Improving systematic conservation planning to account for species traits
Incorporating species traits into systematic conservation planning can lead to more adequacy, explains Emilia Decker.
Water and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
In 2015, the United Nations new development goals, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were brought into effect (http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html). The SDGs seek to achieve substantial country-level improvements across 17 broad development goals. The aim is that by 2030, all countries will need to measure and report on their progress towards achieving 169 separate sustainable [...]
What does managing researchers mean? Herding cats, or facilitating chaos?
Nadine explains what it means to manage the Australian Rivers Institute
Social and Ecohydrological Science Connections for Environmental Flows
ARI members attend a workshop on an interdisciplinary approach to Environmental Flows
Catchment to Coast 