Environmental flow management is often targeted at restoring populations of iconic species. Equally important is restoring and maintaining the broader ecosystem functions such as food web productivity. In this project I’ve been leading research to fill fundamental knowledge gaps on the relationship between flow regimes and food web structure and functioning, and the developing bioenergetic modelling framework as a tool to assess how environmental water is influencing food web functioning in the Murray-Darling Basin. This work is funded by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder as part of the FLOW-MER program. I work with a broad range of people including Paul McInerney (CSIRO), Darren Giling (CSIRO), and Jo Bennet (CSU).

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Seminar: Murray-Darling Basin Food Webs

Article: Doing the mesocosm dance

Seminar: Developing a bioenergetic food web model