Email christoph.matthaei@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Tel 64 3 479 5863
Teaching:
- ZOOL 318 (Freshwater Ecology, Semester 2); lecturer & course coordinator
- ZOOL 416 (Freshwater Ecology, Semester 1); lecturer
Research Interests:
- The role of disturbance in lotic ecosystems (since 1992)
- Stream/river restoration, hydraulic preferences of lotic invertebrates, and environmental flows in diverted rivers (since 1990)
- Effects of human land uses on stream ecosystems (since 2002)
- Using functional indicators (leaf decomposition rates and ecosystem metabolism) as biomonitoring tools (since 2003)
- Population dynamics, predator-prey-interactions, and testing of theoretical ecological models in experimental stream channels (since 1998)
Potential Postgraduate Projects:
- Projects possible in all five areas of my research interests
Current Postgraduate Students and Title of Projects:
- Cynthia Winkworth (PhD) Land-use conversion and Giardia in Otago rivers
- Peter Herrmann (PhD) The interplay of disturbance history and predation
- Annika Wagenhoff (PhD) Multiple stressors operating in grassland streams
- Francis Magbanua (PhD) Stream responses to conventional, integrated and organic farming practises
- Robin Holmes (MSc) Multiple stressor effects on invertebrates in pasture streams
- Antje Bierschenk (PhD) Impacts of human land use practices on riverine, estuarine and marine ecosystems
- Jeremy Piggott (MSc) Effects of nutrients, sediment and water temperature on pasture streams
- Andrew Sparrow (MSc) Floodplain-river interactions in a flood-prone river
At the University of Munich, Germany:
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Michael Effenberger PhD The interplay of disturbance history and competition
- Harald Huber PhD Effects of large-scale river restoration
Other Links :
Keywords:
- stream ecology, disturbance, restoration, human land uses
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