Email colin.townsend@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Publications:
Professor Townsend's publications are available here
Teaching:
- General ecology
- Community ecology
- Ecosystem ecology
- The ecology of streams and rivers
Research Interests:
- The ecosystem impact of multiple stressors
- The ecology of invaders
- The influence of land use on river ecosystems
- The impact of flow disturbances on stream communities
Current Projects:
- The impact of multiple stressors on river ecology
- Concepts of river health and its measurement
- Riparian strips to reduce pathogens in streams
- The relative importance of abiotic and biotic factors for stream ecology
- Invasive fish and parasite spillback threaten native species
- Land-use consequences for downstream ecosystems
Please visit the Ecology Research Group Site
Current Postgraduate Students
- Peter Herrmann - (PhD) The effect of local disturbance history on predator impacts in stream benthic communities.
- Annika Wagenhoff – (PhD) Multiple stressors in streams.
- Francis Magdabuna – (PhD) Relative impacts of organic and conventional agriculture on stream ecosystems.
- Antje Bierschenk – (PhD) Land-use impacts on rivers and estuaries.
- Rachel Paterson - (PhD) Parasite Spillback: a cause of local extinction in native freshwater fish communities?
- Andrew Sparrow – (MSc) Invertebrate biodiversity in a floodplain.
Keywords
- stream ecology, multiple stressors, land-use impacts
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