Email christoph.matthaei@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 7975
Research Interests
- Disturbance ecology in running water ecosystems (since 1992)
- Experimental design and statistical data analysis (since 1993)
- Effects of human land use activities on running water ecosystems, especially impacts agriculture and multiple stressors (since 2002), also water abstraction and other flow regime changes (environmental flow ecology; since 1990)
- River restoration (since 2000)
- Estuary ecology (since 2005; PhD Antje Bierschenk)
- Pond ecology and life history strategies of aquatic insects (since 2012; PhD Tanya Dann)
- Ecology of shallow lakeshores (since 2008)
Potential Postgraduate Projects
- Projects are possible in all my research areas. Please feel free to contact me by e-mail or phone for more information.
Current Post-Docs, Postgraduate Students and Short Project Titles
- Dr Andreas Bruder (MPI-funded Post-Doc): DCD – a new agricultural stressor for aquatic ecosystems?
- Romana Salis (PhD) DCD - a new agricultural stressor?
- Katharina Lange (PhD) Modelling multiple-stressor effects on farmland streams
- Javad Ramezani (PhD) Effects of intensive catchment land use on fish communities and their invertebrate prey
- Antje Bierschenk (PhD) Impacts of human land use practices on riverine, estuarine and marine ecosystems
- Tanya Dann (PhD) Life history strategies of New Zealand damselflies
- Jon McCallum (MSc) The ecology of the invasive alga didymo
- Yulia Kiseleva (BSc Hons) DCD effects on ecosystem processes
Other Links
Please see my Google Scholar Profile for a complete list (updated weekly) of my publications:
Stream Team research projects (Picasa webalbum)
Keywords
Aquatic ecology, disturbance, multiple stressors, restoration, human land uses, experimental design