B Science (Hons), PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute
Contact details for Doctor Andrew Brooks1
Research Expertise
- Riparian vegetation controls on channel morphology
- The role of wood (LWD) as a control on channel morphology
- The role of European land use practices on changing channel morphology and sediment production in Australian rivers
- River rehabilitation using wood, vegetation and stock management
- Geomorphology of rivers in the Australian wet-dry tropics
- Erosion processes in wet-dry tropical river systems
Publications
S.J. Mika, J.T. Hoyle, G. Kyle, T. Howell, B.J. Wolfenden, K. Fryirs,
D. Keating, A.J. Boulton, G.J. Brierley, A. Brooks, M.R. Leishman, D.S.
Ryder, A.H. Arthington, R. Creese, M. Dahm, C. Miller, B. Pusey, M.
Sanders and J. Spencer (in review).
Targeting drivers, stressors and response mechanisms to inform the
restoration of complex ecological systems: a conceptual modelling
approach. Restoration Ecology.
Hoyle, J., Brooks, A.P., Brierley, G.J., Fryirs, K. and Lander, J. (in
press). Spatial variability in the timing, nature and extent of channel
response to typical human disturbance along the Upper Hunter River, New
South Wales, Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
Hoyle, J, Brierley, G, Brooks, A. and Fryirs, K. (in press) Gravel
organisation along the Upper Hunter River. Gravel Bed Rivers 6.
Brooks, A.P., Howell, T., Abbe, T.B., and Arthington, A. (2006).
Confronting hysteresis: wood based river rehabilitation in highly
altered riverine landscapes of south-eastern Australia. Geomorphology,
79 pp. 395-422.
Brierley, G.J., Brooks, A.P., Fryirs, K.F. and Taylor, M.P. (2005) Did
humid-temperate rivers in the old and new worlds respond differently to
clearance of riparian vegetation and woody debris? Progress in
Physical Geography 29 (1) pp. 27-49.
Brooks, A.P. Brierley, G.J. (2004) Framing realistic river
rehabilitation programs in light of altered sediment transfer
relationships: Lessons from East Gippsland, Australia. Geomorphology
58 pp 107-123
Brooks, A.P., Gehrke, P., Jansen, J.D., Abbe, T.B. (2004) Experimental
reintroduction of woody debris on the Williams River, NSW: geomorphic
and ecological responses. River Research and Application 20
pp 513-536.
Abbe, T.B., A. P. Brooks, and D.R. Montgomery (2003). Wood in
river rehabilitation and management. In S. V. Gregory, K L. Boyer,
and A M. Gurnell (editors) The Ecology and Management of Wood in
World Rivers. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda
444 pp
Brooks, A.P., Brierley, G.J. and Millar, R.G. (2003). The
long-term control of vegetation and woody debris on channel and
floodplain evolution: insights from a paired catchment study between a
pristine and a disturbed lowland alluvial river in southeastern
Australia. Geomorphology 51, 7 29
Brooks A.P. (2003). A conceptual model of geomorphic changes to
catchments and river channels in southeastern Australia since European
settlement causes and implications. In: Albrecht G. (ed) Airs,
Waters, Places Transdisciplinary Research in Ecosystem Health
University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW.
Brooks, A.P. and Brierley, G.J (2002) Mediated equilibrium: The
influence of riparian vegetation and wood on the long term character and
behaviour of a near pristine river. Earth Surface
Process and Landforms 27, 343 367.
Brooks, A.P. and Brierley, G.J. (2000) The role of European
disturbance in the metamorphosis of lower Bega River, in Brizga, S.O.
and Finlayson B., (eds.) River management: The Australasian
experience. John Wiley and Sons, Sussex. 221 246.