Griffith University

B Science (Hons), PhD

Senior Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Doctor Bradley J. Pusey

Research Expertise

• Freshwater fish ecology
  
• Environmental flow allocation
  
• Incorporation of indigenous knowledge in decision making
  
• Riverine food webs
  
• Biogeography and evolution of freshwater fishes
  
• Conservation biology

Recent Publications

Books/ Reports

• Pusey,B.J., Kennard, M.J. & Arthington, A.H. (2004).  Freshwater Fishes of North-eastern Australia.  CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.  645 pp.
• Pusey, B.J. (Editor).  (in press, due March 2011). Aquatic biodiversity of the Wet-Dry Topics of  Northern Australia: patterns, impacts and future. Charles Darwin University Press. 231 pp.

Journal articles

• Morgan, D., Allen, G., Pusey, B. and burrows, D. (in press). Freshwater fishes of the Kimberley region, north-western Australia Zootaxa.
• Perna, C.N., Cappo, M., Pusey, B.J., and Burrows D.W. (in press).  Removal of aquatic weeds greatly enhances fish community richness and diversity: an example from the Burdekin River floodplain, tropical Australia.  River Research and Application.
• Howell, T., Arthington, A., Pusey, B., Brooks, A., Creese, B., Chaseling, J. (2010). Responses of fish to experimental introduction of structural woody habitat in riffles and pools of the Hunter River, New South Wales, Australia.  Restoration Ecology DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00747.x
• Davis, A.M., Pearson, R.G., Pusey, B.J., Perna, C., Morgan, D.L. and Burrows, D. (2011). Trophic ecology of northern Australia’s terapontids: ontogenetic dietary shifts and feeding classification.  Journal of Fish Biology 78: 265-286.
• Davis, A..M., and Pusey, B.J. (2010).  Trophic polymorphism and the influence of water clarity in northern Australian Scortum (Pisces: Terapontidae).  Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 19: 638-643.
• Cook,B.D., Kennard, M.J., Real, K., Pusey, B.J. and Hughes, J.M. (2010).   Landscape genetic analysis of the tropical freshwater fish Mogurnda mogurnda (Eleotridae) in a monsoonal river basin: importance of hydrographic factors and population history.  Freshwater Biology doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02527.x
• Mika1, S. Hoyle, J.T., Garreth, K., Howell T., Wolfenden, B.J. Ryder, D.S,. Keating, D., Boulton, A.J., Brierley, G.J., Brook, A.P., Fryirs, K.A. Leishman, M.R., Sanders, M., Arthington, A.H.,  Creese, R.,  Dahm, R., Miller, C.,  Pusey, B.J. and Spink, A.M. (in press). Inside the ‘black box’ of river restoration: using catchment history to identify disturbance and response mechanisms to set targets for process-based restoration..  Ecology and Society 15 (4): 8.  Online http://www.ecologyandsociety.org.Vol15/iss4/art8/.
• Rayner, T.S., Pusey, B.J., Pearson, R.G. and Godfrey, P.C. (2010).  Food web dynamics in an Australian Wet Tropics river.  Marine and Freshwater Research.61:909-917.
• Chan, T., Hart, B., Kennard, M.,  Pusey, B., Shenton, W., Douglas, M., Valentine, E. and Patel, S. (2010). Bayesian networking models for environmental flow decision making: 2. Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1456
• Pusey, B.J., Arthington, A.H., Stewart-Koster, B., Kennard, M.J., and Read, M.G. (2010).  Widespread omnivory in a freshwater fish assemblages of a hydrologically variable northern Australian river.   Journal of Fish Biology. 77:731-753.
• Kennard, M.J., Pusey, B.J., Olden, J.D., Mackay, S.J., Stein, J.L., Marsh, N. (2010). Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management. Freshwater Biology 55: 171–193
• Davis, A.M., Pusey, B.J., Thorburn, D.C., Dowe, J.L., Morgan D.L. and Burrows D. (2010). Riparian contributions to the diet of terapontid grunters (Pisces: Terapontidae) in northern Australia’s wet-dry tropical rivers. Journal of Fish Biology 76: 862-879.
• Perna, C.N., Cappo, M., Burrows, D.W. and Pusey, B.J. (2009).  Floodplain degradation and restoration in northern Queensland: the response of the alien fish pest Gambusia holbrooki.  Ecological Management and Restoration 10: 241-243.
• Kennard, M.J., Mackay, S.J., Pusey, B.J., Olden, J.D. & Marsh, N. (2010). Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of hydrologic metrics for ecohydrological studies. River Research and Applications.26:137-156.
• Rayner, T.S., Pusey, B.J. and Pearson, R.G. (2009).  Spatio-temporal dynamics of fish feeding in the lower Mulgrave River, north-eastern Queensland: the influence of seasonal flooding, instream productivity and invertebrate abundance.  Marine and Freshwater Research.60:97-111.
• Rayner, T.S., Pusey, B.J. and Pearson, R.G. (2008).  Seasonal flooding, in-stream habitat and fish assemblages in the Mulgrave River, north-eastern Queensland: toward a new conceptual framework for understanding fish-habitat dynamics in small tropical rivers.  Marine and Freshwater Research 59: 97-116.
• Olden,J., Kennard, M. and Pusey,B. (2008). Species invasions and the changing biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 25-37.
• Kennard, M.J., Olden,J.D., Arthington, A.H., Pusey, B.J. and Poff, N. L-R. (2008). Flow regime and habitat interact at multiple scales to shape fish assemblages in hydrologically variable rivers of eastern Australia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64: 1346-1359.
• Thuesen, P.A., Pusey, B.J., Peck, D.R., Pearson, R.G. and Congdon, B.C. (2008). Genetic differentiation over small spatial scales in the absence of physical barriers in an Australian rainforest stream fish. Journal of Fish Biology 72: 1174-1187.