Griffith University

Senior Research Fellow

Contact details for Dr Nick Bond

Research Expertise

• The influence of hydro-climatic variability on riverine biota
• Environmental flow management
• Landscape ecology
• Catchment-scale planning and ecological restoration 

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

• Ho, S.S., Bond, N.R. & LAKE, P.S. (2011). Comparing food-web impacts of a native invertebrate and an invasive fish as predators in small floodplain wetlands. Marine and Freshwater Research, 62, 372.
• Bond, N.R., McMaster, D., Reich, P., Thomson, J. & Lake, P.S. (2010) Modelling the impacts of flow regulation on fish distributions in naturally intermittent lowland streams: An approach for predicting restoration responses. Freshwater Biology, 55(9), 1997-2010.
• Morrongiello, JR., Bond, NR., Crook, DA., Wong, BBM. 2010. Nuptial coloration varies with ambient light environment in a freshwater fish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23: 2718-2725
• Crook, D., Reich, P., Bond, N.R., McMaster, D., Koehn, J.D. & Lake, P.S. (2010) Using biological information to support proactive strategies for managing fish during drought. Marine & Freshwater Research, 61(3) 379-387.
• Reich, P., D. McMaster, N. R. Bond, L. Metzeling, and P. S. Lake. (2010). Examining the ecological consequences of restoring flow intermittency to artificially perennial lowland streams: patterns and predictions from the Broken-Boosey Creek system in northern Victoria, Australia. River Research & Applications, 26(5), 529-545.
• Clarke, A., R. Mac Nally, N.R. Bond and P.S. Lake (2010) Conserving macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: The importance of knowing the relative contributions of α and β diversity. Diversity and Distributions 16(5), 725-736.
• Perry, G., and N. R. Bond. (2009). Spatially-explicit modelling of habitat dynamics and fish population persistence in an intermittent lowland stream. Ecological Applications 9(3): 731-746.
• Clarke, A., R. Mac Nally, N. R. Bond, and P. S. Lake. (2009). Macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: a review Freshwater Biology 53(9): 1707-1721.
• Bond, N.R., P. S. Lake & A. H. Arthington, (2008). The impacts of drought on freshwater ecosystems: an Australian perspective. Hydrobiologia 600 (1): 3-16.
• McMaster, D. M. & N. R. Bond, (2008). Effects of DOC and DO on fish assemblages in drying stream pools. Marine and Freshwater Research 59(2): 177–185.
• Lake, P.S., Bond, N.R. and Reich, P. (2008) An appraisal of studies on the impacts of drought on aquatic ecosystems: knowledge gaps and future directions. Verhandlungen Internationalen Vereinigung Limnologie, 30(4), 506-508
• Palmer, M.A., Reidy, C., Nilsson, C., Flörke, M., Alcamo, J., Lake, P.S. & Bond, N.R. (2007) Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating response options. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
• Lake, P.S., Bond, N.R. & Reich, P. (2007) Linking ecological theory and stream restoration. Freshwater Biology, 52, 597-615.
• Bond, N.R., S. Sabater, A. Glaister, S. Roberts & K. Vanderkruk. (2006). "Colonisation of introduced timber by algae and invertebrates, and its potential role in aquatic ecosystem restoration." Hydrobiologia 556: 303-316.
• Lake, P. S. and N. R. Bond (2007). "Australian Futures: aquatic ecosystems and human water usage." Futures (2006).
• Downes, B. J., P. S. Lake, A. Glaister & N.R. Bond (2006). "The effects of sand sedimentation on the macroinvertebrate fauna of lowland creeks: are the effects consistent?" Freshwater Biology 51(1): 144-160.
• Bond, N.R. and P. S. Lake (2005). "Ecological restoration and large-scale ecological disturbance: The effects of drought on the response by fish to a habitat restoration experiment." Restoration Ecology 13(1): 39-48.

Book Chapters

• Cosier, M., C. J. Gippel, C. James, and N. R. Bond (2009). Balancing water demands and environmental flows in the Jiao River.in X. Sun, R. Speed, and D. Shen, editors. Water resources management in the People's Republic of China. Routledge, New York.
• Lake, P. S., Bond, N.R. and Reich, P. (2007).  Floods down rivers: From Damaging to Replenishing Forces. In: Floods in an Arid Continent. A. Poiani. Elsevier, Oxford.

Refereed conference papers

• Webb, A., N. R. Bond, S. Wealands, R. MacNally, M. Grace & G. Quinn (2005). Bayesian classification of catchments using spatial data: a first step to improved modelling of catchment effects on stream ecological condition. MODSIM, University of Melbourne.

Refereed Reports

• Cottingham, P., Bond, N.R., Hart, B., Lake, P.S., Reich, P. (2009). 5th Year Review of the Murray-Darling Basin Native Fish Strategy. MDBA, Canberra, Australia.
• Gippel C, Anderson B, Harty C, Bond N, Sherwood J, Pope A. 2009. Gap analysis and strategy development for national level estuary environmental flows policies. Canberra, ACT: National Water Commission. Report no. 17.
• Bond, NR, (2007) Identifying, mapping and managing drought refuges: a brief summary of issues and approaches.  eWater CRC, Canberra.
• Bond, N.R., and P. Cottingham. 2006. Ecology and hydrology of temporary streams: implications for sustainable water management. Prepared for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria, eWater CRC, Canberra
• Cottingham, P., N. R. Bond, P. S. Lake, and D. Outhet. 2005. Recent lessons on river rehabilitation in eastern Australia. Technical Report, Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Canberra, Australia.