Griffith University

B Science, B Science (Hons), GCert Higher Education, Doctor of Philosophy

Research Fellow,
Coordinator, NCCARF Water Resources and Freshwater Biodiversity Adaptation Research Network

Contact details for Dr Samantha Capon

Research Expertise

• Floodplain, riparian and wetland vegetation ecology
• Riverine landscape ecology
• Dryland floodplain and wetland ecology
• Water and climate change adaptation

Publications

• Fu, B., Pollino, C.A, Merritt, W.  and Capon, S.J (in press). Coupled Bayesian networks and recursive partitioning method for wetland ecological modelling. MOSIM
• Reid, M. and Capon, S. (2011). Role of the soil seed bank in vegetation responses to environmental flows on a drought affected floodplain. River Systems  19(3): 249-259.
• Baldwin, D.S.. and Capon, S.J.(2011). Sulfidic sediments in inland waterways. Waterlines Report 55. National Water Commission, Canberra.
• Colloff, M.J., Overton, I.C., Cuddy, S.M., Doody, T.M., Henderson, B. and Capon, S.J. (2010). Improving environmental water planning and policy outcomes: ecological responses to flow regimes in the Murray-Darling Basin. Waterlines Report 34. National Water Commission, Canberra.
• Capon, S.J., James, C.S., Williams, L. and Quinn, G.P. (2009) Responses to flooding and drying in seedlings of a common Australian desert floodplain shrub: Muehlenbeckia florulenta Meisn. (tangled lignum). Environmental and Experimental Botany 66: 1781-1785.
• Williams, L., Reich, P., Capon, S.J. and Raulings, E. (2008) Soil seed banks of degraded riparian zones in south-eastern Australia and their potential contribution to the restoration of understorey vegetation. River Research and Applications  24: 1002-1017.
• Capon, S.J. (2007) Effects of flooding on seedling emergence from the soil seed bank of  a large desert floodplain. Wetlands  27: 904-914.
• Capon, S.J. and Dowe, J.L. (2007) Chapter 2. Diversity and dynamics of riparian vegetation. Principles for Riparian Lands Management. S. Lovett and P. Price. Land and Water Australia.
• Helfield, J., Capon, S.J., Nilsson, C., Jansson, R. and Palm, D. (2007) Restoration of rivers used for timber floating: effects on riparian plant diversity. Ecological Applications 17: 840-851.
• James, C.S., Capon, S.J., White, M.G., Rayburg, S.C. and Thoms, M.C. (2007) Spatial variability of the soil seed bank in a heterogeneous wetland system in semi-arid Australia. Plant Ecology 190: 205-217.
• Brock, M.A., Capon, S.J. and Porter, J. (2006). Disturbance and the diversity and dynamics of plant communities in desert river habitats. Ecology of Desert Rivers. R. Kingsford. Cambridge University Press.
• Bunn, S.E., Thoms, M.C., Hamilton, S.K. and Capon, S.J. (2006) Flow variability in dryland rivers: boom, bust and the bits in between. River Research and Applications 22: 179-186.
• Capon, S. J. and M. A. Brock (2006) Flooding, soil seed bank dynamics and vegetation resilience of a hydrologically variable desert floodplain. Freshwater Biology 51: 206-223.
• Webb, M., Reid, M., Capon, S.J., Thoms, M., Rayburg S. & James, C. (2006) Are flood plain wet-land plant communities determined by seed bank composition or inundation periods? Sediment Dynamics and the Hydromorphology of Fluvial Systems. IAHS Publications, No. 306.
• Capon, S. J. (2005) Flood variability and spatial variation in plant community composition and structure on a large arid floodplain. Journal of Arid Environments 60: 283-302.
• Capon, S. J. (2003) Plant community responses to wetting and drying in a large arid floodplain. River Research and Applications 19: 509-520.
• Capon, S. J. (2002). The effects of flood frequency on floodplain vegetation in a variable, arid catchment: Cooper Creek, south-west Queensland. Landscape Health of Queensland. A. J. Franks, J. Playford and A. Shapcott. St. Lucia, Queensland, The Royal Society of Queensland.
• Capon, S.J. (2001) Flood for thought: relationships between flow and vegetation dynamics in large arid floodplains. Proceedings of the 3^rd Australian Stream Management Conference, Brisbane, 2001.
• Creighton, C., Rowland, P. & Capon, S.J. (1997) Managing catchments to minimise downstream effects. Proceedings of the State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop, Townsville, 1995. Workshop Series 23, GBRMPA, Townsville.