BSc (Honours)

Contact details for Mr Timothy Howell timothy.howell@student.griffith.edu.au

Thesis

Effects of stream rehabilitation using structural woody habitat on fish assemblages in two coastal rivers of NSW, Australia

Description

This project was part of a much larger multi-disciplinary research and rehabilitation initiative undertaken in the Hunter valley in NSW.  Responses of fish assemblages to the reintroduction of large in-stream wood were tested within the context of a highly modified river and landscape.

Supervisors

Prof Angela Arthington
Dr Andrew Brooks
Dr Brad Pusey
Dr Bob Creese

Research expertise

• Fish ecology
• River rehabilitation

Publications

• Brooks, A.P., Howell, T.,  Abbe, T.B., Arthington, A.A. 2006. Confronting hysteresis: Wood based river rehabilitation in highly altered riverine landscapes of south-eastern Australia. Geomorphology 79: 395-422.
• Howell, T., Arthington, A., Pusey, B., Brooks, A.P., Creese, R., Downes, B. 2005. Measuring the effect of river rehabilitation for fish: logistical constraints on experimental design. In “Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference: Linking Rivers to Landscapes”, (Eds I. Rutherfurd, I.D., I. Wiszniewski, M.J. Askey-Doran and R. Glazik) pp. 299–305, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, Hobart, Tasmania.