B Science (Hons), PhD

Senior Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Doctor Andrew Brooks

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.