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

Publications

• Olden,J., Kennard, M. and Pusey,B. (in press). Species invasions and the changing biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes.  Global Ecology and Biogeography.
• Kennard, M.J., Olden,J.D., Arthington, A.H., Pusey, B.J. and Poff, N. L-R. (in press). 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.
• Thuesen, P.A., Pusey, B.J., Peck, D.R., Pearson, R.G. and Congdon, B.C. (accepted for publication pending revision). Apparent biological barriers to gene flow in an Australian rainforest stream fish.  Journal of Fish Biology.
• Stewart-Koster, B., Kennard, M.J., Harch, B.D., Sheldon, F., Arthington, A.H. and Pusey, B.J. (2007). Partitioning the variation in stream fish assemblages within a spatio-temporal hierarchy.  Marine and Freshwater Research. 58: 675-686.
• Kennard, M.J., Pusey, B.J., Harch, B.H.,Dore, E. & Arthington, A.H. (in press). Estimating local stream fish biodiversity attributes: sampling effort and efficiency at two spatial scales. Marine and Freshwater Research.
• Pusey,B., Burrows,D, Arthington,A. and Kennard,M. (2006).  Translocation and spread of piscivorous fishes in the Burdekin River, north-eastern Australia.  Biological Invasions 8: 965-977.
• Kennard, M.J., Harch, B.D., Pusey, B.J. and Arthington, A.H. (2006).  Accurately defining the reference condition for summary biotic metraics: a comparison of four approaches.  Hydrobiologia 572: 151-170.
• Kennard, M. J., Pusey, B. J.,  Arthington A. H., Harch, B.D.. and Mackay, S. J.  (2006). Development and application of a predictive model of freshwater fish assemblage composition to evaluate river health in eastern Australia  Hydrobiologia 572: 33-57
• Kennard, M.J., Arthington, A.H., Pusey, B. J. and Harch, B. D. (2005).  Are alien fish a reliable indicator of river health? Freshwater Biology 50: 174-193.
• Kennard, M.J.,  Harch, B.D., Pusey, B. J. and Arthington, A.H. (2005). Accurately defining the reference condition for biotic indices: a comparison of approaches.  Freshwater Biology.
• Arthington, A.H. and B.J. Pusey (2003).  Flow restoration and protection in Australian rivers.  River Research and Applications 19: 1-19.
• Pusey, B.J. and Arthington, A.H. (2003).  Importance of the riparian zone to the conservation and management of freshwater fishes: a review with special emphasis on tropical Australia .  Marine and Freshwater Research 54: 1-16.
• Pusey,B.J., Bird,J.R., Close,A.H. and Arthington,A.H. (2001).  Reproduction in three species of rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae) in rainforest streams of north-eastern Queensland.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish (10: 75-87).
• Pusey,B.J. and Kennard,M.J. (2001).  Guyu wujalwujalensis, new genus and species (Pisces: Percichthydidae), from north-eastern Queensland, Australia.  Ichthyological Explorations in Freshwater 12: 17-28.
• Pusey,B.J., Kennard,M.J. and Arthington,A.H. (2000).  Discharge variability and the development of predictive models relating stream fish assemblage structure to habitat in north-eastern Australia.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish 9: 30-50.