BSc Biology, BSc Geology (Hons), University of Maryland, USA; PhD, University of New Mexico, USA.

Lecturer, Griffith School of Environment
Research Member, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Doctor Christy Fellows

Research Expertise

• aquatic ecosystem ecology;
  
• nitrogen and carbon cycling in aquatic environments and riparian zones;
  
• the role of hydrology in aquatic ecosystem functioning, including groundwater-surface water interactions;
  
• controls on aquatic primary production at a landscape scale;
  
• impacts of human activities on ecosystem processes;
  
• using measures of ecosystem processes as indicators of river health.

 Publications

• Markwell, K.A., C.S. Fellows (In press) Habitat and biodiversity of on-farm water storages: A case study in South-East Queensland, Australia. Environmental Management.
• Fellows, C.S., M.L. Wos, P.C. Pollard, S.E. Bunn (2007) Ecosystem metabolism in a dryland river waterhole. Marine and Freshwater Research 58, 250-262.
• Bunn, S.E., S.R. Balcombe, P.M. Davies, C.S. Fellows, F.J. McKenzie-Smith (2006) Aquatic productivity and food webs of desert river ecosystems. In: Kingsford RT (ed) Ecology of Desert Rivers. Cambridge University Press, pp 76-99.
• Fellows, C.S., J.E. Clapcott, J.W. Udy, S.E. Bunn, B.D. Harch, M.J. Smith, P.M. Davies (2006) Benthic metabolism as an indicator of stream ecosystem health. Hydrobiologia 572, 71-87.
• Fellows, C.S., H.M. Valett, C.N. Dahm, P.J. Mulholland, S.A. Thomas (2006) Coupling nutrient uptake and energy flow in headwater streams. Ecosystems 9, 788-804.
• Rassam, D.W., C.S. Fellows, R. DeHayr, H. Hunter, P. Bloesch (2006) The hydrology of riparian buffer zones; two case studies in an ephemeral and a perennial stream. Journal of Hydrology 325, 308-324.
• Udy, J.W., C.S. Fellows, M.E. Bartkow, S.E. Bunn, J.E. Clapcott, B.D. Harch (2006) Measures of nutrient processes as indicators of stream ecosystem health. Hydrobiologia 572, 89-102.
• Fellows, C.S., H.M. Valett, C.N. Dahm (2001) Whole-stream metabolism in two montane streams: Contribution of the hyporheic zone. Limnology and Oceanography 46, 523-531.
• Mulholland, P.J., C.S. Fellows, J.L. Tank, N.B. Grimm, J.R. Webster, S.K. Hamilton, E. Marti, L. Ashkenas, W.B. Bowden, W.K. Dodds, W.H. McDowell, M.J. Paul, B.J. Peterson (2001) Inter-biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism. Freshwater Biology 46, 1503-1517.