B Science, M Philosophy, PhD

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Doctor Mark Kennard

Research Expertise

• Ecology of freshwater fish
  
• Environmental flow management
  
• River bioassessment
  
• Climate change impacts on aquatic ecosystems

Publications

• Olden, J.D., Kennard, M.J. and Pusey, B.J. (2008). Species invasions and the changing biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 17: 25–37.
• Pusey, B.J., Kennard, M.J. and Arthington, A.H. (2008). Origins and maintenance of freshwater fish biodiversity in the Wet Tropics region. Chapter 11. In: Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape. (Eds.) N. Stork and S. Turton. Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 150 – 160.
  
• Kennard, M.J., Olden, J.D., Arthington, A.H., Pusey, B.J. and Poff, N.L. (2007). Multi-scale effects of flow regime, habitat, and their interaction on fish assemblage structure in eastern Australia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64: 1346–1359.
• Stewart-Koster, B., Kennard, M.J., Harch, B.D., Sheldon, F., Pusey, B.J. and Arthington, A.H. (2007). Partitioning the variation in stream fish assemblages in a spatio-temporal hierarchy. Marine and Freshwater Research. 58: 675–686.
• Kennard, M.J., Pusey, B.J., Harch, B.H., Dore, E. and Arthington, A.H. (2006). Estimating local stream fish assemblage attributes: sampling effort and efficiency at two spatial scales. Marine and Freshwater Research 57: 635–653.
• Pusey, B.J., Burrows, D., Arthington, A.H. and Kennard, M.J. (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 metrics: 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.
  
• Pusey, B.J., Kennard, M.J. and Arthington, A.H. (2004). Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. 684pp.
• Arthington, A.H., Rall, J.L., Kennard, M.J. and Pusey, B.J. (2003). Environmental flow requirements of fish in Lesotho Rivers using the Drift Methodology. River Research and Applications 19: 641–666.
• Mackay, S.J., Arthington, A.H., Kennard, M.J. and Pusey, B.J. (2003). Spatial variation in the distribution and abundance of submersed macrophytes in an Australian subtropical river. Aquatic Botany 77: 169–186.
• Pusey, B.J. and Kennard, M.J. (2001). Guyu wujalwujalensis, a new genus and species (Pisces: Percichthyidae) from north-eastern Queensland, Australia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 12: 17–28.
• Pusey, B.J., Kennard, M.J. and Arthington, A.H. (2000). Fishes of the dune field of Cape Flattery, northern Queensland and other dune systems in north-eastern Australia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 11: 65–74.
• 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.
• Pusey, B.J., Kennard, M.J., Arthur, J.M. and Arthington, A.H. (1998). Quantitative sampling of stream fish assemblages: single- vs multiple-pass electrofishing. Australian Journal of Ecology. 23: 365–374.
• Pusey, B.J., Bird, J., Kennard, M.J. and Arthington, A.H. (1997). Distribution of the Lake Eacham Rainbowfish in the Wet Tropics Region, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology. 45: 75–84.
• Pusey, B.J. and Kennard, M.J. (1996). Species richness and geographical variation in assemblage structure of the freshwater fish fauna of the Wet Tropics region of northern Queensland. Marine and Freshwater Research. 47: 563–573.