Associate Professor Rod Connolly

BSc (Hons), PhD Adelaide

Deputy Head of School, Griffith School of Environment
Associate Professor Rod Connolly

Contact details for Associate Professor Rod Connolly

Research Expertise

Estuarine and marine ecology.  Estuarine water quality and ecosystem health. Ecology of fish and prawns in estuarine and marine habitats (e.g. seagrass, mangrove and saltmarsh).   Movement and dispersal of fish, including pipefish and seadragons.

Current Teaching Areas

  • Estuarine Ecology
  • Marine Vertebrates

Publications 

  • Connolly RM, Lee SY (2007) Mangroves and saltmarsh. In: Connell, SD, Gillanders, BM. Marine Ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Connolly RM, Hindell JS (2006) Review of nekton patterns and ecological processes in seagrass landscapes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 68:433-444
  • Guest MA, Connolly RM, Loneragan NR, Lee SY, Breitfuss MJ (2006) Mechanism for the small-scale movement of carbon among estuarine habitats: organic matter transfer not crab movement. Oecologia 148:88-96
  • Lee SY, Dunn R, Young RA, Connolly RM, Dale P, Dehayr R, Lemckert C, McKinnon S, Powell B, Teasdale P, Welsh D (2006) Impact of urbanisation on coastal wetland structure and function. Austral Ecology 31:184-198
  • Guest MA, Connolly RM (2006) Movement of carbon among estuarine habitats: the influence of saltmarsh patch size. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310:15-24
  • Melville AJ, Connolly RM (2005) Food webs supporting fish over subtropical mudflats are based on transported organic matter not in situ microalgae. Marine Biology 148:363-371
  • Connolly RM, Gorman D, Guest MA (2005) Movement of carbon among estuarine habitats and its assimilation by invertebrates. Oecologia 144:684-691
  • Stevens T, Connolly RM (2005) Local-scale mapping of benthic habitats to assess representation in a marine protected area.  Marine and Freshwater Research 56:111-123
  • Connolly RM, Hindell JS, Gorman D (2005) Seagrass and epiphytic algae support the nutrition of a fisheries species, Sillago schomburgkii, in adjacent intertidal habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 286:69-79
  • Stevens T, Connolly RM (2004). Testing the utility of abiotic surrogates for marine mapping at scales relevant to management. Biological Conservation 119:351-362
  • Connolly RM, Guest MA, Melville AJ, Oakes JM (2004). Sulfur stable isotopes separate producers in marine food-web analysis. Oecologia 138:161-167
  • Connolly RM (2003) Differences in trophodynamics of commercially important fish between artificial waterways and natural coastal wetlands.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 58:929-936
  • Connolly RM, Melville AJ, Preston KM  (2002) Patterns of movement and habitat use by leafy seadragons tracked ultrasonically. Journal of Fish Biology 61:684-695
  • Connolly RM, Melville AJ, Keesing JK (2002) Abundance, movement and individual identification of leafy seadragons, Phycodurus eques (Pisces: Syngnathidae). Marine and Freshwater Research 53:777-780
  • Thomas B, Connolly RM (2001) Fish use of subtropical saltmarshes in Queensland, Australia: relationships with vegetation, water depth and distance onto the marsh. Marine Ecology Progress Series 209:275-288


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