A new paper in Ecological Applications

Congratulations to Julia White for the first paper from her PhD published in Ecological Applications.  In the paper we report on an experiment testing if wood with more surface complexity would be colonised by more individuals of and more species of invertebrates (as expected by ecological theory, but inconsistently detected),…

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The LUMaR tool

Walsh and Webb (2013) developed a new index of stream condition, LUMaR*, based on their distribution models of 60 families of macroinvertebrates across the Melbourne region.  The models allow prediction of the effects of loss (or gain) of forest cover and of conventionally drained urbanization on the occurrence of the 60 families….

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Melbourne stream macroinvertebrate prediction tool

*Note April 2020 – this app didn’t survive the urbanstreams.net server migration well, and needs some work to get it back going again. If you are interested in using it, please contact me here, and I will move it up my list of things to do! The tool that predicts…

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