Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

The effects of chemical stressors (e.g. salinity, pesticides or metals) on freshwater ecological systems:
• The effect of chemicals on individuals, populations and/or community in real streams
• Ecosystems functions/processes and services
• Comparing the effects of chemicals in the laboratory, mesocosms and real streams
• The importance of indirect effects

Improved ecological realistic methods of assessing the risk of environmental stressors/contaminants
• Obtaining representative samples of species sensitivity to toxicants
• New statistical methods

How do environmental stressors affect the traits of freshwater organisms?
• Stream invertebrates
• Diatoms sensitivity to herbicides
• Trait based diagnostic biomonitoring

The ecology of streams in the Australian Alps along an altitude gradient
• Population and community dynamics
• Ecosystem functions/processes

1998 …2025

Research activity per year

Network

Rhodes University

External organisation: Academic

Museums Victoria

External organisation: Unknown

Utah State University

External organisation: Academic

Université de Lyon

External organisation: Academic

Gisborne District Council

External organisation: Government

Universitat de Barcelona

External organisation: University

Lincoln University

External organisation: Academic

University of Tasmania

External organisation: Academic

Amnis Opes Institute

External organisation: Research Institute

University of Otago

External organisation: Academic

Assam University

External organisation: Academic

Université de Rennes

External organisation: Academic

Kathmandu University

External organisation: Academic

University of Coimbra

External organisation: Academic

ComUE Paris-Saclay

External organisation: Academic

University of Lisbon

External organisation: Academic

University of Waterloo

External organisation: Academic

La Trobe University

External organisation: Academic

Tribhuvan University

External organisation: Academic

Hainan University

External organisation: Academic

Durham University

External organisation: Academic

Gulbali Institute

External organisation: Unknown

WasserCluster Lunz

External organisation: Unknown

University of Vigo

External organisation: Academic

Queens University

External organisation: University

Canadian Rivers Institute

External organisation: University

University of Oxford

External organisation: Academic

University of Bremen

External organisation: Academic

Environment Agency

External organisation: Government

Emschergenossenschaft

External organisation: Private non-profit

University of Stirling

External organisation: Academic

National Hydrology Research Centre

External organisation: Research Institute

Yunnan University

External organisation: Academic

University of Évora

External organisation: Academic

Tel Aviv University

External organisation: Academic

EcoRing

External organisation: Company

University of Helsinki

External organisation: Academic

Wessex Water

External organisation: Corporate

Queensland Government

External organisation: Government

Amsteldijk Zuid

External organisation: Unknown

Acadia University

External organisation: Academic

University of Calabria

External organisation: Academic

Horizon 2020

External organisation: Unknown

CSIRO

External organisation: Government

University of Péecs

External organisation: University

Collegio Carlo Alberto

External organisation: Academic Institute

IDAEA-CSIC

External organisation: Unknown

University of Yaoundé

External organisation: University

University of Murcia

External organisation: Academic

Deltares

External organisation: Government

University of Oulu

External organisation: Academic

eWater

External organisation: Research Institute

Uppsala University

External organisation: Academic

Bowburn Consultancy

External organisation: Unknown

Kent State University

External organisation: Academic

Ghent University

External organisation: Academic

INRAE

External organisation: Government

University of Turin

External organisation: Academic

ERC‐C EcoWizard

External organisation: Unknown

Universidade de Aveiro

External organisation: University

CSIC‐UDELAR

External organisation: Unknown

BASF

External organisation: Corporate

University of Agder

External organisation: Academic

RESIST

External organisation: Unknown

Leiden University

External organisation: Academic

University of Sydney

External organisation: Academic

ANNAEE

External organisation: Unknown

University of Évora

External organisation: Unknown

Korea University

External organisation: Academic

University of Aveiro

External organisation: Academic

Utrecht University

External organisation: Academic

Université Paul Verlaine

External organisation: University

University of Ghana

External organisation: Academic

University of Valencia

External organisation: Academic

EPA Victoria

External organisation: Government

CSIC-UDELAR

External organisation: Unknown

Coventry University

External organisation: Academic

Irstea Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne

External organisation: Research Institute

Nature Research Centre

External organisation: Research Institute

Stockholm University

External organisation: Academic

Irstea - UR MALY

External organisation: Research Institute

Trinity College Dublin

External organisation: Academic

University of Bern

External organisation: Academic

RWTH Aachen University

External organisation: Academic

ERC-C EcoWizard

External organisation: Unknown