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Biography
Professor Ross Thompson is Director and Chair of Water Science in the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra. Ross is a freshwater ecologist with interests in the study of biodiversity and the restoration of landscapes. His fundamental research is in food web ecology; seeking the rules that determine how natural communities assemble and persist. His applied research addresses the ways in which food webs can be influenced by anthropogenic factors including urbanisation, land clearance, pharmaceutical contamination, river flow diversion and restoration, and invasion. He has an active research program on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem function in urban and rural landscapes. Ross has published more than 90 papers, 10 book chapters and more than 200 scientific reports. He sits on the Australian Research Council College of Experts and has recently stepped down from the NZ Marsden Panel. His work has strong links to government and industry, and Ross sits on a number of senior technical advisory panels for local, state and federal research programs.
Ross is always seeking excellent graduate students and fellowship candidates in:
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Stream and river ecology
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Food-web ecology
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Urban ecology
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Projects
LLS: Preparation of a cultural watering plan for the Mungindi Local Aboriginal Land Council communities property - Munwonga
Thompson, R., Moggridge, B. & McGinness, H.
1/05/20 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
STAGE 2 - Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Services: Basin Scale
Thompson, R., Pollino, C., Dyer, F., Moggridge, B. & Poff, N. L.
1/10/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Other
Monitoring Flow and Water Quality: Ginninderry Development
Riverview Projects (ACT) Pty Limited
20/08/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Other
Jointly Funded Post-doctoral Fellow - CSIRO-UC
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
26/04/18 → 31/08/21
Project: Other
Basin evaluation of the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water to the environmental objectives of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
Thompson, R. & Guarino, E.
13/04/17 → 30/06/20
Project: Other
Research Output
An integrated database of stream macroinvertebrate traits for Australia: concept and application
Kefford, B. J., Botwe, P. K., Brooks, A. J., Kunz, S., Marchant, R., Maxwell, S., Metzeling, L., Schäfer, R. B. & Thompson, R. M., 1 Jul 2020, In : Ecological Indicators. 114, p. 1-10 10 p., 106280.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Application of DArT seq derived SNP tags for comparative genome analysis in fishes; An alternative pipeline using sequence data from a non-traditional model species, Macquaria ambigua
Shams, F., Dyer, F., Thompson, R., Duncan, R. P., Thiem, J. D., Kilian, A. & Ezaz, T., 1 Jan 2019, In : PLoS One. 14, 12, p. 1-13 13 p., e0226365.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Biological interactions mediate context and species-specific sensitivities to salinity
Bray, J. P., Reich, J., Nichols, S. J., Kon Kam King, G., Mac Nally, R., Thompson, R., O’Reilly-Nugent, A. & Kefford, B. J., 21 Jan 2019, In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 374, 1764, p. 1-10 10 p., 20180020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
10
Citations
(Scopus)
Communities at the extreme: Aquatic food webs in desert landscapes
Moran, N. P., Wong, B. B. M. & Thompson, R. M., Oct 2019, In : Ecology and Evolution. 9, 19, p. 11464-11475 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Inferring predator-prey interactions in food webs
Pomeranz, J. P. F., Thompson, R. M., Poisot, T. & Harding, J. S., 2019, In : Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 3, p. 356-367 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Citations
(Scopus)