- School of Geography - Research Publications
School of Geography - Research Publications
Permanent URI for this collection
12 results
Filters
Reset filtersSettings
Statistics
Citations
Search Results
Now showing
1 - 10 of 12
-
ItemUsing fractal dimension to capture ecologically-relevant physical variation in streamsLester, R ; Lancaster, J ; Cummings, C ; Rice, S ; Downes, BJ ( 2017)Abstract of the oral presentation at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society for Limnology in 2017.
-
ItemExplaining species diversity in a fractal worldLester, R ; Lancaster, J ; Rice, S ; Cummings, C ; Downes, B ( 2019)Conference presentation at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, 2019 Also given at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society annual meeting in 2019
-
ItemEffects of dams on oviposition habitat and egg supply of caddisflies in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation AreaWahjudi, H ; Downes, B ; Bovill, W ; Brooks, A ( 2019)Conference presentation at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Annual Meeting in 2019
-
ItemHow do female caddisflies decide where to put their eggs? An experimental testDownes, B ; Bovill, W ; Holt, G ; Chesson, P ; Lester, R ; Macqueen, A ( 2019)Conference presentation at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Annual Meeting in 2019
-
ItemCharacterizing a disease outbreak in a caddisfly communityHolt, G ; Dwyer, G ; Bourke, C ; Lester, R ; Bovill, W ; Downes, B ; Chesson, P ( 2019)Presentation at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Annual Meeting, 2019
-
ItemCelebrating women conducting research in freshwater ecology ... and how the citation game is damaging themDownes, BJ ; Lancaster, J (CSIRO Publishing, 2019-01-01)We highlight women's contributions to freshwater ecology by firstly considering the historical context and gender-based barriers faced by women attempting to gain an education and secure research jobs in science over the past 100+ years. The stories of four remarkable, pioneering women in freshwater ecology (Kathleen Carpenter, Ann Chapman, Rosemary Lowe-McConnell and Ruth Patrick) illustrate the impact of barriers, emphasise the significance of their contributions and provide inspiration for the challenges ahead. Women still face barriers to participation in science, and the second part of the paper focuses on a current form of discrimination, which is citation metrics used to measure the 'quality' or 'impact' of research. We show that arguments that citation metrics reflect research quality are logically flawed, and that women are directly disadvantaged by this practice. Women are also indirectly disadvantaged in ecology because they are more likely to carry out empirical than theoretical research, and publications are generated more slowly from empirical research. Surveys of citation patterns in ecology reveal also that women are less likely to be authors of review papers, which receive three times more citations than do original articles. Unless unfettered use of citation metrics is stopped, research will be damaged, and women will be prominent casualties.
-
ItemDo fish respond to enhanced in-stream detritus? Using ecology to inform restorationCornell, G ; Morrongiello, J ; Hale, R ; Downes, B ( 2018-10-07)
-
ItemA landscape-scale field experiment in six rivers shows how in-channel retention boosts detrital resources and invertebrate species diversityDownes, B ; Bovill, W ; Reich, P ; Coleman, R ; Bond, N ; Lake, PS ( 2019-12-01)Conference presentation at the Symposium for European Freshwater Science, 2019 Conference presentation at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society annual meeting 2019
-
ItemNew methods reveal the relationships between riparian vegetation, retention-capacity, and standing stocks of CPOM in streamsBovill, WD ; Downes, B ; REICH, P ; Bond, N ; Coleman, R ; Lake, PS (Australian Society for Limnology, 2017)
-
ItemEvaluating the role of dispersal constraints: from one field experiment to a multi-site restoration programmeDownes, B ; Lancaster, J (Australian Society for Limnology, 2017)