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Physiological Trade-Offs Along a Fast-Slow Lifestyle Continuum in Fishes: What Do They Tell Us about Resistance and Resilience to Hypoxia? by Stoffels, Rick J

“…It has recently been suggested that general rules of change in ecological communities might be found through the development of functional relationships…”
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Two wild carnivores selectively forage for prey but not amino acids by Dwyer, Georgia K., Stoffels, Rick J., Silvester, Ewen, Rees, Gavin N.

“…In nutritional ecology the intake target is the diet that maximises consumer fitness. A key hypothesis of nutritional ecology is that natural selection has…”
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Dynamics of fish dispersal during river-floodplain connectivity and its implications for community assembly by Stoffels, Rick J, Rehwinkel, Rohan A, Price, Amina E, Fagan, William F

“…In river-floodplain ecosystems, overbank flows interact with floodplain geomorphology to generate a network of transient inter-waterbody connections…”
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Estimation of policy-relevant reference conditions throughout national river networks by Stoffels, Rick J., Booker, Doug J., Franklin, Paul A., Snelder, Ton H., Clapcott, Joanne E., Fragaszy, Stephen R., Wagenhoff, Annika, Hickey, Chris W.

“…A method for objectively estimating reference states for suspended fine sediment (turbidity) is presented. To be fit for water policy development and…”
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Different Conceptualizations of River Basins to Inform Management of Environmental Flows by Gawne, Ben, Capon, Samantha J., Hale, Jenni, Brooks, Shane S., Campbell, Cherie, Stewardson, Michael J., Grace, Mike R., Stoffels, Rick J., Guarino, Fiorenzo, Everingham, Penny

“…Environmental flows are a critical tool for addressing ecological degradation of river systems brought about due to increasing demand for limited water…”
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Quantifying regulatory limits for multiple stressors in an open and transparent way by Stoffels, Rick J, White, Richard S A

“…Biodiversity is confronted globally by multiple stressors. Environmental policies must regulate these stressors to achieve targets, but how should that be done…”
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Science to support the management of riverine flows by Stoffels, Rick J., Bond, Nick R., Nicol, Sam

“…The last two decades has seen introduction or reform of water legislation in many river basins of the world, and river managers are under increasing pressure…”
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Fragmentation of lateral connectivity and fish population dynamics in large rivers by Stoffels, Rick J., Humphries, Paul, Bond, Nick R., Price, Amina E.

“…Lateral Hydrological Connectivity (LHC) has been extensively fragmented in river–floodplain ecosystems of the world. Uncertainties about how LHC affects fishes…”
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Monitoring for the adaptive management of rivers by Stoffels, Rick J., Booker, Doug J., Franklin, Paul A., Holmes, Robin

“…Monitoring for adaptive management (AM) involves collection of data with the aim of reducing uncertainty about links between human pressures (e.g. water…”
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Contrasting fundamental and realized niches: two fishes with similar thermal performance curves occupy different thermal habitats by Allen-Ankins, Slade, Stoffels, Rick J.

“…Human alteration of thermal regimes of freshwater ecosystems is creating an urgent need to understand how freshwater ectotherms will fare under different…”
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Assigning trend‐based conservation status despite high uncertainty by White, Richard S. A., Stoffels, Rick J., Whitehead, Amy L.

“…Estimates of temporal trends in species’ occupancy are essential for conservation policy and planning, but limitations to the data and models often result in…”
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Dietary fatty acid profiles shape crayfish biosynthesis and performance: Implications for riverine food webs by McInerney, Paul J., Stoffels, Rick J., Shackleton, Michael E., Davey, Chris D., Albert, Jenessa, Rees, Gavin N.

“…Alteration of riverine flows can modify the structure and function of ecosystems, changing energy pathways and patterns of micronutrient transfer between…”
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Effects of current and future climates on the growth dynamics and distributions of two riverine fishes by Allen‐Ankins, Slade, Stoffels, Rick J.

“…To facilitate conservation planning, there is a need for improved confidence in forecasts of climate change impacts on species distributions. Towards that end,…”
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Heat and hypoxia give a global invader, Gambusia holbrooki, the edge over a threatened endemic fish on Australian floodplains by Stoffels, Rick J., Weatherman, Kyle E., Allen-Ankins, Slade

“…Deciphering the mechanisms by which climate change interacts with invasive species to affect biodiversity is a major challenge of global change biology. We…”
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Monitoring of environmental flow outcomes in a large river basin: The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's long‐term intervention in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia by Gawne, Ben, Hale, Jenni, Stewardson, Michael J., Webb, James A., Ryder, Darren S., Brooks, Shane S., Campbell, Cherie J., Capon, Samantha J., Everingham, Penny, Grace, Mike R., Guarino, Fiorenzo, Stoffels, Rick J.

“…The Murray–Darling Basin in south‐eastern Australia contains over 70,000 km2 of wetlands and floodplains, many of which are in poor condition. In response,…”
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Longitudinal trends in concentration and composition of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in a largely unregulated river system by Harris, Clayton W., Rees, Gavin N., Stoffels, Rick J., Pengelly, John, Barlow, Kirsten, Silvester, Ewen

“…Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) can comprise up to 80% of the dissolved N pool in riverine ecosystems, but concentration and compositional responses to…”
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Stage‐dependent effects of river flow and temperature regimes on the growth dynamics of an apex predator by Stoffels, Rick J., Weatherman, Kyle E., Bond, Nick R., Morrongiello, John R., Thiem, Jason D., Butler, Gavin, Koster, Wayne, Kopf, R. Keller, McCasker, Nicole, Ye, Qifeng, Zampatti, Brenton, Broadhurst, Ben

“…In the world's rivers, alteration of flow is a major driver of biodiversity decline. Global warming is now affecting the thermal and hydrological regimes of…”
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Invasive willows drive instream community structure by McInerney, Paul J., Rees, Gavin N., Gawne, Ben, Suter, Phil, Watson, Garth, Stoffels, Rick J.

“…Summary Exotic invasive species are known to influence taxonomic communities and ecological processes. Few studies have examined the impact on taxonomic…”
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Morphology, metabolism and behaviour: responses of three fishes with different lifestyles to acute hypoxia by Dwyer, Georgia K, Stoffels, Rick J, Pridmore, Peter A

“…Behavioural responses to changing environments affect community composition, so the identification of associations between environmental gradients, behavioural…”
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What do metabolic rates tell us about thermal niches? Mechanisms driving crayfish distributions along an altitudinal gradient by Stoffels, Rick J, Richardson, Adam J, Vogel, Matthew T, Coates, Simon P, Müller, Warren J

“…Humans are rapidly altering thermal landscapes, so a central challenge to organismal ecologists is to better understand the thermal niches of ectotherms…”
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