Major projects:
Modelling the effects of urbanization on Melbourne's streams Selected Publications: Walsh, C. J., and Kunapo, J. (2009). The importance of upland flow paths in determining urban effects on stream ecosystems. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28 in press. Wenger, S.J., Roy, A.H., Jackson, C.R., Bernhardt, E.S., Carter, T.L., Filoso, S., Gibson, C.A., Grimm, N.B., Hession, W.C., Kaushal, S.S., Marti, E., Meyer, J.L., Palmer, M.A., Paul, M.J., Purcell, A.H., Ramirez, A., Rosemond, A.D., Schofield, K.A., Schueler, T.R., Sudduth, E., and Walsh, C.J. (2009). Twenty-six priority urban stream ecology research questions. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28, in press. Imberger, S. J., Walsh, C. J., and Grace, M. R. (2008). More microbial activity, not abrasive flow or shredder abundance, accelerates breakdown of labile leaf litter in urban streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27, 549–561. Full text (©2008 North American Benthological Society) Bernhardt, E. S., Band, L. E., Walsh, C. J., and Berke, P. E. (2008). Understanding, managing, and minimizing urban impacts on surface water nitrogen loading. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134, 61–96. Roy, A. H., Wenger, S. J., Fletcher, T. D., Walsh, C. J., Ladson, A. R., Shuster, W. D., Thurston, H. W., and Brown, R. R. (2008). Impediments and solutions to sustainable, watershed-scale urban stormwater management: lessons from Australia and the United States. Environmental Management 42, 344–359. Walsh, C. J., Waller, K.A., Gehling, J. and Mac Nally, R. (2007). Riverine invertebrate assemblages are degraded more by catchment urbanization than by riparian deforestation. Freshwater Biology 52 574–587. Walsh, C. J., Roy, A. H., Feminella, J. W., Cottingham, P. D., Groffman, P. M., and Morgan, R. P. (2005). The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24, 706–723. Full text (©2005 North American Benthological Society) Walsh C. J., Fletcher T. D., and Ladson A. R. (2005). Stream restoration in urban catchments through re-designing stormwater systems: looking to the catchment to save the stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24, 690–705. Full text (©2005 North American Benthological Society) Walsh, C. J., Leonard, A. W., Ladson, A. R., and Fletcher, T. D. (2004). 'Urban Stormwater and the Ecology of Streams.' (CRC for Freshwater Ecology and CRC for Catchment Hydrology: Canberra.) Full publication list....Urban stream ecology at | The University of Melbourne
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