Estuaries, A Happy Place For Fish

Mobility, Mood and Place: Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing

Potential effects of climate change on Australian estuaries and fish utilising estuaries: a review

Estuaries are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because changes in climatic and hydrologic variables that influence freshwater and marine systems will also affect estuaries. We review potential impacts of climate change on Australian estuaries and their fish. Geographic differences are likely because southern Australian climates are predicted to become warmer and drier, whe...

Artificial waterway design affects fish assemblages in urban estuaries

Fishes were collected from residential canal estates leading directly off natural estuaries and artificial lakes with control tidal exchange in south-east Queensland, Australia, to test the model that the difference in artificial waterway design affects fish assemblages. A total of 17 779 fish representing 52 species was caught, including 23 species of economic importance (45% of the catch). To...

Fish under influence: a macroecological analysis of relations between fish species richness and environmental gradients among European tidal estuaries

Estuarine fish assemblages are subject to a great environmental variability that largely depends on both upstream fluvial and downstream marine influences. From this ecohydrological view, our study introduces a macroecological approach aiming to identify the main environmental factors that structure fish assemblages among European tidal estuaries. The present paper focuses on the influence of l...

Modelling Zero-inflated Fish Counts in Estuaries – A Comparison of Alternate Statistical Distributions

Freshwater flows have an important influence on the balance of fish species in estuaries. As well as supporting general ecosystem health, these flows are also necessary to comply with Australia-wide legislation aimed at the sustainable management of water resources. The Coastal Zone CRC and Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) instigated the ‘environmental flows for estuaries’ ...