Monday, 2nd December AFSS/NZFSS Joint Conference 2019
Welcome to Country
8:30AM - 9:00AM
Monday, 2nd December
Deakin University - Institute of Koori Education Building
Return to Waurn Ponds Estate
9:00AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 2nd December
Welcome
9:15AM - 9:30AM
Monday, 2nd December
Torquay Room
Plenary Session 1
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 2nd December
Torquay Room
Chair: Michael Reid
Morning Tea Networking Break
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Monday, 2nd December
Main Foyer
Session 1A - Population and Community Ecology 1
11:30AM - 1:15PM
Monday, 2nd December
Torquay Room
Chair: Barbara Downes
- How does whitebait fishing affect common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus) populations? - Andrew S Watson
- Uncovering hidden diversity: Microsporidians from New Zealand freshwater amphipods - Eunji Park
- Hidden interactions between hairworms and their intermediate freshwater hosts - Jean-François Doherty
- Characterizing a disease outbreak in a caddisfly community - Galen Holt
- Body-size and taxonomic responses of headwater invertebrate communities to an experimental drought at the Llyn Brianne Cascading Mesocosms, UK - Ifan B Jâms
- How do female caddisflies decide where to put their eggs? An experimental test - Barbara J Downes
- Hedging their bets: The relative importance of spatial subsidies and riparian vegetation to insectivorous bat foraging activity along perennial streams in temperate Australia - Bradley Clarke-Wood
Session 1B - Invasive Species Ecology and Management
11:30AM - 1:15PM
Monday, 2nd December
Anglesea Room
Chair: Alisha Steward
- Ecological impacts of invasive carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australian dryland rivers - Jonathan C Marshall
- Epigeic invertebrates of pig-damaged wetlands are rooted: impacts from feral pigs (Sus scrofa) - Alisha L Steward
- Does the translocation of red-claw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) impact the indigenous blue-claw crayfish (Cherax destructor) in the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia? - Georgia King
- Management of the submersed aquatic weed Egeria densa in Australia - Tony M Dugdale
- How many carp are there in Australia? - Jarod Lyon
Session 1C - Urban Ecology 1
11:30AM - 1:15PM
Monday, 2nd December
Paraparap Room
Chair: Chris Walsh
Sponsored by:
- Restoration of water quality from urban stormwater impacts; limitations of space and demand - Chris J Walsh
- The hydrological impact of stormwater source-control measures at the catchment scale - Matthew J Burns
- Can modifying water level regimes of urban ponds increase their nutrient processing capacity? - Fiona Dyer
- Changes to in-stream macro invertebrate assemblages resulting from small-scale habitat complexity are diminished by catchment-scale impacts - Julia Y White
- Methods for estimating nutrient and contaminant loads of common aquatic sedges in urban constructed wetlands - Courtney Glover
- Stream daylighting: looks good, feels good, but is it doing any good? - Martin Neale
- Mapping wetland dynamics using remote sensing approaches to assist long-term planning in a rapidly urbanising landscape - Nick Bond
Session 1D - On-farm Ecology
11:30AM - 1:15PM
Monday, 2nd December
Bellbrae Room
Chair: Wendy Quayle
- Carbon and nutrient release from experimental inundation of agricultural and forested floodplain soil and vegetation: influence of floodplain land use on the development of hypoxic blackwater during floods - Xiaoying Liu
- How can we quantify what kind of on-land mitigation actions have been done to improve water quality? - Katharina AM Doehring
- A national assessment of the potential for farm management to decrease nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment losses to water: what could be achieved by 2035? - Richard McDowell
- Macroinvertebrate communities in ponds - Abigail AK Kuranchie
- Farm dams as refuges for freshwater biodiversity in a drying climate - Belinda J Robson
- Quantifying field-scale performance of constructed wetlands to accelerate uptake for on-farm nutrient management - Chris C Tanner
- Hydrological wetland rehabilitation across western Victoria - practical solutions and positive outcomes for wetland conservation in an agricultural landscape - Lachlan Farrington
Networking Lunch
1:15PM - 2:00PM
Monday, 2nd December
Main Foyer
Session 2A - Bioassessment and Monitoring
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 2nd December
Torquay Room
Chair: Catherine Leigh
- Are we ready for DNA based bio-monitoring? - Michael E Shackleton
- Is each of these things just like the other? Testing and refining the repeatability of wetland monitoring indicator scores to improve power to detect change - Caitlin Johns
- Evaluation and redirection of a long-term, broad-scale river health monitoring program in Tasmania, Australia - Adam Uytendaal
- How macroinvertebrate DNA metabarcodes can improve the cost-effectiveness and, taxonomic precision and accuracy of freshwater biomonitoring and assessment programs - Melissa Carew
- Will this coalmine affect that wetland? Guidelines and multidisciplinary science for improving environmental assessments of water-related impacts - Andrew J Boulton
- Developing guideline thresholds for emerging organic contaminants - Izzie Alderton
- Anomaly detection in high frequency water-quality data from in-situ sensors - Catherine Leigh
- Bringing advanced laboratory techniques into the field - Rosanne Guijt
Session 2B - Community Engagement and Partnerships
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 2nd December
Anglesea Room
Chair: Jane Chambers
- The Department of Conservation's approach to catchment restoration: Working with others to solve complex restoration problems - Lian Butcher
- NatureLink Perth: the key to saving urban wetland biodiversity is connecting people - Jane Chambers
- Photo point monitoring: a special role in environmental flow management - Meegan Judd
- Environmental flow trials in a regulated river in southern Australia: integrating biophysical and social research - Robyn J Watts
- An unconventional pathway to restore a wetland: a story about science, grey literature, science communication and the power of community - Mark Bachmann
- Edith Cowan University ‘Old Ways New Ways’ Outreach Programme - Jason Barrow
- Kaipatiki Stream Care – 2 years of Community Science in Action - Brett Stansfield
- Optimising on-ground catchment management in Southeast Queensland - Morag Stewart
Session 2C - Experimental Ecology
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 2nd December
Paraparap Room
Chair: William Bovill
- Effects of thermal adaptation and acclimation on fish metabolism - Javiera Benavente
- Experimental evidence suggests that interactions between the native Azolla filiculoides and exotic Salvinia molesta are not mediated by elevated CO2 and nutrient enrichment - Guyo Gufu
- Effects of suspended sediment concentration on filtration rates and biodeposition of the Australian Hyriid river mussel Alathyria jacksoni - Sam Brouwer
- Estimating the functional roles of freshwater mussels at the riverscape scale - Nicole McCasker
- Biological interactions mediate context and species-specific sensitivities to salinity - Jon Bray
- A landscape-scale field experiment in six rivers shows how in-channel retention boosts detrital resources and invertebrate species diversity - William Bovill
- Improved stable isotope approaches for understanding food webs - Michele Burford
Session 2D - Wetlands
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 2nd December
Bellbrae Room
Chair: Jason Nicol
- The impact of a climate dryness on the alpha, beta and gamma biodiversity of freshwater macroinvertebrates in wetlands on a salinized landscape - Sean Atkinson
- Sink or swim? Coastal freshwater wetland vegetation response to rising sea level - Rebekah Grieger
- Vegetated microhabitats are critical for avian access to arid zone waterholes - Simon E Votto
- Is the poor vegetation response in hydrologically restored Lower River Murray wetlands due to a depauperate seed bank? - Jason M Nicol
- Effects of climate and landscape change on endemic freshwater macrocrustacean persistence in south-western Australia. - Holly E. Emery-Butcher
- Differences in floodplain soil seed bank dynamics across hydrological gradients - William Higgisson
- Variable flooding regimes drive floodplain wetland resilience: informing environmental flows - Rachael F Thomas
Afternoon Tea Networking Break
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Monday, 2nd December
Main Foyer
Community Event and Cultural Panel: Healthy Rivers, Healthy People
4:45PM - 6:15PM
Monday, 2nd December
Deakin University - Peter Thwaites Lecture Theatre
Chair: Phil Duncan
Sponsored by:
Return to Waurn Ponds Estate
6:15PM - 6:30PM
Monday, 2nd December
Spanish Experience Dinner
6:30PM - 9:00PM
Monday, 2nd December
Main Foyer