Impressed to see a whole tree snagged mid-channel below the Victoria Bridge in Hamilton. The Waikato River is running very high at the moment.

Interested in applying fatty acid biomarkers and functional traits to understand landscape drivers in stream-riparian food webs? Look no further than our recent paper published here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The landscape theory of food web architecture (LTFWA) describes relationships between body size, trophic position, mobility, and energy channels that couple habitats, which in turn promotes stability. This study in Lake Michigan explores evidence for the LTFWA
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Image: NASA

The Living Planet Report published yesterday continues to paint a sobering picture of freshwater #biodiversity decline. We need to take further action with pressing issues like climate change and intensive land uses to bend the curve! livingplanet.panda.org

Just looking at a long-term record of fish in the Rangitukia Stream and there are some interesting declines in key species. Here's a photo of a headwater tributary on the Rangitukia

Three kinds of scientific research

Great hearing from Emily Bernhardt at a Waikato ERI seminar about what could happen to the metabolic pulse of streams and rivers in a warmer, flashier world #climatechange #foodwebs #ecosystems

I am looking for 2 PhD candidates to join my group at the University of Waikato next year to investigate #biodiversity and ecosystem processes across stream-riparian boundaries. Both projects will focus on #foodwebs and ecosystem functioning in forested streams. Please RT! tinyurl.com/4pf76n8u