Professor Angus McIntosh, Mackenzie Foundation Chair in Freshwater Ecology - Research
Freshwater Ecology Research Group (FERG)
Research Interests
- Responses of streams to urban and rural land-use pressures and enhancing the effectiveness of riparian management
- Community ecology of streams: The impact of predation on stream community structure, dispersal mediated patch dynamics in streams, and the impact of predators on grazing and algae in streams via trophic cascades.
- Aquatic predator-prey interactions: the response of stream invertebrates to chemical cues from fish, the antipredator tactics of mayfly nymphs, and impacts of multiple predators on prey behaviour.
- Conservation of the New Zealand freshwater fauna: interactions between introduced trout and native fish, the habitats and life cycles of native fish, and restoration of stream habitats.
Current Research Projects
"Enhancing the effectiveness of riparian management in Canterbury". In collaboration with Drs Jon Harding and Dev Niyogi. Funded by the Mackenzie Charitable Foundation.
"Variation in strength of cascading trophic interactions across a riverscape". In collaboration with Bobbi Peckarsky at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. Funded by NSF.
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