Tuesday, 8th December AFSS Conference 2020

• The terrestrial and semi-aquatic invertebrates of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams - Alisha L Steward
• Risks to fish populations in non-perennial rivers from the combined threats of drought and in-stream barriers   - Jonathan C Marshall
• Rescue of an upland community including reintroduction of River Blackfish in response to extreme climatic conditions - Brendan Ebner
• Interactive effects of light and nutrients on stream algal growth modified by forest management in boreal landscapes - Ryan M Burrows
• Mesoconsumer growth and selective integration of fatty acids; implications for apex predators in lowland river food webs - Paul J McInerney
• Frog responses to flows in the Gwydir Wetlands System, in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin, 2014 to 2019 - Amelia Walcott
• Using experiments to quantify the effect of inundation duration and timing on herbaceous plants to inform flow management in regulated rivers - Christopher Jones
• Do temperature and water depth influence microcrustacean hatching responses from floodplain wetland sediments - Nipa Chaki
• Sounds Fishy to Me- Illegal and Unregulated Trade of Freshwater Fish in the Queensland Ornamental Industry - Mariah D Millington
• Disruption of male mating strategies in a chemically compromised environment - Michael G Bertram
• Changes in the composition of wetland-associated birds in Lagoon of Islands, Tasmania after dam removal. - Zoe Ezzy

• Hydroclimatic controls on Australian dryland rivers - Zacchary T Larkin
• WetlandSnap: a photopoint monitoring citizen science initiative for wetlands and rivers - Timothy J Ralph
• Lake Sediment Bacterial Community Responses to Hydrogen Peroxide Exposure - Cody Woods
• Temporal variation in the soil seed bank of an inland floodplain on the lower Lachlan River, NSW, Australia  - Jasmin Wells
• Can stream power variations explain channel erosion risk in ‘lazy’ floodplain wetlands? - Zacchary T Larkin
• Fish mixing in the blender of hybridisation: patterns in rainbowfishes in southeastern Australia - Karl Moy
• Metagenomic analysis and functional profiles of the bacterial communities in water and sediments of the upper Hawkesbury River - Emily White
• Complex carp gudgeons, the joys of hemiclonal unisexual species complexes - Peter Unmack
• Ecological outreach via social media: responses to remote waterhole camera images indicate that dingoes rule - Jenny Davis

• The role of rainfall in determining nutrient loads and driving cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Tuggeranong - Rodney Ubrihien
• First steps in predicting microbial pollution in riverine recreational swimming areas in high and low flow conditions in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), 2009-2020 - Kathryn Vincent
• Opportunities and challenges in water management for a large scale urban development - Jill Bartlett
• Science Citizen: unanticipated benefits from shifting to a ‘data-first’ approach in a long-term citizen science program - Woo O'Reilly
• Microplastics as an emerging threat in aquatic ecosystems - James N Hitchcock

• Sailing the Ark: Talking crisis communications and dead fish - Rosy Lone
• Living Data: Using cultural arts practices to support evidence-based policy - Lisa L Roberts
• Is everyone getting your message? Making scientific communication accessible - Anne Colville

• Estimating the cover of Phragmites australis and other wetland features following environmental water using unmanned aerial vehicles and neural networks - William Higgisson
• Water quality impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires in the Upper Murray catchment - Klaus Joehnk
• Cryptic Crayfish in the ACT - Matthew Beitzel

• Zooplankton heatwave resilience - Claire Sives
• Is there a link between gully erosion and sedimentation in the waterholes of the Barwon-Darling River? - Marita Pearson
• Food web structure of the fish community in the Barwon-Darling River - Leah McIntosh
• Fish community response to hydrogeomorphic character at multiple spatial and temporal scales - Munique C Reid
• Insights in aspects of ecosystem productivity in Mulwaree Chain-of Ponds, a rare geomorphic relic  - Lorraine Hardwick

• Allochthonous subsidies support growth of catadromous fish juveniles  - Ellery Johnson
• Keeping Fish Wet in the Big Dry – Adaptive Management for Environmental Watering in the Mehi River During Severe Drought - Matt Miles
• Tropical macrophytes promote phytoplankton community shifts in lake mesocosms: relevance for lake restoration in warm climates - Simon Mitrovic
• Stream metabolism in the Murrumbidgee River - Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
• Wetland lawn – temporal and spatial distribution and controls of lippia, an invasive weed species in the Gwydir Wetlands, Moree NSW. - Mark R Southwell

This session will involve discussions with ACT Poster Presenters.

• A thread of connectivity - meandering through wetland research, conservation practice, community participation, international assessments, policy, and research editing to end up with the rights of wetlands - Max Finlayson

Each Hub location will provide a different option for this Mixer.  Please reference your hub registration information.