The world is changing at rates unprecedented in human history, leading to major disruption of ecological dynamics. By analysing long-term ecological datasets with various statistical tools, we have uncovered the various ways in which freshwater biodiversity is being affected by this change. We also focus on developing forecasts of how biodiversity will respond to this change into the future (see forecasting).
Global change ecology
Riparian plant networks under increasing future drought
Jonathan D. Tonkin
Senior Lecturer & Rutherford Discovery Fellow
Publications
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems
We explored cross‐ecosystem effects of environmental flow regimes designed to benefit focal groups of plants, fishes, and …
Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future
As the climate warms, we can’t restore waterways to pristine condition, but models can predict potential changes, argue Jonathan D. …
Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities
Climate warming often results in species range shifts, biodiversity loss and accumulated climatic debts of biota (i.e. slower changes …
Effects of changing climate on european stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis
Long-term observations on riverine benthic invertebrate communities enable assessments of the potential impacts of global change on …
