Publications

J.D. Tonkin, J.D. Olden, D.M. Merritt, L.V. Reynolds, J.S. Rogosch, D.A. Lytle (2020). Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

M. Li, J. Liu, J. D. Tonkin, J. Shen, N. Xiao, J. Wang (2020). The effects of abiotic and biotic factors on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of stream epilithic bacteria around Qiandao Lake. Aquatic Sciences.

S. Sundar, J. Heino, F.d-O. Roque, J.P. Simaika, A.S. Melo, J.D. Tonkin, D.G. Nogueira, D.P. Silva (2020). Conservation of freshwater macroinvertebrate biodiversity in tropical regions. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

F. Li, J.D. Tonkin, P. Haase (2020). Local contribution to beta diversity is negatively linked with community-wide dispersal capacity in stream invertebrate communities. Ecological Indicators.

J.D. Tonkin, N.L. Poff, N.R. Bond, A. Horne, D.M. Merritt, L.V. Reynolds, J.D. Olden, A. Ruhi, D.A. Lytle (2019). Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future. Nature.

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T. Yuan, K.K. Vadde, J.D. Tonkin, J. Wang, J. Lu, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A.J. McCarthy, R. Sekar (2019). Urbanization impacts the physicochemical characteristics and abundance of fecal markers and bacterial pathogens in surface water. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

K. Van Looy, J.D. Tonkin, M. Floury, C. Leigh, J. Soininen, S. Larsen, J. Heino, N. LeRoy Poff, M. Delong, S.C. Jähnig, T. Datry, N. Bonada, J. Rosebery, A. Jamoneau, S.J. Ormerod, K.J. Collier, C. Wolter (2019). The three rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia. River Research and Applications.

J. Jourdan, M. Plath, J.D. Tonkin, M. Ceylan, A.C. Dumeier, G. Gellert, W. Graf, C.P. Hawkins, E. Kiel, A.W. Lorenz, C.D. Matthaei, P.F.M. Verdonschot, R.C.M. Verdonschot, P. Haase (2019). Reintroduction of freshwater macroinvertebrates: Challenges and opportunities. Biological Reviews.

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P. Haase, F. Pilotto, F. Li, A. Sundermann, A.W. Lorenz, J.D. Tonkin, S. Stoll (2019). Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities. Science of the Total Environment.

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J.S. Rogosch, J.D. Tonkin, D.A. Lytle, D.M. Merritt, L.V. Reynolds, J.D. Olden (2019). Increasing drought favors nonnative fishes in a dryland river: Evidence from a multispecies demographic model. Ecosphere.

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S.D. Tiegs, D.M. Costello, M.W. Isken, G. Woodward, P.B. McIntyre, M.O. Gessner, E. Chauvet, N.A. Griffiths, plus approx. 140 others including, J.D. Tonkin (2019). Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. Science Advances.

F. Pilotto, J.D. Tonkin, K. Januschke, A.W. Lorenz, J. Jourdan, A. Sundermann, D. Hering, S. Stoll, P. Haase (2019). Diverging response patterns of terrestrial and aquatic species to hydromorphological restoration. Conservation Biology.

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F.T. Wetzel, H.C. Bingham, Q. Groom, P. Haase, U. Kõljalg, M. Kuhlmann, C.S. Martin, L. Penev, T. Robertson, H. Saarenmaa, D.S. Schmeller, S. Stoll, J.D. Tonkin, C.L. Häuser (2018). Unlocking biodiversity data: Prioritization and filling the gaps in biodiversity observation data in europe. Biological Conservation.

J.D. Tonkin, F. Altermatt, D.S. Finn, J. Heino, J.D. Olden, S.U. Pauls, D.A. Lytle (2018). The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways. Freshwater Biology.

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P. Haase, J.D. Tonkin, S. Stoll, B. Burkhard, M. Frenzel, I.R. Geijzendorffer, C. Häuser, S. Klotz, I. Kühn, W.H. McDowell, M. Mirtl, F. Müller, M. Musche, J. Penner, S. Zacharias, D.S. Schmeller (2018). The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity. Science of the Total Environment.

F.T. Wetzel, D.S. Schmeller, H.C. Bingham, Q. Groom, P. Haase, U. Kõljalg, M. Kuhlmann, C.S. Martin, L. Penev, T. Robertson, H. Saarenmaa, S. Stoll, J.D. Tonkin, C.L. Häuser (2018). Real gaps in European bird monitoring: A reply to Voříšek et al.. Biological Conservation.

J.D. Tonkin, J. Heino, F. Altermatt (2018). Metacommunities in river networks: The importance of network structure and connectivity on patterns and processes. Freshwater Biology.

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J.D. Tonkin, D.M. Merritt, J.D. Olden, L.V. Reynolds, D.A. Lytle (2018). Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

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J. Jourdan, R.B. O’Hara, R. Bottarin, K.-L. Huttunen, M. Kuemmerlen, D. Monteith, T. Muotka, D. Ozoliņš, R. Paavola, F. Pilotto, G. Springe, A. Skuja, A. Sundermann, J.D. Tonkin, P. Haase (2018). Effects of changing climate on european stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis. Science of the Total Environment.

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J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death, T. Muotka, A. Astorga, D.A. Lytle (2018). Do latitudinal gradients exist in New Zealand stream invertebrate metacommunities?. PeerJ.

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F. Li, J.D. Tonkin, P. Haase (2018). Dispersal capacity and broad-scale landscape structure shape benthic invertebrate communities along stream networks. Limnologica.

T. Dalu, M.L. Magoro, J.D. Tonkin, L.R.D. Human, R. Perissinotto, S.H.P. Deyzel, J.B. Adams, A.K. Whitfield (2018). Assessing phytoplankton composition and structure within micro-estuaries and micro-outlets: A community analysis approach. Hydrobiologia.

T. Dalu, R.J. Wasserman, J.D. Tonkin, T. Mwedzi, M.L. Magoro, O.L.F. Weyl (2017). Water or sediment? partitioning the role of water column and sediment chemistry as drivers of macroinvertebrate communities in an austral south african stream. Science of the Total Environment.

S.C. Jähnig, J.D. Tonkin, M. Gies, S. Domisch, D. Hering, P. Haase (2017). Severity multipliers as a methodology to explore potential effects of climate change on stream bioassessment programs. Water.

J.D. Tonkin, M.T. Bogan, N. Bonada, B. Rios-Touma, D.A. Lytle (2017). Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity. Ecology.

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J.D. Tonkin, R.D. Tachamo Shah, D.N. Shah, F. Hoppeler, S.C. Jähnig, S.U. Pauls (2017). Metacommunity structuring in himalayan streams over large elevational gradients: The role of dispersal routes and niche characteristics. Journal of Biogeography.

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D.A. Lytle, D.M. Merritt, J.D. Tonkin, J.D. Olden, L.V. Reynolds (2017). Linking river flow regimes to riparian plant guilds: A community-wide modeling approach. Ecological Applications.

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L.E. McMullen, P. De Leenheer, J.D. Tonkin, D.A. Lytle (2017). High mortality and enhanced recovery: Modelling the countervailing effects of disturbance on population dynamics. Ecology Letters.

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S. Stoll, N. Hormel, D. Früh, J.D. Tonkin (2017). Effects of Chaetogaster limnaei limnaei (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) on freshwater snail communities. Hydrobiologia.

S. Höckendorff, J.D. Tonkin, P. Haase, M. Bunzel-Drüke, O. Zimball, M. Scharf, S. Stoll (2017). Characterizing fish responses to a river restoration over 21 years based on species' traits. Conservation Biology.

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T. Dalu, R.J. Wasserman, J.D. Tonkin, M.E. Alexander, M.T.B. Dalu, S.N. Motitsoe, K.I. Manungo, O. Bepe, T. Dube (2017). Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in african highland streams: An exploration using multivariate analysis. Science of the Total Environment.

M. Leps, A. Sundermann, J.D. Tonkin, A.W. Lorenz, P. Haase (2016). Time is no healer: Increasing restoration age does not lead to improved benthic invertebrate communities in restored river reaches. Science of the Total Environment.

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S. Stoll, P. Breyer, J.D. Tonkin, D. Früh, P. Haase (2016). Scale-dependent effects of river habitat quality on benthic invertebrate communities - implications for stream restoration practice. Science of the Total Environment.

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J.D. Tonkin, F.O. Arimoro, P. Haase (2016). Exploring stream communities in a tropical biodiversity hotspot: Biodiversity, regional occupancy, niche characteristics and environmental correlates. Biodiversity and Conservation.

F. Hoppeler, R.D. Tachamo Shah, D.N. Shah, S.C. Jähnig, J.D. Tonkin, S. Sharma, S.U. Pauls (2016). Environmental and spatial characterisation of an unknown fauna using DNA sequencing - an example with Himalayan Hydropsychidae (Insecta: Trichoptera). Freshwater Biology.

J.D. Tonkin, S. Stoll, S.C. Jähnig, P. Haase (2016). Elements of metacommunity structure of river and riparian assemblages: Communities, taxonomic groups and deconstructed trait groups. Ecological Complexity.

J.D. Tonkin, S. Stoll, S.C. Jähnig, P. Haase (2016). Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic-floodplain system. Oikos.

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J.D. Tonkin, J. Heino, A. Sundermann, P. Haase, S.C. Jähnig (2016). Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities. Freshwater Biology.

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J.D. Tonkin, S. Stoll, S.C. Jähnig, P. Haase (2016). Anthropogenic land-use stress alters community concordance at the river-riparian interface. Ecological Indicators.

J.D. Tonkin, A. Brown, E.M. Chappell (2015). Small-scale patch complexity, benthic invertebrate colonisation and leaf breakdown in three headwater streams in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.

D.N. Shah, J.D. Tonkin, P. Haase, S.C. Jähnig (2015). Latitudinal patterns and large-scale environmental determinants of stream insect richness across Europe. Limnologica.

J.D. Tonkin, A. Sundermann, S.C. Jähnig, P. Haase (2015). Environmental controls on river assemblages at the regional scale: An application of the elements of metacommunity structure framework. PLoS ONE.

M. Leps, J.D. Tonkin, V. Dahm, P. Haase, A. Sundermann (2015). Disentangling environmental drivers of benthic invertebrate assemblages: The role of spatial scale and riverscape heterogeneity in a multiple stressor environment. Science of the Total Environment.

S.C. Jähnig, D.N. Shah, R.D. Tachamo Shah, F. Li, Q. Cai, A. Sundermann, J.D. Tonkin, S. Stendera (2015). Community-environment relationships of riverine invertebrate communities in central Chinese streams. Environmental Earth Sciences.

J.D. Tonkin, D.N. Shah, M. Kuemmerlen, F. Li, Q. Cai, P. Haase, S.C. Jähnig (2015). Climatic and catchment-scale predictors of chinese stream insect richness differ between taxonomic groups. PLoS ONE.

E.M. Chappell, D.S. Webb, A.J. Brown, J.D. Tonkin (2015). A preliminary survey of altitudinal variation in two ground wētā species, Hemiandrus maculifrons (Walker) and Hemiandrus pallitarsis (Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Entomologist.

J.D. Tonkin, S.C. Jähnig, P. Haase (2014). The rise of riverine flow-ecology and environmental flow research. Environmental Processes.

J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death (2014). The combined effects of flow regulation and an artificial flow release on a regulated river. River Research and Applications.

J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death, J. Barquín (2014). Periphyton control on stream invertebrate diversity: Is periphyton architecture more important than biomass?. Marine and Freshwater Research.

E.M. Chappell, D.S. Webb, J.D. Tonkin (2014). Notes on sexual size dimorphism, sex ratio and movements of adult ground weta Hemiandrus maculifrons (Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Entomologist.

B.O. David, J.D. Tonkin, K.W.T. Taipeti, H.T. Hokianga (2014). Learning the ropes: Mussel spat ropes improve fish and shrimp passage through culverts. Journal of Applied Ecology.

J.D. Tonkin (2014). Drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure in unmodified streams. PeerJ.

J.D. Tonkin, S. Stoll, A. Sundermann, P. Haase (2014). Dispersal distance and the pool of taxa, but not barriers, determine the colonisation of restored river reaches by benthic invertebrates. Freshwater Biology.

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J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death (2013). Scale dependent effects of productivity and disturbance on diversity in streams. Fundamental and Applied Limnology.

J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death, J. Barquín (2013). Productivity-diversity relationships for stream invertebrates differ geographically. Aquatic Ecology.

J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death (2013). Macroinvertebrate drift-benthos trends in a regulated river. Fundamental and Applied Limnology.

J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death, K.J. Collier (2013). Do productivity and disturbance interact to modulate macroinvertebrate diversity in streams?. Hydrobiologia.

J.D. Tonkin, L.A. Wright, B.O. David (2012). Mussel spat ropes assist redfin bully emphGobiomorphus huttoni passage through experimental culverts with velocity barriers. Water.

Jonathan D. Tonkin, Russell G. Death (2012). Consistent Effects of Productivity and Disturbance on Diversity Between Landscapes. Ecosphere.

A.C. Schwendel, R.G. Death, I.C. Fuller, J.D. Tonkin (2012). A new approach to assess bed stability relevant for invertebrate communities in upland streams. River Research and Applications.

J.D. Tonkin, R.G. Death, M.K. Joy (2009). Invertebrate drift patterns in a regulated river: Dams, periphyton biomass or longitudinal patterns?. River Research and Applications.

K.J. Collier, B.M.T.A. Aldridge, B.J. Hicks, J. Kelly, A. Macdonald, B.J. Smith, J.D. Tonkin (2009). Ecological values of Hamilton urban streams (North Island, New Zealand): constraints and opportunities for restoration. New Zealand Journal of Ecology.