Dr Michael Reid
Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) (Monash), PhD (Monash)
Contact
| Email: | mreid24@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Earth Sciences - Admin (C2) 208 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3447 (or +61 2 6773 3447 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
Dr Reid completed his PhD on the palaeoecology of billabongs on the Goulburn River in Victoria at Monash University in 1997. He went on to a post-doctoral fellowship at Monash, where his research focussed on developing approaches for monitoring the effectiveness of environmental water allocations on flood plain wetlands. Upon completion of this fellowship, he took up a second post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand where he developed models for reconstructing long-term records of lake productivity to aid managers in detecting eutrophication trends in response to human land use. From 2004 until 2009 Dr Reid was employed as a research fellow at the Riverine Landscapes Research Lab at the University of Canberra on a range of research project focussed on understanding floodplain river ecosystems.
Affiliations
Member of the Australian Society of Limnology
Member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Member of the Society for Freshwater Science
Member of the International Paleolimnology Association
Areas of Teaching
GEPL311 Catchment to Coast
GEPL306 Landscape Processes and Natural Hazards
GEPL308 Environmental Change in Australia
GEPL304/504 Cyberspace
Research interests
Michael Reid’s research interests are in understanding pattern and process in floodplain and river ecosystems across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Within this broad theme, his research has covered a diverse range of areas including palaeoecology, food web ecology, flood plain vegetation dynamics and ecohydrology.
Recent Publications
Reid, M. A. and Thoms, M. C. (2012). Changes in benthic community structure and function in an Australian regulated upland stream following wildfire. Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges. M. Stone, A. Collins and M. Thoms. IAHS Press:Wallingford, UK. IAHS Publication 354: 66-74.
Reid, M. A., & Capon, S. (2011). “The role of the soil seed bank in vegetation response to environmental flows on a drought-affected floodplain”. River Systems 19(3): 249-259.
Reid, M. A., Delong, M. D., & Thoms, M. C. (2012). “The influence of hydrological connectivity on food web structure in floodplain lakes”. River Research and Applications 28: 827-844.
Reid, M. and Gell, P. (2011). Regional wetland response typology: Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. PAGES news 19(2): 62-64.
Reid, M. A. and Ogden, R. W. (2009). "The importance of habitat, biogeography and hydrology as drivers of diatom distributions in floodplain lakes of the southeast Murray Basin (Australia) and implications for palaeolimnological studies." Journal Of Paleolimnology 41(3): 453-470.
Reid, M. A. and Thoms, M. C. (2009). “Mapping stream surface flow types by balloon: an inexpensive high resolution remote sensing solution to rapid assessment of stream habitat heterogeneity?”. In M. C. Thoms, K. Heal, E. Bogh, A. Chambel and V. Smakhtin (Eds), Ecohydrology of Surface and Groundwater, Wallingford, UK, IAHS Press. IAHS Publication 328: 62-67.
Reid, M. A. (2008). “Evidence for catastrophic shifts in the trophic structure of floodplain lakes associated with soil erosion.” In J. Schmidt, T. Cochrane, C. Phillips, S. Elliot, T. Davies, L. Basher (Eds), Sediment Dynamics in Changing Environments, Wallingford, UK, IAHS Press. IAHS Publication 325: 584-590.
Reid, M. A. and Thoms, M. C. (2008). "Surface flow types, near-bed hydraulics and the distribution of stream macroinvertebrates." Biogeosciences 5: 1043-1055.
Reid, M. A., Sayer, C. D., Kershaw, A. P. and Heijnis, H. (2007). "Palaeolimnological evidence for submerged plant loss in a floodplain lake associated with accelerated catchment soil erosion (Murray River, Australia)." Journal of Paleolimnology 38: 191-208.
Reid, M. A. and Ogden, R. W. (2006). "Trend, variability or extreme event? The importance of long-term perspectives in river ecology." River Research and Applications 22(2): 167-177.
Reid, M. & Thoms, M. (2006). Linking pattern and process: the effects of hydraulic conditions on benthic metabolism in an Australian upland stream. In J. S. Rowan, R. W. Duck & A. Werritty (Eds.), Sediment dynamics and the hydromorphology of fluvial systems, Wallingford, UK, IAHS Press . IAHS Publications 306: pp. 322-330.
Reid, M. A., Thoms, M. and Dyer, F. (2006). "Effects of spatial and temporal variation in hydraulic conditions on metabolism in cobble biofilm communities in an Australian upland stream." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(4): 756-767.
Reid, M. A. (2005). "Diatom-based models for reconstructing past water quality and productivity in New Zealand lakes." Journal of Paleolimnology 33(1): 13-38.
Stephens, T. W., Atkin, D., Augustinus, P. C., Cochran, U., Reid, M. A., Lorrey, A., Shane, P. and Street-Perrott, A. (in press). A diatom record of reduced effective precipitation during the Last Glacial Coldest Phase (28.8 to 18.3 cal. kyr BP) and increasing Holocene seasonality at Lake Pupuke (Auckland, New Zealand). Journal Of Paleolimnology.
Webb, M. C., Reid, M. A. & Thoms, M. C. (2012). “Determining the eco-hydrological character of aquatic refugia in a dryland river system: the importance of temporal scale”. Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 12(1): 21-33.
Webb, M. C., Reid, M. A. and Thoms, M. C. (2011). “The influence of hydrology and physical habitat character on fish assemblages at different temporal scales”. River Systems 19(3): 283-299
Nikora, V. I., Larned, S. T., Debnath, K., Cooper, G. and Reid, M. A. (2008). "Hydraulic resistance due to aquatic vegetation in small streams: a field study." Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 134(9): 1326-1332.
Cossart, R., Thoms, M. C. and Reid,M. A. (2008). Determination and interpretation of sediment provenance in a sedimentary sequence affected by post-depositional changes. In J. Schmidt, T. Cochrane, C. Phillips, S. Elliot, T. Davies, L. Basher, (Eds), Sediment Dynamics in Changing Environments, Wallingford, UK, IAHS Press. IAHS Publication 325: 60-67.
Ogden, R. W., Reid, M. A. and Thoms, M. C. (2007). "Soil fertility in a large dryland floodplain: patterns, processes and the implications of water resource development." Catena 70(2): 114-126.
Augustinus, P., Reid, M., Andersson, S., Deng, Y. and Horrocks, M. (2006). "Biological and geochemical record of anthropogenic impacts in recent sediments from Lake Pupuke, Auckland City, New Zealand." Journal of Paleolimnology 35(4): 789-805.
Thoms, M., Reid, M., Christianson, K., & Munro, F. (2006). “Variety is the Spice of River Life: Recognising Hydraulic Diversity as a Tool for Managing Flows in Regulated Rivers”. In J. S. Rowan, Duck, R.W. and Werritty, A. (Eds), Sediment dynamics and the hydromorphology of fluvial systems, Wallingford, UK, IAHS Press . IAHS Publications 306: pp. 169-178.
Webb, M., Reid, M., Capon, S., Thoms, M., Rayburg, S., & James, C. (2006). Are floodplain-wetland plant communities determined by seed bank composition or inundation periods? In J. S. Rowan, R. W. Duck & A. Werritty (Eds), Sediment dynamics and the hydromorphology of fluvial systems, Wallingford, UK, IAHS Press . IAHS Publications 306: pp. 241-248.
Gell, P., J. Tibby, J. Fluin, P. Leahy, M. Reid, K. Adamson, S. Bulpin, A. MacGregor, P. Wallbrink, G. Hancock and B. Walsh (2005). "Accessing limnological change and variability using fossil diatom assemblages, south-east Australia." River Research and Applications 21: 257-269.
Current Postgraduate Students
Nevenka Bulovic (Masters) - Anthropogenic Fragmentation of River Networks: Quantification and Restoration
Amal Kadhum (PhD) - A Study on the Environmental and Climatic History of the Narran Lakes Region
Adrian Matheson (PhD) -The Ecohydrology of large wood: Associations between hydraulics, large wood and fish assemblage in the Barwon Darling River, Australia
Craig McLoughlin (PhD) – Adaptive management cycles, freshwater protection and environmental flows
Murray Scown (PhD) - Using LiDAR to quanitify the physical complexity of floodplain landscapes, investigating the influences of scale and hydrology on such physical complexity, and its implications for ecosystem functioning
Bruce Murray (PhD) - Genetic Variation of Two Common Co-Occurring Australian Floodplain Plant Species Over Multiple Spatial Scales
Rajendra Shilpakar (PhD) - Floodplain vegetation landscape: ecotone or dynamic patch mosaics?
Rajesh Thapa (PhD) - The Narran Floodplain Landscape: Ecotone or dynamic patch mosaic?