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Leigh, C, Aspin, TWH, Matthews, TJ, Rolls, RJ & Ledger, ME 2019, 'Drought alters the functional stability of stream invertebrate communities through time', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1988-2000. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13638
Aspin, TWH, Hart, K, Khamis, K, Milner, AM, O'callaghan, MJ, Trimmer, M, Wang, Z, Williams, GMD, Woodward, G & Ledger, ME 2019, 'Drought intensification alters the composition, body size, and trophic structure of invertebrate assemblages in a stream mesocosm experiment', Freshwater Biology, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 750-760. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13259
Aspin, T, Khamis, K, Matthews, T, Milner, A, O'Callaghan, M, Trimmer, M, Woodward, G & Ledger, M 2019, 'Extreme drought pushes stream invertebrate communities over functional thresholds', Global Change Biology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14495
Hill, MJ, Biggs, J, Thornhill, I, Briers, RA, Ledger, M, Gledhill, DG, Wood, PJ & Hassall, C 2018, 'Community heterogeneity of aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban ponds at a multi-city scale', Landscape Ecology, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 389-405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0608-1
Aspin, TWH, Matthews, TJ, Khamis, K, Milner, AM, Wang, Z, O'callaghan, MJ & Ledger, ME 2018, 'Drought intensification drives turnover of structure and function in stream invertebrate communities', Ecography, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 1992-2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03711, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03711
Brown, L, Aspray, K, Ledger, M, Mainstone, C, Palmer, S, Wilkes, M & Holden, J 2018, 'Sediment deposition from eroding peatlands alters headwater invertebrate biodiversity', Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14516
Thornhill, I, Batty, L, Hewitt, M, Friberg, NR & Ledger, M 2018, 'The application of graph theory and percolation analysis for assessing change in the spatial configuration of pond networks', Urban Ecosystems, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-017-0724-8
Thornhill, IA, Biggs, J, Hill, MJ, Briers, R, Gledhill, D, Wood, PJ, Gee, JHR, Ledger, M & Hassall, C 2018, 'The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients', Global Change Biology, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 3079-3092. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14149
Thornhill, I, Batty, L, Friberg, N, Death, R & Ledger, M 2017, 'Local and landscape scale determinants of biodiversity and conservation value of macroinvertebrate assemblages in ponds across an urban land-use gradient', Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1065–1086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1286-4
Aspray, KL, Holden, J, Ledger, ME, Mainstone, CP & Brown, LE 2017, 'Organic sediment pulses impact rivers across multiple levels of ecological organization', Ecohydrology, vol. 10, no. 6, e1855. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1855
Frame, JL, Jones, JI, Ormerod, SJ, Sadler, JP & Ledger, ME 2016, 'Biological barriers to restoration: testing the biotic resistance hypothesis in an upland stream recovering from acidification', Hydrobiologia, vol. 777, no. 1, pp. 161–170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2772-0
Lu, X, Gray, C, Brown, LE, Ledger, ME, Milner, AM, Mondragón, RJ, Woodward, G & Ma, A 2016, 'Drought rewires the cores of food webs', Nature Climate Change, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 875-878. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3002, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3002
Thompson, MSA, Bankier, C, Bell, T, Dumbrell, AJ, Gray, C, Ledger, ME, Lehmann, K, McKew, BA, Sayer, CD, Shelley, F, Trimmer, M, Warren, SL & Woodward, G 2016, 'Gene-to-ecosystem impacts of a catastrophic pesticide spill: testing a multilevel bioassessment approach in a river ecosystem', Freshwater Biology, vol. 61, no. 12, pp. 2037-2050. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12676
Woodward, G, Bonada, N, Brown, LE, Death, RG, Durance, I, Gray, C, Hladyz, S, Ledger, ME, Milner, AM, Ormerod, SJ, Thompson, RM & Pawar, S 2016, 'The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems', Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, vol. 371, no. 1694, 20150274. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0274
Special issue
Leigh, C, Bush, A, Harrison, ET, Ho, SS, Luke, L, Rolls, RJ & Ledger, ME 2015, 'Ecological effects of extreme climatic events on riverine ecosystems: Insights from Australia', Freshwater Biology, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 2620-2638. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12515
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