Wednesday, 28th September Australian Society for Limnology Conference 2016

9.30 Fran Sheldon and Paul Humphries: Welcome: Tribute to Keith Walker

9.50am Stuart Bunn: River-floodplain connectivity and food web subsidies in tropical rivers

10.10am Jan Walker and Mike Geddes: Thank You

• River-floodplain connectivity and food web subsidies in tropical rivers - Stuart Bunn

• Can further regulation of the River Murray be used to promote ecosystem health? A fish ecology perspective. - Brenton Zampatti
• Variable plasticity in shell morphology of some Australian freshwater mussels (Unionioda, Hyriidae) - Fran Sheldon

• Frogs, flows and rainfall: monitoring frog response to wetland flows in the northern Murray Darling Basin - Joanne Ocock
• Linking riverine flows and food webs: EWKR food web theme - Darren S Baldwin
• Waterbird recruitment in the Murray-Darling Basin: Responses to flooding, stressors and threats - Heather McGinness
• Improving our capacity to predict ecosystem responses to environmental flows - Ben Gawne
• The comparison of four environmental water delivery methods to improve the hydrological metrics in the Snowy River, 2002-2016. - Simon A Williams
• Developing tools to assess the impact of development on the lower Mekong River - Ian Campbell

• Streambed characteristics affect the vertical connectivity and movement of benthic invertebrates during water level reduction in streams - Atish N Vadher
• Do pools impede stream insect drift dispersal? - Andrew Brooks
• (Another) truce with neutral theory – local conditions, species traits and spatial factors interact to drive community assembly - Ross Thompson
• Building mussels: Understanding rarity in Hyridella narracanensis in southeastern Australia - Nick Murphy

• The influence of groundwater contributions to stream food-webs in intermittent systems - Ryan M Burrows
• Food webs and intermittent rivers: research to meet future challenges - Catherine Leigh
• Macroinvertebrate food webs in intermittent stream pools utilise general carbon sources despite variations in hydrology - Andre R Siebers
• Nutrient limitations to production in Pilbara intermittent stream pools - Jordan A Iles

• The cultural value of water to Australia’s First Peoples’ (Aboriginal People) and the evidence that will influence modern day water planning and management including quantity and quality. - Bradley Moggridge

• Aboriginal Water Resource Management in WA - David Collard
• The Environmental Water Trust – using markets and innovative financing to restore wetlands and floodplains in the Murray-Darling Basin for financial, social and environmental outcomes. - Natalie Holland
• Aboriginal Waterways Assessment: realising shared benefits through collaborative planning - Darren Perry
• Towards Cultural Flows - Glenelg River Aboriginal Water Values Scoping Project - Jane Walker

• National Cultural Flows and the restoration of Lake Condah - Damein Bell
• Recognising and managing for Aboriginal values in Victoria - Troy McDonald
• Barapa Barapa Cultural connection to waterways - Robyn McKay

• Seeing the Land from an Aboriginal Canoe - Lucinda Horrocks