Danielle Warfe

BSc (Hons), PhD

• Research Interests
• Current Projects
• Recent Projects
• Publications
  • Papers
  • Reports

Contact details
Email: danielle.warfe@cdu.edu.au

Phone: (08) 8946 7620
Fax: (08) 8946 7455
Office: 31.3.18

Research interests

Danielle is freshwater ecologist with interests in food web ecology, flow-ecology relationships, and aquatic-riparian linkages. Educated at Monash University and the University of Tasmania, her PhD research investigated the role of habitat architecture on food web structure via its effects on fish predation and prey behaviour. Following this she worked for the Tasmanian state government on environmental flow assessments and water management planning, and has since been conducting research on the role of flow variability on the structure and function of rivers with differing flow regimes. Danielle is now combining these interests in her current work with the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK http://www.track.gov.au/ ) research hub, focussing on tropical river food webs, aquatic and riparian subsidies, and the effects of flow change.

Current projects

• Food sources and key consumers in tropical river food webs.
• Factors regulating primary production in tropical river food webs.
• Top-down and bottom-up controls in tropical river food webs.
• Energy fluxes and subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial food webs.
• Effects of flow change on ecosystem processes and food web structure.
• Developing tools and guidelines for environmental flows assessments.
  

Recent Projects

• The influence of flow variability on the structure and function of temperate rivers with differing flow regimes.
• A framework for conducting holistic environmental flows assessments in Tasmanian rivers.

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

Warfe, D.M. and Barmuta, L.A. (submitted) Quantifying habitat structure: surface convolution and living space for species in complex environments.

Warfe, D.M. and Barmuta, L.A. (2006) Habitat structure regulates food web dynamics in a freshwater macrophyte community. Oecologia, 150:141-154.

Warfe, D.M. and Barmuta, L.A. (2004) Habitat structure mediates the foraging success of multiple predator species. Oecologia, 141:171-178.

Reports

Warfe, D.M. (2007). A framework for determining holistic environmental water requirements in Tasmania. Technical Report No. WA 07/03. Water Assessment Branch, Department of Primary Industries and Water. Hobart, Tasmania.