Responsibilities outside the School:
Recent Highlights-
2010 - Keynote Speaker at the 2nd Freshwater Biology Summit (Achieving ecological outcomes: aquatic ecological responses to catchment management April 2010, Windermere, UK)
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2009 - Australian representative to the Water Framework Directive River Basin Planning Workshop, Brussels, Belgium.
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2008 - National Land and Water Australia Senior Research Fellow. The Fellowship will explore future scenarios for the Murray Darling Basin river ecosystems under the possible mixes of climate change and changes in water and land use.
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Nov 2008 - Australian advisor to the US EPA in the development of nutrient criteria for water quality standards, Washington DC, USA Colloquium.
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Dec 2008 - Independent assessor of the aquatic bioassessment program to Koniambo (world’s largest nickel mine), New Caledonia.
Chair
- National ISRAG Audit Committee, Murray Darling Basin Commission, ACT, Sustainable Rivers Audit
- Threatened Galaxiidae Recovery Committee, Tasmania
Deputy Chair
- Forest Practices Authority, Tas
Board Memberships
- National Water Commission, Aquatic Ecosystem Scientific Advisory Committee, ACT
- Threatened Species Scientific Advisory Committee,Tas
- Living Murray Scientific Advisory Committee, ACT
- Environmental Flows Technical Steering Committee, ACT
- Forest Practices Authority Code Review, Tas
- Snowy River Technical Steering Committee, NSW
- University of Tasmania Foundation, Board of Governors
- Murray Darling Basin Management Authority, Science Advisor to the MDBMA Plan, ACT.
Freshwater Systems is an aquatic consulting service specialising in environmental issues in rivers, lakes and estuaries, primarily in Tasmania and mainland Australia. Freshwater Systems commenced a collaborative relationship in research and education with the School of Zoology, University of Tasmania in 1993.
Research Interests
My research interests include the conservation of freshwater ecosystems, long term variability in stream biotic assemblages, structure of aquatic food webs, effects of forestry on stream ecology, impacts of exotic fish, restoration of native fish passage, the downstream influences of hydroelectric power stations and dams, environmental flows, the impact of mining on stream fauna, and the interactions between nutrient, sediment and light on stream processes.
I am the principal scientific advisor for the development of the Tasmanian framework for the Conservation of Freshwater-dependent Ecosystem Values (CFEV). I am chair of ISRAG, a group of four scientists auditing the ecological condition of the rivers of the Murray Darling Basin. I have been the national coordinator for the National River Health Program for over 10 years, and have been instrumental in the development of national stream bioassessment systems. I am a project manager for the Tasmanian catchment project of the Landscape Logic CERF Hub (Centre for Environment, UTas).
Select Publications (full-text with pdf)
Full Publication List (citations only)
Honours and Post Graduate Supervision List
Research Areas:
Selected Publications:- Likens, GE, Walker, KF, Davies, PE, Brookes, J, Olley, J, Young, W, Thoms, M, Lake, PS, Gawne, B, Davis, J, Arthington, A, Thompson, R, Oliver, RL, 2009, 'Ecosystem science: toward a new paradigm for managing Australia’s aquatic ecosystems.
', Marine and Freshwater Research, 60, pgs. 271–279
- Smith, BJ, Davies, PE and Munks, SA,, 2009, 'Changes in benthic macroinvertebrate communities in upper catchment streams in Tasmania across a gradient of catchment forest operation history.
', Forest Ecology and Management., 257 (10) , pgs. 2166-2174
- Davies, PE and Harris, J and Hillman, T and Walker, K, 2008, 'Murray–Darling Basin Rivers : Ecosystem Health Check, 2004–2007. Report to the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council prepared by the Independent Sustainable Rivers Audit Group.
, ', Technical Report. Murray Darling Basin Commission, Canberra, Sustainable Rivers Audit (SRA) Report 1 May 2008 River Health Check. , pgs. .
- Davies, SJ, Driessen, M and Davies, PE., 2008, 'Edge and disturbance effects on forest floor invertebrates in two Hobart urban reserves', The Tasmanian Naturalist, 130, pgs. 26-36
- Gooderham, J and Barmuta, LA and Davies, PE, 2007, 'Upstream heterogeneous zones: small stream systems structured by a lack of competence?', Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 26 (3), pgs. 365-374
- Macdonald, J and Davies, PE., 2007, 'Improving the upstream passage of two galaxiid fish species through a pipe culvert.
', Fisheries Management and Ecology, 14, pgs. 221-230
- Davies, PE and Harris, J and Hillman, T and Walker, K ., 2007, 'Sustainable Rivers Audit Implementation Period 2 (2005–06) , Summary Report.', Technical Report. Murray Darling Basin Commission, Sustainable Rivers Audit Implementation Period 2 (2005–06) , Summary Report. , Canberra.
Current and Supervised Project/s:
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