Monday, 30th June Australian Society for Fish Biology & Australian Society for Limnology 2014 Joint Congress
Registration Open
7:30AM - 5:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Ground Floor Foyer
Welcome
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 30th June
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Alison King
ASFB Presentation
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 30th June
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Gary Jackson
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 30th June
Ground Floor Foyer
ASL - Hilary Jolly Address
10:30AM - 11:15AM
Monday, 30th June
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Belinda Robson
ASL - Christy Fellows Lecture
11:15AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Belinda Robson
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Ground Floor Foyer
Special Session - Video work (Behaviour & Ecology)
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 30th June
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Ben Broadhurst
- Seeing with sound – the behaviour and movements of fish in estuaries. - Alistair Becker
- Use of a DIDSON acoustic camera improves fishway assessment results and understanding of fish migratory behaviour. - David T Roberts
- Using underwater video to study the breeding behaviour of Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) in the Border Rivers region, New South Wales and Queensland. - Gavin L Butler
- Conceptualizing the feeding and prey handling sequences of a muraenid - Cameron S Fletcher
- Utility of underwater video for understanding fish swimming and foraging behaviour - Christopher Fulton
- Feeding behaviour of Murray River crayfish (Euastacus armatus) revealed using underwater video cameras in an upland river. - Danswell Starrs
- Exploring the spatial structure of free-ranging fish groups using digital imaging technique: a practical example with a shoaling drift-feeding fish (Galaxias anomalus). - Aurelien Vivancos
Vegetation
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 30th June
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Amy George
- Hydrological connectivity and the composition of aquatic and floodplain plant communities in the southern Murray-Darling Basin - Cherie J Campbell
- Biodiversity benefits of erosion control plantings in the lakes Alexandrina and Albert, lower River Murray, South Australia - Jason M Nicol
- The resilience of aquatic plants to wet season flood disturbance and dry season succession in the Daly River, tropical Australia. - Julia Schult
- Contrasting allelopathic effects of exotic and Australian macrophytes on cyanobacteria and green algae - Fariba Moslih Pakdel
- Understorey vegetation: evidence that more natural hydrological history results in more resilient plant communities - Deborah Bogenhuber
- Ecological significance of hydrological connectivity for aquatic plant communities in billabongs - Michael A Reid
- How much do vegetation growth form, observer bias and data standardisation method affect repeatability of canopy cover estimates and power to detect change? - Caitlin Johns
Climate Change
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 30th June
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Thor Saunders
- Restoration under Climate Change: anticipating shifting goalposts - Jane Chambers
- Resting metabolism and hypoxia tolerance are conserved across genetically distinct sub-populations of an iconic, tropical Australian teleost (Lates calcarifer) - Geoffrey M Collins
- Rethinking fisheries management as a combined response to changing climate, habitat & fishing pressure - Colin Creighton
- A semi-quantitative vulnerability assessment framework applied to northern Australian fisheries - David Welch
- Snapper spawning timing, migratory dynamics and water temperature: implications of climate change to snapper spawning behavior in south-east Australia - Paul Hamer
- Using a mechanistic approach to understand fish distributions along an altitudinal gradient: testing for thermal adaptation - Slade Allen-Ankins
Molecular ecology/genetics
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 30th June
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Michael Hammer
- Fish adaptive radiation in the Australian context - Aaron Davis
- Phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of temperate perches (Percichthyidae) - Peter Unmack
- Insights on species distributions in Sicydiinae gobies using genetic tools - Laura Taillebois
- Contrasting patterns of gene flow among aquatic insects in Australian desert waters - Emma Razeng
- Using whole mitogenome sequencing to inform population structure: the Critically Endangered Speartooth Shark Glyphis glyphis as a case study - Pierre Feutry
- Genetic population structure of black marlin (Istiompax indica) within the central Indo-Pacific. - samuel M williams
- Developing next generation sequencing as routine monitoring tool in aquatic environments - Melissa Carew
Afternoon Tea
2:45PM - 3:15PM
Monday, 30th June
Ground Floor Foyer
Special Session - Video work (Survey & documentary)
3:15PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Nathan Waltham
- Filming and Snorkelling as Mobile Visual Techniques to Survey Tropical Rainforest Stream Fauna - James A Donaldson
- How long is enough: Comparison of baited remote underwater video (BRUV) set times to representatively sample rocky reef fish assemblages. - David Harasti
- Contrasting baited video with "traditional" survey methods for assessing freshwater fish assemblages - Dion Iervasi
- Freshwater fish films and field guide for the Indian Ocean Drainage Division (Pilbara Province) - David Morgan
- Developing novel protocols for assessing environmental impacts using Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) in marine environments in South Australia - Sasha Whitmarsh
- Video assessment techniques for riparian habitat monitoring: testing the waters in the Wet Tropics - Cassandra James
Fisheries Management and Assessment (1)
3:15PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Matt Taylor
- Direct age determination in crustaceans is now possible: A novel technique - Raouf Kalida
- Absolute age determination methods for subtropical decapods: growth mark interpretation and validation - Daniel J. Bucher
- Defining an issue in space and time: A case study from the Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery - Mark A Grubert
- Trials of a light emitting BRD in the Moreton Bay prawn trawl fishery - Darcie E Hunt
- From experimental trawling to MSC certification – forty years of transformation in an Australian prawn fishery - Craig Noell
Special Session - CSIRO's Ecological Responses to Altered Flow Regimes
3:15PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Neil Sims
Sponsored by:
- The Ecological Responses to Altered Flow Regimes Cluster - Neil Sims
- Developing spatial predictions of hydrology and fish distributions: the good, the bad and the ugly. - Nick Bond
- Optimisation for environmental flows: river model outputs to support decision-making in wetlands. - Alice E Brown
- Optimisation models for Water Resource Planning - Carmel Pollino
- Identifying flow response indicators - Erin Peterson
- The influence of single flow pulses on river ecosystems - Ben Gawne
- Scientific collaboration in freshwater science - Stuart Bunn
Marine ecology
3:15PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Paul Hamer
- Ecological cognition in intertidal gobies - Culum Brown
- Community structure in littoral, intertidal and subtidal habitats of a tropical bay - Merritt E Adkins
- Choosing the right home: habitat detection and settlement decisions by a temperate reef fish on artificial reefs - Emily Fobert
- Diverse habitat mosiacs underpin rocky reef fish biodiversity within a marine protected area - Christopher Fulton
- The effect of an artificial reef on fish abundance, tested using regression of point detections - James Smith
- The oceanographic habitats of two migratory pelagic fish: dolphinfish (mahi mahi) and yellowtail kingfish - Steph Brodie
Welcome Function
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Monday, 30th June
Parliament House
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