Dr Gavin Rees- Assistant Director

Position

Microbiologist

Email

info@mdfrc.org.au

Research Themes

Ecology of aquatic micro-organisms, including bacteria and fungi and the way in which they influence water quality and flow-related ecological processes. The role of micro-organisms in determining nutrients cycles and floodplain ecology.

Reports and Publications

Some recent publications

Rees, G., Hall, K., Baldwin, D. and Perryman, S. (2007). The lower Broken Creek: aspects of water quality and growth of Azolla species. Report prepared for Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, December, 31 pp.

Gawne, B., Merrick, C., Williams, D.G., Rees, G., Oliver, R., Bowen, P.M., Treadwell, S., Beattie, G., Ellis, I., Frankenberg, J. and Lorenz, Z. (2007). Patterns of primary and heterotrophic productivity in an arid lowland river. River Research and Applications 23(10): 1070-1087.

Butler J, Croome R, Rees GN (2006) The composition and importance of the phytoneuston in two floodplain lakes in south eastern Australia. Hydrobiologia In Press

Hall KC, Baldwin DS, Rees GN, Richardson AJ (2006) Distribution of inland wetlands with sulfidic sediments in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Science of the Total Environment 370: 235-244.

Osborne CA, Rees GN, Bernstein Y, Janssen PH (2006) New threshold and confidence estimates for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of complex bacterial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:1270-1278

Rees GN, Watson GO, Baldwin DS, Mitchell AM (2006) Variability in the sediment microbial communities in a semi-permanent stream: impact of drought. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25:370-378

Baldwin DS, Mitchell AM, Rees GN, Watson GO, Williams JL (2006) Nitrogen processing by biofilms along a lowland river continuum. River Research and Application 22:319-326

Rees GN, Bowen PM, Watson GO (2005) Variability in benthic respiration in three south eastern Australian lowland rivers. River Research and Application 21:1147-1156

Rees GN, Beattie G, Bowen PM, Hart BT (2005) Heterotrophic bacterial production in the lower Murray River, South Eastern Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 56:835-841

Rees GN, Baldwin DS, Watson GO, Perryman S, Nielsen DL. (2004) Ordination and significance testing of microbial community composition derived from terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms: application of multivariate statistics. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of Microbiology 86: 339-347

Gribben DL, Rees GN, Croome RL (2003) Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and aerobic phototrophs in Normans Lagoon, a “billabong” adjacent to the Murray River, South-eastern Australia. Lakes and Rivers – Research and Management 8:95-104