Dr Rick Stoffels- Fish Ecologist

Position

Fish Ecologist

Email

info@mdfrc.org.au

Research Themes

Experimental, descriptive and modelling approaches to improve our understanding population structure and dynamics, flow-demography relationships in freshwater fishes. Bioenergetics and population biology of freshwater fishes.

Tertiary Qualifications

2005 - ongoing: Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) University of Otago, New Zealand (2/3^rd of degree requirements complete. Average grade: A-)

2004: Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) completed 1^st year of degree, University of Queensland, Australia (Dean's Commendation for High Achievement).

2004: PhD (Zoology) University of Otago, New Zealand.

1999: Bachelor of Science (Hons, 1^st class), Environmental Management and Ecology, LaTrobe University, VIC., Australia.

Reports and Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Stoffels, R.J. and H.G. Spencer. (2008) An asymmetric model of heterozygote advantage at major histocompatibility complex genes: Degenerate pathogen recognition and intersection advantage. Genetics in press

Star, B., R.J. Stoffels and H.G. Spencer (2007) Evolution of fitnesses and allele frequencies in a population with spatially heterogeneous selection pressures. Genetics 177: 1743-1751.

Star, B., R.J. Stoffels and H.G. Spencer. (2007) Single-locus polymorphism in a heterogeneous two-deme model. Genetics 176: 1625-1633.

Stoffels RJ, Clarke KR, Closs GP. (2005). Spatial scale and benthic community organisation in the littoral zones of large lakes: potential for cross-scale interaction. Freshwater Biology 50(7): 1131-1145.

Stoffels, R.J., Closs, G.P. and Burns, C.W. (2003). Multiple scales and the relationship between density and spatial aggregation in littoral zone communities. Oikos 103: 81-92.

David, B.O. and Stoffels, R.J. (2003). Spatial organisation and behavioural interaction of giant kokopu (Galaxias argenteus) in two stream pools differing in fish density. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 37(2): 315-322.

Stoffels, R.J. and Humphries, P. (2003). Ontogenetic variation in the diurnal food and habitat associations of an endemic and an exotic fish in floodplain ponds: consequences for niche partitioning. Environmental Biology of Fishes 66(3): 293-305.

Stoffels, R.J., Karbe, S. and Paterson, R.A. (2003). Length-mass models for some common New Zealand littoral-benthic macroinvertebrates, with a note on within-taxon variability in parameter values among published models. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37(2): 449-460.

Stoffels, R.J. and Closs, G.P. (2002). Abundance of brown trout as related to littoral zone gradient in Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 36(2): 455-458.