Position
Microbiologist
Email
gavin.rees@mdfrc.org.au
Research Themes
Ecology of aquatic bacteria and fungi and their role in carbon and nutrient cycles. Microbial community structures. Current interests range from alpine streams, lowland rivers to floodplain soils.
Journal Articles
Rees GN, Baldwin DS, Watson GO, Hall KC (2010) Sulfide formation in freshwater sediments, by sulfate-reducing microorganisms with diverse tolerance to salt. The Science of the Total Environment. In Press
Wilson J, Baldwin DS, Rees GN, Wilson BP (2010) The effects of short-term inundation on carbon dynamics, microbial community structure and microbial activity in a floodplain soil. River Research and Application. In Press
Hadwen WL, Fellows CS, Westhorpe DP, Rees GN, Mitrovic, SM, Taylor B, Baldwin DS, Silvester E, Croome R (2010) Longitudinal trends in river functioning: Patterns of nutrient and carbon processing in three Australian rivers. River Research and Application. In Press.
Boulding AN, Rees GN, Baldwin DS, Suter PJ, Watson GO (2008) Changes in sediment microbial community structure within a large water-storage reservoir during an extreme drawdown event. Marine and Freshwater Research 59:890-896
Perryman SE, Rees GN, Walsh CJ (2008) Analysis of denitrifying communities in streams from an urban and non-urban catchment. Aquatic Ecology 42:95-101
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
Reports and 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.
