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Dr Leah McIntosh

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Biography

Leah is an ecologist with an interest in aquatic food webs and river ecosystem function. Her research aims to better understand the ecosystem processes that maintain higher trophic level communities within the highly variable and altered river environments of the northern Murray-Darling Basin. She is also interested in how we can sustainably manage river systems to support healthy ecological communities.

Qualifications

PhD Aquatic Ecology (UNE)

MSc Aquatic Ecology (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)

BSc Biology (Winona State University, USA)

Publications

Latest Research:

McIntosh, L. M., & Reid, M. A. Food web structure of fishes in the Barwon-Darling River. In Prep.

McIntosh, L. M., & Reid, M. A. Population structure of bony bream (Nematalosa erebi) in the Barwon-Darling River. In Prep.

McIntosh, L. M., & Reid, M. A. (2020). Fish fins as a non-lethal alternative to muscle tissue in stable isotope studies of food webs in an Australian river. Marine and Freshwater Research.

McIntosh, L.M., Fierro-Cabo, A., & Benavides, A. (2018). Macroinvertebrate assemblages from two sampling methods similarly discriminated freshwater wetlands with different ecosystem status in South Texas. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 22(1): 65-76.

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