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Research Disciplines: Environmental management (4104)

Climate change impacts and adaptation (4101)

Agriculture, land and farm management (3002)
Socio-Economic Objectives: environmental management (1899)

Terrestrial systems and management (1806)

Publications

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Journal Articles

Campbell C, James C, Morris K, Nicol J, Thomas R, Nielsen D, Gehrig S, Palmer G, Wassens S, Dyer F, Southwell M, Watt R, Bond N and Capon S (2022) Blue, green and in-between: objectives and approaches for evaluating wetland flow regimes based on vegetation outcomes. Marine and Freshwater Research, 73. pp. 1212-1224
Lewis S, Bartley R, Wilkinson S, Bainbridge Z, Kinsey-henderson A, James C, Irvine S and Brodie J (2021) Land use change in the river basins of the Great Barrier Reef, 1860 to 2019: a foundation for understanding environmental history across the catchment to reef continuum. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166. pp. 112193-112193
Graham E, Reside A, Atkinson I, Baird D, Hodgson L, James C and VanderWal J (2019) Climate change and biodiversity in Australia: a systematic modelling approach to nationwide species distributions. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 26 (2). pp. 112-123
James C, Reside A, VanDerWal J, Pearson R, Burrows D, Capon S, Harwood T, Hodgson L and Waltham N (2017) Sink or swim? potential for high faunal turnover in Australian rivers under climate change. Journal of Biogeography, 44 (3). pp. 489-501
James C, Mackay S, Arthington A, Capon S, Barnes A and Pearson B (2016) Does stream flow structure woody riparian vegetation in subtropical catchments? Ecology and Evolution, 6 (16). pp. 5950-5963
Maxwell A, Capon S and James C (2016) Effects of flooding on seedling establishment in two Australian riparian trees with contrasting distributions; Acacia stenophylla A. Cunn. ex Benth. and Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. Ecohydrology, 9 (6). pp. 942-949
James C, Capon S and Quinn G (2015) Nurse plant effects of a dominant shrub (Duma florulenta) on understorey vegetation in a large, semiarid wetland in relation to flood frequency and drying. Journal of Vegetation Science, 26 (5). pp. 985-994

Book Chapters

Marsh H, Albouy C, Arraut E, Castelblanco-Martinez D, Collier C, Edwards H, James C and Keith-Diagne L (2022) How Might Climate Change Affect the Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Dugongs and Manatees? In: Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Sirenia. Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 351-406
Capon S, Porter J and James C (2016) Vegetation of Australia's desert river landscapes. In: Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes: biology, ecology and management. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 239-258
Capon S, James C and George A (2016) Riverine trees and shrubs. In: Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes: biology, ecology and management. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 119-141
James C, Reid M and Capon S (2016) Climate change and the future of Australian riverine vegetation. In: Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes: biology, ecology and management. CSIRO publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 387-407
Mackay S and James C (2016) Aquatic vascular macrophytes of Australias riverine systems. In: Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes: biology, ecology and management. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 87-102

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 34+ research outputs authored by Dr Cassandra James from 2008 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

Great Barrier Reef Foundation - Contract Research

Review of water quality monitoring and evaluation for DIN-focused projects.

Indicative Funding: $544,619 over 2 years
Summary: Our team will coordinate and provide technical support across all the Reef Trust Partnership (RTP) dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and pesticide projects that involve water quality (WQ) monitoring managed by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. The purpose of the work is to ensure that the overall approach - including project design, equipment selection, sampling methods and analysis - is fit-for purpose and (to the extent appropriate) consistent across projects and programs. We will also ensure that project findings are communicated effectively and consistently.
Investigators: Stephen Lewis, Cassandra James, Zoe Bainbridge, Molly McShane and Aaron Davis (TropWater)
Keywords: Dissolved inorganic nitrogen; Pesticides; Monitoring; Communication; Water Quality

Downer Defence - Contract Research

Ecological monitoring of the Townsville Field Training Area 2022-24

Indicative Funding: $343,049 over 2 years
Summary: This project continues the long standing monitoring that TropWATER has undertaken for Defence that incorporates monitoring of water quality and aquatic ecology on the Townsville Field Training Area. Remnant Waterholes are the most important aquatic ecosystem in the TFTA providing a critical dry season refugia for aquatic biota. Aquatic ecological monitoring allows an assessment to be made of the trends in water quality through time. If these trends in areas of high Defence activities are similar to trends in areas with minimal Defence impact, this demonstrates the lack of impact of Defence operations on the local aquatic environment.
Investigators: Cassandra James in collaboration with Antony Squires, Shelley Templeman, Glenn Morgan and Mellissa Elliman (TropWater)
Keywords: Defence; Freshwater Ecology; Monitoring; Freshwater biodiveristy; Water Quality; Weeds

Queensland Department of Environment and Science - Contract Research

Great Barrier Reef catchments historical water quality data compilation.

Indicative Funding: $236,600 over 1 year
Summary: Compilation of extensive historical water quality data into a single database to be made available to all researchers, modellers and end users working in the GBR catchment area, with the data to be presented in a form consistent with that currently in use by existing WQ monitoring frameworks and databases (for example the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Loads Monitoring Program).
Investigators: Zoe Bainbridge, Stephen Lewis and Cassandra James (TropWater)
Keywords: Sediments; Catchment to reef; Water Quality; Great Barrier Reef; Land Use; Monitoring

Spotless Facility Services Pty Ltd - Contract Research

TFTA Ambient Water Quality Monitoring Program (2016/2017).

Indicative Funding: $881,988 over 5 years
Summary: This project continues the long standing monitoring that TropWATER has undertaken for Defence that incorporates water quality (including standard physio chemical, nutrients and metals), aquatic ecosystems on the Townsville Field Training Area. It will also report on previous years monitoring (2013/2014 and 2014/2015) and provide an overall review of ambient monitoring at TFTA in light of more than 20 years of ambient water quality monitoring data.
Investigators: Cassandra James in collaboration with Damien Burrows, Shelley Templeman and Barry Butler (TropWater)
Keywords: Military Activity; Water Quality; Riparian Vegetation; Aquatic Invertebrates; Environmental Monitoring

Department of the Environment and Energy - Sustainable Rural Wateruse Infrastructure Program - Contract Research

Environmental Water Knowledge and Research: Vegetation theme

Indicative Funding: $146,000 over 3 years (administered by La Trobe University)
Summary: The Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project is a five year, $10 million project to improve the science available to support environmental water management, and thereby contribute to achieving the Murray-Darling Basin Plan objectives.
Investigators: Cassandra James (TropWater)
Keywords: Environmental Flows; floodplain vegetation; Murray-Darling Basin; flow regimes; adaptive water management; ecological responses

Collaboration

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