Professor Burrows has been Director of TropWATER for 13 years. He specialises in freshwater, estuarine and coastal aquatic ecosystems and catchment management and has >30 years research experience in the tropics.  His work has encompassed the ecology of wetlands, water quality, biological control of weeds, the ecology of fish and invertebrates, grazing management in riparian ecosystems, wetland management in cropping catchments, planning for water resource developments, fisheries management, and catchment planning and management. His work has had a particular emphasis on applied aspects of environmental management. This has involved extensive work with industry, community and government from grassroots to policy level. 

 

He has for the last 13 years focused on developing the coastal and marine ecosystems side of TropWATER, especially mangrove, seagrass and estuarine habitats.  In addition to being TropWATER Director, since 2015, he has also been the Hub leader for the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Tropical Water Quality Hub, which focused on research to improve water quality of the Great Barrier Reef.  He has recently been appointed co-Hub Leader for the new NESP Marine and Coastal Hub (2021-2027) which encompasses applied research for all marine and coastal issues for Australia.  He is a member of the Independent Expert Panel which advises state and federal Environment Ministers on science matters relating to the Great Barrier Reef.

 

Research Disciplines

• Environmental management (4104)
• Ecology (3103)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Fresh, ground and surface water systems and management (1803)

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Journal Articles

• Cooper M, Villacorta-Rath C, Burrows D, Jerry D, Carr L, Barnett A, Huveneers C and Simpfendorfer C (in press) Practical eDNA sampling methods inferred from particle size distribution and comparison of capture techniques for a Critically Endangered elasmobranch. Environmental DNA,
• Villacorta Rath C, Espinoza T, Cockayne B, Schaffer J and Burrows D (2022) Environmental DNA analysis confirms extant populations of the cryptic Irwin’s turtle within its historical range. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22.
• Villacorta-Rath C, Hoskin C, Strugnell J and Burrows D (2021) Long distance (>20 km) downstream detection of endangered stream frogs suggests an important role for eDNA in surveying for remnant amphibian populations. PeerJ, 9.
• Edmunds R and Burrows D (2020) Got glycogen?: Development and multispecies validation of the novel preserve, precipitate, lyse, precipitate, purify (pplpp) workflow for environmental dna extraction from Longmire's preserved water samples. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques, 31 (4). pp. 125-150
• Huerlimann R, Cooper M, Edmunds R, Villacorta-Rath C, Le Port A, Robson H, Strugnell J, Burrows D and Jerry D (2020) Enhancing tropical conservation and ecology research with aquatic environmental DNA methods: an introduction for non-environmental DNA specialists. Animal Conservation, 23 (6). pp. 632-645
• Villacorta Rath C, Adekunle A, Edmunds R, Strugnell J, Schwarzkopf L and Burrows D (2020) Can environmental DNA be used to detect first arrivals of the cane toad, Rhinella marina, into novel locations? Environmental DNA, 2 (4). pp. 635-646
• Waltham N, Coleman L, Buelow C, Fry S and Burrows D (2020) Restoring fish habitat values on a tropical agricultural floodplain: learning from two decades of aquatic invasive plant maintenance efforts. Ocean and Coastal Management, 198.
• Wolfe K, Anthony K, Babcock R, Bay L, Bourne D, Burrows D, Byrne M, Deaker D, Diaz-Pulido G, Frade P, Gonzalez-Rivero M, Hoey A, Hoogenboom M, McCormick M, Ortiz J, Razak T, Richardson A, Roff G, Sheppard-Brennand H, Stella J, Thompson A, Watson S, Webster N, Audas D, Beeden R, Carver J, Cowlishaw M, Dyer M, Groves P, Horne D, Thiault L, Vains J, Wachenfeld D, Weekers D, Williams G and Mumby P (2020) Priority species to support the functional integrity of coral reefs. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an annual review, 58. pp. 179-318
• Waltham N, Burrows D, Wegscheidl C, Buelow C, Ronan M, Connolly N, Groves P, Marie-Audas D, Creighton C and Sheaves M (2019) Lost floodplain wetland environments and efforts to restore connectivity, habitat, and water quality settings on the Great Barrier Reef. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. pp. 1-14
• Cook B, Adams M, Unmack P, Burrows D, Pusey B, Perna C and Hughes J (2017) Phylogeography of the mouth-brooding freshwater fish Glossamia aprion (Apogonidae) in northern and eastern Australia: historical biogeography and allopatric speciation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121 (4). pp. 833-848
• Duke N, Kovacs J, Griffiths A, Preece L, Hill D, Van Oosterzee P, Mackenzie J, Morning H and Burrows D (2017) Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria: a severe ecosystem response, coincidental with an unusually extreme weather event. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68 (10). pp. 1816-1829

Book Chapters

• Duke N, Hutley L, Mackenzie J and Burrows D (2021) Processes and factors driving change in mangrove forests: an evaluation based on the mass dieback event in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. In: Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change. Ecological Studies, 241. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 221-264

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• Unregulated Rivers and the Ecology of Bimodally Respiring Turtles in North Queensland (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Monitoring tropical freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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• Robson, H. (2017) Tilapia eDNA (environmental DNA) data. James Cook University

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