Dr Burrows has been Director of TropWATER for five years. He specialises in freshwater, estuarine and coastal aquatic ecosystems and catchment management and has 22 years research experience in the tropics. Most of his professional life has been spent studying freshwater and estuarine ecosystems with particular emphasis on applied aspects of their management in relation to development pressures. This has involved extensive work with industry, community and government from grassroots to policy level.

His current work examines 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. He has recently focused on developing the coastal ecosystems side of TropWATER, especially mangrove, seagrass and estuarine habitats

Research Disciplines

• Ecology (3103)
• Environmental management (4104)

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Journal Articles

• 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, DOI:10.7171/jbt.20-3104-003.
• 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, DOI:10.1111.acv.12583.
• 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, DOI:10.1002/edn3.114.
• 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, Article: 105355, DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105355.
• 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, DOI:10.1201/9780429351495-5.
• 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, Article: 71, pp. 1-14, DOI:10.3389/fmars.2019.00071.
• 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, DOI:10.1093/biolinnean/blx035.
• 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), Article: MF16322, pp. 1816-1829, DOI:10.1071/MF16322.
• 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, DOI:10.1111/jbi.12926.
• Pusey B, Burrows D, Kennard M, Perna C, Unmack P, Allsop Q and Hammer M (2017) Freshwater fishes of northern Australia. Zootaxa, 4253 (1), pp. 1-104, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4253.1.1.
• Wallace J, Waltham N and Burrows D (2017) A comparison of temperature regimes in dry-season waterholes in the Flinders and Gilbert catchments in northern Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68 (4), pp. 650-667, DOI:10.1071/MF15468.

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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Current

• Monitoring tropical freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Assessing The Ecological Effects Of River Regulation And Anthropengic Disturbance On Bimodally Respiring Freshwater Turtles In The Fitzroy And Burdekin River Catchments In Tropical Northeastern Australia. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Benthic infauna of mangrove forests: dissolved oxygen and environmental settings determine their community composition and function (2017, PhD , Associate Advisor)

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

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