K.A. Dafforn's research while affiliated with Macquarie University and other places

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Eutrophication due to excess anthropogenic nutrients in waterways is a significant issue worldwide. The pressure-stressor-response of a waterway to excessive nutrient loading is reliant on numerous physical and biological factors, including hydrodynamics and microbial processing. While substantial progress has been made towards simulating these mec...
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Widespread wastewater pollution is a major barrier to the sustainable management of freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems worldwide. Integrated multi-disciplinary studies are necessary to improve waterway management and protect ecosystem integrity. This study used the Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methodology to link micro...
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Macroinvertebrate surveys are commonly used for assessing the health of freshwater systems around the world. Traditionally, surveying involves morphologically identifying the families, and sometimes genera, present in samples. Biological indices, derived from taxonomic lists, provide convenient ways to summarise community data and may be fairly ins...

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... The RMA11 model, which uses the finite element method, has been successfully applied to model water quality in estuaries, bays, lakes, and rivers [25][26][27][28]. It receives the velocity, temperature, and salinity fields from the RMA10 model and uses them to solve advection-diffusion constituent transport equations [25]. ...
... This result indicated both allochthonous sources and autochthonous bacterial mineralization process had important consequences for dissolved organic matter. Inclusion of microbial loop processes instead of a traditional Michaelis-Menten formulation of the breakdown rate may also help to better resolve the role of bacterial mineralization in carbon cycle (Ruprecht et al., 2022), especially in systems with high water retention time and labile organic matter concentrations. ...
... Nevertheless, generating accurate species lists from MBC data is challenging [60]. Thus, the availability of reference sequences linked to known species needs to be developed [17,61]. Several researchers have found that MBC was superior to MOI in single-sample comparisons [62,63]. ...