Dr. McInerney is an ecosystem ecologist with principal interests in food webs, freshwater community ecology, biological invasions, and biological responses to climate change. Dr. McInerney’s research focus areas include how energy flow in ecosystems may be influenced by biotic and abiotic disturbances or by anthropogenic interventions, and how invasive species modify structure and function within freshwater ecosystems.
Experience
2019–present
Research scientist, CSIRO
2019–present
Adjunct associate, Charles Sturt University
2013–2019
Research fellow, La Trobe University
Education
2017
La Trobe University, PhD
2000
La Trobe University, B. Sc. (Hons)
1999
Monash University, B. Sc.
Publications
2019
Effects of fish kills on fish consumers and other water-dependent fauna: exploring the potential effect of mass mortality of carp in Australia, Marine and Freshwater Research
2019
Release of critically endangered crocodiles: Development and application of a food web approach to determine suitability of release habitat, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
2019
Dissolved organic matter and metabolic dynamics in dryland lowland rivers, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
2019
Macroinvertebrate responses to conductivity in different bioregions of Victoria, Australia, Environmental toxicology and chemistry
2018
More (or less?) bounce for the ounce: a comparison of environmental DNA and classical approaches for bioassessment, Marine and Freshwater Research
2018
Long‐Term Monitoring of Macroinvertebrate Communities Over 2,300 km of the Murray River Reveals Ecological Signs of Salinity Mitigation Against a Backdrop of Climate Variability, Water Resources Research
2017
Flooding drives a macroinvertebrate biomass boom in ephemeral floodplain wetlands, Freshwater Science
2017
Co-invasion hypothesis explains microbial community structure changes in upland streams affected by riparian invader, Freshwater Science
2016
Invasive willows drive instream community structure, Freshwater Biology
2016
Implications of riparian willow invasion to instream community structure and function: a synthesis using causal criteria analysis, Biological Invasions
2016
Invasive Salix fragilis: altered metabolic patterns in Australian streams, Hydrobiologia