Aquatic Ecology
Our aquatic ecology team is highly experienced in undertaking freshwater and estuarine ecological surveys and monitoring throughout south-eastern Australia.
What we do
We have specialist expertise in fish, crayfish, and macroinvertebrate ecology, and we provide advice on aquatic ecosystems in relation to environmental water provision, climate change mitigation, impact assessment, and threatened species.
The aquatic ecology team is highly experienced in conducting platypus surveys throughout Victoria and Ecology Australia is a trusted provider of this unique service. Our experts can provide advice regarding platypus ecology and management.
Utilising our extensive suite of specialised equipment that includes all forms of electrofishing (boat, bank and backpack), environmental DNA samplers, water quality meters, and drones, our aquatic ecologists undertake surveys and monitoring for fish, crayfish and macroinvertebrates throughout south-eastern Australia.
Our aquatic ecology services include:
- Surveys and monitoring of fish, crayfish, macroinvertebrates, platypus and turtles
- Environmental DNA surveys and monitoring (single or multiple taxa)
- Water quality sampling
- Aquatic habitat assessments
- Climate change mitigation, including drought refuge identification
- Threatened species conservation management
- Aquatic fauna impact assessment
- Expert advice on environmental water requirements
- Salvage and translocation of fish
- Applied research
- Pest fish removal